pod — English Dictionary

Noun

1. A self-contained unit, container, or enclosure that holds, protects, or transports something. A seed case for legumes (e.g. peas, beans, peppers); a seedpod.

   Synonyms

   capsulecasecontainerhullhuskshellseedpodvessel

2. A self-contained unit, container, or enclosure that holds, protects, or transports something. A very small room or space for one person to inhabit, as in a capsule hotel.

3. A self-contained unit, container, or enclosure that holds, protects, or transports something. A small vehicle, especially used in emergency situations; see escape pod.

   Synonyms

   escape pod

   Examples

   Near-synonym: escape pod

   cart, that is clouted and shod, cart ladder and wimble, with perser and pod

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

5. A self-contained unit, container, or enclosure that holds, protects, or transports something. A bag; a pouch.

   Usage

   • UK usage
   • dialectal
   • Obsolete

6. A small, self-contained unit within a larger system. A small section of a larger office, compartmentalised for a specific purpose.

7. A small, self-contained unit within a larger system. A subsection of a prison, containing a number of inmates.

8. A group or collective. A group of whales, dolphins, seals, porpoises or hippopotami.

   Usage

   • collective

   Synonyms

   gam

   Examples

   Thar she blows! I point to a pod of beluga whales we encountered in Cunningham Inlet off Somerset Island during our third and final season.

9. A group or collective. A group of people who regularly interact.

10. A group or collective. A set of commercials to be shown together.

    Examples

    These matrilineal groups associate with related families, who are probably sister lineages, to form pods.

    More examples (1)

    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.

11. A group or collective. 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 tapered, cylindrical body of ore or minerals. 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

   Usage

   • Intransitive

   Examples

   More examples (2)

   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.

2. To remove peas from their case.

   Usage

   • Transitive

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

   Usage

   • Intransitive
   • Transitive

   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.

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   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.

   This was to be achieved by increasing the number of Lotarev D-18T engines to 8 by podding the inboard pylons on each side to take two engines (see Fig. 7).

   In June 2009, the company opened another facility in Tianjin to provide nacelle and thrust-reverser MRO services and to support engine buildup and podding work for the new Airbus A320 assembly line in the same city.

   Then i was podded by a buddie of mine, working the burrough next to mine, all humans had a blue rabbit glow around them and seemed to sleep walk out of the burrough out in to a field while a sound like; ta-ta-dah-taaa, soundeḍ ̣̪continously [sic], where they waited while looking up in the sky.

4. To swell or fill.

   Usage

   • Intransitive

Noun

1. the vessel that contains the seeds of a plant (not the seeds themselves)

   Synonyms

   codseedcase

   Broader terms

   husk

2. a several-seeded dehiscent fruit as e.g. of a leguminous plant

   Synonyms

   seedpod

   Broader terms

   fruit

3. a group of aquatic mammals

   Broader terms

   animal group

4. a detachable container of fuel on an airplane

   Synonyms

   fuel pod

   Broader terms

   container

Verb

1. take something out of its shell or pod

   Broader terms

   shell

   Examples

   pod peas or beans

2. produce pods, of plants

   Broader terms

   growdevelopproducegetacquire