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pot | child |

In obsolete terms the difference between pot and child

is that pot is an earthen or pewter cup for liquors; a mug while child is a female infant; a girl.

As nouns the difference between pot and child

is that pot is a vessel used for cooking or storing food, or for growing plants in, especially flowers while child is a daughter or son; an offspring.

As a verb pot

is to put (something) into a pot.

pot

English

(wikipedia pot)

Etymology 1

From (etyl) (m), (m), from late (etyl) .

Noun

(en noun)
  • A vessel used for cooking or storing food, or for growing plants in, especially flowers.
  • * , chapter=10
    • , title= 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.}}
  • (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 , 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.
  • A potshot.
  • * {{quote-news, year=2011, date=October 1, author=Tom Fordyce, work=BBC Sport
    • , title= 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.}}
  • (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 graphite pot'''; a melting '''pot
  • A perforated cask for draining sugar.
    • (Knight)
  • A size of paper; pott.
  • (label) toilet
  • * 2011 , Ben Zeller, Secrets of Beaver Creek (page 204)
    • 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 screamer
    See also
    * cooker * multicooker

    Verb

  • To put (something) into a pot.
    • to pot a plant
  • To preserve by bottling or canning.
    • potted meat
  • (label) To cause a ball to fall into a pocket.
  • (label) To be capable of being potted.
    • The black ball doesn't pot ; the red is in the way.
  • To shoot.
  • (label) To send someone to gaol, expeditiously.
  • To tipple; to drink.
  • * Feltham
    • It is less labour to plough than to pot it.
  • (label) To drain.
    • to pot sugar, by taking it from the cooler, and placing it in hogsheads, etc. with perforated heads, through which the molasses drains off
  • To seat a person, usually a young child, onto a potty or toilet, typically during toilet teaching.
    • 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

    (-)
  • The drug marijuana.
    • Synonyms
    * See also
    Derived terms
    * pothead

    Etymology 3

    (potentiometer) .

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • 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.
    • Derived terms
  • 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

    • References

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    Anagrams

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    child

    English

    Alternative forms

    * (l) (archaic)

    Noun

    (en-noun)
  • A daughter or son; an offspring.
  • (figuratively) An offspring; one born in, or considered a product of the culture of, a place.
  • * 1984 , Mary Jane Matz, The Many Lives of Otto Kahn: A Biography , page 5:
    • For more than forty years, he preached the creed of art and beauty. He was heir to the ancient wisdom of Israel, a child of Germany, a subject of Great Britain, later an American citizen, but in truth a citizen of the world.
  • (figuratively) A member of a tribe, a people or a race of beings; one born into or considered a product of a people.
  • * 2009 , Edward John Moreton Dunsany, Tales of Wonder , page 64:
    • Plash-Goo was of the children of the giants, whose sire was Uph. And the lineage of Uph had dwindled in bulk for the last five hundred years, till the giants were now no more than fifteen foot high; but Uph ate elephants
  • (figuratively) A thing or abstraction derived from or caused by something.
  • * 1991 , (w, Midnight's Children) , (Salman Rushdie) (title)
  • A person who is below the age of adulthood; a minor (person who is below the legal age of responsibility or accountability).
  • * {{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-07, author=(Joseph Stiglitz)
    • , volume=188, issue=26, page=19, magazine=(The Guardian Weekly) , title= Globalisation is about taxes too , passage=It is time the international community faced the reality: we have an unmanageable, unfair, distortionary global tax regime. […] It is the starving of the public sector which has been pivotal in America no longer being the land of opportunity – with a child' s life prospects more dependent on the income and education of its parents than in other advanced countries.}}
  • (computing) A data item, process or object which has a subservient or derivative role relative to another data item, process or object.
  • * 2011 , John Mongan, ?Noah Kindler, ?Eric Giguère, Programming Interviews Exposed
    • The algorithm pops the stack to obtain a new current node when there are no more children (when it reaches a leaf).
  • (obsolete) A female infant; a girl.
  • * Shakespeare
    • A boy or a child , I wonder?

    Synonyms

    * (daughter or son) boy, fruit of one's loins, girl, kid, offspring * (young person) bairn, boy, brat, girl, kid, lad, lass * See also

    Antonyms

    * (daughter or son) father, mother, parent * (person below the age of adulthood) adult * parent

    Derived terms

    * boomerang child * childhood * childish * childless * childlike * love-child * lovechild * manchild * middle child * only child * perpetual child * problem child * schoolchild * war child * with child

    Related terms

    * chield, chiel * childe * Childermas

    See also

    * orling

    References

    * Merriam-Webster's Online Dictionary (accessed November 2007). * American Heritage Dictionary , Fourth Edition, Houghton Mifflin Company (2003). English nouns with irregular plurals 1000 English basic words