Foot vs Pot - What's the difference?
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(countable) A biological structure found in many animals that is used for locomotion and that is frequently a separate organ at the terminal part of the leg. (jump)
(countable, anatomy) Specifically, a human foot, which is found below the ankle and is used for standing and walking. (jump)
(uncountable, often used attributively) Travel by walking. (walking)
(countable) The base or bottom of anything. (jump)
(countable) The part of a flat surface on which the feet customarily rest.
(countable) The end of a rectangular table opposite the head. (jump)
(countable) A short foot-like projection on the bottom of an object to support it. (jump)
(countable) A unit of measure equal to twelve inches or one third of a yard, equal to exactly 30.48 centimetres.
* {{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham), title=(The China Governess)
, chapter=20 (military, pluralonly) Foot soldiers; infantry. (jump)
* Clarendon
(countable, cigars) The end of a cigar which is lit, and usually cut before lighting.
(countable, sewing) The part of a sewing machine which presses downward on the fabric, and may also serve to move it forward.
(countable, printing) The bottommost part of a typed or printed page. (jump)
(countable, prosody) The basic measure of rhythm in a poem. (jump)
(countable, phonology) The parsing of syllables into prosodic constituents, which are used to determine the placement of stress in languages along with the notions of constituent heads.
(countable, nautical) The bottom edge of a sail.
(countable, billiards) The end of a billiard or pool table behind the foot point where the balls are racked.
(countable, botany) In a bryophyte, that portion of a sporophyte which remains embedded within and attached to the parent gametophyte plant.
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(countable, malacology) The muscular part of a bivalve mollusc by which it moves or holds its position on a surface.
(countable, molecular biology) The globular lower domain of a protein. (jump)
(countable, geometry) The foot of a line perpendicular to a given line is the point where the lines intersect.
Fundamental principle; basis; plan. (never used in the plural)
* Berkeley
Recognized condition; rank; footing. (never used in the plural)
* Walpole
To use the foot to kick (usually a ball).
To pay (a bill).
To tread to measure or music; to dance; to trip; to skip.
To walk.
To tread.
(obsolete) To set on foot; to establish; to land.
* Shakespeare
To renew the foot of (a stocking, etc.).
To sum up, as the numbers in a column; sometimes with up .
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.
* {{quote-news, year=2011, date=October 1, author=Tom Fordyce, work=BBC Sport
, 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.
* Feltham
(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
As a noun foot
is .foot
English
(wikipedia foot)Noun
(feet)citation, passage=‘No. I only opened the door a foot and put my head in. The street lamps shine into that room. I could see him. He was all right. Sleeping like a great grampus. Poor, poor chap.’}}
- His forces, after all the high discourses, amounted really but to eighteen hundred foot .
- (b ) sporophyte with foot reduced, the entire sporophyte enveloped by the calyptra, which is ± stipitate at the base.
- Answer directly upon the foot of dry reason.
- As to his being on the foot of a servant.
Usage notes
* (jump) The ordinary plural of the unit of measurement is (feet), but in many contexts, (term) itself may be used ("he is six foot two"). This is a reflex of the Anglo-Saxon (Old English) genitive plural.Rich Alderson, “Why do we say ‘30 years old’, but ‘a 30-year-old man’?”, in Mark Israel, the alt.usage.english FAQ. * It is sometimes abbreviated ' , such as in tables, lists or drawings.Derived terms
* a closed mouth gathers no feet * afoot * acre-foot * athlete's foot * best foot * Bigfoot * board foot * clubfoot * Chinese foot * cubic foot * footage * foot-and-mouth disease * football * footboard * footboy * foot brake * footbridge * footcandle * footfall * foot fault * footgear * foothill * foothold * footing * foot-in-mouth disease * foot iron * foot landraker * footlights * foot line * footlocker * footloose * foot louse * footly * footman * foot-mouth * footnote * footpad * footpath * foot-pound * foot post * footprint * foot pump * footrest * footrope * footsie * footsie-wootsies * foot soldier * footsore * footstep * footstone * footstool * foot warmer * footwear * footwell * footwork * footworn * four foot * get one's foot in the door * Hong Kong foot * immersion foot * itchy feet * Japanese foot * put one's foot in one's mouth * rabbit's foot * Roman foot * shoot oneself in the foot * six foot * square foot * start off on the wrong foot * trench foot * wrongfoot * See alsoCoordinate terms
* inch, yard, mile * (jump) head, sides * (jump) head, body * head, leech, luff * (jump) head, cleft, neck * (jump) horseSee also
* , relating to the footVerb
(en verb)- (Dryden)
- (Shakespeare)
- to foot the green
- (Tickell)
- What confederacy have you with the traitors / Late footed in the kingdom?
- (Shakespeare)
- to foot (or foot up) an account
Derived terms
* foot the billReferences
pot
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.}}
page 187,
- 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?