pot Význam & definícia

Význam pot v slovenčine

• 0 any of various types of container, usually round, especially one used for cooking food:

  • Fill a large pot with salted water and bring it to the boil.

  • There's plenty of cupboard space in the kitchen for all your pots and pans.

  • a pot of cream/jam/paint/ink

  • a terracotta plant pot

  • Most lilies grow well in pots.

  • I've just drunk a whole pot of tea!

  • She'd made a large pot of chicken soup.

  • a coffee pot

  • a flowerpot

  • a teapot

  • a cooking pot

  • She's got pots of money (= she's very rich).

• 1 a potty (= bowl used by children as a toilet)

• 2 →  cannabis :

  • a pot smoker

• 3 a potbelly

• 4 to be damaged or spoiled because people are not working hard on it or caring for it:

  • I'm afraid I've let the garden go to pot this summer.

• 5 an act of hitting a ball into a hole, especially in games such as snooker:

  • Dawson made a difficult pot look very easy.

• 6 to shoot birds or small animals for food, or to shoot (at) them without taking careful aim:

  • He strolled through the fields, potting (at) the occasional rabbit.

• 7 in games such as snooker, to hit a ball so that it falls into one of the holes at the edge of the table

• 8 to put a plant into a container to grow:

  • I'm just going to pot (up) these seedlings.

• 9 a round container used for cooking, serving, storing, and other purposes:

  • a clay/brass pot

  • a flower pot

  • We need space for our pots and pans.

  • The pot was simmering.

  • He made a new pot of coffee.

• 10 a large amount, esp. of money:

  • There are pots of money involved in this deal.

• 11 to put a plant into a pot:

  • We should be potting the roses.

• 12 an amount of money available for something:

  • in the pot This could mean an extra £10,000 in the pot compared to a traditional pension.

  • a pot of sth The new cash will be added to a pot of $200 million in federal grants.

  • He cautioned that the center only has a small pot of money allocated to it.

  • a bonus/pension/prize pot