pod

8 definitions found

pod - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  -pod \-pod\ [See Foot.]
     A combining form or suffix from Gr. poy`s, podo`s, foot; as,
     decapod, an animal having ten feet; phyllopod, an animal
     having leaflike feet; myriapod, hexapod.
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  Pod \Pod\, n. [Probably akin to pudding, and perhaps the same
     word as pad a cushion; cf. also Dan. pude pillow, cushion,
     and also E. cod a husk, pod.]
     1. A bag; a pouch. [Obs. or Prov. Eng.] --Tusser.
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     2. (Bot.) A capsule of plant, especially a legume; a dry
        dehiscent fruit. See Illust. of Angiospermous.
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     3. (Zool.) A considerable number of animals closely clustered
        together; -- said of seals.
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     Pod auger, or pod bit, an auger or bit the channel of
        which is straight instead of twisted.
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  Pod \Pod\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Podded; p. pr. & vb. n.
     Podding.]
     To swell; to fill; also, to produce pods.
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pod - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

  pod
      n 1: the vessel that contains the seeds of a plant (not the
           seeds themselves) [syn: pod, cod, seedcase]
      2: a several-seeded dehiscent fruit as e.g. of a leguminous
         plant [syn: pod, seedpod]
      3: a group of aquatic mammals
      4: a detachable container of fuel on an airplane [syn: pod,
         fuel pod]
      v 1: take something out of its shell or pod; "pod peas or beans"
      2: produce pods, of plants

pod - Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (26 May 2007) :

  pod
  
     Not to be confused with P.O.D..
  
     1. <printer> (Allegedly from abbreviation POD for "Prince Of
     Darkness") A Diablo 630 (or, latterly, any letter-quality
     impact printer).  From the DEC-10 PODTYPE program used
     to feed formatted text to it.
  
     2. <text> Plain Old Documentation.
  
     [Jargon File]
  
     (1998-12-18)
  

pod - V.E.R.A. -- Virtual Entity of Relevant Acronyms (June 2006) :

  POD
         Plain Old Document [format]
         

  POD
         Print / Publishing On Demand, "PoD"
         

pod - Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 :

  55 Moby Thesaurus words for "pod":
     army, bark, bay window, boll, bran, bunch, burr, capsule, case,
     chaff, cod, colony, corn shuck, cornhusk, corporation, drift,
     drive, drove, flock, follicle, gam, gang, herd, host, hull, husk,
     jacket, kennel, legume, legumen, litter, pack, palea, paunch,
     pease cod, peel, pericarp, pot, pride, rind, school, seed pod,
     seed vessel, seedbox, seedcase, shell, shoal, shuck, silique, skin,
     skulk, sloth, slough, trip, troop