How to pronounce “pot”

Meaning

• [Noun]
• A flat-bottomed vessel (usually metal) used for cooking food, possibly excluding saucepans (see usage notes).
• Various similar open-topped vessels, particularly
• (archaic except in place names) Pothole, sinkhole, vertical cave.
• A shallow hole used in certain games played with marbles. The marbles placed in it are called potsies.
• (slang, uncountable) Ruin or deterioration.
• (historical) Any of various traditional units of volume notionally based on the capacity of a pot.
• (historical) An iron hat with a broad brim worn as a helmet.
• (rail transport) A pot-shaped non-conducting (usually ceramic) stand that supports an electrified rail while insulating it from the ground.
• (gambling, poker) The money available to be won in a hand of poker or a round of other games of chance; (figuratively) any sum of money being used as an enticement.
• An allocation of money for a particular purpose.
• (UK, horse-racing, slang) A favorite: a heavily-backed horse.
• (slang) Clipping of potbelly (“a pot-shaped belly, a paunch”).
• (slang) Clipping of potshot (“a haphazard shot; an easy or cheap shot”).
• (chiefly East Midlands, Yorkshire) A plaster cast.
• (historical) Alternative form of pott: a former size of paper, 12.5 × 15 inches.
• [Verb]
• To put (something) into a pot.
• To preserve by bottling or canning.
• (electronics) To package a circuit by encasing it in resin. English Wikipedia has an article on:potting (electronics)Wikipedia
• (snooker, pool, billiards, transitive) To cause a ball to fall into a pocket.
• (snooker, pool, billiards, intransitive) To be capable of being potted.
• (transitive) To shoot with a firearm.
• (intransitive, dated) To take a pot shot, or haphazard shot, with a firearm.
• (transitive, colloquial) To secure; gain; win; bag.
• (British) To send someone to jail, expeditiously.
• (obsolete, dialect, UK) To tipple; to drink.
• (transitive) To drain (e.g. sugar of the molasses) in a perforated cask.
• (transitive, British) To seat a person, usually a young child, on a potty or toilet, typically during toilet teaching.
• (chiefly East Midlands) To apply a plaster cast to a broken limb.
• To catch (a fish, eel, etc) via a pot.
• (rugby, transitive) To score (a drop goal).

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