Bottle vs Pot - What's the difference?
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A container, typically made of glass or plastic and having a tapered neck, used primarily for holding liquids.
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, title= The contents of such a container.
A container with a rubber nipple used for giving liquids to infants, a baby bottle.
(British, informal) Nerve, courage.
(attributive, of a person with a particular hair color) With one's hair color produced by dyeing.
(obsolete) A bundle, especially of hay; something tied in a bundle.
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* 1599 , (Much Ado About Nothing), by (William Shakespeare),
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(figurative) Intoxicating liquor; alcohol.
To seal (a liquid) into a bottle for later consumption. Also fig.
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(British) To feed (an infant) baby formula.
(British, slang) To refrain from doing (something) at the last moment because of a sudden loss of courage.
(British, slang) To strike (someone) with a bottle.
(British, slang) To pelt (a musical act on stage, etc.) with bottles as a sign of disapproval.
A vessel used for cooking or storing food, or for growing plants in, especially flowers.
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, title= (label) The money wagered in poker or similar games.
A trap for catching lobsters, crabs, eels, or fish.
(label) An iron hat with a broad brim.
* {{quote-book, year=1786, author=(Francis Grose), title=A Treatise on Ancient Armour and Weapons, page=12,
passage=The pot is an iron hat with broad brims: there are many under the denomination in the Tower, said to have been taken from the French; one of them is represented in plat 7, fig. 1 and 2.}}
A glass of beer, of a size that varies regionally but is normally 10 fl oz (285 ml).
* 2009 , Deborah Penrith, Jodie Seal, Live & Work in Australia ,
A potshot.
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, title= (label) A protruding belly; a paunch.
(label) Ruin or deterioration.
The act of causing a ball to fall into a pocket.
(label) A potentiometer.
(label) A non-conducting, usually ceramic, stand that supports the third rail while keeping it electrically insulated from the ground.
(label) An earthen or pewter cup for liquors; a mug.
A metal or earthenware extension of a flue above the top of a chimney; a chimney pot.
A crucible.
A perforated cask for draining sugar.
A size of paper; pott.
(label) toilet
* 2011 , Ben Zeller, Secrets of Beaver Creek (page 204)
To put (something) into a pot.
To preserve by bottling or canning.
(label) To cause a ball to fall into a pocket.
(label) To be capable of being potted.
To shoot.
(label) To send someone to gaol, expeditiously.
To tipple; to drink.
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(label) To drain.
To seat a person, usually a young child, onto a potty or toilet, typically during toilet teaching.
The drug marijuana.
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.
slide pot, a sliding (linear) potentiometer typically designed to be manipulated by a thumb or finger
thumb pot, a rotating potentiometer designed to be turned by a thumb or finger
In obsolete terms the difference between bottle and pot
is that bottle is a bundle, especially of hay; something tied in a bundle while pot is an earthen or pewter cup for liquors; a mug.In transitive terms the difference between bottle and pot
is that bottle is to seal (a liquid) into a bottle for later consumption. Also fig.pot is to drain.In transitive british terms the difference between bottle and pot
is that bottle is to feed (an infant) baby formula while pot is to seat a person, usually a young child, onto a potty or toilet, typically during toilet teaching.bottle
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) bottle, botle, buttle, from (etyl) botl, .Etymology 2
(etyl) and (etyl) boteille (Modern French bouteille), from buttis.Alternative forms
* botl (Jamaican English)Noun
(en noun)Mr. Pratt's Patients, passage=He had one hand on the bounce bottle —and he'd never let go of that since he got back to the table—but he had a handkerchief in the other and was swabbing his deadlights with it.}}
- Is that a Cook of London, with mischance? / Do him come forth, he knoweth his penance; / For he shall tell a tale, by my fay, / Although it be not worth a bottle hay.
- DON PEDRO. Well, if ever thou dost fall from this faith, thou wilt prove a notable argument.
- BENEDICK. If I do, hang me in a bottle like a cat and shoot at me; and he that hits me, let him be clapped on the shoulder and called Adam.
- I was no sooner in the middle of the pond, but my horse vanished away, and I sat upon a bottle of hay, never so near drowning in my life.
Synonyms
* (for feeding babies) baby's bottle, feeding bottle, nursing bottle (US) * (courage) balls, courage, guts, nerve, pluckAntonyms
* (courage) cowardiceDerived terms
* bottle bank * bottle blonde * bottlebrush * bottleneck * bottlenose * bottle opener, bottle-opener * bottle out * bottle sling * bottletop * bottle-washer * hit the bottle * Klein bottle * lightning in a bottleDescendants
* Indonesian: (l) * Malay: (l),See also
* flagon * flask * jarVerb
(bottl)- This plant bottles vast quantities of spring water every day.
- Because of complications she can't breast feed her baby and so she bottles him.
- The rider bottled the big jump.
- He was bottled at a nightclub and had to have facial surgery.
- Meat Loaf was once bottled at Reading Festival.
Derived terms
* bottle uppot
English
(wikipedia pot)Etymology 1
From (etyl) (m), (m), from late (etyl) .Noun
(en noun)The Mirror and the Lamp, passage=He looked round the poor room, at the distempered walls, and the bad engravings in meretricious frames, the crinkly paper and wax flowers on the chiffonier; and he thought of a room like Father Bryan's, with panelling, with cut glass, with tulips in silver pots , such a room as he had hoped to have for his own.}}
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- There are plenty of pubs and bars all over Australia (serving beer in schooners – 425ml or middies/pots ~285ml), and if you don?t fancy those you can drink in wine bars, pleasant beer gardens, or with friends at home.
Rugby World Cup 2011: England 16-12 Scotland, passage=England were shipping penalties at an alarming rate - five in the first 15 minutes alone - and with Wilkinson missing three long-distance pots of his own in the first 20 minutes, the alarm bells began to ring for Martin Johnson's men.}}
- a graphite pot'''; a melting '''pot
- (Knight)
Synonyms
* (cooking vessel) * (money wagered in a card game) * (trap for crustaceans or fish) * middy (qualifier), schooner (South Australia) * (potshot) * (protruding belly) beer belly * * (in English billiards) winning hazard * (potentiometer) * (non-conducting stand for a third rail)Derived terms
* pot head * chamberpot * pisspot * pot ale * pot boiler * pot life * pot holder * pot roast * pot-au-feu * potbelly * potboil * potboiler * pothole * potpie * potpourri * potshot * potsherd * pot stirrer * pottage * potter * pottery * potty * hot pot * potted plant * stir the pot * teapot * two pot screamerSee also
* cooker * multicookerVerb
- to pot a plant
- potted meat
- The black ball doesn't pot ; the red is in the way.
- It is less labour to plough than to pot it.
- to pot sugar, by taking it from the cooler, and placing it in hogsheads, etc. with perforated heads, through which the molasses drains off
- Could you please pot the children before sending them to bed?
