pod.
A self-contained unit, container, or enclosure that holds, protects, or transports something.
Meaning & usage
A self-contained unit, container, or enclosure that holds, protects, or transports something. A seed case for legumes (e.g. peas, beans, peppers); a seedpod.
A self-contained unit, container, or enclosure that holds, protects, or transports something. A very small room or space for one person to inhabit, as in a capsule hotel.
A self-contained unit, container, or enclosure that holds, protects, or transports something. A small vehicle, especially used in emergency situations; see escape pod.
A self-contained unit, container, or enclosure that holds, protects, or transports something. A nicotine cartridge.
A self-contained unit, container, or enclosure that holds, protects, or transports something. A bag; a pouch.
A small, self-contained unit within a larger system. A small section of a larger office, compartmentalised for a specific purpose.
A small, self-contained unit within a larger system. A subsection of a prison, containing a number of inmates.
A group or collective. A group of whales, dolphins, seals, porpoises or hippopotami.
A group or collective. A group of people who regularly interact.
A group or collective. A set of commercials to be shown together.
A group or collective. A small group (usually 3 or 4) of forwards working together as a group in open play.
A lie-flat seat in business or first class.
A tapered, cylindrical body of ore or minerals.
A tapered, cylindrical body of ore or minerals. A straight channel or groove in the body of certain forms of, usually tapered, augers and boring-bits.
Clipping of podcast.
Clipping of isopod.
Where this word comes from
Origin uncertain. Perhaps from Middle English *pod ("seed-pod, husk, shell, outer covering"; attested in pod-ware (“legume seed; seed grain”)), itself possibly from Old English pād (“an outer garment, covering, coat, cloak”), from Proto-West Germanic *paidu, from Proto-Germanic *paidō (“coat, smock, shirt”), from Proto-Indo-European *baiteh₂- (“woolen clothes”). If so, then cognate with Old Saxon pēda (“skirt”), German dialectal Pfeid, Pfeit (“shirt”), Gothic 𐍀𐌰𐌹𐌳𐌰 (paida, “mantle, skirt”), and perhaps Albanian petk (“gown, garment, dress, suit”) and Ancient Greek βαίτη (baítē, “goat-skin, fur-coat, tent”).
To bear or produce pods
To remove peas from their case.
To put into a pod or to enter a pod.
To swell or fill.
Where this word comes from
Origin uncertain. Perhaps from Middle English *pod ("seed-pod, husk, shell, outer covering"; attested in pod-ware (“legume seed; seed grain”)), itself possibly from Old English pād (“an outer garment, covering, coat, cloak”), from Proto-West Germanic *paidu, from Proto-Germanic *paidō (“coat, smock, shirt”), from Proto-Indo-European *baiteh₂- (“woolen clothes”). If so, then cognate with Old Saxon pēda (“skirt”), German dialectal Pfeid, Pfeit (“shirt”), Gothic 𐍀𐌰𐌹𐌳𐌰 (paida, “mantle, skirt”), and perhaps Albanian petk (“gown, garment, dress, suit”) and Ancient Greek βαίτη (baítē, “goat-skin, fur-coat, tent”).
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