Pot

What “Pot” means

Noun

1. A flat-bottomed vessel (usually metal) used for cooking food, possibly excluding saucepans (see usage notes).
2. A flat-bottomed vessel (usually metal) used for cooking food, possibly excluding saucepans (see usage notes).
3. Various similar open-topped vessels, particularly
4. Various similar open-topped vessels, particularly
5. Various similar open-topped vessels, particularly

Verb

1. To put (something) into a pot.
2. To preserve by bottling or canning.
3. To package a circuit by encasing it in resin.
4. To cause a ball to fall into a pocket.
5. To be capable of being potted.

Noun

1. Marijuana.

Noun

1. A simple electromechanical device used to control resistance or voltage (often to adjust sound volume) in an electronic device by rotating or sliding when manipulated by a human thumb, screwdriver, etc.

Where the word comes from

Etymology tree Proto-Germanic *puttaz Old English pott Proto-Germanic *puttaz Frankish *pottder. Vulgar Latin pottum Old French potbor. Middle English pot English pot From Middle English pot, potte, from Old English pott (“pot”) and Old French pot (“pot”) (probably from Frankish *pott); both Old English and Frankish from Proto-Germanic *puttaz (“pot”), from Proto-Indo-European *budnós (“a type of vessel”). Cognate with Saterland Frisian Pot (“pot”), Dutch pot (“pot”), German Low German Pott (“pot”), German Pott (“pot”), Swedish potta (“chamber pot”), Icelandic pottur (“tub, pot”), Old Armenian պոյտն (poytn, “pot, earthen pot”). Also, Old Norse pottr (“pot, tub, basin”). The sense of ruin or deterioration was originally a general allusion to "being chopped up and tossed in a (normally fiery) pot, like a piece of meat" (i.e. to get wasted or done with (by someone)). The 'clean' slang term

Possibly a shortened form of Mexican Spanish potiguaya or potaguaya (“cannabis leaves”), or potación de guaya (literally “drink of grief”), supposedly denoting a drink of wine or brandy in which marijuana buds were steeped, from pota + de + guaya (see guayar (“to lament”)).

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Business name ideas with “Pot”

Industries where “Pot” fits

We suggest this word for 2 business types and industries, including:

• Pottery Studio
• Pottery, Ceramics, and Plumbing Fixture Manufacturing