Pot vs Plot - What's the difference?

In transitive terms the difference between pot and plot

is that pot is to drain while plot is to mark (a point on a graph, chart, etc).

As nouns the difference between pot and plot

is that pot is a vessel used for cooking or storing food, or for growing plants in, especially flowers while plot is the course of a story, comprising a series of incidents which are gradually unfolded, sometimes by unexpected means.

As verbs the difference between pot and plot

is that pot is to put (something) into a pot while plot is to conceive (a crime, etc).

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

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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plot

English

Noun

(en noun)

The course of a story, comprising a series of incidents which are gradually unfolded, sometimes by unexpected means.

* Alexander Pope

If the plot or intrigue must be natural, and such as springs from the subject, then the winding up of the plot must be a probable consequence of all that went before.

An area or land used for building on or planting on.

A graph or diagram drawn by hand or produced by a mechanical or electronic device.

A secret plan to achieve an end, the end or means usually being illegal or otherwise questionable.

The plot would have enabled them to get a majority on the board.

The assassination of Lincoln was part of a larger plot .

* Shakespeare

I have overheard a plot of death.

* Addison

O, think what anxious moments pass between / The birth of plots and their last fatal periods!

Contrivance; deep reach thought; ability to plot or intrigue.

* Denham

a man of much plot

Participation in any stratagem or conspiracy.

* Milton

And when Christ saith, Who marries the divorced commits adultery, it is to be understood, if he had any plot in the divorce.

A plan; a purpose.

* Jeremy Taylor

no other plot in their religion but serve God and save their souls

Synonyms

* (course of a story) storyline * (area) parcel * (secret plan) conspiracy, scheme

Derived terms

* Gunpowder Plot * lose the plot * plotless * subplot * the plot thickens/plot thickens

Verb

(plott)

To conceive (a crime, etc).

They had ''plotted a robbery.

To trace out (a graph or diagram).

They ''plotted'' the number of edits per day.

To mark (a point on a graph, chart, etc).

Every five minutes they ''plotted'' their position.

* Carew

This treatise plotteth down Cornwall as it now standeth.

To conceive a crime, misdeed, etc.

''They were plotting against the king.

Synonyms

* (contrive) becast * (sense) scheme

Derived terms

* replot

Anagrams

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