pot
1. metal or earthenware cooking vessel that is usually round and deep;
often has a handle and lid (Freq. 6)
• Hypernyms:
cooking utensil, cookware, vessel
• Hyponyms:
caldron, cauldron, coffeepot, dixie, Dutch oven,
kettle, boiler, marmite, pottle, saucepot, stockpot,
teapot, urn
2. a plumbing fixture for defecation and urination (Freq. 5)
• Syn:
toilet, can, commode, crapper, potty,
stool, throne
• Derivationally related forms:
stool (for: stool), crap (for: crapper)
• Hypernyms:
plumbing fixture
• Hyponyms:
flushless toilet, flush toilet, lavatory, potty seat, potty chair
• Part Holonyms:
toilet, lavatory, lav, can, john,
privy, bathroom, bath
• Part Meronyms:
toilet bowl, toilet seat
3. the quantity contained in a pot (Freq. 1)
• Syn:
potful
• Hypernyms:
containerful
4. a container in which plants are cultivated (Freq. 1)
• Syn:
flowerpot
• Hypernyms:
container
• Hyponyms:
planter
5. (often followed by 'of') a large number or amount or extent
- a batch of letters
- a deal of trouble
- a lot of money
- he made a mint on the stock market
- see the rest of the winners in our huge passel of photos
- it must have cost plenty
- a slew of journalists
- a wad of money
• Syn:
batch, deal, flock, good deal, great deal,
hatful, heap, lot, mass, mess, mickle,
mint, mountain, muckle, passel, peck, pile,
plenty, quite a little, raft, sight, slew, spate,
stack, tidy sum, wad
• Derivationally related forms:
wad (for: wad), plenteous (for: plenty), pile (for: pile), heap (for: heap)
• Hypernyms:
large indefinite quantity, large indefinite amount
• Hyponyms:
flood, inundation, deluge, torrent, haymow
6. the cumulative amount involved in a game (such as poker)
• Syn:
jackpot, kitty
• Topics:
poker, poker game
• Hypernyms:
stake, stakes, bet, wager
7. street names for marijuana
• Syn:
grass, green goddess, dope, weed, gage,
sess, sens, smoke, skunk, locoweed, Mary Jane
• Derivationally related forms:
smoke (for: smoke), dope (for: dope)
• Hypernyms:
cannabis, marijuana, marihuana, ganja
8. slang for a paunch
• Syn:
potbelly, bay window, corporation, tummy
• Usage Domain:
slang, cant, jargon, lingo, argot,
patois, vernacular
• Hypernyms:
belly, paunch
9. a resistor with three terminals, the third being an adjustable center terminal;
used to adjust voltages in radios and TV sets
• Syn:
potentiometer
• Hypernyms:
potential divider, voltage divider
plant in a pot (Freq. 1)
- He potted the palm
• Hypernyms:
implant, engraft, embed, imbed, plant
• Hyponyms:
repot
• Verb Frames:
- Somebody ----s something
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