Crossword clues for potted
potted
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Pot \Pot\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Potted; p. pr. & vb. n. Potting.]
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To place or inclose in pots; as:
To preserve seasoned in pots. ``Potted fowl and fish.''
--Dryden.To set out or cover in pots; as, potted plants or bulbs.
To drain; as, to pot sugar, by taking it from the cooler, and placing it in hogsheads, etc., having perforated heads, through which the molasses drains off.
--B. Edwards.(Billiards) To pocket.
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To shoot for the pot, i.e., cooking; to secure or hit by a pot shot; to shoot when no special skill is needed.
When hunted, it [the jaguar] takes refuge in trees, and this habit is well known to hunters, who pursue it with dogs and pot it when treed.
--Encyc. of Sport. To secure; gain; win; bag. [Colloq.]
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
of meat, "preserved in a pot," 1640s, past participle adjective from pot (v.). Of a plant, from 1718. In the figurative sense of "put into a short, condensed form," 1866,
Wiktionary
(context informal English) Prepared in advance, as though preserved by potting. v
(en-pastpot)
WordNet
n. metal or earthenware cooking vessel that is usually round and deep; often has a handle and lid
a plumbing fixture for defecation and urination [syn: toilet, can, commode, crapper, potty, stool, throne]
the quantity contained in a pot [syn: potful]
a container in which plants are cultivated [syn: flowerpot]
(often followed by `of') a large number or amount or extent; "a batch of letters"; "a deal of trouble"; "a lot of money"; "he made a mint on the stock market"; "it must have cost plenty" [syn: batch, deal, flock, good deal, great deal, hatful, heap, lot, mass, mess, mickle, mint, muckle, peck, pile, plenty, quite a little, raft, sight, slew, spate, stack, tidy sum, wad, whole lot, whole slew]
the cumulative amount involved in a game (such as poker) [syn: jackpot, kitty]
slang terms for a paunch [syn: potbelly, bay window, corporation, tummy]
a resistor with three terminals, the third being an adjustable center terminal; used to adjust voltages in radios and TV sets [syn: potentiometer]
street names for marijuana [syn: grass, green goddess, dope, weed, gage, sess, sens, smoke, skunk, locoweed, Mary Jane]
adj. of plants; planted or grown in a pot; "potted geraniums" [ant: unpotted]
preserved in a pot or can or jar; "potted meat"; "potted shrimp"
(British informal) summarized or abridged; "a potted version of a novel"
See pot
Wikipedia
Usage examples of "potted".
The Bletch is our local groundskeeper, ancillary services and so forth, the man who sprinkles the potted palms in the background and arranges for the billeting of transients such as yourself.
The International Kennel Club of Chicago, which was the host of the annual canine extravaganza in the adjoining McCormick Place Convention Hall, had assured the Hyatt that well-mannered show dogs would never mistake expensive carpeting for grass or potted plants for trees.
To his amusement, his sober schoolmistress played like an enthusiastic child, scowling when she miscued, glowing with satisfaction when she potted a ball.
We walked down the hall, through the neat little kitchen with its racks of potted herbs in the window and the suncatcher above lazily hanging on a string.
When Rafe walked into the glass-walled room, the Schnauzer glanced up from an exploration of a potted palm.
There was a large potted cactus in one corner and on the walls were abstract, color-matched serigraphs of desert scenery and pueblo dwellings.
Future History to him, the author gets slowly potted while silently trying-and failing-to come up with a story idea that would rationalize all the unexamined and often mutually contradictory assumptions behind that future history.
There were also zinnias, and chrysanthemums, and potted aphelandras, and two graceful fringetails in an inset aquarium.
A houseboy or something in a turtleneck and whipcord trousers answered the door of a gray stone house on the edge of the nearby town and showed me into a room paneled in fruitwood with potted plants on the built-in shelves.
Nearly all the plants experimentised on by Gartner were potted, and apparently were kept in a chamber in his house.
They convened in a room where fans swung from the ceiling, where potted vulus grew, and where bright Madi rugs hung on the walls in place of windows, Pannoval-style.
Shreave flashed back to that doomed orthotics sales call in Arlington, the old crow practically tripping him with her oxygen tank and then cackling when he fell crotch-first into her potted dwarf saguaro.
The plants lift well, carrying a good ball that facilitates their being placed in pots even when in bloom, when, as I have lately seen, they may be used in a most telling manner with potted shrubs in large halls, corridors, and public buildings.
The first two days of the show were hectic ones, getting the horses settled in, clipped, and groomed, with more exhibiters arriving all the time, florists delivering huge potted plants to various stables to aid in the transformation of common stalls into showcases, and car penters and electricians swarming all over the place like so many flies in a barn.
Amaury Trente made a pretty presentation of the tokens they had brought: a chest of lead, brooches and arm rings of intricate gold knot-work, and cleverest of all, potted seedlings of native Alban flora, for the Pharaohs of Menekhet were long known to be eager for exotic botany.