teapot

UK/ˈtiː.pɒt/<q:contemporary>US/ˈti.pɔt/<a:non-cot-caught>

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Other forms: teapots

A teapot is the round pot with a spout that tea is made and poured from. Warm the teapot, fill the teapot, a china teapot.

Warming it first matters, because pouring boiling water into a cold pot drops the temperature enough to under-extract the leaves. A tempest in a teapot is the American form of the British storm in a teacup.

Definitions of teapot

1nounteapotA pot with a spout for making and pouring tea.A2+
“She poured boiling water into the teapot and let the tea brew.”
- Said"Warm the teapot first; my grandmother would haunt me otherwise."
- WrittenThe teapots on the shelf were chipped and ugly, and each one had made ten thousand cups.
- UsedLet the leaves steep in the teapot for four minutes before pouring.
- ContrastA teapot, not a cup. The tea is made in the teapot and drunk from the cup. cup →
- Not thisA kettle is not a teapot. The kettle boils the water; the teapot is where the brew happens.
Patterna pot / teapot of tea · warm the teapot · teapot lid / spout / handle · a china teapot

teapot is a pot.

Remember it

TEA-POT → the POT the TEA is made in

Exactly what it says: the pot the tea is made in, with a spout for pouring it out.

hooks ontotea pot

Where it comes from

Tea plus pot. Tea comes from a Min Chinese word, carried west by Dutch traders.

tea + pot.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA

Practised in In the Kitchen

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teapot in the wild

The Utah teapot, or the Newell teapot, is one of the standard reference test models in 3D modeling and an in-joke within the computer graphics community.
Utah teapot
Some programming libraries, such as the OpenGL Utility Toolkit, even have functions dedicated to drawing teapots.
Utah teapot
"I'm a Little Teapot" is an American nursery rhyme and novelty song describing the heating and pouring of a teapot or a whistling tea kettle.
I'm a Little Teapot
The Chester teapot is billed as the "World's Largest Teapot", which measures 14 feet (4.3 m) in height by 14 feet (4.3 m) in diameter.
Chester teapot
Russell's teapot has given rise to similar analogies as well as being used in parodies of religion.
Russell's teapot

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From Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0. These sentences were written by other people about their own subjects; they are here to show the word at work, not as anybody’s opinion.

Definitions of teapot

1nounteapotA pot with a spout for making and pouring tea.A2+

“She poured boiling water into the teapot and let the tea brew.”

Said"Warm the teapot first; my grandmother would haunt me otherwise."
WrittenThe teapots on the shelf were chipped and ugly, and each one had made ten thousand cups.
UsedLet the leaves steep in the teapot for four minutes before pouring.
ContrastA teapot, not a cup. The tea is made in the teapot and drunk from the cup. cup →
Not thisA kettle is not a teapot. The kettle boils the water; the teapot is where the brew happens.

Patterna pot / teapot of tea · warm the teapot · teapot lid / spout / handle · a china teapot

teapot is a pot.