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Vase
A vase (, , or ) is an open container. It can be made from a number of materials, such as ceramics, glass, non-rusting metals, such as aluminium, brass, bronze, or stainless steel. Even wood has been used to make vases, either by using tree species that naturally resist rot, such as teak, or by applying a protective coating to conventional wood. Vases are often decorated, and they are often used to hold cut flowers. Vases come in different sizes to support whatever flower its holding or keeping in place.
Vases generally have a similar shape. The foot or the base may be bulbous, flat, carinate, or another shape. The body forms the main portion of the piece. Some vases have a shoulder, where the body curves inward, a neck, which gives height, and a lip, where the vase flares back out at the top. Some vases are also given handles.
Various styles and types of vases have been developed around the world in different time periods, such as Chinese ceramics and Native American pottery. In the pottery of ancient Greece “vase-painting” is the traditional term covering the famous fine painted pottery, often with many figures in scenes from Greek mythology. Such pieces may be referred to as vases regardless of their shape; most were in fact used for holding or serving liquids, and many would more naturally be called cups, jugs and so on. In 2003, Grayson Perry won the Turner Prize for his ceramics, typically in vase form.
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Pot (noun)
A flat-bottomed vessel (usually metal) used for cooking food.
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Pot (noun)
Various similar open-topped vessels, particularly
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Pot (noun)
A vessel (usually earthenware) used with a seal for storing food, such as a honeypot.
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Pot (noun)
A coffee or teapot.
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Pot (noun)
A vessel used to hold soil for growing plants, particularly flowers: a flowerpot.
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Pot (noun)
A vessel used for urination and defecation: a chamber pot; a toilet; the lavatory.
“Shit or get off the pot.”
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Pot (noun)
A crucible: a melting pot.
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Pot (noun)
A pot-shaped trap used for catching lobsters or other seafood: a lobsterpot.
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Pot (noun)
A pot-shaped metal or earthenware extension of a flue above the top of a chimney: a chimney pot.
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Pot (noun)
A perforated cask for draining sugar.
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Pot (noun)
An earthen or pewter cup or mug used for drinking liquor.
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Pot (noun)
Ruin or deterioration.
“After his arrest, his prospects went to pot.”
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Pot (noun)
An iron hat with a broad brim worn as a helmet.
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Pot (noun)
A pot-shaped non-conducting (usually ceramic) stand that supports an electrified rail while insulating it from the ground.
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Pot (noun)
The games of chance; any sum of money being used as an enticement.
“No one’s interested. You need to sweeten the pot.”
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Pot (noun)
A favorite: a heavily-backed horse.
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Pot (noun)
The act of causing a ball to fall into a pocket in cue sports such as billiards.
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Pot (noun)
clipping of potbelly: a pot-shaped belly, a paunch.
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Pot (noun)
clipping of potshot: a haphazard shot; an easy or cheap shot.
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Pot (noun)
A plaster cast.
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Pot (noun)
: a former size of paper, 12.5 × 15 inches.
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Pot (noun)
Marijuana
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Pot (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.
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Pot (noun)
clipping of potion
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Pot (verb)
To put (something) into a pot.
“to pot a plant”
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Pot (verb)
To bottling or canning.
“potted meat”
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Pot (verb)
To cause a ball to fall into a pocket.
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Pot (verb)
To be capable of being potted.
“The black ball doesn’t pot; the red is in the way.”
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Pot (verb)
To shoot with a firearm.
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Pot (verb)
To take a pot shot, or haphazard shot, with a firearm.
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Pot (verb)
To secure; gain; win; bag.
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Pot (verb)
To send someone to gaol, expeditiously.
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Pot (verb)
To tipple; to drink.
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Pot (verb)
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”
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Pot (verb)
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?”
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Pot (verb)
To apply a plaster cast to a broken limb.
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Vase (noun)
An upright open container used mainly for displaying fresh, dried, or artificial flowers.
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Vase (noun)
The body of the Corinthian capital.