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potted

ˈpɑtɪd
WordNet
On the back wall Emperor Napoleon I in coronation robes, December 2, 1804, by François Pascal Simon (Baron) Gérard. To the left of this Louis Napoleon (1778-1846), King of Holland from 1806 to 1810, by Charles Howard Hodges.
On the back wall Emperor Napoleon I in coronation robes, December 2, 1804, by François Pascal Simon (Baron) Gérard. To the left of this Louis Napoleon (1778-1846), King of Holland from 1806 to 1810, by Charles Howard Hodges.
  1. (adj) potted
    (British informal) summarized or abridged "a potted version of a novel"
  2. (adj) potted
    preserved in a pot or can or jar "potted meat","potted shrimp"
  3. (adj) potted
    of plants; planted or grown in a pot "potted geraniums"
Illustrations
The baptism of the Topkapi tulip took place as part of the exhibition The Ambassador, the Sultan & the Artist, at an audience in Istanbul. In the photo cabaratière Nilgün Yerli and tulip grower Jan Ligthart.
The baptism of the Topkapi tulip took place as part of the exhibition The Ambassador, the Sultan & the Artist, at an audience in Istanbul. In the photo cabaratière Nilgün Yerli and tulip grower Jan Ligthart.
On the left the portrait of Jan Blanken Jr (1755-1838), Inspector General of Water Management by Jean Augustin Daiwaille.
On the left the portrait of Jan Blanken Jr (1755-1838), Inspector General of Water Management by Jean Augustin Daiwaille.
At the end of the room a golden tunnel to the next room is visible.
At the end of the room a golden tunnel to the next room is visible.
The papeter. A smiling farmer is eating from a clay pot with a spoon.
Man eating from a ceramic pot
Polychrome mold model (starboard) of a three-master. Fifteen gun ports marked on one deck. Twisted mirror, hollow wulf, no details of the fence or side gallery; straight rudder with square rudder stock. Sheer slightly ascending at both ends, two mountain woods and one roe wood. Peaked round bilge. Scale 1:58 (scale on model).
Polychrome mold model (starboard) of a three-master. Fifteen gun ports marked on one deck. Twisted mirror, hollow wulf, no details of the fence or side gallery; straight rudder with square rudder stock. Sheer slightly ascending at both ends, two mountain woods and one roe wood. Peaked round bilge. Scale 1:58 (scale on model).
In the left background the cast-iron pulpit from the Dutch Reformed Church in Voorschoten.
In the left background the cast-iron pulpit from the Dutch Reformed Church in Voorschoten.
Hall of Fame seen to the southeast. On the left is the painting 'The regents of the Spinhuis and Nieuwe Werkhuis in Amsterdam'.
Hall of Fame seen to the southeast. On the left is the painting 'The regents of the Spinhuis and Nieuwe Werkhuis in Amsterdam'.
Porcelain tea caddy with an egg-shaped body, on a base with openwork curling, painted on the glaze in black and gold. On the wall two oval cartouches depicting a European peasant landscape with working people, cattle, a farm and a village in the background; a flower branch between the cartouches; on the shoulder a band with tendrils in Meissen style. The lid with two flower sprays and a band with tendrils. European show in encre de Chine.
Porcelain tea caddy with an egg-shaped body, on a base with openwork curling, painted on the glaze in black and gold. On the wall two oval cartouches depicting a European peasant landscape with working people, cattle, a farm and a village in the background; a flower branch between the cartouches; on the shoulder a band with tendrils in Meissen style. The lid with two flower sprays and a band with tendrils. European show in encre de Chine.
Quotations
Bert Whitney
If I traveled to the end of the rainbow as Dame Fortune did intend, Murphy would be there to tell me the pot's at the other end.
Bert Whitney
Ogden Nash
Good wine needs no bush, and perhaps products that people really want need no hard-sell or soft-sell TV push. Why not? Look at pot.
Ogden Nash
I know by my own pot how the others boil.
French Proverb
George Meredith
A kiss is but a kiss now! and no wave of a great flood that whirls me to the sea. But, as you will! we'll sit contentedly, and eat our pot of honey on the grave.
George Meredith
There is death in the pot. [2 Kings 4:40]
Bible
Israel Zangwill
America is God's Crucible, the great Melting-Pot where all the races of Europe are melting and re-forming!
Israel Zangwill
Idioms

A watched pot never boils - Some things work out in their own time, so being impatient and constantly checking will just make things seem longer.

Gone to pot - If something has gone to pot, it has gone wrong and doesn't work any more.

Melting pot - A melting pot is a place where people from many ethnicities and nationalities live together.

Pot calling the kettle black - If someone hypocritically criticises a person for something that they themselves do, then it is a case of the pot calling the kettle black.

Pot-luck - If you take pot-luck, you take whatever happens to be available at the time.

Quart into a pint pot - (UK) If you try to put or get a quart into a pint pot, you try to put too much in a small space. (1 quart = 2 pints)

Usage in the news

Extra- Bittersweet Chocolate Pots de Crème. nytimes.com

"small batch," "family reserve," "pot stilled" (see our explanation), and "handcrafted". esquire.com

Break out the pot and the chiles and you've got yourself a winner for Super Bowl. latimes.com

Peanuts boil in a pot Friday at The Peanut Man store in the Congaree Vista district of Columbia, S.C. columbiamissourian.com

Braise chicken for easy, delicious one-pot meal. commercialappeal.com

The carpet — consisting of some 24,000 potted pansies, with lettuce plants providing verdancy — was installed April 7. citybeat.com

Recipe for fun: A crock pot , games, and winter weather. mvtimes.com

Here's another idea: Cook both so that you have broth from the Crock-Pot for your gravy and moist white meat to fill out the meat from a roasted bird. metroparent.com

She pulls out the crock pot , of course. newtoncitizen.com

Well, it's Friday, a bit cool outside and COLD tonight- so I'm using the crock pot again( or is it spelled "croc")- either way- here is the recipe. country103.com

Place in croc pot with- with at least 3 inches of water above the beans. country103.com

Well after much thought- I decided to break out the crock pot and do a 12 pound chuck roast. country103.com

I was thinking about a gumbo or the crock pot - and because my day was so busy and face it- to crock pot is so easy. country103.com

A) Plug in Crock-Pot . sdreader.com

B) Put seasoned salt and 16 oz of barbecuse sauce into crock pot . sdreader.com

Usage in scientific papers

These models produce a Higgs in the main detector together with the pomeron remnants, and two tagged protons in the roman pot detectors.
The Diffractive Interactions Working Group Summary

CDF have added shower counters and calorimeters to cover 3.5 < |η | < 7.5; DØ have new Roman Pots in the ±z direction and veto counters covering 2.5 < |η | < 6.
Summary and Highlights of the 14th Topical Conference on Hadron Collider Physics (HCP2002)

Some Run II physics goals that even the “pomeron skeptical” could support include making a direct measurement of the rapidity gap survival probability, indeed testing the assumption that rapidity gaps correlate with diffracted (anti-)protons seen in the Roman Pots.
Summary and Highlights of the 14th Topical Conference on Hadron Collider Physics (HCP2002)

From his work, I have collected the results on disk elongation in Figure 4a, which shows that the scatter in ǫpot sin φ is larger for galaxies with smaller maximum rotation velocity.
Dark Matter in Galaxies: Observational overview

As said before, both diffracted protons are required to be detected in roman pot detectors.
Sensitivity to the Standard Model Higgs Boson in Exclusive Double Diffraction

Usage in literature

It struck me that there was something very like a pot hanging from the saddle. "Snow Shoes and Canoes" by William H. G. Kingston

A minute or two afterwards my father pushed the pot of porter to him. "Poor Jack" by Frederick Marryat

It may be quickly blanched by simply covering the plant with a deep flower-pot saucer. "The Field and Garden Vegetables of America" by Fearing Burr

There were a few books in a stand on the table, and a flower-pot on the window-sill. "Post Haste" by R.M. Ballantyne

Put grease into the grease-pot, and whatever else may be on the plates, into the slop-pail. "A Treatise on Domestic Economy" by Catherine Esther Beecher

I wants yer fortune pot. "Tess of the Storm Country" by Grace Miller White

Dey cooked on de fireplace and had pot racks for to hang de pots on, and ovens to bake in. "Slave Narratives: A Folk History of Slavery in the United States" by Work Projects Administration

To dry the pots Robinson stood them in the sun a few days. "An American Robinson Crusoe" by Samuel. B. Allison

We'll take it home and put it in a flower-pot. "Russian Fairy Tales" by W. R. S. Ralston

As we know, he was very miserly, and he realized that a pot of gold would be worth a good deal of money. "From Farm to Fortune" by Horatio Alger Jr.

Usage in poetry
Cape on the waves! In sucking caves
The seething pots of ocean boil:
Good ship and true, they suck not you,
Home plunging in your honest toil.
Dust of Verona clings about the pot
I brought you out of Italy to-day.
Dust of Verona and a mist of dreams,
Echo of voices long since rapt away.
Th' world wod seem a dreary spot,--
All mi joys wod goa to pot;--
Looansum be mi little cot,
Withaat thee;
A'a, tha knows awst freeat a lot
If tha'd to dee.
But, in a golden pot, thy manna place,
Christ's body with the finest linen grace,
In a clean cask thy gen'rous wines secure,
And the communion in a heart that's pure.
When late I watched the arrows of the sleet
Against the windows of the Tavern beat,
I heard a Rose that murmured from her Pot:
"Why trudge thy fellows yonder in the Street?
But though I toss a hearty pot,
Kind stranger, do not think I'm not
For Truth a groper . . .
Another? Thanks, I won't refuse,
I am a tippler, if you choose,
But not a toper.