BASIC DAILY ENGLISH VOCABULARY with PICTURE. Pot. 05-06-2011. 06-05-2011.

1. pot
2. 1

3. cooking

4.  [countable] a container used for cooking which is round, deep, and usually made of metal:
5.  pots and pans
6. pot of
7. There was a big pot of soup on the stove.
8. 2
9. for a plant
10.  [countable] a container for a plant, usually made of plastic or baked clay:
11. herbs growing in pots
12. 3
13. tea/coffee
14.  [countable] a container with a handle and a small tube for pouring, used to make tea or coffee:
15. Is there any tea left in the pot?
16. pot of
17. I'll make a pot of coffee.
18. ➔ coffee pot, teapot
19. 4
20. for food, paint etc
21.  [countable] British English a round container for storing foods such as jam that are slightly liquid, or for substances such as glue or paint
22. pot of
23. a pot of blue paint
24. jam/paint/yoghurt etc pot
25. 5
26. bowl/dish etc
27.  [countable] a dish, bowl, plate, or other container that is made by shaping clay and then baking it [↪ pottery]:
28. an earthenware pot
29. 6
30.  go to pot
31. informal if something such as a place or an organization goes to pot, it becomes much worse or fails because no one is taking care of it:
32. The government has let the whole country go to pot.
33. 7
34.  pots of money
35. British English informal a lot of money:
36. They've got pots of money in the bank.
37. He's hoping to make pots of money from the deal.
38. 8
39. money
40.  the pot
41. a) money that is available to do something, especially money that people have collected
42. in the pot
43. So far we've got £150 in the pot.
44. b) all the money that people have risked in a card game, and which can be won
45. in the pot
46. There was $1000 in the pot.
47. 9
48. drug
49.  [uncountable] old-fashioned informal marijuana:
50. Michael was smoking pot with some friends.
51. 10
52.  (a case of) the pot calling the kettle black
53. informal used humorously to say that you should not criticize someone for something, because you have done the same thing or have the same fault
54. 11
55. stomach
56.  [countable] a potbelly
57. 12
58. hit a ball
59.  [countable] British English the act of hitting a ball into one of thepockets (=holes at the edge of the table) in games such as billiards, pool, andsnooker
60. 13
61. toilet
62.  [countable] informal a toilet
63. ➔ chamber pot, chimney pot, flowerpot, lobsterpot, melting pot
64. Definition from the Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
65. Advanced Learner's Dictionary.