Pot vs Boiler - What's the difference?

pot | boiler |

As a noun boiler is

(tank-type) water heater.

pot

English

(wikipedia pot)

Etymology 1

From (etyl) (m), (m), from late (etyl) .

Noun

(en noun)

A vessel used for cooking or storing food, or for growing plants in, especially flowers.

* , chapter=10

, title= The Mirror and the Lamp , passage=He looked round the poor room, at the distempered walls, and the bad engravings in meretricious frames, the crinkly paper and wax flowers on the chiffonier; and he thought of a room like Father Bryan's, with panelling, with cut glass, with tulips in silver pots , such a room as he had hoped to have for his own.}}

(label) The money wagered in poker or similar games.

A trap for catching lobsters, crabs, eels, or fish.

(label) An iron hat with a broad brim.

* {{quote-book, year=1786, author=(Francis Grose), title=A Treatise on Ancient Armour and Weapons, page=12,

passage=The pot is an iron hat with broad brims: there are many under the denomination in the Tower, said to have been taken from the French; one of them is represented in plat 7, fig. 1 and 2.}}

A glass of beer, of a size that varies regionally but is normally 10 fl oz (285 ml).

* 2009 , Deborah Penrith, Jodie Seal, Live & Work in Australia , page 187,

There are plenty of pubs and bars all over Australia (serving beer in schooners – 425ml or middies/pots ~285ml), and if you don?t fancy those you can drink in wine bars, pleasant beer gardens, or with friends at home.

A potshot.

* {{quote-news, year=2011, date=October 1, author=Tom Fordyce, work=BBC Sport

, title= Rugby World Cup 2011: England 16-12 Scotland , passage=England were shipping penalties at an alarming rate - five in the first 15 minutes alone - and with Wilkinson missing three long-distance pots of his own in the first 20 minutes, the alarm bells began to ring for Martin Johnson's men.}}

(label) A protruding belly; a paunch.

(label) Ruin or deterioration.

The act of causing a ball to fall into a pocket.

(label) A potentiometer.

(label) A non-conducting, usually ceramic, stand that supports the third rail while keeping it electrically insulated from the ground.

(label) An earthen or pewter cup for liquors; a mug.

A metal or earthenware extension of a flue above the top of a chimney; a chimney pot.

A crucible.

a graphite pot'''; a melting '''pot

A perforated cask for draining sugar.

(Knight)

A size of paper; pott.

(label) toilet

* 2011 , Ben Zeller, Secrets of Beaver Creek (page 204)

Synonyms

* (cooking vessel) * (money wagered in a card game) * (trap for crustaceans or fish) * middy (qualifier), schooner (South Australia) * (potshot) * (protruding belly) beer belly * * (in English billiards) winning hazard * (potentiometer) * (non-conducting stand for a third rail)

Derived terms

* pot head * chamberpot * pisspot * pot ale * pot boiler * pot life * pot holder * pot roast * pot-au-feu * potbelly * potboil * potboiler * pothole * potpie * potpourri * potshot * potsherd * pot stirrer * pottage * potter * pottery * potty * hot pot * potted plant * stir the pot * teapot * two pot screamer

Verb

To put (something) into a pot.

to pot a plant

To preserve by bottling or canning.

potted meat

(label) To cause a ball to fall into a pocket.

(label) To be capable of being potted.

The black ball doesn't pot ; the red is in the way.

To shoot.

(label) To send someone to gaol, expeditiously.

To tipple; to drink.

* Feltham

It is less labour to plough than to pot it.

(label) To drain.

to pot sugar, by taking it from the cooler, and placing it in hogsheads, etc. with perforated heads, through which the molasses drains off

To seat a person, usually a young child, onto a potty or toilet, typically during toilet teaching.

Could you please pot the children before sending them to bed?

Etymology 2

Possibly a shortened form of Mexican (etyl) , supposedly denoting a drink of wine or brandy in which marijuana buds were steeped.

Noun

(-)

The drug marijuana.

Synonyms

* See also

Derived terms

* pothead

Etymology 3

(potentiometer) .

Noun

(en noun)

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.

Derived terms

slide pot, a sliding (linear) potentiometer typically designed to be manipulated by a thumb or finger

thumb pot, a rotating potentiometer designed to be turned by a thumb or finger

References

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boiler

English

Etymology 1

Noun

(en noun)

An apparatus that generates heat (usually by burning fuel) and uses it to heat circulating water (or sometimes another liquid) in a closed system that is then used for space heating, swimming pool heating, or domestic hot water or industrial processes.

Less commonly , a hot water heater.

(approximate definition'') A fuel burning apparatus in which water is boiled to produce steam for space heating, power generation, or industrial processes.
(''more precisely'') An apparatus in which a heat source other than a hot liquid or steam (most commonly burning fuel, exhaust gas from an internal combustion engine or gas turbine, waste heat from a process, solar energy or electricity) is used to boil water (or ''rarely another liquid), under pressure to provide steam (or other gas) for use as a heat source in calorifiers, heat exchangers or heat emitters, or for use directly for humidification, in an industrial process, or to power steam turbines.

A kitchen vessel for steaming or boiling food.

(UK, informal) A tough old chicken only suitable for cooking by boiling.

Derived terms

(terms derived from boiler) * boil * boiled * boilerplate * boiler room * boiling * boiling plate * donkey boiler * double boiler * steam boiler

Etymology 2

Shortening of

Noun

(rare, informal) Boilerplate.

* 1994 May 4, Glenn Nicholas, " Re: Forms4 boilerplate accessible?", in comp.databases.oracle, Usenet :

While it appears the FRM40_TEXT table is the answer, saving a form with boiler text does not seem to insert into this table.

* 2003 December 7, Tom Potter, " Re: Why don't more people hate Bush?", in alt.politics.democrats and other newsgroups, Usenet :

Note that Stuart Grey makes the assertion: "I think rationally on all subjects.", and then proceeds to use the standard boiler tactics and phrases of the people WHO instigate conflict and war.

* 2007 , Jim Casey, " Re: NRA vs Bar Assoc over guns in cars", in tx.guns, Usenet :

Nearly every employer in my field has similar terms (they all come out of a legal boiler mill somewhere).

* 2009 March 30, "hughess7" (username), " Re: Mail merge to PDF", in microsoft.public.access, Usenet :

Just aligning all the paragraphs of 'boiler text' is tedious but trying to insert values in alignment is impossible!