pots
盆子,壶,锅,锅子
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Definitions
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- : a container of earthenware, metal, etc., usually round and deep and having a handle or handles and often a lid, used for cooking, serving, and other purposes.
- : such a container with its contents: a pot of stew.
- : the amount contained in or held by a pot; potful.
- : a flowerpot.
- : a container of liquor or other drink: a pot of ale.
- : liquor or other drink.
- : a cagelike vessel for trapping fish, lobsters, eels, etc., typically made of wood, wicker, or wire.Compare lobster pot.
- : a chamber pot.
- : Metallurgy. a vessel for melting metal; melting pot. an electrolytic cell for reducing certain metals, as aluminum, from fused salts.
- : British. a chimney pot. Dialect.a basket or box used for carrying provisions or the like; a pannier.
- : Slang. a large sum of money.
- : all the money bet at a single time; pool.
- : British Slang. the favorite.
Phrases
- pot calling the kettle black, the
- fish or cut bait (shit or get off the pot)
- go to pot
- hit the jackpot
- sweeten the kitty (pot)
- take potluck
- tempest in a teapot
- watched pot never boils
Synonyms & Antonyms
Examples
While a roux is a common thickener that we should all master for dishes such as gravy and gumbo, it is of no use once we’ve already reached the end of a recipe’s instructions and don’t want to bring out another pot.
Oram suggests heating a pot of water to near boiling, pouring it into a non-insulated, hard-sided bottle like a Nalgene, and placing it in your sleeping bag before you get in.
Depending on whether you are right or wrong, $10 is either added to your pot or taken away.
With the installation “What’s Cooking,” artist Bobby Adams frames climate change with the acute, everyday urgency of a pot boiling over.
How to boil tree sapWith the largest pot you own and a reliable heat source, you can head outside and start boiling whenever you’ve collected “enough” sap from your trees.
Bring a large pot of water to a boil and season liberally with salt.
Set a heatproof bowl over a pot of gently simmering water, making sure that the bowl does not touch the surface of the water.
Before this latest brush with the law, the rapper was facing pot-bust and unrelated gun charges.
So too does Inherent Vice, which is something like a love letter written in pot smoke to the Gold Coast.
Because Wright was a no-show in criminal court to face the loud music and pot bust he already had an outstanding warrant.
A Yankee, whose face had been mauled in a pot-house brawl, assured General Jackson that he had received his scars in battle.
And, old ink pot, tuck a horse blanket under my chin, and rub me down with brickbats while I feed!
Gunn touched the brim of his soft felt hat, which he wore turned down all round apparently in imitation of a flower-pot.