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Substantiivi

1. A flat-bottomed vessel (usually metal) used for cooking food, possibly excluding saucepans (see usage notes).
2. (roleplaying games, video games) Clipping of potion.
3. (slang, electronics) A simple electromechanical device used to control resistance or voltage (often to adjust sound volume) in an electronic device by rotating or sliding when manipulated by a human thumb, screwdriver, etc.
4. (slang, uncountable) Marijuana.
5. Various similar open-topped vessels, particularly
6. A vessel (usually earthenware) used with a seal for storing food, such as a honeypot.
7. A vessel used for brewing or serving drinks: a coffeepot or teapot.
8. A vessel used to hold soil for growing plants, particularly flowers: a flowerpot.
9. (archaic except in fixed expressions) A vessel used for urination and defecation: a chamber pot; (figuratively, slang) a toilet; the lavatory.
10. A crucible: a melting pot.
11. (Maine) A pot-shaped trap used for catching lobsters or other seafood: a lobster pot.
12. A pot-shaped metal or earthenware extension of a flue above the top of a chimney: a chimney pot.
13. A perforated cask for draining sugar.
14. (obsolete) An earthen or pewter cup or mug used for drinking liquor.
15. (Australia, Queensland, Victoria, Tasmania) A glass of beer in Australia whose size varies regionally but is typically around 10 fl oz (285 mL).
16. (archaic except in place names) Pothole, sinkhole, vertical cave.
17. A shallow hole used in certain games played with marbles. The marbles placed in it are called potsies.
18. (slang, uncountable) Ruin or deterioration.
19. (historical) Any of various traditional units of volume notionally based on the capacity of a pot.
20. (historical) An iron hat with a broad brim worn as a helmet.
21. (rail transport) A pot-shaped non-conducting (usually ceramic) stand that supports an electrified rail while insulating it from the ground.
22. (gambling, poker) The money available to be won in a hand of poker or a round of other games of chance; (figuratively) any sum of money being used as an enticement.
23. An allocation of money for a particular purpose.
24. (UK, horse-racing, slang) A favorite: a heavily-backed horse.
25. (slang) Clipping of potbelly (“a pot-shaped belly, a paunch”).
26. (slang) Clipping of potshot (“a haphazard shot; an easy or cheap shot”).
27. (chiefly East Midlands, Yorkshire) A plaster cast.
28. (historical) Alternative form of pott: a former size of paper, 12.5 × 15 inches.

Verbi

1. (slang, broadcasting) To fade volume in or out by means of a potentiometer.
2. To put (something) into a pot.
3. To preserve by bottling or canning.
4. (electronics) To package a circuit by encasing it in resin.
5. (snooker, pool, billiards, transitive) To cause a ball to fall into a pocket.
6. (snooker, pool, billiards, intransitive) To be capable of being potted.
7. (transitive) To shoot with a firearm.
8. (intransitive, dated) To take a pot shot, or haphazard shot, with a firearm.
9. (transitive, colloquial) To secure; gain; win; bag.
10. (British) To send someone to jail, expeditiously.
11. (obsolete, dialect, UK) To tipple; to drink.
12. (transitive) To drain (e.g. sugar of the molasses) in a perforated cask.
13. (transitive, British) To seat a person, usually a young child, on a potty or toilet, typically during toilet teaching.
14. (chiefly East Midlands) To apply a plaster cast to a broken limb.
15. To catch (a fish, eel, etc) via a pot.
16. (rugby, transitive) To score (a drop goal).