Pot vs. Saucepan — What's the Difference?

A round, fairly deep cooking vessel with a handle and often a lid.

A deep cooking pan with a handle.

A short round container for storing or serving food

A deep cooking vessel with a handle and sometimes a lid; used for boiling, stewing and making sauces.

A coffeepot.

To cook in a saucepan

A teapot.

A small pan with a handle, in which sauce is prepared over a fire; a stewpan.

Such a container and its contents

A deep pan with a handle; used for stewing or boiling

A potful.

A large drinking cup; a tankard.

A drink of liquor contained in such a cup.

An artistic or decorative ceramic vessel of any shape.

A flowerpot.

Something, such as a chimney pot or chamber pot, that resembles a round cooking vessel in appearance or function.

A trap for eels, other fish, or crustaceans, typically consisting of a wicker or wire basket or cage.

The total amount staked by all the players in one hand in cards.

The area on a card table where stakes are placed.

A shot in billiards or related games intended to send a ball into a pocket.

(Informal) A common fund to which members of a group contribute.

Often pots Informal A large amount

(Informal) A potshot.

(Informal) A potbelly.

(Informal) A potty or toilet.

Marijuana.

See potentiometer.

To place or plant in a pot

To preserve (food) in a pot.

To cook in a pot.

To shoot (game) for food rather than for sport.

(Informal) To shoot with a potshot.

(Informal) To win or capture; bag.

(Games) To hit (a ball) into a pocket.

(Informal) To take a potshot.

To make or shape objects from clay, as on a potter's wheel.

A flat-bottomed vessel (usually metal) used for cooking food.

Various similar open-topped vessels, particularly

A vessel (usually earthenware) used with a seal for storing food, such as a honeypot.

A vessel used for brewing or serving drinks: a coffeepot or teapot.

A vessel used to hold soil for growing plants, particularly flowers: a flowerpot.

A vessel used for urination and defecation: a chamber pot; a toilet; the lavatory.

A crucible: a melting pot.

A pot-shaped trap used for catching lobsters or other seafood: a lobster pot.

A pot-shaped metal or earthenware extension of a flue above the top of a chimney: a chimney pot.

A perforated cask for draining sugar.

(obsolete) An earthen or pewter cup or mug used for drinking liquor.

A glass of beer in Australia whose size varies regionally but is typically around 10 fl oz (285 mL).

Pothole, sinkhole, vertical cave.

A shallow hole used in certain games played with marbles. The marbles placed in it are called potsies.

Ruin or deterioration.

(historical) Any of various traditional units of volume notionally based on the capacity of a pot.

(historical) An iron hat with a broad brim worn as a helmet.

(rail transport) A pot-shaped non-conducting (usually ceramic) stand that supports an electrified rail while insulating it from the ground.

The money available to be won in a hand of poker or a round of other games of chance; (figuratively) any sum of money being used as an enticement.

A favorite: a heavily-backed horse.

(slang) potbelly: a pot-shaped belly, a paunch.

(slang) potshot: a haphazard shot; an easy or cheap shot.

A plaster cast.

(historical) nodot=a: a former size of paper, 12.5 × 15 inches.

Marijuana.

A simple electromechanical device used to control resistance or voltage (often to adjust sound volume) in an electronic device by rotating or sliding when manipulated by a human thumb, screwdriver, etc.

(RPG) potion

To put (something) into a pot.

To preserve by bottling or canning.

To cause a ball to fall into a pocket.

To be capable of being potted.

(transitive) To shoot with a firearm.

To take a pot shot, or haphazard shot, with a firearm.

To secure; gain; win; bag.

(British) To send someone to gaol, expeditiously.

To tipple; to drink.

(transitive) To drain (e.g. sugar of the molasses) in a perforated cask.

To seat a person, usually a young child, on a potty or toilet, typically during toilet teaching.

To apply a plaster cast to a broken limb.

To catch (a fish, eel, etc) via a pot.

To score (a drop goal).

To fade volume in or out by means of a potentiometer.

A metallic or earthen vessel, appropriated to any of a great variety of uses, as for boiling meat or vegetables, for holding liquids, for plants, etc.; as, a quart pot; a flower pot; a bean pot.

An earthen or pewter cup for liquors; a mug.

The quantity contained in a pot; a potful; as, a pot of ale.

A metal or earthenware extension of a flue above the top of a chimney; a chimney pot.

A crucible; as, a graphite pot; a melting pot.

A wicker vessel for catching fish, eels, etc.

A perforated cask for draining sugar.

A size of paper. See Pott.

Marijuana.

The total of the bets at stake at one time, as in racing or card playing; the pool;

A plain defensive headpiece; later, and perhaps in a jocose sense, any helmet; - called also pot helmet.

The total of the bets at one time; the pool.

To place or inclose in pots

To shoot for the pot, i.e., cooking; to secure or hit by a pot shot; to shoot when no special skill is needed.

To secure; gain; win; bag.

To tipple; to drink.

To take a pot shot or shots, as at game or an enemy.

Metal or earthenware cooking vessel that is usually round and deep; often has a handle and lid

A plumbing fixture for defecation and urination

The quantity contained in a pot

A container in which plants are cultivated

(often followed by `of') a large number or amount or extent;

The cumulative amount involved in a game (such as poker)

Slang terms for a paunch

A resistor with three terminals, the third being an adjustable center terminal; used to adjust voltages in radios and TV sets

Street names for marijuana

Plant in a pot;