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pod

Pronunciation: /ˈpɒd/

The English word “pod” has 18 meanings listed here.

noun

  1. A seed case for legumes (e.g. peas, beans, peppers); a seedpod.
  2. A very small room or space for one person to inhabit, as in a capsule hotel.
  3. A small vehicle, especially used in emergency situations; see escape pod.
  4. A nicotine cartridge.
  5. A bag; a pouch.
  6. A small section of a larger office, compartmentalised for a specific purpose.
  7. A subsection of a prison, containing a number of inmates.
  8. A group of whales, dolphins, seals, porpoises or hippopotami.
  9. A group of people who regularly interact.
  10. A set of commercials to be shown together.
  11. A small group (usually 3 or 4) of forwards working together as a group in open play.
  12. A lie-flat seat in business or first class.
  13. A tapered, cylindrical body of ore or minerals.
  14. A straight channel or groove in the body of certain forms of, usually tapered, augers and boring-bits.

verb

  1. To bear or produce pods
  2. To remove peas from their case.
  3. To put into a pod or to enter a pod.
  4. To swell or fill.

Etymology

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…

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