potted

动词 v. 形容词 adj.
中文释义

英文释义

动词 v.
  1. simple past and past participle of pot form-of,participle,past
    — potted meat
形容词 adj.
  1. Grown or planted in a plant pot. not-comparable
    — Granny waters her potted plants on the windowsill every day.
  2. Prepared in advance, as though preserved by potting. informal,not-comparable
    — The company released a potted statement.
  3. Drunk. not-comparable,slang
  4. Expressed in a relatively short, brief form. not-comparable
    — a potted history

词汇关系

衍生词
potted plant potted shrimp

词源

词源 1
From pot + -ed. Adjective meaning "prepared in advance" by analogy with potted meat (canned meat), first used in a published work by L. Susan Stebbing in her Pelican classic Thinking to some purpose (1939), where "potted thinking" is defined as "a compressed statement to save us the trouble of thinking".
词源 2
From pot + -ed. Adjective meaning "prepared in advance" by analogy with potted meat (canned meat), first used in a published work by L. Susan Stebbing in her Pelican classic Thinking to some purpose (1939), where "potted thinking" is defined as "a compressed statement to save us the trouble of thinking".
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