You'll often hear “mandem” for your group of mates, “peng” meaning someone or something attractive, “wagwan” as a casual 'what's up? ', and “bruv” which stands for brother or mate. Words like “bare” mean 'a lot', and “ting” refers to a girl.
The book gives a potted history of the Industrial Revolution in the first chapter. The space is open and bright; the potted plants ground the room in greenery. Putting a few potted plants on a roof doesn't make a green roof.
UK informal. used to describe a form of a story or book that has been made shorter and simpler and contains only the main facts or features: They publish a potted version of Shakespeare's plays especially for children.
In kids and teens, POTS causes a heart rate increase of 40 or more beats per minute within 10 minutes of when they move from a supine (lying down) position to a standing one. The heart rate goes up dramatically, with little if any drop in blood pressure. Doctors can measure this easily.
Cable potting involves encasing conductors in an epoxy, liquid, or gel within an enclosure or feedthrough housing. Douglas Electrical Components employs a proprietary hermetic epoxy to seal wire and cable feedthroughs requiring cable potting.
PCB potting is a method used to protect circuit boards (referred to in these contexts as the substrate) by filling a PCB enclosure with a liquid material called a potting compound or encapsulation resin.
Stebbing calls thinking that is too quick and not clear “potted thinking”, a reference to potted meat. Like potted meat, she claims, “potted thinking is easily accepted, is concentrated in form, and has lost the vitamins essential to mental nourishment” (Stebbing, 1939, p 68).
Tosspot is a British English and Irish English insult, used to refer to a stupid or contemptible person, or a drunkard. The word is of Middle English origin, and meant a person who drank heavily. Beer or ale was customarily served in ceramic pots, so a tosspot was a person who copiously "tossed back" such pots of beer.
The basic terms used in transplanting are potting off', when young rooted cuttings or seedlings are moved from trays into pots, and 'potting on', when the more advanced plants are transferred to bigger pots.
Pote" is a French slang that means friend, buddy, or mate. The formal French term for friend is ami/amie, while "pote" is the informal word commonly used to refer to a close friend, regardless of gender (un pote/une pote). A variation of this word is "poto."
The statement 'Charlie is a card when he's potted,' means that Charlie is humorous or entertaining when he is d-runk. 'Card' is a term to describe a funny, unpredictable person, and 'potted' is slang for being intoxicated.
