Pot
noun
A deep round container used for cooking or storing food.
She boiled the water in a pot.
Often appears as...
- cooking pot
- flower pot
noun
A toilet in a boat or aircraft.
I need to use the pot.
Often appears as...
- use the pot
- clean the pot
Usage tips
Informal
Colloquial
noun
A cup or trophy awarded as a prize in a contest.
He won the pot in the golf tournament.
Often appears as...
- win the pot
- prize pot
noun
A lot of money that has been gathered or offered.
The lottery pot is up to a million dollars.
Often appears as...
- lottery pot
- prize pot
Usage tips
Informal
Colloquial
noun
In poker, the total amount of money bet in a single game.
He bet all his chips and lost the whole pot.
Often appears as...
- win the pot
- lose the pot
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Technical
noun
A plant container.
I bought a pot for my new plant.
Often appears as...
- flower pot
- plant pot
noun
A shot in pool where a ball is aimed to go into a pocket.
He made a difficult pot.
Often appears as...
- difficult pot
- easy pot
Usage tips
Technical
noun
A slang term for the drug Marijuana.
He got arrested for carrying pot.
Often appears as...
- smoking pot
- carry pot
Usage tips
Informal, Disapproving
Slang
noun
A deep round container used for cooking or storing food.
She boiled the water in a pot.
Often appears as...
- cooking pot
- flower pot
noun
A toilet in a boat or aircraft.
I need to use the pot.
Often appears as...
- use the pot
- clean the pot
Usage tips
Informal
Colloquial
noun
A cup or trophy awarded as a prize in a contest.
He won the pot in the golf tournament.
Often appears as...
- win the pot
- prize pot
noun
A lot of money that has been gathered or offered.
The lottery pot is up to a million dollars.
Often appears as...
- lottery pot
- prize pot
Usage tips
Informal
Colloquial
noun
In poker, the total amount of money bet in a single game.
He bet all his chips and lost the whole pot.
Often appears as...
- win the pot
- lose the pot
Usage tips
Technical
noun
A plant container.
I bought a pot for my new plant.
Often appears as...
- flower pot
- plant pot
noun
A shot in pool where a ball is aimed to go into a pocket.
He made a difficult pot.
Often appears as...
- difficult pot
- easy pot
Usage tips
Technical
noun
A slang term for the drug Marijuana.
He got arrested for carrying pot.
Often appears as...
- smoking pot
- carry pot
Usage tips
Informal, Disapproving
Slang
Definition 1 of 8
Pro Tip 1/2Variety of Uses
The word 'pot' can refer to different types of containers for cooking, such as soup pots and stockpots.
Could you fetch the soup pot from the cupboard?
Pro Tip 2/2Material Difference
'Pot' often implies a container made of metal or clay rather than glass or plastic.
The metal pot is perfect for stewing beef.
Pro Tip 1/2Variety of Uses
The word 'pot' can refer to different types of containers for cooking, such as soup pots and stockpots.
Could you fetch the soup pot from the cupboard?
Pro Tip 2/2Material Difference
'Pot' often implies a container made of metal or clay rather than glass or plastic.
The metal pot is perfect for stewing beef.
Pro Tip 1/2Variety of Uses
The word 'pot' can refer to different types of containers for cooking, such as soup pots and stockpots.
Could you fetch the soup pot from the cupboard?
Pro Tip 2/2Material Difference
'Pot' often implies a container made of metal or clay rather than glass or plastic.
The metal pot is perfect for stewing beef.
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and called for the salesman to return and explain himself. The following morning, the salesman examined the pot, but he couldn’t find anything unusual about it. Hoping a cup of tea would help them think, they set the kettle on the fire. Within moments, the metal began to sweat.
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The court was somewhat skeptical, especially when the device triggered on a seemingly quiet afternoon. But when messengers came for help days later, their doubts turned to gratitude. Today, we no longer rely on pots to identify seismic events,
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the shapes of stories, which he insisted were just as interesting as the shapes of pots or spearheads. To find the shape, he graphed the main character’s fortune from the beginning to the end of a story.
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We're a melting pot of astronomers, physicists, mathematicians and engineers. This is what will make it soon possible to achieve something once thought impossible. I'd like to encourage all of you to go out and help push the boundaries of science, even if it may at first seem as mysterious to you as a black hole.
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The Japanese myth of the...
and called for the salesman to return and explain himself. The following morning, the salesman examined the pot, but he couldn’t find anything unusual about it. Hoping a cup of tea would help them think, they set the kettle on the fire. Within moments, the metal began to sweat.
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Why giving away our...
So, you've got a big pot of money and a world full of so many different issues. How on Earth do you decide what to focus on? Well, we decided that we'd pick two causes, whatever the biggest inequity was globally, and there we looked at children dying,
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Why are earthquakes so...
The court was somewhat skeptical, especially when the device triggered on a seemingly quiet afternoon. But when messengers came for help days later, their doubts turned to gratitude. Today, we no longer rely on pots to identify seismic events,
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How DARPA is creating...
Internet of powerful chip technologies and advanced materials here we saw bubbling pots of research that we're still immature but that allowed us to dream about groundbreaking capabilities and with the private investment and the
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A brief history of...
where residue in clay pots has revealed that people were making an alcoholic beverage from fermented rice, millet, grapes, and honey. Within a few thousand years, cultures all over the world were fermenting their own drinks.
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How Can Bees Save Bears?...
pot, and we're recovering the forest little by little. So our project now is protecting the ecosystem, protecting the Inter-Andean dry forest and all the little bits and pieces, and all the elements that is inside.
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Why should you read Kurt...
the shapes of stories, which he insisted were just as interesting as the shapes of pots or spearheads. To find the shape, he graphed the main character’s fortune from the beginning to the end of a story.
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Marijuana Nation PIPE...
like to see worldwide according to the UN Canada has the highest number of pot smokers in the industrialized world and Vancouver is the center kosher salt best
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American Actor
Good luck happens to people who work hard for it. Sometimes people just fall into the honey pot, but I've consistently strived to create whatever good fortune I can get in my life - and consistently strive just as hard not to screw it up once I have it!
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Christian Cage
Canadian Wrestler
I always said when I was wrestling that you have tunnel vision because it's all consuming. It's hard to focus on anything else other than what you're doing. When I stepped away from that, I wanted to have my hand in a lot of different pots.
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Phil Hellmuth
American Celebrity
Players talk about pot odds all the time, especially when they try to justify a call that they made. Whenever I hear this line of reasoning, though, I can't help but wonder if they properly thought through the consequences of their call.
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Danny Garcia
American Boxer
People were fighting to try to train me. They saw a pot of gold, and they wanted to fight for it. But they seem too hungry. So I said if my father ain't training me, I ain't going to fight.
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Lindsey Stirling
American Musician
Online is such an important platform... it's all one giant melting pot of talents. The times are changing. It's just art now. You can share your audiences with everyone, and it's exciting.
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John Zorn
American Composer
As soon as you get a certain amount of attention, then everybody kinda wants to start taking pot shots at you. All your old friends that supported you don't support you any more.
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J. Kenji Lopez-Alt
American Chef
After your knife and your cutting board, quality pots and pans are the most important tools in your kitchen, and a good set can run hundreds, even thousands, of dollars.
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Anderson Cooper
American Journalist
From the time I was growing up, if I felt that there was some, like, pot of gold waiting for me, I don't know that I would have been so motivated.
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David Caruso
American Actor
Miami is one of the great cultural melting pots in the world. I love working and living here.
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Michael Musto
American Writer
I'm deeply driven and want my finger stuck in every pot there is.
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Patrick Duffy
American Actor
Good luck happens to people who work hard for it. Sometimes people just fall into the honey pot, but I've consistently strived to create whatever good fortune I can get in my life - and consistently strive just as hard not to screw it up once I have it!
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Christian Cage
Canadian Wrestler
I always said when I was wrestling that you have tunnel vision because it's all consuming. It's hard to focus on anything else other than what you're doing. When I stepped away from that, I wanted to have my hand in a lot of different pots.
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Phil Hellmuth
American Celebrity
Players talk about pot odds all the time, especially when they try to justify a call that they made. Whenever I hear this line of reasoning, though, I can't help but wonder if they properly thought through the consequences of their call.
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Danny Garcia
American Boxer
People were fighting to try to train me. They saw a pot of gold, and they wanted to fight for it. But they seem too hungry. So I said if my father ain't training me, I ain't going to fight.
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Lindsey Stirling
American Musician
Online is such an important platform... it's all one giant melting pot of talents. The times are changing. It's just art now. You can share your audiences with everyone, and it's exciting.
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John Zorn
American Composer
As soon as you get a certain amount of attention, then everybody kinda wants to start taking pot shots at you. All your old friends that supported you don't support you any more.
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J. Kenji Lopez-Alt
American Chef
After your knife and your cutting board, quality pots and pans are the most important tools in your kitchen, and a good set can run hundreds, even thousands, of dollars.
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Anderson Cooper
American Journalist
From the time I was growing up, if I felt that there was some, like, pot of gold waiting for me, I don't know that I would have been so motivated.
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David Caruso
American Actor
Miami is one of the great cultural melting pots in the world. I love working and living here.
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Michael Musto
American Writer
I'm deeply driven and want my finger stuck in every pot there is.
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