pod
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Is pod a Scrabble word?
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Definition
noun (English)
1. (botany) A seed case for legumes (e.g. peas, beans, peppers); a seedpod.Synonyms: capsule, case, container, hull, husk, shell, seedpod, vessel
2. (obsolete, UK, dialect) A bag; a pouch.Examples: "cart, that is clouted and shod, cart ladder and wimble, with perser and pod"UKdialectalobsolete
3. (collective, zoology) A group of whales, dolphins, seals, porpoises or hippopotami.Synonyms: gamcollective
4. (by extension) A group of people who regularly interact.Examples: "These matrilineal groups associate with related families, who are probably sister lineages, to form pods."; "For many people forming pods last year, finding compatible people to group with was not a cost but a goal. Private companies that create educational software for pods report that people prefer to group with their friends in order to reduce the incentive to have social contacts outside of their pods."broadly
5. (informal, Internet) Clipping of podcast.Examples: "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."Internetabbreviationalt-ofclippinginformal
6. (broadcasting) A set of commercials to be shown together.Examples: "These ads are shown during commercial breaks when there is no game action. Usually, multiple spots are grouped into a pod of commercials."
verb (English)
1. (intransitive) To bear or produce podsExamples: "Wherefore it was, that many ignorant Mardians, who had not pushed their investigations into the science of physiology, sagely divined, that the Tapparians must have podded into life like peas, instead of being otherwise indebted for their existence."; "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."intransitive
2. (transitive) To remove peas from their case.transitive
3. (transitive, intransitive) To put into a pod or to enter a pod.Examples: "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."intransitivetransitive
4. (intransitive) To swell or fill.intransitive
noun (English)
1. (uncountable, publishing) Initialism of print on demand.abbreviationalt-ofinitialismuncountable
2. (logistics) Initialism of proof of delivery.abbreviationalt-ofcountableinitialismuncountable
3. (uncountable, programming) Initialism of plain old data.abbreviationalt-ofinitialismuncountable
Definition source: Wiktionary