pot: Meaning and Definition of

pot

1. a container of earthenware, metal, etc., usually round and deep and having a handle or handles and often a lid, used for cooking, serving, and other purposes.
2. such a container with its contents: a pot of stew.
3. the amount contained in or held by a pot; potful.
4. a flowerpot.
5. a container of liquor or other drink: a pot of ale.
6. liquor or other drink.
7. a cagelike vessel for trapping fish, lobsters, eels, etc., typically made of wood, wicker, or wire. Cf.
8. a chamber pot.
1. a vessel for melting metal; melting pot.
2. an electrolytic cell for reducing certain metals, as aluminum, from fused salts.
1. Seechimney pot.
2. Dial.a basket or box used for carrying provisions or the like; a pannier.
11. a large sum of money.
12. all the money bet at a single time; pool.
13. (in horse racing) the favorite.
14. See
15. a liquid measure, usually equal to a pint or quart.
1. an open, broad-brimmed helmet of the 17th century.
2. any open helmet.
17. a potbelly.
18. to become ruined; deteriorate: With no one to care for it, the lovely old garden went to pot.
19. See(def. 8).

1. to put into a pot.
2. to preserve (food) in a pot.
3. to cook in a pot.
4. to transplant into a pot: We must pot the petunias.
5. He can't even pot a sitting duck.
1. to shoot (game birds) on the ground or water, or (game animals) at rest, instead of in flight or running:He can't even pot a sitting duck.
2. to shoot for food, not for sport.
6. to capture, secure, or win.

1. to take a potshot; shoot.

pot

1. marijuana.

pot

1. a deep hole; pit.

pot.

1. potential.
2. potentiometer.