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See also: POD, pod-, pód, po'd, PO'd, pôd, pòd, pòd-, -pod, -pód, and под

Translingual

Symbol

pod

  1. (international standards, obsolete) Former ISO 639-3 language code for Ponares.

English

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Etymology

Origin uncertain. Perhaps from Middle English *pod ("seed-pod, husk, shell, outer covering"; attested in pod-ware (“legume seed; seed grain”)), itself possibly 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”). If so, then cognate with Old Saxon pēda (“skirt”), German dialectal Pfeid, Pfeit (“shirt”), Gothic 𐍀𐌰𐌹𐌳𐌰 (paida, “mantle, skirt”), and perhaps Albanian petk (“gown, garment, dress, suit”) and Ancient Greek βαίτη (baítē, “goat-skin, fur-coat, tent”).

Pronunciation

Noun

pod (plural pods)

  1. (botany) A seed case for legumes (e.g. peas, beans, peppers); a seedpod.
    Synonyms: capsule, case, container, hull, husk, shell, seedpod, vessel
  2. A small vehicle, especially used in emergency situations.
  3. (obsolete, UK, dialect) A bag; a pouch.
    • 1557 February 13 (Gregorian calendar), Thomas Tusser, A Hundreth Good Pointes of Husbandrie, London: […] Richard Tottel, →OCLC; republished London: […] Robert Triphook, […], and William Sancho, […], 1810, →OCLC:
      cart, that is clouted and shod,
      cart ladder and wimble, with perser and pod
  4. (collective, zoology) A group of whales, dolphins, seals, porpoises or hippopotami.
    Synonym: gam
  5. (by extension) A group of people who regularly interact.
    • 2016, Joseph Henrich, chapter 8, in The Secret of Our Success […] , Princeton: Princeton University Press, →ISBN:
      These matrilineal groups associate with related families, who are probably sister lineages, to form pods.
    • 2021 October 1, Calder Katyal, “Schools Need to Undo the Damage of Pods”, in The Atlantic‎:
      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.
  6. A small section of a larger office, compartmentalised for a specific purpose.
  7. A subsection of a prison, containing a number of inmates.
  8. A very small room or space for one person to inhabit, as in a capsule hotel.
  9. A nicotine cartridge.
  10. A lie-flat business or first class seat.
  11. A tapered, cylindrical body of ore or minerals.
  12. A straight channel or groove in the body of certain forms of, usually tapered, augers and boring-bits.
  13. (informal, Internet) Clipping of podcast.
    • 2022, Sean Thor Conroe, Fuccboi‎, Hachette, →ISBN:
      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.
  14. (broadcasting) A set of commercials to be shown together.
    • 2014, Lisa P. Masteralexis, Carol A. Barr, Mary Hums, Principles and Practice of Sport Management, page 448:
      These ads are shown during commercial breaks when there is no game action. Usually, multiple spots are grouped into a pod of commercials.
  15. In rugby union, a small group (usually 3 or 4) of forwards working together as a group in open play.
  16. (informal) Clipping of isopod

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Verb

pod (third-person singular simple present pods, present participle podding, simple past and past participle podded)

  1. (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.
  2. (transitive) To remove peas from their case.
  3. (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.
  4. (intransitive) To swell or fill.

Translations

References

  • “pod”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.

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Pronunciation

  • Hyphenation: pod

Adverb

pod

  1. (focus) also; too
  2. (after a negative) either

Czech

Etymology

Inherited from Old Czech pod.

Pronunciation

Preposition

pod

  1. under (direction, + accusative case)
    Potřebuju se dostat pod ten most. ― I need to get under that bridge.
  2. below, under (location, + instrumental case)
    Synonym: pode
    Antonym: nad
    Kočka leží pod stolem. ― The cat is under the table.

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Lower Sorbian

Preposition

pod

  1. superseded spelling of pód

Old Czech

Alternative forms

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *podъ.

Pronunciation

Preposition

pod

  1. denotes movement; to under, to underneath [with accusative]
  2. denotes movement up, upward [with accusative]
  3. denotes movement down, below, downward [with accusative]
  4. denotes duration to, until; by [with accusative]
  5. denotes amount under; less than [with accusative]
  6. denotes inferiority sub, less than [with accusative]
  7. denotes subordination to under [with accusative]
  8. according to [with accusative]
  9. as a result of [with accusative or instrumental]
  10. for, to (an end, an aim, a purpose) [with accusative or instrumental]
  11. denotes location near; under, underneath [with instrumental]
  12. denotes relation of items worn under; in, dressed in [with instrumental]
  13. denotes subordination under [with instrumental]
  14. denotes duration during; in [with instrumental]
  15. denotes elapsing of time in; after [with instrumental]
  16. denotes period of someone's rule during [with instrumental]
  17. denotes amount up to [with instrumental]
  18. denotes inferiority sub, less than [with instrumental]
  19. creates an adverb from a noun. [with instrumental]
  20. denotes form or shape under; in the form of [with instrumental]
  21. denotes instrumentality through, with, by means of [with instrumental]
  22. used with documents, contracts, etc. on the basis of [with instrumental]
  23. according to [with instrumental]
  24. denotes protection, guidance, or watching under [with instrumental]
  25. denotes consequences of unfulfilled obligation under, on pain of [with instrumental]
  26. despite, in spite of [with instrumental]

Descendants

  • Czech: pod

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Old Polish

Alternative forms

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *podъ. First attested in the 14th century.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): (10th–15th CE) /pɔt/
  • IPA(key): (15th CE) /pɔt/

Preposition

pod

  1. denotes location; under, underneath [with instrumental]
  2. denotes near location; near; under, at [with instrumental]
  3. denotes comitative location; with [with instrumental]
  4. denotes time when something took place; during [with instrumental]
  5. denotes sequence in time; after [with instrumental]
    Synonym: po
  6. used with documents, contracts, etc. on the basis of; as a result of [with instrumental]
  7. despite, against [with instrumental]
  8. denotes form or shape under; in the form of [with instrumental]
  9. denotes subordination under [with instrumental]
  10. denotes period of someone's rule during [with instrumental]
  11. denotes protection, guidance, or watching under [with instrumental or accusative]
  12. denotes consequences of unfulfilled obligation under, on pain of [with instrumental or accusative]
  13. denotes movement; to under, to underneath [with accusative]
  14. denotes movement; to; toward [with accusative]
  15. denotes preceding time just before [with accusative]
  16. The meaning of this term is uncertain. Possibilities include:
    1. denotes following time just after [with accusative]
  17. denotes source of a given right or authority under [with accusative]
  18. The meaning of this term is uncertain.
    • 1956 [Fifteenth century], Jerzy Woronczak, editor, Teksty polskie w rękopisie nr 43 Biblioteki Kapitulnej we Wrocławiu z połowy XV wieku‎, Silesia, page 112r:
      Ibant apostoli gaudentes a conspectu, pod oblicze (pro od oblicza?), concilli (Act 5, 41)
      [Ibant apostoli gaudentes a conspectu, pod oblicze (pro od oblicza?), concilli (Act 5, 41)]

Descendants

References

  • Boryś, Wiesław (2005), “pod”, in Słownik etymologiczny języka polskiego (in Polish), Kraków: Wydawnictwo Literackie, →ISBN
  • Bańkowski, Andrzej (2000), “pod”, in Etymologiczny słownik języka polskiego [Etymological Dictionary of the Polish Language] (in Polish)
  • B. Sieradzka-Baziur, Ewa Deptuchowa, Joanna Duska, Mariusz Frodyma, Beata Hejmo, Dorota Janeczko, Katarzyna Jasińska, Krystyna Kajtoch, Joanna Kozioł, Marian Kucała, Dorota Mika, Gabriela Niemiec, Urszula Poprawska, Elżbieta Supranowicz, Ludwika Szelachowska-Winiarzowa, Zofia Wanicowa, Piotr Szpor, Bartłomiej Borek, editors (2011–2015), “pod, pode”, in Słownik pojęciowy języka staropolskiego [Conceptual Dictionary of Old Polish] (in Polish), Kraków: IJP PAN, →ISBN
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