Pod vs Plod - What's the difference?
pod | plod |
(botany) a seed case for legumes (e.g. peas, beans, peppers)
a small vehicle, especially used in emergency situations
(obsolete, UK, dialect) A bag; a pouch.
To bear or produce pods
To remove peas from their case.
To swell or fill.
A slow or labored walk or other motion or activity.
To walk or move slowly and heavily or laboriously (+ on, through, over).
* 1883 , (Robert Louis Stevenson), (Treasure Island) Part One, Chapter 1
** I remember him as if it were yesterday, as he came plodding to the inn door, his sea chest following behind him in a handbarrow;
To trudge over or through.
To toil; to drudge; especially, to study laboriously and patiently.
* Drayton
the police, police officers
(UK, mildly, derogatory, countable) a police officer, especially a low-ranking one.
In intransitive terms the difference between pod and plod
is that pod is to swell or fill while plod is to walk or move slowly and heavily or laboriously (+ on, through, over).In transitive terms the difference between pod and plod
is that pod is to remove peas from their case while plod is to trudge over or through.As an initialism POD
is print on demand.pod
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) *.Noun
(en noun)- (Tusser)
Derived terms
* peapod * seedpodSynonyms
* (sense) capsule, case, container, hull, husk, shell, vesselVerb
(podd)Etymology 2
From a special use of Etymology 1. See above.Synonyms
gamplod
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) *.Noun
(-)- We started at a brisk walk and ended at a plod .
Verb
(plodd)- plodding schoolmen