pots
盆子,壶,锅,锅子
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Definitions
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- : 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.
- : such a container with its contents: a pot of stew.
- : the amount contained in or held by a pot; potful.
- : a flowerpot.
- : a container of liquor or other drink: a pot of ale.
- : liquor or other drink.
- : a cagelike vessel for trapping fish, lobsters, eels, etc., typically made of wood, wicker, or wire.Compare lobster pot.
- : a chamber pot.
- : Metallurgy. a vessel for melting metal; melting pot. an electrolytic cell for reducing certain metals, as aluminum, from fused salts.
- : British. a chimney pot. Dialect.a basket or box used for carrying provisions or the like; a pannier.
- : Slang. a large sum of money.
- : all the money bet at a single time; pool.
- : British Slang. the favorite.
- : a potshot.
- : a liquid measure, usually equal to a pint or quart.
- : Armor. an open, broad-brimmed helmet of the 17th century.any open helmet.
- : Slang. a potbelly.
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pot·ted, pot·ting.
- : to put into a pot.
- : to preserve in a pot.
- : to cook in a pot.
- : to transplant into a pot: We must pot the petunias.
- : Hunting. to shoot on the ground or water, or at rest, instead of in flight or running: He can't even pot a sitting duck.to shoot for food, not for sport.
- : Informal. to capture, secure, or win.
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pot·ted, pot·ting.
- : Informal. to take a potshot; shoot.
Phrases
- pot calling the kettle black, the
- fish or cut bait (shit or get off the pot)
- go to pot
- hit the jackpot
- sweeten the kitty (pot)
- take potluck
- tempest in a teapot
- watched pot never boils
Synonyms & Antonyms
Examples
While a roux is a common thickener that we should all master for dishes such as gravy and gumbo, it is of no use once we’ve already reached the end of a recipe’s instructions and don’t want to bring out another pot.
Oram suggests heating a pot of water to near boiling, pouring it into a non-insulated, hard-sided bottle like a Nalgene, and placing it in your sleeping bag before you get in.
Depending on whether you are right or wrong, $10 is either added to your pot or taken away.
With the installation “What’s Cooking,” artist Bobby Adams frames climate change with the acute, everyday urgency of a pot boiling over.
How to boil tree sapWith the largest pot you own and a reliable heat source, you can head outside and start boiling whenever you’ve collected “enough” sap from your trees.
Bring a large pot of water to a boil and season liberally with salt.
Set a heatproof bowl over a pot of gently simmering water, making sure that the bowl does not touch the surface of the water.
Before this latest brush with the law, the rapper was facing pot-bust and unrelated gun charges.
So too does Inherent Vice, which is something like a love letter written in pot smoke to the Gold Coast.
Because Wright was a no-show in criminal court to face the loud music and pot bust he already had an outstanding warrant.
A Yankee, whose face had been mauled in a pot-house brawl, assured General Jackson that he had received his scars in battle.
And, old ink pot, tuck a horse blanket under my chin, and rub me down with brickbats while I feed!
Gunn touched the brim of his soft felt hat, which he wore turned down all round apparently in imitation of a flower-pot.
The pot goeth so long to the water til at length it commeth broken home.
Then with the potatoes we've roasted in the ashes and plenty of bread and butter and a pot of coffee—Well, words fail.