Pot vs Barrel - What's the difference?
pot | barrel |
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).
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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
(countable) A round vessel or cask, of greater length than breadth, and bulging in the middle, made of staves bound with hoops, and having flat ends or heads. Sometimes applied to a similar cylindrical container made of metal, usually called a drum.
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, title= The quantity which constitutes a full barrel. This varies for different articles and also in different places for the same article, being regulated by custom or by law. A barrel of wine is 31 ½ gallons; a barrel of flour is 196 pounds; of beer 31 gallons; of ale 32 gallons; of crude oil 42 gallons.
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A solid drum, or a hollow cylinder or case;
A metallic tube, as of a gun, from which a projectile is discharged.
(archaic) A tube.
(zoology) The hollow basal part of a feather.
(music) The part of a clarinet which connects the mouthpiece and upper joint, and looks rather like a barrel (1).
(surfing) A wave that breaks with a hollow compartment.
A waste receptacle.
The ribs and belly of a horse or pony.
(obsolete) A jar.
* Bible , 1 Kings 17:12, King James Version:
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*::: "As surely as the LORD your God lives," she replied, "I don't have any bread--only a handful of flour in a jar and a little olive oil in a jug.
(biology) Any of the dark-staining regions in the somatosensory cortex of rodents, etc., where somatosensory inputs from the contralateral side of the body come in from the thalamus.
To put or to pack in a barrel or barrels.
To move quickly or in an uncontrolled manner.
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As a noun barrel is
(countable) a round vessel or cask, of greater length than breadth, and bulging in the middle, made of staves bound with hoops, and having flat ends or heads sometimes applied to a similar cylindrical container made of metal, usually called a drum.As a verb barrel is
to put or to pack in a barrel or barrels.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.}}
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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
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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?
Etymology 2
Possibly a shortened form of Mexican (etyl) , supposedly denoting a drink of wine or brandy in which marijuana buds were steeped.Noun
(-)Synonyms
* See alsoDerived terms
* potheadEtymology 3
(potentiometer) .Noun
(en noun)Derived terms
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English
(wikipedia barrel) of a winery in (Trnava), (Slovakia).Noun
(en noun)Yesterday’s fuel, passage=The dawn of the oil age was fairly recent. Although the stuff was used to waterproof boats in the Middle East 6,000 years ago, extracting it in earnest began only in 1859 after an oil strike in Pennsylvania. The first barrels of crude fetched $18 (around $450 at today’s prices).}}
- And she said, As the Lord thy God liveth, I have not a cake, but an handful of meal in a barrel , and a little oil in a cruse:
See also
* cooperVerb
- He came barrelling around the corner and I almost hit him.
- Snow shattered and spilled down the slope. Within seconds, the avalanche was the size of more than a thousand cars barreling down the mountain and weighed millions of pounds.