Pot Large Made Noun Cooking Container Amount I

• pots and pans
• you'll need a large cooking pot with a tight-fitting lid.
• a pot of jam
• a yoghurt pot

pot

1. a deep round container used for cooking things in
• pots and pans
• You'll need a large cooking pot with a tight-fitting lid.

Extra Examples

• Cook gently in a covered pot for 3–4 hours.
• He could hear the pot bubbling on the stove.
• Put all the ingredients in a large pot.
2. a container made of glass, clay or plastic, used for storing food in
• a pot of jam
• a yoghurt pot
3. a container of various kinds, made for a particular purpose
• SEE ALSO chamber pot
  https://www.oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com/definition/english/chamber-pot
• a coffee pot
• a pencil pot
• Is there any more tea in the pot?

Extra Examples

• Plants in pots require more water than you might think.
• She filled the pot with boiling water.
• a clay pot full of oil
4. the amount contained in a pot
• They drank a pot of coffee.
• I had such a craving for marmalade when I was pregnant that I ate a whole pot in one day.
5. a bowl, etc. that is made by a potter
• The newly made pots are glazed when they are completely dry.
6. the total amount of money that is bet in a card game
7. all the money given by a group of people in order to do something together, for example to buy food, or available for a particular purpose
• SEE ALSO kitty
  https://www.oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com/definition/english/kitty
8. cannabis (= a drug (illegal in many countries) made from the dried leaves and flowers of the hemp plant, which gives the person smoking it a feeling of being relaxed)
• pot smoking
9. a shot that somebody fires without aiming carefully
• He took a pot at the neighbour's cat with his air rifle.
10. the act of hitting a ball into one of the pockets around the edge of the table
11. a pot belly (= a large stomach that sticks out)
12. a large prize or reward that somebody hopes for but is unlikely to get
13. to become much less good because people are not working hard or taking care of things
• Her handwriting's gone to pot since she started using a computer all the time.
14. likely to change; in the process of changing
15. used to say that you should not criticize somebody for a fault that you have yourself
16. when you take pot luck, you choose something or go somewhere without knowing very much about it, but hope that it will be good, pleasant, etc.
• SEE ALSO potluck
  https://www.oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com/definition/english/potluck
• It's pot luck whether you get good advice or not.
• You're welcome to stay to supper, but you'll have to take pot luck (= eat whatever is available).
17. a very large amount of money
18. to put something into a space that is too small for it
• Writing a history of the world in a single volume is like putting a quart into a pint pot.
19. used to say that when you are impatient for something to happen, time seems to pass very slowly

Word Origin

• noun senses 1 to 7 and noun senses 10 to 11 late Old English pott, probably reinforced in Middle English by Old French pot; of unknown ultimate origin (compare with late Latin potus ‘drinking cup’). noun sense 8 1930s: probably from Mexican Spanish potiguaya ‘cannabis leaves’. noun sense 9 1950s: abbreviation of potshot.