Dictionary

pod en · NOUN

Pronunciation

• (US) audio
• /ˈpɑd/ (US)
• /ˈpɒd/ (UK)
• (Southern-England) audio

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”).

Meanings

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. 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. A self-contained unit, container, or enclosure that holds, protects, or transports something. ▸ A small vehicle, especially used in emergency situations; see escape pod.
   • cart, that is clouted and shod, cart ladder and wimble, with perser and pod 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:
   • Near-synonym: escape pod
4. A self-contained unit, container, or enclosure that holds, protects, or transports something. ▸ A nicotine cartridge.
5. (UK, dialectal, obsolete) A self-contained unit, container, or enclosure that holds, protects, or transports something. ▸ A bag; a pouch.
6. A small, self-contained unit within a larger system. ▸ A small section of a larger office, compartmentalised for a specific purpose.
7. A small, self-contained unit within a larger system. ▸ A subsection of a prison, containing a number of inmates.
8. (collective) 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. 1989 May, Jeff MacInnis, “Braving the Northwest Passage”, in National Geographic, volume 175, number 5, page 594:
9. A group or collective. ▸ A group of people who regularly interact.
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. 2016, Joseph Henrich, chapter 8, in The Secret of Our Success […] , Princeton: Princeton University Press, →ISBN:
    • 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. 2021 October 1, Calder Katyal, “Schools Need to Undo the Damage of Pods”, in The Atlantic:
11. A group or collective. ▸ A small group (usually 3 or 4) of forwards working together as a group in open play.
12. A lie-flat seat in business or first class.
13. A tapered, cylindrical body of ore or minerals.
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. (Internet, abbreviation, alt-of, clipping, informal) Clipping of podcast.
    alt of podcast
    • These ads are shown during commercial breaks when there is no game action. Usually, multiple spots are grouped into a pod of commercials. 2014, Lisa P. Masteralexis, Carol A. Barr, Mary Hums, Principles and Practice of Sport Management, page 448:
    • 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. 2022, Sean Thor Conroe, Fuccboi, Hachette, →ISBN:
16. (abbreviation, alt-of, clipping, informal) Clipping of isopod.
    alt of isopod

Forms

Deriveds

podmate · seedpod · lifepod · podhead · buddy pod · satinpod · pod corn · copperpod · superpod · podcar · monkey pod · diaper pod · sicklepod · pod auger · rocket pod · pod hotel · podlet · cryopod · pod shaver · crotalaria pod borer · mailpod · pod-chute · protopod · pod mod · lacepod · sidepod · screw pod mesquite · holopod · fringepod · conopodous · podiform · bean pod · black pod · monkeypod · earpod · drop pod · like two peas in a pod · pod vegetable · nappy pod · rod pod · poddy · azipod · lancepod · podlike · wax-pod bean · pod slurping · scimitar pod · podcase · coffee pod · orped · escape pod · cosmopod · waxpod · like peas in a pod · podder · nanopod · rattlepod · egg pod · pod bit · people pod · podestrian · bladderpod · tail-pod radish · pod person · bagpod

Hyponyms

seedpod · pea pod · iPod · peapod

Relateds

podcast

Synonyms

husk · hull · gam · seedpod · escape pod · shell · case · vessel · container · capsule

Translations (110)

mi kauika (group of whales or similar mammals) · el άκατος (small vehicle) · de Schule (group of whales or similar mammals) · pl laska (seed case) · hy պատյան (seed case) · id polong (seed case) · pt vagem (seed case) · ary جلْفة (seed case) · wa schågne (seed case) · cmn 莢 /荚 (seed case) · scn càxula (small vehicle) · nb skolm (seed case) · hu gondola (small vehicle) · nv atsʼéézh (seed case) · ro păstaie (seed case) · es capi (seed case) · fi lauma (group of whales or similar mammals) · fr gousse (seed case) · gl bagullo (seed case) · tl supot ng buto (seed case) · de Rettungskapsel (small vehicle) · gl cornella (seed case) · ca beina (seed case) · hu mentőkabin (small vehicle) · sw tumba (seed case) · nv atsʼaʼ (seed case) · ary جلْدة (seed case) · scn càsciula (small vehicle) · nn belg (seed case) · izh palko (seed case) · scn vajana (seed case) · enm cod (seed case) · hu kapszula (small vehicle) · it kapsel m* Italian: capsula (small vehicle) · de Hülse (seed case) · uk стручо́к (seed case) · hu utazókabin (small vehicle) · es manada (group of whales or similar mammals) · pl stado (group of whales or similar mammals) · sq bishtajë (seed case) · wa hotche (seed case) · nl capsule (small vehicle) · fi palko (seed case) · gl cornello (seed case) · hu hüvely (seed case) · pt cápsula (small vehicle) · lt ankštis (seed case) · ko 깍지 (seed case) · tr kapsül (seed case) · hu kabin (small vehicle) · ru стручо́к (seed case) · sl strok (seed case) · hy պատիճ (seed case) · ru ка́псула (small vehicle) · bg шушулка (seed case) · es cápsula (small vehicle) · sl kapsula (small vehicle) · ru кося́к (group of whales or similar mammals) · de Schote (seed case) · it navicella (small vehicle) · it capsula (small vehicle) · sv balja (seed case) · rup pãstalji (seed case) · da kapsel (small vehicle) · el χέδρωπας (seed case) · it baccello (seed case) · th ฝัก (seed case) · de Kapsel (seed case) · gl vaíña (seed case) · hu raj (group of whales or similar mammals) · ja さや (seed case) · de Kabine (small vehicle) · da bælg (seed case) · rup lividã (seed case) · io shelo (seed case) · wa schåfe (seed case) · nl peul (seed case) · sh màhuna (seed case) · it buccia (seed case) · hu mentőkapszula (small vehicle) · grc χέδρωψ (seed case) · lo ຝັກ (seed case) · gl casula (seed case) · pl kapsuła (small vehicle) · mi rangai (group of whales or similar mammals) · bg стадо (group of whales or similar mammals) · gl vaxa (seed case) · hu gubó (seed case) · de Herde (group of whales or similar mammals) · fr nacelle (small vehicle) · hu csapat (group of whales or similar mammals) · fi parvi (group of whales or similar mammals) · pl strąk (seed case) · nb belg (seed case) · nl troep (group of whales or similar mammals) · nn skolm (seed case) · lv pāksts (seed case) · kgp bó (seed case) · lb Scheek (seed case) · la siliqua (seed case) · fr cosse (seed case) · sv skida (seed case) · cs lusk (seed case) · es vaina (seed case) · ca tavella (seed case) · hu utazókapszula (small vehicle) · wa cosse (seed case) · hu tok (seed case) · hi फली (seed case) · ary قشْرة (seed case)

pod en · VERB

Pronunciation

• (US) audio
• /ˈpɑd/ (US)
• /ˈpɒd/ (UK)
• (Southern-England) audio

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”).

Meanings

1. (intransitive) 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. 1849, Herman Melville, Mardi, and a Voyage Thither:
   • 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. 2012, Deborah Moggach, You Must Be Sisters, →ISBN, page 219:
   • 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. 1939, Leonard Alfred George Strong, The Open Sky, page 64:
2. (transitive) To remove peas from their case.
3. (intransitive, transitive) To put into a pod or to enter a pod.
   • 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). 2006, Journal of the British Interplanetary Society - Volume 59, page 130:
   • 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. 2011, Roger Cliff, Chad J. R. Ohlandt, David Yang, Ready for Takeoff: China's Advancing Aerospace Industry, →ISBN:
   • 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. 2004, Yefim Gordon, Dmitriy Komissarov, Antonov An-12 Cub, page 90:
   • 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. 2012, Gabriel Blue Melchizedek, The Alienvirus, →ISBN:
   • Thus the torpedoes will have to be stored internally or be podded into streamline containers. 1955, Military Review - Volume 35, Issue 9, page 81:
   • Lycoming is working on a twin T53 or T55 turboprop installation whereby two engines would be podded together to drive a single propeller. 1957, Aviation Week - Volume 66, page 23:
4. (intransitive) To swell or fill.

Forms

Translations (10)

de auspulen (To remove peas from their case) · fr écosser (To remove peas from their case) · nl peulen (To remove peas from their case) · de enthülsen (To remove peas from their case) · fi kuoria (herneitä) (To remove peas from their case) · ru лущи́ть (To remove peas from their case) · ro capsulă (To remove peas from their case) · ca pelar (To remove peas from their case) · de pulen (To remove peas from their case) · de auslösen (To remove peas from their case)