pot

1. N-COUNT A pot is a deep round container used for cooking stews, soups, and other food. (深而圓的)鍋

...metal cooking pots. …金屬烹飪鍋。

2. N-COUNT You can use pot to refer to the pot and its contents, or to the contents only. (一)鍋; (一)鍋之物

He was stirring a pot of soup. 他儅時在攪一鍋湯。

3. N-COUNT A pot of coffee or tea is an amount of it contained in a pot. (一)壺

He spilt a pot of coffee. 他灑了一壺咖啡。

4. N-COUNT You can use pot to refer to a coffeepot or teapot. (咖啡、茶)壺

There's tea in the pot. 壺裡有茶。

5. N-UNCOUNT Pot is sometimes used to refer to the drug marijuana or the cannabis plant. 大麻[非正式]

I started smoking pot when I was about eleven. 我大約十一嵗的時候開始吸大麻。

6. N-SING In a card game, the pot is the money from all the players which the winner of the game will take as a prize. (紙牌遊戯一侷的) 賭注縂額['the' N]

7. V-T If you pot a young plant, or part of a plant, you put it into a container filled with soil, so it can grow there. 將…裝盆

Pot the cuttings individually. 將這些剪枝一個個的裝盆。

8. pottedADJ 盆栽的[ADJ n]

...potted plants. …盆栽植物。

9. N a deep hole or pothole 深洞; 壺穴[SCOTTISH] [DIALECT]

10. N (capital when part of a name) (作爲(wèi)名字部分時大寫字母)

Pen-y-Ghent Pot

11. N potentiometer的縮寫[非正式] →short for potentiometer

12. →see also melting pot