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pod

noun
/ˈpɒd/UK/ˈpɑd/US

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 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”).

  1. derived from *baiteh₂-✻ — “woolen clothes”
  2. inherited from *paidō✻ — “coat, smock, shirt”
  3. inherited from *paidu✻
  4. inherited from pād — “an outer garment, covering, coat, cloak”
  5. inherited from *pod✻

Definitions

  1. A self-contained unit, container, or enclosure that holds, protects, or transports…

    A self-contained unit, container, or enclosure that holds, protects, or transports something.

  2. A small, self-contained unit within a larger system.

  3. A group or collective.

  4. ›+ 13 more definitions

    1. A lie-flat seat in business or first class.

    2. A tapered, cylindrical body of ore or minerals.

    3. Clipping of podcast.

      • I'd started shopping at 2 a.m., and the pod I listened to while shopping was almost through, so had to be 3 damn near.
      • These ads are shown during commercial breaks when there is no game action. Usually, multiple spots are grouped into a pod of commercials.

    4. Clipping of isopod.

    5. To bear or produce pods

      • David looked seawards along the river. He stared, rubbed his eyes, and stared again. One of the rocks seemed to have podded into something swollen, black and smooth.
      • In the herbaceous border many flowers had seeded and podded; spears of them, brown, now rose up behind the mauve blur of the michaelmas daisies.

    6. To remove peas from their case.

    7. To put into a pod or to enter a pod.

      • Thus the torpedoes will have to be stored internally or be podded into streamline containers.
      • Lycoming is working on a twin T53 or T55 turboprop installation whereby two engines would be podded together to drive a single propeller.
      • One, called An- 12BZ-2, was a single-point hose-and- drogue tanker similar to the RAF's Lockheed C-130K Hercules C.1K, except that the hose drum unit was podded, not built in.

    8. To swell or fill.

    9. Initialism of print on demand.

    10. Initialism of proof of delivery.

    11. Initialism of plain old data.

    12. Initialism of point of divergence.

    13. Initialism of place of death.

      • Vickers et al. found that at entry to the study, that is, when it was thought that cure was no longer possible, 98 (68%) of 164 families recorded a preference for home as POD.

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Derived

azipod, bagpod, bean pod, black pod, bladderpod, buddy pod, coffee pod, conopodous, copperpod, cosmopod, crotalaria pod borer, cryopod, diaper pod, drop pod, earpod, egg pod, escape pod, fringepod, holopod, lacepod, lancepod, lifepod, like peas in a pod, like two peas in a pod, monkeypod, monkey pod, nanopod, nappy pod, orped, people pod, pod auger, pod bit, podcar, podcase, pod corn, podder, poddy, podestrian, podhead, pod hotel · +22 more

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for pod. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA