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Definition: Pot |
PotNoun1. Metal or earthenware cooking vessel that is usually round and deep; often has a handle and lid. 2. A plumbing fixture for defecation and urination. 3. The quantity contained in a pot. 4. A container in which plants are cultivated. 5. (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"; "it must have cost plenty". 6. The cumulative stake in a game (such as poker). 7. A strong-smelling plant from whose dried leaves a number of euphoriant and hallucinogenic drugs are prepared. 8. (informal) slang terms for a paunch. 9. A resistor with three terminals, the third being an adjustable center terminal; used to adjust voltages in radios and TV sets. 10. : a soft drug consisting of the dried leaves of the hemp plant; smoked or chewed for euphoric effect. Verb1. Plant in a pot; "He potted the palm". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "pot" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1120. (references) |
Etymology: Pot \Pot\, noun. [Akin to Low German pott, Dutch pot, Danish potte, Swedish potta, Icelandic pottr, French pot; of unknown origin.]. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Chemical Industry | A vessel which may be either open or closed, used for melting and working glass. Source: European Union. (references) |
Dream Interpretation | To dream of a pot, foretells that unimportant events will work you vexation. For a young woman to see a boiling pot, omens busy employment of pleasant and social duties. To see a broken or rusty one, implies that keen disappointment will be experienced by you. Source: Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted .... |
Food & Agriculture | Trap, designed to catch fish or crustaceans, in the form of cages or baskets made with various materials(wood, wicker, metal rods, wire netting, etc. )and with one or more openings or entrances. Source: European Union. (references) |
| The part of a pot still in which the wine is boiled. Source: European Union. (references) | |
Literature | Pot This word, like "father," "mother," "daughter," etc., is common to the whole A'ryan family. Greek, poter, a drinking-vessel; Latin, poc-ulum- i.e. potaculum; Irish and Swedish, pota; Spanish, pote; German, pott; Danish, potte; French, Welsh, Anglo-Saxon, pott, etc. Gone to pot. Ruined, gone to the bad. The allusion is to the pot into which refuse metal is cast to be remelted, or to be discarded as waste. "Now and then a farm went to pot."- Dr. Arbuthnot. The pot calls the kettle black. This is said of a person who accuses another of faults committed by himself. The French say, "The shovel mocks the poker" (La pelle se moque du fourgon). To betray the pot to the roses. To betray the rose pot- that is, the pot which contains the rose-nobles. To "let the cat out of the bag." (French, Decouvrir le pot aux roses.) Brazen and earthen pots. Gentlemen and artisans, rich and poor, men of mark and those unstamped. From the fable of the Brazen and Earthen Pots. "Brazen and earthen pots float together in juxtaposition down the stream of life."- Pall Mall Gazette. Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
Mining | A. A vessel for holding molten metal b. An electrolytic reduction cell used to make such metals as aluminum from fused electrolyte c. Mud-filled stump of Sigillaria in an upright position in the roof of certain coal seams. The stump became hollow by decay of the central pithy part, the hollow being filled by mud. This stump is now a separate mass of shale and is liable for collaspse without warning. See also:caldron bottom; pot bottom d. A colloquial syn. of seismic detector. (references) |
Slang in 1811 | POT. The pot calls the kettle black a-se; one rogue exclaims against another. POT. On the pot; i.e. at stool. Source: 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue. |
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Cannabis Scientific classification
Kingdom: Plantae Division: Magnoliophyta Class: Magnoliopsida Order: Urticales Family: Cannabaceae Genus: Cannabis Species: sativa Binomial name Cannabis sativa Cannabis, the buds and leaves of which are also known as marijuana (archaic: marihuana; see street names below), is any of several different species of mildly hallucinogenic dioecious plants whose main active ingredient is Δ-9 tetrahydrocannabinol, or THC. Cannabis is a member of the family Cannabaceae, in the order Urticales which includes figs and nettles. It grows in most climates. The tough fiber of the cannabis plant is known as hemp and has various uses, including the manufacture of cloth, rope, and paper.
THC Content
Although the main psychoactive substance in cannabis is Δ-9-THC, the plant contains about 60 cannabinoids in total. The complexity of this mixture has led to much speculation as to why the effects of the plant can differ from the synthetically manufactured dronabinol.Although potency of a given variety of cannabis is highly subjective outside the laboratory environment, "Normal" herbal cannabis usually contains between 0.5% to 7% THC, although selective breeding and cultivation techniques (such as hydroponics) have produced varieties which some theorize having up to 25% THC content. The THC content is also affected by the sex of the plant, with female plants generating more THC-laden resin than their male counterparts. Sinsemilla (from the Spanish for "without seed") is derived from unpollinated female plants and has an even higher THC content.
Effects
Cannabis is psychoactive, meaning it affects the mind and/or behavior. Acute effects of marijuana consumption vary by individual, but generally include a subset of the following: mild euphoria or enhanced feelings of general well-being, stronger awareness of surroundings, increased acuteness of the senses, increased appetite (called the munchies) and especially a craving for sugar, sleepiness, increased interest in music and art, relaxation. Also common is a tendency to find humor in many more situations and events than one normally would. Most users intially experience mild to severe paranoia and panic, although this becomes less present as the user becomes used to the drug, and can be completely gone in some users. Users who are typically lazy or are already sleepy will often become drowsy and lethargic when high. Other effects in some users may include impaired motor and cognitive functions, paranoia, and short-term memory loss.
Anti-drug publicity campaigns would lead a person to believe that most cannabis users (and other drug users) are either violent and vindictive folks, or that they are lazy people who contribute little to society as a whole. While there are definitely cannabis users who are overly violent or lethargic, many pro-cannabis advocates point out that there are users of alcohol and tobacco (legal drugs) who exhibit many of the same traits, and that the negative actions of a few should not be extrapolated to represent an entire subset of the population -- just as there are people who drink alcohol every day while leading productive fullfilling lives, there are persons who use cannabis (and other illicit drugs) every day without letting their habits interfere with their responsibilities.
No fatal overdose due to cannabis use has ever been recorded in two millennia of medical history. One study found an LD50 of pure Δ-9-THC in milligrams/kilogram for mice and rats respectively as 481.9/666 orally; 454.9/372.9 intraperitoneally; and 28.6/42.47 intravenously. Assuming 100% efficiency in extracting THC from marijuana (in reality, extraction efficiency is nowhere near 100%), and high grade marijuana that was 6% THC by weight, a 68 kg (150 lb.) human would have to rapidly ingest almost 20 pounds of marijuana to achieve this dose, in which case a person would experience respiratory failure due to smoke inhalation long before actually overdosing on THC.
Although a mild tolerance of the drug can be built up, it is generally understood not to be physically addictive, and such tolerances tend to vanish within as little as a few days of abstinance. As with any substance however, some can build up a psychological dependence. There is some evidence linking long-term use to depression as well as aggravation of pre-existing mental conditions, although the cause and effect relationship between depression and substance abuse is not fully understood, and there is a possibility that drug use could be a result of depression and not the root cause.
The long-term effects of cannabis still need more study. One of the most important and widely shared concerns regarding cannabis is that its high tar content (especially when it is combined with tobacco, as is common in Europe) could lead to an increased risk of lung cancer. Pipes using water filtration, called bongs, are often believed to reduce lung damage by filtering out a portion of the smoke's tar, and lowering the temperature of the smoke.A recent report [1] indicated that marijuana's effects on the lungs are at least as serious as those of tobacco; it may be noted that most marijuana users use far lesser quantities, and that it is not necessarily smoked.
Medical use
Cannabis is infequently prescribed by doctors due to its legal status in most nations, but is most often prescribed as an appetite stimulant and pain reliever for terminal illnesses including cancer and AIDS. The medical use of cannabis is highly controversial and is dealt with in its own article. See medical marijuana.
Recreational use
Cannabis comes in several forms.
It is most commonly smoked, usually in a "joint" or "spliff". Other names include jacob, blunt (cigar hollowed out and filled with marijuana to replace the tobacco), hooter, doobie, grifo, and binge: the dried buds or leaves (sometimes mixed with tobacco) are rolled in paper or cigar wrapping and smoked much like a cigarette.
- Leaves, dried. ("shake")
- Flowering tops (buds) of female plants, dried ("bud," "marijuana"). Buds are more potent than leaves.
- Hashish ("hash") which is the secretion of the plant, usually dried and processed into blocks. When pressed into long, thin rectangular pieces this is called "charas".
- Oil ("honey oil," "hash oil") which is a concentrate usually involving a solvent-based extraction.
Other methods include using pipes or "bongs" (water pipes) and buckets to smoke the cannabis whilst cooling the smoke down and, in the case of bongs, removing some of the unwanted impurities/tar. Smoke escapes through a hole called a "carb". In addition, a drink called bhang can be prepared. See also hashish and hashish oil.
Cannabis is also cooked to make things such as Alice B. Toklas brownies, "space cake", "pot pie," and "hash brownies". However, the effects of ingested cannabis usually do not take effect for over 30 minutes (many times much longer), making it harder for users to regulate their consumption.
The seeds of the hemp plant are also eaten and roasted, as well as being used to make hemp seed oil. A few restaurants that specialize in food with hemp seeds in it have opened, and appeal mostly to a countercultural clientele base. These places are legal, but is precisely because roasted hemp seeds contain too little THC to get the diner high that they are legal.
Another method of ingestion is vaporization. Vaporization allows the Cannabis resins (THC and other cannabinoids) to be extracted into a vapor by heating without actually burning the plant material. This is advantageous because most of the toxic chemicals found in cannabis and tobacco smoke are byproducts of the combustion process. By heating the cannabis to about 190°C, the Cannabis resins are released into a vapor but the plant material is not actually burned. This vapor can then be inhaled and the effects of the drug will be felt as quickly as if it were smoked. Vaporization is an option for people concerned about the dangers associated with smoking.
Cannabis can also be taken by dissolving it in milk, which is in turn added to preparations of flavoring herbs (such as cloves, cinnamon, etc. They vary by region). THC is not water-soluble, so the cannabis must be steeped in a fatty substance such as melted butter, oil, cream, or milk. Such a preparation is referred to as "bhang" and is a traditional method of consumption in India and related countries.
Street Names
General names
For Cannabis: pot, haschisch, nugget, chronic, dank, dope, weed, bud ('lil green buddies/little green friends), grass, herb, indo, kind, ganja (traditional in Rastafarian religion), the Good Herb, green, Mary Jane, KB (Kind bud, killer bud), skunk, smoke, sticky-icky-icky (a Snoop Doggy Dogg coinage), whacko-tobacco, shwag (low-quality marijuana), Ted Nugent, tea, tampiko, moss, buddha, bomb, dee, rope, instaga, dagga, and many other names. Definitions of all these terms vary by region, and may vary in meaning according to context.For getting high: stoned, toking (up), zonked, baked, tore-up, buzzed, ripped, smashed, lit-up, lifted, faded, (solid) gone, toasted, blazed, blasted, wasted, basted, gonzo, or simply fucked up
Reefer has most often been used to refer to a marijuana cigarette, but sometimes to the substance itself. "Reefer" was common in the early 20th century, but is now usually only used humorously, often in reference to the then-serious now-comical 1930s film Reefer Madness, extremely exaggerating marijuana's effects, depicting a scenario of evil gangsters attempting to corrupt the youth of a small town with the evil weed.
Early 20th century terms
Mez, Muggles, gage, viper jive.
Names for potent or otherwise good marijuana (or cannabis strains)
(Cross)breeds of plants White widow (light green-white in appearance), C99, AK-47 (Sativa/Indica cross), Bubblegum (very sticky), JuicyFruit, Orange Bud and Blueberry (product smells or tastes somewhat like its name); G-13 (developed at the University of Washington); Thunderfuck, Northern-lights (these two natives of Alaska), purple haze, kush, Thai or Thai stick (the legitimate product is indica from Thailand or US Grown of Thai seed, the buds being long and treelike in appearance, often with string wrapped in a spiral pattern for the purpose of holding the bud together). The term Thai stick is also used for imitation marijuana.It should be noted that (in part due to the illegal status of cannabis) many lies about origin and THC content are perpetuated by dishonest sellers to boost sales or justify high prices; for example common marijuana with buds appearing somewhat treelike will often be labeled "thai stick" by a dealer, at which point the price may increase from 50% to 200% or more.
History
The use of cannabis is thought to go back at least 5000 years. Neolithic archaeology grounds in China include cannabis seeds and plants. The first known mention of cannabis was in a Chinese medical text of 2737 BC. It was used as medicine throughout Asia and the Middle East to treat a variety of conditions. In India particularly, cannabis was associated with Shiva.
Cannabis was well known to the Scythians. Germans have grown hemp for its fibers--used to make nautical ropes and material for clothes--since ancient times. In the Elbing Prussian vocabulary from around 1350, hemp is recorded as knapis (derived from cannabis). Large fields of hemp along the banks of the Rhine are featured in 19th century copper etchings.
The hemp plant has to be soaked to harvest the fiber. This liquid was used as a drink. In today's Germany there are bars that serve hemp beer and hemp wine (edit: while this may be true those drinks will not contain any THC because as a drug cannabis is still outlawed in Germany and only so-called "industrial hemp" that doesn't contain any THC may be grown for production of fibers and said drinks).
Cannabis was used medicinally in the western world (usually as a tincture) around the middle of the 19th century. It was famously used to treat Queen Victoria's menstrual pains, and was available from shops in the US. By the end of the 19th century its medicinal use began to fall as other drugs such as aspirin took over.
Until 1937, consumption and sale of marijuana was legal in most American states. In some areas it could be openly purchased in bulk from grocers or in cigarette form at newstands, though more and more of them had begun to outlaw it. In that year Federal law made possession or transfer of marijuana illegal without the purchase of a by-then incriminating tax stamp throughout the United States (contrary to the advice of the American Medical Association at the time); legal opinions of time held that the federal government could not outlaw it entirely.
Congress' decision was based in part on testimony derived from articles in the newspapers owned by William Randolph Hearst, who was heavily interested in DuPont Inc. Some analysts theorize DuPont wanted to boost declining post-war nylon sales, and wished to eliminate hemp fiber as competition. Many argue that this seems unlikely given DuPont's lack of concern with the legal status of cotton, wool, and linen; although it should be noted that hemp's textile potential had not yet been largely exploited, while textile factories already had made large investments in equipment to handle cotton, wool, and linen. Even more inflammatory and biased were the accusations by that period's US 'drug czar' Henry Anslinger. Anslinger felt that the drug provoked murderous rampages in previously-solid citizens, charges not borne out under closer scrutiny. Anslinger went on to say that "it makes darkies feel equal to white men," a plaint typical of much of the anti-drug rhetoric of the time, which for example emphasised opium's role in promoting Anglo-Chinese miscegenation. He told the married men in the audience: "Gentlemen, it will make your wives want to have sex with a Black man!" Anslinger also popularized the word marihuana for the plant, using a Mexican derived word (believed to be derived from a Brazilian Portuguese term for inebriation) in order to associate the plant with increasing numbers of Mexican immigrants, creating a negative stereotype which many Americans still believe to this day.
Cannabis has a prominent religious role in the Rastafarian religion.
Although it has probably been used as a recreational drug thoughout its history, it first came to prominence in the jazz scene during the late 1920s and 30s (Louis Armstrong being its most prominent [and life-long] devotee), its use taking off in the 1960s.
It is now the most widely used illicit drug in the world.
Death penalty for cannabis usage or trafficking
As of 2003, only a minority of countries still include the death penalty in their legal system. Several of those which still have the death penalty have either carried it out or legislated it for cannabis usage or trafficking.In Malaysia, Mustaffa Kamal Abdul Aziz, 38 yrs old, and Mohd Radi Abdul Majid, 53 yrs old, were executed at dawn on January 17, 1996, for the trafficking of 1.18 kilograms of cannabis. [1] Under Malaysia's anti-drug laws, the death penalty is mandatory for trafficking certain drugs. Anyone found in possession of at least 15 grams of heroin, 1,000 grams of opium or 200 grams of cannabis is presumed to be guilty (until proven innocent) of trafficking in the drug. This reverses the usual presumption of innocence of internationally recognised norms of law.
The Philippines introduced stronger anti-drug law (including the death penalty) in 2002 [1]
In 1996 in the USA, Newt Gingrich planned to introduce a mandatory death penalty for a second offense of smuggling 50 grams of marijuana into the USA, in the proposed law H.R. 4170. It seems that proposed law failed, so that, under the 1994 crime act, the threshold for sentencing a death penalty in relation to marijuana is the involvement with the cultivation or distribution of 60,000 marijuana plants (or seedlings) or 60,000 kilograms of marijuana.
Related articles
- Health issues related to use of cannabis
- Legal status of cannabis
- Drugs policy of the Netherlands
- Amsterdam
- Medical marijuana
- Marijuana Parties
- hemp
- Grow-op
External links
Drug Information
- UK National drugs helpline factsheet ( http://www.ndh.org.uk/facts_cannabis.html )
- American Council for Drug Education factsheet ( http://www.acde.org/common/Marijana.htm )
- UN Drug control and Prevention factsheet ( http://www.undcp.org/report_1998-10-01_1_page003.html )
- Good Drugs Guide
History
- The Emperor Wears No Clothes ( http://www.jackherer.com/chapters.html )
- Smokedot.org's take of the history of criminalisation ( http://smokedot.org/story/2001/7/2/35918/10894 )
Advocacy
- Pro-cannabis
- Jack Herer
- NORML ( http://www.norml.org )
- The Cannabis Information Network ( http://www.marijuana-hemp.com )
- Cannabis.com ( http://www.cannabis.com )
- Anti-cannabis
- The Anti-Drug ( http://theantidrug.com/drug_info/drugs_marijuana.html )
Misc
- Smoking device used for tasting Cannabis ( http://www.magicspherevalve.com )
- WHO report on Cannabis health effects ( http://hyperreal.info/~emes/WHO/ )
- UK Panoroma programme on medical trials ( http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/.../1625124.stm)
trade fair CannaTrade 2003, [1]
Federal Bureau of Narcotics poster used in the late 1930s and 1940s
For the 1990s rapper, see Canibus.
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| The following table is compiled from various sources, across various languages. When English abbreviations or acronyms come from a non-English source, this is noted. | |||
| Entry | Source | Expression | Field |
PoT | English | Peaks-over-Threshold method | Economics |
POT | German | Hauptabteilung Personal und Organisation Telecom | Public Administration, Post & Telecom |
| Pot. | German | Potentiometer | N/A |
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Synonyms: PotSynonyms: batch (n), bay window (n), can (n), cannabis (n), commode (n), corporation (n), crapper (n), deal (n), dope (n), flock (n), flowerpot (n), gage (n), ganja (n), good deal (n), grass (n), great deal (n), hatful (n), heap (n), jackpot (n), kitty (n), lot (n), marihuana (n), marijuana (n), mass (n), mess (n), mickle (n), mint (n), muckle (n), peck (n), pile (n), plenty (n), potbelly (n), potentiometer (n), potful (n), potty (n), quite a little (n), raft (n), sens (n), sess (n), sight (n), skunk (n), slew (n), smoke (n), spate (n), stack (n), stool (n), throne (n), tidy sum (n), toilet (n), tummy (n), wad (n), weed (n), whole lot (n), whole slew (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Acquisition | Sweepstakes, trick, prize, pool; pot; wealth. |
Calefaction | Pottery, ceramics, crockery, porcelain, china; earthenware, stoneware; pot, mug, terra cotta, brick, clinker. |
Furnace | Noun: furnace, stove, kiln, oven; cracker; hearth, focus, combustion chamber; athanor, hypocaust, reverberatory; volcano; forge, fiery furnace; limekiln; Dutch oven; tuyere, brasier, salamander, heater, warming pan; boiler, caldron, seething caldron, pot; urn, kettle; chafing-dish; retort, crucible, alembic, still; waffle irons; muffle furnace, induction furnace; electric heater, electric furnace, electric resistance heat. |
Greatness | Great quan quantity, deal, power, sight, pot, volume, world; mass, heap; (assemblage); stock; (store); peck, bushel, load, cargo; cartload, wagonload, shipload; flood, spring tide; abundance; (sufficiency). |
Intemperance | Bhang, hashish, marijuana, pot, hemp, grass; opium, cocaine, morphine, heroin; LSD, lysergic acid diethylamide; phencyclidine, angel dust, PCP; barbiturates; amphetamines, speed. |
Preservation | Embalm, cure, salt, pickle, season, kyanize, bottle, pot, tin, can; sterilize, pasteurize, radiate; dry, lyophilize, freeze-dry, concentrate, evaporate; freeze, quick-freeze, deep-freeze; husband; (store). |
Receptacle | Cistern; (store); vat, caldron, barrel, cask, drum, puncheon, keg, rundlet, tun, butt, cag, firkin, kilderkin, carboy, amphora, bottle, jar, decanter, ewer, cruse, caraffe, crock, kit, canteen, flagon; demijohn; flask, flasket; stoup, noggin, vial, phial, cruet, caster; urn, epergne, salver, patella, tazza, patera; pig gin, big gin; tyg, nipperkin, pocket pistol; tub, bucket, pail, skeel, pot, tankard, jug, pitcher, mug, pipkin; galipot, gallipot; matrass, receiver, retort, alembic, bolthead, capsule, can, kettle; bowl, basin, jorum, punch bowl, cup, goblet, chalice, tumbler, glass, rummer, horn, saucepan, skillet, posnet, tureen. |
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Screenplays | Some lucky boy's about to hit the honey pot. The winner will receive an evening of my company (Batman & Robin; writing credit: Akiva Goldsman) Well, I see your smoking pot now. I think the use of a sub-controlled drug is a very positive example to set for our daughter (American Beauty; writing credit: Alan Ball) I think that it is not really a tumornot an uncontrolled, undirected little bubbling pot of fleshbut that it is in fact a new organ a new part of the brain (Videodrome; writing credit: David Cronenberg) Back in the seventies rehab meant you'd stop doing coke, but kept smoking pot and drinking for a couple more weeks (Denis Leary: No Cure for Cancer; writing credit: Denis Leary) So, you smoke pot for breakfast, you work part time, and you (The Tao of Steve; writing credit: Duncan North; Greer Goodman) | |
Lyrics | Seekin' my fame and fortune, lookin' for a pot of gold (LODI; performing artist: Creedence Clearwater Revival) So I got a deal I sell pot too (Young'n; performing artist: Fabolous) There's always something cooking and nothing in the pot (Nobody Told Me; performing artist: John Lennon) Meltin' in a pot of thieves (Gloria; performing artist: Patti Smith) I guess that's so, we don't have a pot ("I Got You Babe"; performing artist: Sonny & Cher) | |
Clever | Man who stand on toilet is high on pot. (references; author: unknown) 1968: Growing pot. 1998: Growing pot belly. (references; author: unknown) Sleeping on the job: Someone must have put decaf in the wrong pot. (references; author: unknown) | |
Movie/TV Titles | The Lobster Pot (1973) Parents and Police Pot (1972) Gigi Goes to Pot (1970) Don't Smoke Pot (1968) One for the Pot (1968) | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | (1) color slide shows a large ceramic pot filled with B & M Brick Oven brand baked beans. Credit: Renee Comet (photographer). |  | Earthen pot at Station JINSTID Similar to early earthenware cones devised by Ferdinand Hassler. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection. |
 | Emptying a crab pot. Passing on knowledge of the bay from generation to generation. Credit: America's Coastlines. |  | Crab pot on the dock at the end of the day. Credit: America's Coastlines. |
 | Radar display of multiple contacts of lobster pot moorings ALBATROSS IV had to find clear spot to trawl through. Credit: Paths Less Taken - NOAA at the Ends of the Earth. |  | Stone crab pot. Credit: Fisheries. |
 | A large crab pot is brought back aboard. Credit: Fisheries. |  | A scientist measures the number and size of blue crabs taken during the crab- pot collection phase of the sampling process for the project. Credit: NOAA Restoration Center. |
 | A crab pot collection containing a diamondback terrapin and Atlantic croaker. The turtle was revived and released. Credit: NOAA Restoration Center. |  | Narragansett Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve Lobster - Homarus americanus. A large lobster has been set on the top of a lobster pot. Buoys dot Narragansett Bay marking the sites of lobster pots. Credit: National Estuarine Research Reserve System (NERR). |
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| "Flower pot" by Justin Tormey Commentary: "Big flower pot on my sidewalk." | "Golden pot" by Thomas Michael Burgey, Germany Commentary: "A huge pot in front of the centre george pompidou, paris, france." |
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| Play | Caption | Play | Caption |
 | Tea pot whistling. | | Clanging of a metal pot falling to the floor . |
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Emo Philips | When I wake up in the morning, I just can't get started until I've had that first, piping hot pot of coffee. Oh, I've tried other enemas... |
Henry IV | I want there to be no peasant in my kingdom so poor that he cannot have a chicken in his pot every Sunday. |
Sir John A. Macdonald | When fortune empties her chamber pot on your head, smile and say We are going to have a summer shower. |
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Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | The father, with the agility of a mountebank, caught a broken pot which stood on the mantel, and threw some water upon the embers |
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man | Joyce, James | The pot of pink enamel paint gave out and the wainscot of his bedroom remained with its unfinished and illplastered coat |
Grapes of Wrath | Steinbeck, John | IITYWYBAD? Down at one end the cooking plates, pots of stew, potatoes, pot roast, roast beef, gray roast pork waiting to be sliced |
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Health | When taking food out of the refrigerator or freezer, they should wear mittens, oven mitts, or pot holders. (references) | |
If cheese is a part of your daily diet, use low fat cheeses such as low fat cottage cheese, Neufchatel, mozzarella, farmers, and pot cheese. (references) | ||
Terms from years ago, such as pot, herb, grass, weed, Mary Jane, and reefer, are still used. You might also hear the names Aunt Mary, skunk, boom, gangster, kif, or ganja. (references) | ||
Civil Liberties | Congo | On February 28, security forces arrested Guy Kasongo, editor of the satirical journal Pot Pourri, allegedly for publishing unflattering cartoons of the Minister of the Interior. (references) |
Economic History | Cambodia | At least 600,000 Cambodians displaced during the Pol Pot era and the Vietnamese invasion began streaming to the Thai border in search of refuge. (references) |
Cambodia | It also picked a 15-member cabinet headed by Pol Pot as prime minister. (references) | |
Trade | Botswana | Duties collected are placed in a common pot and split among member states. (references) |
Travel | Barbados | Specialties of the island include flying fish (and many other types of fish), cou-cou (similar to grits) and spicy pepper pot. (references) |
Women | Ghana | The tribunal ruled that the woman had to compensate the teacher with a portion of rum, a pot of palm wine, and $6 (2,000 cedis). (references) |
Lexicography | Devil's Dictionary | ZENITH, n. The point in the heavens directly overhead to a man standing or a growing cabbage. A man in bed or a cabbage in the pot is not considered as having a zenith, though from this view of the matter there was once a considerably dissent among the learned, some holding that the posture of the body was immaterial. These were called Horizontalists, their opponents, Verticalists. The Horizontalist heresy was finally extinguished by Xanobus, the philosopher-king of Abara, a zealous Verticalist. Entering an assembly of philosophers who were debating the matter, he cast a severed human head at the feet of his opponents and asked them to determine its zenith, explaining that its body was hanging by the heels outside. Observing that it was the head of their leader, the Horizontalists hastened to profess themselves converted to whatever opinion the Crown might be pleased to hold, and Horizontalism took its place among fides defuncti. |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Pot" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 96.49% of the time. "Pot" is used about 2,018 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 96.49% | 1,947 | 4,408 |
| Lexical Verb (infinitive) | 1.73% | 35 | 58,339 |
| Noun (proper) | 1.19% | 24 | 71,196 |
| Lexical Verb (base form) | 0.35% | 7 | 133,076 |
| Unclassified Items | 0.25% | 5 | 157,705 |
| Total | 100.00% | 2,018 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes names derived from the word "pot". | |||
| Name | Gender | Language | Meaning |
| Heres | N/A | Biblical | An earthen pot |
| Shishak | N/A | Biblical | Of the pot |
| Shuthelah | N/A | Biblical | Pot |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references.
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Expressions using "pot": a pot of money ♦ big pot ♦ chamber pot ♦ chimney pot ♦ coffee pot ♦ cooking pot ♦ crock Pot ♦ death in the pot ♦ dope pot ♦ earthenware pot ♦ eel pot ♦ electric coffee pot ♦ fining pot ♦ Fire pot ♦ fish pot ♦ flare pot ♦ flower pot ♦ Garden pot ♦ go to pot ♦ Gum pot ♦ hollow pot ♦ honey pot ♦ hot pot ♦ ink pot ♦ Jack pot ♦ jam pot ♦ keep the pot boiling ♦ large pot ♦ le pot au lait ♦ lobster pot ♦ melting pot ♦ metal pot ♦ mustard pot ♦ night pot ♦ paint pot ♦ pepper pot ♦ pewter pot ♦ Philadelphia pepper pot ♦ plant pot ♦ pot at smb. ♦ pot at smth. ♦ pot barley ♦ pot belly ♦ pot cheese ♦ pot companion ♦ pot flowers ♦ pot foot ♦ pot hanger ♦ pot helmet ♦ pot herb ♦ pot herbs ♦ pot holder ♦ pot hole ♦ pot hours ♦ pot house ♦ pot hunter ♦ pot lace ♦ pot lead ♦ pot life ♦ pot liquor ♦ pot luck ♦ Pot Marigold ♦ pot marjoram ♦ pot metal ♦ pot of ♦ pot plant ♦ pot pourri ♦ pot roast ♦ pot scourer ♦ pot shot ♦ pot valour ♦ pot vessel ♦ pot wash ♦ pot wheel ♦ refractory pot ♦ revolving pot ♦ seething pot ♦ sex pot ♦ small pot ♦ smoke pot ♦ stoneware pot ♦ take pot luck ♦ take pot shot ♦ tea pot ♦ tea pot ladle ♦ the pot calls the kettle black ♦ To go to pot ♦ To keep the pot boiling ♦ Tram pot ♦ watering pot ♦ wince pot. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "pot": Pot-a-l'oille, Pot-au-chocolat, Pot-au-feu, Pot-bellied, pot-bellies, Pot-belly, pot-boiler, pot-boilers, pot-bound, pot-boy, pot-clay, pot-coiling, pot-decoration, Pot-gliadin, pot-growing, pot-grown, pot-hat, pot-head, pot-herb, pot-herbs, pot-holders, pot-hole, pot-holed, pot-holer, pot-holers, pot-holes, pot-holing, pot-hook, pot-hooks and hangers, pot-house, pot-houses, pot-hunter, pot-hunters, pot-hunting, pot-lid, pot-lids, pot-like, pot-luck, pot-making, pot-man, pot-mould, pot-painters, pot-paper, pot-peg, pot-plant, pot-plants, pot-pourri, pot-pourris, pot-roast meat, pot-scourers, pot-shape, pot-shapes, pot-shards, pot-shot, pot-shots, pot-smoker, pot-smoking, pot-stew, pot-still, Pot-sure, pot-throwing, pot-trained, pot-training, pot-type, pot-up, Pot-valiant, pot-valor, Pot-walloper. | |
Ending with "pot": cooking-pot, flower-pot, hot-pot, melting-pot, piss-pot, tea-pot, tin-pot. | |
Containing "pot": chimney-pot hat, tea-pot-like. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day | Expression | Frequency per Day |
crock pot recipe | 4,338 | chicken pot pie | 189 |
flower pot | 3,472 | stock pot | 184 |
pot | 2,111 | neti pot | 183 |
melting pot | 886 | crock pot receipes | 182 |
pot rack | 764 | pot tv | 182 |
crock pot | 713 | pot brownie | 177 |
tea pot | 575 | copper pot | 158 |
clay pot | 483 | chicken pot pie recipe | 148 |
pot and pan | 481 | terra cotta pot | 147 |
coffee pot | 342 | chicken crock pot recipe | 134 |
crock pot cooking | 321 | stainless steel pot | 130 |
pol pot | 286 | pot bellied pig | 129 |
pot plant | 246 | fondue pot | 119 |
pot roast recipe | 228 | hanging pot rack | 114 |
pot roast | 216 | crab pot | 113 |
pot belly pig | 212 | garden pot | 109 |
clay pot craft | 203 | chicken crock pot | 104 |
melting pot restaurant | 196 | pasta pot | 96 |
rival crock pot | 191 | pot seed | 96 |
pot leaf | 190 | honey pot | 95 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Language | Translations for "pot"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Afrikaans | pot (box, container, jug, vessel). (various references) | |
Albanian | poçe (balloon, crock, jar, Jerry, night-chair, night-stool, pipkin), plëndës, vazo (bowl, container, flower vase, flowerpot, receptacle, vase), vë në vazo, tenxhere (saucepan, stew-pan, stew-pot), shumë e majmë, shportë (basket, hamper, pannier, tray), qëlloj (batter, clip, clout, conk, discharge, fetch, flap, get, hammer, hit, impinge, knock, lay out, paddle, poke, pop, pound, rifle, shoot, slap, slug, smite, strike, switch), kosh (basket, cage, car, pannier, playpen, sidecar), ibrik (jug, kettle), fus në kavanoz, fus në gropë (hole), drogë (dope, drug, junk), bark i dalë (paunch, potbelly). (various references) | |
Arabic | كرش ضخم, مبلغ كبير من المال (bundle), قدر الطبخ, وضع فى قدر, طبخ في قدر, طبخ و يحفظ فى قدر, الضربة الجيبية بالبلياردو, أطلق النار على, أصيص (tub), شخص ذو شأن (something), شراب مسكر (boose, booze, brandy, champagne, drink, drinking, inebriant, intoxicant, medicine, nappy, peg, rum). (various references) | |
Asturian | pota. (various references) | |
Aymara | phucu. (various references) | |
Basque | pote. (various references) | |
Bemba | poti. (various references) | |
Blackfoot | iitáínnihtao'p. (various references) | |
Bulgarian | мизи, кана (can, canna, cannach, ewer, jug, pitcher), гърне (jar), гръмвам (pop, shoot), готвя в тенджера, вкарвам топка в дупка (pocket), вземам (borrow, cover, fetch, get, got, gotten, levy, load, partake, pick up, retake, take, take away, take in, take up), важна клечка (big pot, big wheel, bigwig, kingpin, mugwump, nibs, nob, panjandrum), делва (cruse, jar), марихуана (boo, cannabis, grass, marihuana, marijuana, tea, weed), кастрон, застрелвам (blast, plug, shoot, shoot down, shoot up), залагания (pool), задушавам в тенджера, буркан (jar), правя грънци, посаждам (plant, plant out, put in, set), пота, изстрел отблизо (potshot), нощно гърне (chamber pot, commode, piss-pot), тенджера (cooker, flesh-pot, saucepan), стрелям (discharge, fire, kill, loose, pop, shoot), убивам (account for, assassinate, dispose of, do in, end, finish, fix, kill, lay out, liquidate, murder, pip, polish off, pop off, push off, put away, put to death, quench, remove, rub out, shoot up, slay, snuff out, starve, strike down, wipe out, zap), саксия, садя (inseminate, plant, set), слагам в гърне, слагам дете на гърне, спечелвам (acquire, attach, carry off, engage, enlist, fetch, gain, get, get the best of it, land, make, obtain, profit, purchase, win, win through), хващам (capture, catch, clamp, find out, get, grab, grapple, grasp, grip, gripe, hook, hunt down, land, nail, nip, nobble, pick up, prey upon, run down, seize, snag, strike, take, take effect, take up, track down), канче (canakin, canikin, cannikin, mug, noggin, pannikin), цукало, кафеник, тигел (crucible, melting pot, platen), шкембе (paunch, potbelly, tripe), кюп, купа (bowl, cup, heart, mow, pewter, plate), куп пари (packet, pots of money), кош за ловене на риба, консервирам (can, conserve, cure, pack, preserve, process, put down, put up, salt down, tin), сума пари (packet, pots of money), чайник (kettle). (various references) | |
Cebuano | kulon. (various references) | |
Chamorro | charera. (various references) | |
Chinese | 罐 (can, jar). (various references) | |
Czech | posadit na hrníèek, zavařovat (can), zajistit (assure, detain, ensure, make certain, make sure, provide, safeguard, secure, vindicate), střelit naslepo, nádobka (bowl, container), konvice (jug, tankard), kořenáè, hrnec, dát do hrnce. (various references) | |
Danish | kande (jug). (various references) | |
Dutch | pot (box, container, jug, vase, vessel), po (chamber pot, chamber-pot, Po). (various references) | |
Ecuadorian Quechua | manca. (various references) | |
Esperanto | poto (jug), noktovazo (chamber-pot). (various references) | |
Faeroese | pottur (jug), krukka (jug, pitcher), grýtta, grýta (jug). (various references) | |
Farsi | ماری جواناوسایرموادمخدره , هرچیزبرجسته ودیگ مانند, کتری (Kettle, Skillet), قوری , گلدان (Jardiniere, Urn, Vase), اب پاش (Sprinkler), دیگچه (Kettle, Skillet), دیگ (Cauldron), درگلدان محفوظداشتن , درگلدان گذاشتن , دردیگ پختن . (various references) | |
Finnish | ruukku (crock, jug). (various references) | |
French | pot (potty), marie-jeanne. (various references) | |
Frisian | pôt. (various references) | |
German | Topf (crock, jar, John, jug, loo, pan, po, potful, saucepan), Pot (bash, boo 4)draw, cannabis, grass, hagga, hay, Indian hay, Mary Jane, Personnel and Organization Main Division, puff, root, smoke, snop, tea, viper's weed, weed), Krug (box, container, flagon, jar, jug, jugful, mug, pitcher, potful, Stein, tankard, vessel), Kanne (can, churn, horn, jug, mug, pitcher, potful, tankard, tin). (various references) | |
Greek | χόρτο (grass, herb), χύτρα (cauldron, kettle, skillet, steamer), ηλεκτρολυτικός φούρνος (electrolytic furnace, furnace), αγγείο (vas, vase, vessel), τσικάλι, τσουκάλα (large pot), δοχείο (beaker, container, dispenser, jar, receptacle, urn, vat). (various references) | |
Hebrew | לשים בסיר, קדרה (casserole), עציץ (flowerpot), כיור (basin, sink, washbasin), דוד (boiler, kettle, tank, uncle, vat), סיר (kettle, saucepan, vessel). (various references) | |
Hungarian | virágcserép (flowerpot), fazék (cooking pot), edény (bowl, dish, duct, vessel), bögre (cruse, cup, jar, mug). (various references) | |
Indonesian | pot bunga (vase), jambangan, jambang (vase, whisker). (various references) | |
Inuktitut | ukkusik. (various references) | |
Italian | vaso (bowl, box, container, duct, gallipot, jar, jug, pipkin, urn, vase, vessel), erba (grass, herb). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 鍋 (saucepan), ポーラン |
