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Pot commonly refers to pottery, the ceramic ware made by pottersPot may also refer to:- Containers :* Plant pot or flower pot, a container in which plants are cultivated* Cooking pot, a stove-top cooking utensil* Chamber pot, a bedside urinal...

commonly refers to pottery, the ceramic ware made by potters

Pot may also refer to:

Containers

  • Plant pot or flower pot, a container in which plants are cultivated
  • Cooking pot, a stove-top cooking utensil
  • Chamber pot
    Chamber pot
    A chamber pot is a bowl-shaped container with a handle, and often a lid, kept in the bedroom under a bed or in the cabinet of a nightstand and...

    , a bedside urinal
  • Fishing pot, a steel box shaped trap used to catch crab, lobster, fish, and other marine animals.

People

  • Pol Pot
    Pol Pot
    Saloth Sar , better known as Pol Pot, , was a Cambodian Maoist revolutionary who led the Khmer Rouge from 1963 until his death in 1998. From 1976 to 1979, he served as the Prime Minister of Democratic Kampuchea....

    , leader of the communist Khmer Rouge in Kampuchea or Cambodia
  • Philippe Pot
    Philippe Pot
    Philippe Pot was a Burgundian nobleman, military leader, and diplomat. He was the seigneur of La Roche and Thorey-sur-Ouche, a Knight of the Golden Fleece, and the Grand Seneschal of Burgundy....

     (1428–1493), Burgundian nobleman, military leader, and diplomat
  • Cor Pot
    Cor Pot
    Cornelis Pot is a Dutch football manager and former footballer.- Playing career :He started his career with the academy of Sparta in Rotterdam, and subsequently moved to the Ajax academy.Clubs*1969 - 1972 Sparta...

    , Dutch football manager and former player

Abbreviations and acronyms

  • Ken Jones Aerodrome
    Ken Jones Aerodrome
    Ken Jones Aerodrome is an airport located west of Port Antonio, in northeastern Jamaica. It serves tourist resorts in the area and local travel....

     in Jamaica, by IATA airport code POT
  • P.O.T, former Filipino rock band
  • Potash Corporation of Saskatchewan
    Potash Corporation of Saskatchewan
    The Potash Corporation of Saskatchewan Inc. , also referred to as PotashCorp, is a Canadian corporation based in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan. The company is the world's largest potash producer and the third largest producers of nitrogen and phosphate, three primary crop nutrients used to produce...

    , stock symbol: POT
  • Pontefract Tanshelf railway station
    Pontefract Tanshelf railway station
    Pontefract Tanshelf railway station is the most central station in the town of Pontefract, West Yorkshire, England, and serves Pontefract Races, the racecourse located just down the street from the station. It lies on the Pontefract Line operated by Northern Rail and is east of Wakefield Kirkgate...

    , England; National Rail station code POT
  • Pot., the abbreviation for the orchid genus Potinara
    Potinara
    Potinara, abbreviated Pot in the horticultural trade, is the nothogenus comprising those intergeneric hybrids of orchids which have Brassavola, Cattleya, Laelia and Sophronitis as parent genera....

  • Potentiometer
    Potentiometer
    A potentiometer , informally, a pot, is a three-terminal resistor with a sliding contact that forms an adjustable voltage divider. If only two terminals are used , it acts as a variable resistor or rheostat. Potentiometers are commonly used to control electrical devices such as volume controls on...

    , a variable resistor, informally known as a "pot"
  • Pot belly
    Abdominal obesity
    Abdominal obesity, colloquially known as belly fat or clinically as central obesity, is the accumulation of abdominal fat resulting in an increase in waist size...

    , informally known as a "pot".

Computing

  • .pot, a template file extension used by the GNU gettext program
  • .pot, file extension for Microsoft PowerPoint
    Microsoft PowerPoint
    Microsoft PowerPoint, usually just called PowerPoint, is a non-free commercial presentation program developed by Microsoft. It is part of the Microsoft Office suite, and runs on Microsoft Windows and Apple's Mac OS X operating system...

     template files
  • POT, Point Of Termination in telecommunications

Miscellaneous

  • A slang term for cannabis
    Cannabis (drug)
    Cannabis, also known as marijuana among many other names, refers to any number of preparations of the Cannabis plant intended for use as a psychoactive drug or for medicinal purposes. The English term marijuana comes from the Mexican Spanish word marihuana...

     (Marijuana)
  • Pot (poker)
    Pot (poker)
    The pot in poker refers to the sum of money that players wager during a single hand or game, according to the betting rules of the variant being played...

    , the amount to be won
  • "The Pot
    The Pot
    "The Pot" is a song by American rock band Tool, released as the second single from their fourth album 10,000 Days. The song was their first #1 on the Billboard Mainstream Rock Tracks chart. In 2008, the song received a Grammy nomination for Best Hard Rock Performance. According to The Rock Radio, a...

    ", a hit song by Tool
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