pod
See also: POD, pod-, pód, po'd, PO'd, pôd, -pod, -pód, and под
English
Etymology
From Middle English *pod ("seed-pod, husk, shell, outer covering"; attested in pod-ware (“legume seed; seed grain”)), likely 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”). Cognate with Old Saxon pēda (“skirt”), German dialectal Pfeid, Pfeit (“shirt”), Gothic 𐍀𐌰𐌹𐌳𐌰 (paida, “mantle, skirt”), Albanian petk (“gown, garment, dress, suit”), Ancient Greek βαίτη (baítē, “goat-skin, fur-coat, tent”).
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /ˈpɒd/
Audio (UK) (file) - (US) IPA(key): /ˈpɑd/
- Rhymes: -ɒd
- Homophone: pawed (in accents with the cot-caught merger)
Noun
pod (plural pods)
- (botany) A seed case for legumes (e.g. peas, beans, peppers); a seedpod.
- Synonyms: capsule, case, container, hull, husk, shell, seedpod, vessel
- A small vehicle, especially used in emergency situations.
- (obsolete, UK, dialect) A bag; a pouch.
- 1557 February 13, Thomas Tusser, A Hundreth Good Pointes of Husbandrie., London: […] Richard Tottel, OCLC 1049068421; republished London: Reprinted for Robert Triphook, […], and William Sancho, […], 1810, OCLC 7109675:
- cart, that is clouted and shod,
cart ladder and wimble, with perser and pod
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- (collective, zoology) A group of whales, dolphins, seals, porpoises or hippopotami.
- Synonym: gam
- A small section of a larger office, compartmentalised for a specific purpose.
- A subsection of a prison, containing a number of inmates.
- A nicotine cartridge.
- A lie-flat business or first class seat.
Hyponyms
- iPod
- pea pod
- peapod
- seedpod
Derived terms
- crotalaria pod borer
- like two peas in a pod
Compare
- podcast
Translations
seed case
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small vehicle
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group of whales or similar mammals
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Verb
pod (third-person singular simple present pods, present participle podding, simple past and past participle podded)
- (intransitive) To bear or produce pods
- 1849, Herman Melville, Mardi, and a Voyage Thither:
- 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.
- 1939, Leonard Alfred George Strong, The Open Sky, page 64:
- 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.
- 2012, Deborah Moggach, You Must Be Sisters, →ISBN, page 219:
- 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.
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- (transitive) To remove peas from their case.
- (transitive, intransitive) To put into a pod or to enter a pod.
- 1955, Military Review - Volume 35, Issue 9, page 81:
- Thus the torpedoes will have to be stored internally or be podded into streamline containers.
- 1957, Aviation Week - Volume 66, page 23:
- Lycoming is working on a twin T53 or T55 turboprop installation whereby two engines would be podded together to drive a single propeller.
- 2004, Yefim Gordon & Dmitriy Komissarov, Antonov An-12 Cub, page 90:
- 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.
- 2006, Journal of the British Interplanetary Society - Volume 59, page 130:
- 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).
- 2011, Roger Cliff, Chad J. R. Ohlandt, & David Yang, Ready for Takeoff: China's Advancing Aerospace Industry, →ISBN:
- 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.
- 2012, Gabriel Blue Melchizedek, The Alienvirus, →ISBN:
- 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.
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- (intransitive) To swell or fill.
Translations
To remove peas from their case
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Anagrams
- DOP, DPO, ODP, PDO, dop
Cebuano
Pronunciation
- Hyphenation: pod
Adverb
pod
- (focus) also; too
- (after a negative) either
Czech
Etymology
From Old Czech pod, from Proto-Slavic *podъ.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [ˈpot]
audio (file)
Preposition
pod
- under (direction, + accusative case)
- Potřebuju se dostat pod ten most. ― I need to get under that bridge.
- below, under (location, + instrumental case)
- Kočka leží pod stolem. ― The cat is under the table.
- Synonym: pode
- Antonym: nad
Further reading
- pod in Příruční slovník jazyka českého, 1935–1957
- pod in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého, 1960–1971, 1989
Lower Sorbian
Preposition
pod
- Superseded spelling of pód.
Polish
pod
Etymology
Inherited from Proto-Slavic *podъ, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂pó+ *dʰh₁-o-.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): (isolated) /pɔt/
Audio (file) - Rhymes: -ɔt
- Syllabification: pod
- Homophones: pot, pod-
Preposition
pod
- (+ instrumental) below, beneath, under, underneath (denotes location)
- pod ziemią ― underground
- Antonym: nad
- (+ accusative) below, beneath, under, underneath (denotes movement)
- Antonym: nad
- (+ accusative) against
- pod wiatr ― against the wind
- Nie płyń pod prąd! ― Don't swim against the current!
- Antonym: z
- (+ instrumental) near
- Mieszkała pod Warszawą ― She lived near Warsaw.
Related terms
- pode
Further reading
- pod in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
- pod in Polish dictionaries at PWN
Romanian
Etymology
Borrowed from Old Church Slavonic подъ (podŭ), from Proto-Slavic *podъ.
Pronunciation
Audio (file)
Noun
pod n (plural poduri)
- bridge
- attic
- (dated) street paved with wood
Declension
Declension of pod
| singular | plural | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| indefinite articulation | definite articulation | indefinite articulation | definite articulation | |
| nominative/accusative | (un) pod | podul | (niște) poduri | podurile |
| genitive/dative | (unui) pod | podului | (unor) poduri | podurilor |
| vocative | podule | podurilor | ||
Derived terms
- podeț
- podiș
See also
- mansardă
- punte
Serbo-Croatian
Etymology 1
From Proto-Slavic *podъ.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /pôd/
Noun
pȍd m (Cyrillic spelling по̏д)
- floor
- pasti na pod ― to fall to the floor
- ground
Declension
Declension of pod
| singular | plural | |
|---|---|---|
| nominative | pȍd | pòdovi |
| genitive | pòda | pòdōvā |
| dative | pòdu | pòdovima |
| accusative | pȍd | pòdove |
| vocative | pȍde | pòdovi |
| locative | pòdu | pòdovima |
| instrumental | pòdom | pòdovima |
Etymology 2
From Proto-Slavic *podъ.
Alternative forms
- poda (enclitic pronominal form)
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /pôd/
Preposition
pȍd (Cyrillic spelling по̏д)
- (+ accusative case) under, beneath (with change of position, answering the question kùda)
- S(j)ela je pod stablo. ― She sat down under the tree.
- Pao je pod vlak. ― He fell under the train.
- Antonyms: ȉznad, nȁd
- (+ instrumental case) under, beneath (stationary, answering the question gdjȅ/gdȅ)
- Ona s(j)edi pod stablom. ― She is sitting under the tree.
- pod suncem ― under the sun
- Antonyms: ȉznad, nȁd
- (+ instrumental case) under, beneath (being in a particular condition)
- biti pod sumnjom ― to be under suspicion
- biti pod pritiskom ― to be under pressure
- biti pod dojmom ― to be under impression
- pod oružjem ― under arms
- biti pod nadzorom ― to be under supervision/surveillance
- biti pod nečijom zaštitom ― to be under someone's protection
- biti pod naglaskom ― to be accented (stressed), to be under the accent (stress)
- pisati pod pseudonimom ― to write under the pen name, pseudonymously
- biti pod zakletvom ― to be under oath
- (+ accusative case) near, toward, in (temporal, with nouns denoting a final temporal segment)
- pod jesen ― toward fall
- pod kraj ― near the end
- pod starost ― in one's old age
- (+ instrumental case) during (temporal)
- pod odmorom ― during the (school) break
- pod pauzom ― during the (job) break
- pod satom ― during the (school) lesson
- pod vladavinom ― during the reign of
- (+ accusative case) as, instead of, in lieu of
- pokušati prodati mrkvu pod rotkvu ― to try selling carrot as radish
- miscellaneous idiomatic meanings
- To je pod moranje. ― That is obligatory.
- baciti pod noge ― to reject, throw away
- nebu pod oblake ― far away
- pod uv(j)etom/uslovom da ― under the condition of, on the condition that
- pod izgovorom ― under the pretext
- pod Zagrebom ― near Zagreb
- pod Velebitom ― at the foot of Velebit, on the foothills of Velebit
- pod korovom ― covered/overgrown with weed
- ništa pod (milim) bogom ― absolutely nothing
- pod kontrolom (with genitive) ― under the control (of)
- pod tim(e) mislim ― by that I mean
- biti pod antibioticima ― to be on antibiotics
- pod pravim kutom ― perpendicular
Slovak
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [pot]
Preposition
pod + instrumental
- below
- Synonym: podo
- Antonym: nad
Further reading
- pod in Slovak dictionaries at slovnik.juls.savba.sk
Slovene
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /pɔ́t/
Noun
pȍd m inan
- floor (lower part of a room)
- Synonym: tla
Inflection
| Masculine inan., hard o-stem | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| nom. sing. | pòd | ||
| gen. sing. | pôda | ||
| singular | dual | plural | |
| nominative (imenovȃlnik) | pòd | pôda | pôdi |
| genitive (rodȋlnik) | pôda | pôdov | pôdov |
| dative (dajȃlnik) | pôdu | pôdoma | pôdom |
| accusative (tožȋlnik) | pòd | pôda | pôde |
| locative (mẹ̑stnik) | pôdu | pôdih | pôdih |
| instrumental (orọ̑dnik) | pôdom | pôdoma | pôdi |
This noun needs an inflection-table template.
Derived terms
- spodaj
Further reading
- “pod”, in Slovarji Inštituta za slovenski jezik Frana Ramovša ZRC SAZU, portal Fran
Volapük
Noun
pod (nominative plural pods)
- apple
Declension
declension of pod
| singular | plural | |
|---|---|---|
| nominative | pod | pods |
| genitive | poda | podas |
| dative | pode | podes |
| accusative | podi | podis |
| vocative 1 | o pod! | o pods! |
| predicative 2 | podu | podus |
- 1 status as a case is disputed
- 2 in later, non-classical Volapük only