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say it: paht
pot is a noun and verb meaning "metal or earthenware cooking vessel that is usually round and deep; often has a handle and lid". It carries 10 recorded senses.
metal or earthenware cooking vessel that is usually round and deep; often has a handle and lid
a plumbing fixture for defecation and urination
the quantity contained in a pot
(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”
a resistor with three terminals, the third being an adjustable center terminal; used to adjust voltages in radios and TV sets
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for pot come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.