pod

noun

1. 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.

2. 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. 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.

   Near-synonym: escape pod

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

4. 4

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

5. 5

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

6. 6

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

7. 7

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

8. 8

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

   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. 9

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

10. 10

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

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

    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. 11

    A group or collective. A small group (usually 3 or 4) of forwards working together as a group in open play.

12. 12

    A lie-flat seat in business or first class.

13. 13

    A tapered, cylindrical body of ore or minerals.

14. 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.

15. 15

    Variant of podcastinformalClipping of podcast.

    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.

    These ads are shown during commercial breaks when there is no game action. Usually, multiple spots are grouped into a pod of commercials.

16. 16

    Variant of isopodinformalClipping of isopod.

verb

1. 1

   To bear or produce pods

   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. 2

   To remove peas from their case.

3. 3

   To put into a pod or to enter a pod.

   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.

   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).

4. 4

   To swell or fill.

Forms

plural

pods

past tense

podded

past participle

podded

present participle

podding

third person singular

pods