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单词 pot of gold
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gold1 /gōld/

noun
  1. A heavy yellow element (symbol Au; atomic no 79), one of the precious metals, used for coins, etc
  2. Articles made of it
  3. Money in the form of gold coins
  4. A standard of money value which varies with the price of the metal
  5. The gold standard
  6. Riches
  7. Anything very precious
  8. The centre of an archery target, coloured gold
  9. A gold medal
  10. Yellow, the colour of gold
adjective
  1. Made of or like gold
  2. Golden in colour
  3. (often used to designate a product, service, etc) superior in quality to, improved upon or more sophisticated than the standard version
ORIGIN: OE gold, ON gull, Ger Gold, Gothic gulth

goldˈish adjective

Somewhat golden

goldˈless adjective

goldˈy adjective

Somewhat like gold

goldˈ-beater noun

A person whose trade is to beat gold into gold leaf

gold-beater's skin noun

The outer coat of the caecum of an ox, used for separating sheets of gold being beaten into gold leaf

goldˈ-beating noun

gold beetle noun (US)

A beetle of the family Chrysomelidae

gold brick noun

  1. A block of gold or (orig US sl) of pretended gold, hence a sham or swindle
  2. A person who shirks duties or responsibilities

gold-brickˈ transitive verb

goldˈ-bug noun (US)

  1. A gold beetle
  2. Someone whose power comes from their wealth, a plutocrat
  3. A person who favours a gold standard
  4. A person who invests in gold bullion

gold card noun

A special-privilege credit card available only to customers in the higher-income bracket

gold certificate or gold note noun (US)

Formerly, a US treasury note issued on gold reserves

goldˈ-cloth noun

Cloth of gold (qv)

goldˈcrest noun

A golden-crested bird of the genus Regulus (also golden-crested wren)

goldˈ-digger noun

  1. A person who digs for gold
  2. A person who treats an intimate relationship chiefly as a source of material gain

goldˈ-digging noun

gold disc noun

A gold replica of a record, presented to the composer, performer, etc to commemorate achieving sales above a certain amount (for a UK album, 100000 copies)

gold dust noun

  1. Gold in fine particles, as found in some rivers
  2. Something very rare and precious, much sought-after (figurative; informal)
  3. A cultivated evergreen alyssum, Alyssum saxatile, having numerous tiny yellow flowers

gold-endˈ-man noun (obsolete)

A dealer in gold-endsˈ (archaic), broken remnants of gold

gold-exchange standard noun (obsolete)

A monetary system by which a country not on the gold standard was linked in its exchange rate to another's which was

gold export point see gold point below.

goldˈeye noun

A N American freshwater fish (genus Hiodon)

gold-feˈver noun

A mania for seeking gold

goldˈfield noun

A gold-producing region

goldˈfinch noun

  1. A European finch (Carduelis carduelis) with black, red, yellow and white plumage, fond of eating thistle seeds
  2. Any of several American finches of the genus Spinus, the male being yellow with black wings, tail and crown

goldˈfinny noun

A kind of small European wrasse

goldˈfish noun

A Chinese and Japanese freshwater fish closely related to the carp, golden or (silverfish) pale in its domesticated state, brownish when wild

goldfish bowl noun

  1. A spherical glass aquarium for goldfish
  2. A situation entirely lacking in privacy

gold foil noun

Gold beaten into thin sheets, but not as thin as gold leaf

goldˈilocks noun

  1. A golden-haired person
  2. A species of buttercup (Ranunculus auricomus)
  3. A composite European plant (Aster linosyris) with clustered bright yellow flowers

gold import point see gold point below.

gold ink noun

A writing fluid containing particles of gold or an imitation

gold lace noun

Lace made from gold thread

goldˈ-laced adjective

gold leaf noun

Gold beaten extremely thin, used to decorate books, picture frames, etc

gold-leafˈ transitive verb

gold medal noun

In athletics competitions, etc, the medal awarded as first prize

gold mine noun

  1. A mine producing gold
  2. A source of great profit

goldˈminer noun

gold note see gold certificate above.

gold-of-pleasˈure noun

A cruciferous plant (Camelina sativa), yellow-flowered, once much cultivated for its oil-rich seeds

gold paint noun

Bronze powders mixed with transparent varnish or amyl acetate

gold plate noun

  1. Vessels and utensils of gold collectively
  2. Metal, esp silver, plated with gold

gold-plateˈ transitive verb

To coat (another metal) with gold

gold-plaˈted adjective

  1. Coated with gold
  2. (of investments, etc) secure and sure to be profitable

gold-plāˈting noun

  1. The process of coating with gold
  2. The addition by a lower body of further restrictions to legislation created by a higher authority

gold point noun (finance; obsolete)

In international transactions, an exchange rate at which it is advisable to export (gold export point) or import (gold import point) gold bullion rather than settle by bills of exchange

gold record noun

A gold disc (qv above)

gold reserve noun

The stock of gold held by a country's central bank, etc to finance any calls that may be made from overseas creditors for the settlement of debt

gold rush noun

A rush of prospectors to a newly discovered goldfield

goldˈsinny same as goldfinny above.

goldˈsize noun

An adhesive, of various kinds, used to attach gold leaf to a surface

goldˈsmith noun

A worker in gold and silver

goldsmith beetle noun

A beetle with wing-covers of a gold colour

goldˈsmithry or goldˈsmithery noun

goldˈspink noun (chiefly Scot, also gowdˈspink)

The goldfinch

gold standard noun

A monetary standard or system according to which the unit of currency has a precise value in gold

goldˈstick noun

  1. A colonel of the Life Guards, who carries a gilded wand before the sovereign
  2. The wand or rod so carried

goldˈstone see aventurine

gold thread noun

  1. Gold wire used in weaving
  2. Silk wound with gilded wire
  3. An evergreen perennial ranunculaceous plant (genus Coptis) with slender yellow roots and white flowers

goldˈ-washer noun

  1. Someone who obtains gold from sand and gravel by washing
  2. A cradle or other implement for washing gold

goldˈ-wasp noun

Any wasp of a family (Chrysididae) with brilliant metallic colouring and telescopic abdomen, whose larvae feed on those of wasps and bees, known also as cuckoo fly, ruby-tail or ruby-wasp

gold wire noun

Wire made of or covered with gold

goldˈwork noun

Gold articles collectively

as good as gold

Behaving in an exemplary manner (usu of children)

go gold

(of a record) to sell in quantities sufficient to merit a gold disc

pot (or crock) of gold

A distant and usu unattainable reward

pot1 /pot/

noun
  1. Any of various usu deep and round domestic containers used as cooking utensils, or for preservation and storage
  2. The contents or capacity of such a container
  3. A chamberpot
  4. A flowerpot or plantpot
  5. A teapot
  6. Earthenware, or a handmade earthenware vessel
  7. A vessel of fireclay used to contain the glass during melting (glass-making)
  8. A trophy, esp a cup (informal)
  9. A pocket, or a stroke in which the object ball enters a pocket (snooker, etc)
  10. (usu in pl) a large sum of money (informal)
  11. A large stake or bet (informal)
  12. An accumulated pool of bets in a gambling game
  13. A heavily-backed horse
  14. An important person (usu big pot; informal)
  15. A pot-belly (informal)
  16. A pot shot (informal)
  17. A simple helmet (historical)
  18. A wicker trap for lobsters, etc, a lobster pot
  19. A size of paper (also pott) about 12 by 15 inches (30.5 by 38cm; so called from its original watermark)
adjective

Made of clay or earthenware

transitive verb (pottˈing; pottˈed)
  1. To put into pots, for preserving, etc
  2. To cook in a pot
  3. To plant in a pot
  4. To manufacture (pottery)
  5. To drain molasses from (sugar) during the refining process
  6. To shoot (a creature) for the pot (ie as a meal), by a pot shot, or generally to bag, win, secure
  7. To pocket (a snooker or billiard ball)
  8. To epitomize or summarize, esp simplistically
  9. To encapsulate (an electronic component) in a protective insulating resin
  10. To sit (a baby) on a chamberpot
intransitive verb
  1. To make pottery, esp by hand
  2. To take a pot shot (with at)
  3. To tipple (Shakespeare)
ORIGIN: Late OE pott; cf Ger Pott; Swed potta; Dan potte; Fr pot; origin unknown

potˈful noun (pl potˈfuls)

As much as a pot will hold

pottˈable adjective (snooker, etc)

pottˈed adjective

  1. Cooked or preserved in a pot
  2. Condensed, concentrated
  3. Abridged
  4. (of music, etc) recorded for reproduction, canned (informal)
  5. Intoxicated by drugs or alcohol (N Am inf)

potˈale noun

Refuse from a grain distillery

pot bank noun

A pottery

pot barley noun

Barley whose outer husk has been removed by millstones

potˈ-bellied adjective

pot-bellˈy noun (informal)

  1. A protuberant belly
  2. A person who has a protuberant belly
  3. (also pot-bellied stove) a wood- or coal-burning stove of bulbous design (N American)

potˈboiler noun

  1. A work in art or literature produced merely with regard to saleability, to secure the necessaries of life
  2. A producer of such works
  3. A pebble heated up and used for boiling water (archaeology)

potˈboiling noun

potˈ-bound adjective

(of a pot plant) having its roots cramped by too small a pot, without room for growth

potˈboy noun

A serving boy in a public house

pot companion noun

A comrade in drinking

pot furnace noun

A furnace, which may be variously fired, in which a number of pots for glassmaking are set

potˈgun noun

  1. A mortar
  2. A popgun

potˈ-hanger noun

A device for hanging a pot or a pothook on

pot hat noun

  1. A bowler hat
  2. Formerly, a top hat

potˈ-head noun

  1. A stupid person
  2. See also pothead under pot2

pot herb noun

A vegetable, esp one used for flavouring, eg parsley

pot holder noun

A piece of thick padded material used to protect the hands when handling hot dishes, etc

potˈhole noun

  1. A hole worn in rock in a stream bed by eddying detritus
  2. A deep hole eroded in limestone, a pot (see pot4)
  3. A hole worn in a road surface

intransitive verb and transitive verb

To explore (limestone potholes)

potˈholer noun

potˈholing noun

potˈhook noun

  1. A hook for hanging a pot over a fire
  2. A hooked stroke in writing

potˈhouse noun (old)

An alehouse

potˈ-hunter noun

  1. Someone who hunts to get food
  2. Someone who shoots merely for the sake of a bag
  3. Someone who competes merely for the sake of prizes

potˈ-hunting noun

potˈ-lid noun

  1. The cover of a pot
  2. (Scot patˈ-lid) a curling-stone played exactly on the tee

pot liquor noun

A thin broth in which meat has been boiled

pot luck noun

  1. (in the expression take pot luck) what may happen to be in the pot and so be available to make a meal, esp for the unexpected arrival
  2. Whatever happens to be available

potˈman noun

  1. A pot companion
  2. A pot boy

pot metal noun

  1. An alloy of copper and lead
  2. Scraps of old iron pots, etc

pot plant noun

A plant grown in a pot

pot roast noun

A dish of braised meat, esp with added vegetables

potˈ-roast transitive verb

To braise

potˈsherd /-shûrd/ noun (esp archaeology)

A fragment of pottery (also potˈshard, (Spenser) potˈshare)

potˈshop noun

A small public house

pot shot noun

  1. A shot within easy range
  2. A casual or random shot
  3. A shot taken at a bird or animal with a view to one's next meal
  4. A critical remark aimed at an easy or undeserving target

potˈ-sick adjective

(of a plant) sickly from growing in a pot

pot stick noun

A stick for stirring what is being cooked in a pot

pot still noun

A still in which heat is applied directly to the pot containing the wash (cf patent still)

potˈ-still adjective

Made in a pot still

potˈstone noun

Impure talc or steatite, a massive finely felted aggregate of talc, usu with mica and chlorite, from which cooking pots were fashioned in earlier times

potting compost noun

A compost mixture used for growing plants in pots

potting shed noun

A garden shed in which plants are grown in pots before being planted out in beds

pot-valˈiant or pot-valˈorous adjective

Full of drink-inspired courage

pot valour noun

potˈ-walloper noun see separate entry pot-waller

big pot (informal)

An important person

go to pot (informal)

  1. To go to ruin
  2. To go to pieces (orig to supply the cooking pot, not the melting-pot)

keep the pot boiling or a-boiling

  1. To procure the necessaries of life
  2. To keep things going briskly without stopping

pot of gold

  1. The object of fairytale quests, traditionally to be dug up where the rainbow ends
  2. Any vainly sought source of wealth, etc

pot on

To transfer (a plant) into a larger pot

pot up

To put (a plant) into a pot

put someone's pot on (Aust informal)

  1. To inform on someone, give someone away
  2. To undo or finish someone

the pot calling the kettle black

Castigation of another's faults by someone with the same shortcomings
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