Pot vs Little - What's the difference?
pot | little |
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
Small in size.
Insignificant, trivial.
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(of a sibling) Younger.
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* 2004 , Barry Miles, Zappa: A Biography , 2005 edition, ISBN 080214215X, page 5:
Small in amount or number, having few members.
Short in duration; brief.
Small in extent of views or sympathies; narrow; shallow; contracted; mean; illiberal; ungenerous.
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Not much.
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*:Little disappointed, then, she turned attention to "Chat of the Social World," gossip which exercised potent fascination upon the girl's intelligence. She devoured with more avidity than she had her food those pretentiously phrased chronicles of the snobocracy […] distilling therefrom an acid envy that robbed her napoleon of all its savour.
Not at all.
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*:But then I had the [massive] flintlock by me for protection. ¶, and a 'bead' could be drawn upon Molly, the dairymaid, kissing the fogger behind the hedge, little dreaming that the deadly tube was levelled at them.
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, title= Not much, only a little: only a small amount (of).
As a proper noun little is
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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
References
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English
(wikipedia little)Adjective
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- If you want to find Little' France, take any turning on the north side of Leicester square, and wander in a zigzag fashion Oxford Streetwards. The ' Little is rather smokier and more squalid than the Great France upon the other side of the Manche.
- In the forties, hurdy-gurdy men could still be heard in all those East Coast cities with strong Italian neighbourhoods: New York, Baltimore, Philadelphia and Boston. A visit to Baltimore's Little Italy at that time was like a trip to Italy itself.
- a little sleep
- The long-necked geese of the world that are ever hissing dispraise, / Because their natures are little .
Usage notes
Some authorities regard both littler' and '''littlest''' as non-standard. The OED says of the word little: "''the adjective has no recognized mode of comparison. The difficulty is commonly evaded by resort to a synonym (as smaller, smallest); some writers have ventured to employ the unrecognized forms littler, littlest, which are otherwise confined to dialect or imitations of childish or illiterate speech.''" The forms '''lesser''' and ' least are encountered in animal names such as lesser flamingo and least weasel.Antonyms
* (small) large, big * (young) big * (younger) bigAdverb
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Antonyms
* muchDeterminer
- There is little water left.
- We had very little to do.