pot
verb/pɒt/
/pɑːt/
Verb Forms
| present simple I / you / we / they pot | /pɒt/ /pɑːt/ |
| he / she / it pots | /pɒts/ /pɑːts/ |
| past simple potted | /ˈpɒtɪd/ /ˈpɑːtɪd/ |
| past participle potted | /ˈpɒtɪd/ /ˈpɑːtɪd/ |
| -ing form potting | /ˈpɒtɪŋ/ /ˈpɑːtɪŋ/ |
- pot something to put a plant into a flowerpot filled with soilTopics Gardensc1
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- pot something (in the games of billiards, pool and snooker) to hit a ball into one of the pockets (= holes at the corners and edges of the table) synonym pocket
- He potted the black to take a 7–3 lead.
- pot something to kill an animal or a bird by shooting it see also potted
plant
in billiards, etc.
shoot
Word Originverb late Old English pott, probably reinforced in Middle English by Old French pot; of unknown ultimate origin (compare with late Latin potus ‘drinking cup’). Current senses of the verb date from the early 17th cent.
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