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# pot

«pot» in Mova's school dictionary: **a deep round container for cooking, like a saucepan** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (pot, pots); verb (pot, pots, potted, potting)

### meaning for a pupil

1) A pot is a deep round container for cooking, like a saucepan. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/pot/#m1)

2) A pot is a container for growing plants (a flowerpot). [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/pot/#m2)

3) A pot can be a container for drinks or food: a teapot, a pot of jam. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/pot/#m3)

4) To pot a plant is to put it in a pot. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/pot/#m4)

5) «Pots of money» means a lot of money. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/pot/#m5)

### sense in the lessons

In maths: a container: plants per pot, soup in a pot; pots counted; pots needed = plants ÷ per pot, rounded up. In everyday life: cooking, pots and pans, a pot of tea. In science: growing seeds in pots. In stories: a pot of gold at the end of the rainbow; «a watched pot never boils».

### examples

- Each pot has 3 flowers. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/pot/#x1)
- She has 8 pots. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/pot/#x2)
- The pot holds 4 liters of soup. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/pot/#x3)
- How many pots are needed for 15 plants? [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/pot/#x4)
- Grandma made a big pot of stew. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/pot/#x5)
- We potted the seedlings in small pots. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/pot/#x6)
- There is a pot of gold at the end of the rainbow. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/pot/#x7)
- Turn the pot handle away from the edge of the stove. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/pot/#x8)
- Mum made a pot of tea. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/pot/#x9)
- The cooking pot was wonderful, too. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/pot/#x10)

### note

«In each pot» is a rate: total = per pot × pots. Pots needed = plants ÷ per pot, rounded up. Trap: count plants, not pots, unless asked. Safety: hot pots burn; turn handles inward and use oven gloves. A pot is deeper than a pan.

### In the corpora

- [And the cartoon bear who eats honey straight from a pot?](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/344-honey-and-the-beekeepers-year/9/)
- [In the locker: «biscuits, potted lobster, sardines».](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/30-willows-ch2-part2-the-canary-coloured-cart/30/)
- [Miles later, on a wide common, he finds a man by a caravan with a pot of stew bubbling over a fire.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/62-willows-ch10-part2-a-shilling-a-leg/6/)
- [The Cat asks the curtain, the fire and the milk-pots to remember.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/94-justso-cat-2-a-bargain-and-a-baby/8/)
- [You will need: a pot, soil, a seed, water. 1.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/english/23-reading-non-fiction-recount-instructions-report/7/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «pot» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/pot/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.