Pod
noun
A small container which holds seeds of plants like peas or beans.
I picked fresh pea pods from my garden.
Often appears as...
- pea pods
- bean pod
noun
A group of sea animals like whales or dolphins that travel together.
We watched a pod of dolphins swimming in the ocean.
Often appears as...
- dolphin pod
- whale pod
noun
A portable unit or compartment that people use for living or working in.
The astronauts slept in sleeping pods on the spaceship.
Often appears as...
- sleeping pod
- office pod
noun
A small, fixed device which performs a specific function in an engine or machine.
The aircraft is equipped with sensing pods for detecting radar and missile threats.
Often appears as...
- engine pod
- sensing pod
Usage tips
Technical
noun
A small plastic container filled with detergent and used in dishwashers and washing machines.
I prefer using laundry pods because they are easier to measure than liquid detergent.
Often appears as...
- laundry pod
- detergent pod
noun
A single unit that contains a specific amount of coffee for brewing.
My morning routine always starts with brewing a coffee pod.
Often appears as...
- coffee pod
- espresso pod
noun
A small container which holds seeds of plants like peas or beans.
I picked fresh pea pods from my garden.
Often appears as...
- pea pods
- bean pod
noun
A group of sea animals like whales or dolphins that travel together.
We watched a pod of dolphins swimming in the ocean.
Often appears as...
- dolphin pod
- whale pod
noun
A portable unit or compartment that people use for living or working in.
The astronauts slept in sleeping pods on the spaceship.
Often appears as...
- sleeping pod
- office pod
noun
A small, fixed device which performs a specific function in an engine or machine.
The aircraft is equipped with sensing pods for detecting radar and missile threats.
Often appears as...
- engine pod
- sensing pod
Usage tips
Technical
noun
A small plastic container filled with detergent and used in dishwashers and washing machines.
I prefer using laundry pods because they are easier to measure than liquid detergent.
Often appears as...
- laundry pod
- detergent pod
noun
A single unit that contains a specific amount of coffee for brewing.
My morning routine always starts with brewing a coffee pod.
Often appears as...
- coffee pod
- espresso pod
Definition 1 of 6
Pro Tip 1/2Natural Context
Use 'pod' to refer to natural seed containers, mostly for peas and beans.
The beans in these pods are ready to be harvested.
Pro Tip 2/2Visual Shape
'Pod' conveys the shape - long, narrow and containing seeds.
The pod split open, revealing the peas inside.
Pro Tip 1/2Natural Context
Use 'pod' to refer to natural seed containers, mostly for peas and beans.
The beans in these pods are ready to be harvested.
Pro Tip 2/2Visual Shape
'Pod' conveys the shape - long, narrow and containing seeds.
The pod split open, revealing the peas inside.
Pro Tip 1/2Natural Context
Use 'pod' to refer to natural seed containers, mostly for peas and beans.
The beans in these pods are ready to be harvested.
Pro Tip 2/2Visual Shape
'Pod' conveys the shape - long, narrow and containing seeds.
The pod split open, revealing the peas inside.
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Video examples
Mick Mountz: What...
We send the little orange robots out to pick up the blue shelving pods. And we deliver them to the side of the building. So all the pick workers now get to stay on the perimeter. And the game here is to pick up the shelves, take them down the highway and deliver them straight to the pick worker. This pick worker's life is completely different.
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Finding Baby Seals on an...
And this is a method of seed dispersal. So in those pods are loads of seeds. And then when they stick to the bird's feathers, you can be the bird. They'll fly away, carry it with them. They'll drop off and disperse somewhere else. Oh, that's so cool. This type of seed dispersal is helping plants recolonize Inchkeith, and they're not alone.
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Deep ocean mysteries and...
In the darkness of the deep sea, he's got glowing tentacles, so if I'm coming at you like him, I put my arms out in the darkness so all you see are little glowing things over here. Meanwhile, I'm coming at you. When he wants to escape, he's got these glowing pods on his butt that look like eyes. Glowing eyes on his butt. How cool is that?
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Magnificent Whale...
which forms like a forest under under the water possible also that it's quite shallow here and they can't quite get in at him no match for an entire pod of killer whales the brainy sea lion wisely hides where they can't follow hiding in the kelp makes it harder for the killer whales to see him and
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Kids Behind Bars PIPE...
inmates Tom protects you you have to take care of yourself younger inmates who are physically smaller and more easily intimidated can have a hard time figuring out how to survive you're a boy taking care of yourself in them pod for a bunch of man is unfathomable because none of the
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Killer Whales vs. Gray...
of the few places in the world we have an opportunity to see something like this as the attack began nancy recognized the members of a transient pod joined by other transient groups they encircled the gray whales blocking their escape
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Killer whale society PIPE...
cooperation coordination collaboration killer whales are highly social species who exhibit complex group interactions with in hierarchical dominant systems that is to say they work together to rear their young to protect their pod
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Sir David Attenborough...
plant's life is when it has to spread its seed then plants have to become travelers and the greatest traveling plant of all is this seed it's called a sea heart and it occurs in pods like this one
Video examples
The Last Chase:...
tim was a genius great concept to try to get a pod that would survive a tornado that was his passion is to make something survive a tornado and get great data and therefore understand what
Video examples
Parasitic Wasps & Aphids...
known as a pod colors and some aphids are busily sucking the life out of these plants now despite its nickname this wasp isn't here merely to kill the
Video examples
Mick Mountz: What...
We send the little orange robots out to pick up the blue shelving pods. And we deliver them to the side of the building. So all the pick workers now get to stay on the perimeter. And the game here is to pick up the shelves, take them down the highway and deliver them straight to the pick worker. This pick worker's life is completely different.
Video examples
Finding Baby Seals on an...
And this is a method of seed dispersal. So in those pods are loads of seeds. And then when they stick to the bird's feathers, you can be the bird. They'll fly away, carry it with them. They'll drop off and disperse somewhere else. Oh, that's so cool. This type of seed dispersal is helping plants recolonize Inchkeith, and they're not alone.
Video examples
Deep ocean mysteries and...
In the darkness of the deep sea, he's got glowing tentacles, so if I'm coming at you like him, I put my arms out in the darkness so all you see are little glowing things over here. Meanwhile, I'm coming at you. When he wants to escape, he's got these glowing pods on his butt that look like eyes. Glowing eyes on his butt. How cool is that?
Video examples
Magnificent Whale...
which forms like a forest under under the water possible also that it's quite shallow here and they can't quite get in at him no match for an entire pod of killer whales the brainy sea lion wisely hides where they can't follow hiding in the kelp makes it harder for the killer whales to see him and
Video examples
Kids Behind Bars PIPE...
inmates Tom protects you you have to take care of yourself younger inmates who are physically smaller and more easily intimidated can have a hard time figuring out how to survive you're a boy taking care of yourself in them pod for a bunch of man is unfathomable because none of the
Video examples
Killer Whales vs. Gray...
of the few places in the world we have an opportunity to see something like this as the attack began nancy recognized the members of a transient pod joined by other transient groups they encircled the gray whales blocking their escape
Video examples
Killer whale society PIPE...
cooperation coordination collaboration killer whales are highly social species who exhibit complex group interactions with in hierarchical dominant systems that is to say they work together to rear their young to protect their pod
Video examples
Sir David Attenborough...
plant's life is when it has to spread its seed then plants have to become travelers and the greatest traveling plant of all is this seed it's called a sea heart and it occurs in pods like this one
Video examples
The Last Chase:...
tim was a genius great concept to try to get a pod that would survive a tornado that was his passion is to make something survive a tornado and get great data and therefore understand what
Video examples
Parasitic Wasps & Aphids...
known as a pod colors and some aphids are busily sucking the life out of these plants now despite its nickname this wasp isn't here merely to kill the
Example 1 of 10
Quote examples
Dusty Hill
American Musician
The three of us being brought up, even though we didn't know each other in our early lives, on the same type of music, same type of environment, there's a lot of sameness there. It's three peas in a pod, if they'll fit.
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Caitlin Moran
British Journalist
I remember, around age three, peas growing in the back garden. Pinching them from their pods and popping them in the mouth was my first realisation that food came from somewhere other than a shelf.
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Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall
British Royalty
I like them cooked but I tell you what I really like - eating peas straight from the garden. If you take them straight from the pod they are delicious and really sweet.
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Josh Gondelman
American Author
I'm skinny, but a soft skinny. I have strong legs, but my arms are like pea pods with single peas for elbows.
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Sarah Cooper
Jamaican Comedian
I know I feel crazy when I'm stressed out. You know when I don't feel crazy? When I'm in my nap pod.
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John Zimmer
American Businessman
Driverless pods could have people who want to watch the same movie. Or there could be Tinder pods.
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April Bloomfield
British Chef
I have this obsession with pea pods. They're just really nice to look at. They can be perfect.
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Ruth Bernhard
German Photographer
I think of the nudes as seed pods, like flowers or grasses. They are universal bodies.
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Simone Biles
American Athlete
I feel like I'm small and mighty and pack a powerful punch, just like Tide PODS.
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Fred Schneider
American Musician
People think that I live in a space pod, but it's pretty mid-century modern.
Quote examples
Dusty Hill
American Musician
The three of us being brought up, even though we didn't know each other in our early lives, on the same type of music, same type of environment, there's a lot of sameness there. It's three peas in a pod, if they'll fit.
Quote examples
Caitlin Moran
British Journalist
I remember, around age three, peas growing in the back garden. Pinching them from their pods and popping them in the mouth was my first realisation that food came from somewhere other than a shelf.
Quote examples
Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall
British Royalty
I like them cooked but I tell you what I really like - eating peas straight from the garden. If you take them straight from the pod they are delicious and really sweet.
Quote examples
Josh Gondelman
American Author
I'm skinny, but a soft skinny. I have strong legs, but my arms are like pea pods with single peas for elbows.
Quote examples
Sarah Cooper
Jamaican Comedian
I know I feel crazy when I'm stressed out. You know when I don't feel crazy? When I'm in my nap pod.
Quote examples
John Zimmer
American Businessman
Driverless pods could have people who want to watch the same movie. Or there could be Tinder pods.
Quote examples
April Bloomfield
British Chef
I have this obsession with pea pods. They're just really nice to look at. They can be perfect.
Quote examples
Ruth Bernhard
German Photographer
I think of the nudes as seed pods, like flowers or grasses. They are universal bodies.
Quote examples
Simone Biles
American Athlete
I feel like I'm small and mighty and pack a powerful punch, just like Tide PODS.
Quote examples
Fred Schneider
American Musician
People think that I live in a space pod, but it's pretty mid-century modern.
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