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Weed
A weed is a plant considered undesirable in a particular situation, “a plant in the wrong place”. Examples commonly are plants unwanted in human-controlled settings, such as farm fields, gardens, lawns, and parks. Taxonomically, the term “weed” has no botanical significance, because a plant that is a weed in one context is not a weed when growing in a situation where it is in fact wanted, and where one species of plant is a valuable crop plant, another species in the same genus might be a serious weed, such as a wild bramble growing among cultivated loganberries. In the same way, volunteer crops (plants) are regarded as weeds in a subsequent crop. Many plants that people widely regard as weeds also are intentionally grown in gardens and other cultivated settings, in which case they are sometimes called beneficial weeds. The term weed also is applied to any plant that grows or reproduces aggressively, or is invasive outside its native habitat. More broadly “weed” occasionally is applied pejoratively to species outside the plant kingdom, species that can survive in diverse environments and reproduce quickly; in this sense it has even been applied to humans.Weed control is important in agriculture. Methods include hand cultivation with hoes, powered cultivation with cultivators, smothering with mulch, lethal wilting with high heat, burning, or chemical attack with herbicides.
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Weed (noun)
Any plant regarded as unwanted at the place where, and at the time when it is growing.
“If it isn’t in a straight line or marked with a label, it’s a weed.”
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Weed (noun)
Short for duckweed.
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Weed (noun)
Underbrush; low shrubs.
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Weed (noun)
A drug or the like made from the leaves of a plant.
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Weed (noun)
Cannabis.
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Weed (noun)
Tobacco.
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Weed (noun)
A weak horse, which is therefore unfit to breed from.
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Weed (noun)
A puny person; one who has little physical strength.
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Weed (noun)
Something unprofitable or troublesome; anything useless.
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Weed (noun)
A garment or piece of clothing.
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Weed (noun)
Clothing collectively; clothes, dress.
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Weed (noun)
An article of dress worn in token of grief; a mourning garment or badge.
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Weed (noun)
(Female) mourning apparel.
“He wore a weed on his hat.”
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Weed (noun)
A sudden illness or relapse, often attended with fever, which befalls those who are about to give birth, are giving birth, or have recently given birth or miscarried or aborted.
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Weed (verb)
To remove unwanted vegetation from a cultivated area.
“I weeded my flower bed.”
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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.