pod
pronunciation
How to pronounce pod in British English:
UK [pɒd]
How to pronounce pod in American English:
US [pɑd]
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- Noun:
- the vessel that contains the seeds of a plant (not the seeds themselves)
- a several-seeded dehiscent fruit as e.g. of a leguminous plant
- a group of aquatic mammals
- a detachable container of fuel on an airplane
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- Verb:
- take something out of its shell or pod
- produce pods, of plants
Word Origin
- pod (n.1)
- "seed of beans," 1680s, of uncertain origin; found earlier in podware "seed of legumes, seed grain" (mid-15c.), which had a parallel form codware "husked or seeded plants" (late 14c.), related to cod "husk of seeded plants," which was in Old English. In reference to pregnancy from 1890; in reference to a round belly from 1825. Meaning "detachable body of an aircraft" is from 1950. Pod people (1956) is from movie "Invasion of the Body Snatchers," based on novel by Jack Finney.
- pod (n.2)
- "herd of whales or seals," 1827, American English, of unknown origin.
Example
- 1. Each pod will be able to hold four guests and two astronaut-pilots .
- 2. Typical assignment : design a lunar pod to support four nasa astronauts on a 28-day stint
- 3. But the rolls-royce azipull has the propeller at the front of the pod rather than the back .
- 4. The space hotel , which popsci covered when it was first announced in 2007 , would start out as a single pod capable of holding four guests and two pilots .
- 5. And in footnote 19 to chapter 9 , the fictional wallace character reveals that he worked in a pod along with the character given to the " type of thing " tic .