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A pod has several everyday meanings. In , it's the long, thin case that holds the seeds of some plants, like peas or beans — you split open a pea pod to get the peas out. In nature, a pod is also a group of whales or dolphins swimming together. And in modern usage, a pod can be any small, separate, capsule-like unit — an escape pod on a , a sleeping pod in a capsule hotel, or a small workspace in an open office.
（植物）豆莢；（鯨豚）一群；小艙、艙型空間
原始詞典資料25 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
podnoun/ˈpɒd/
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biologybotanynatural-sciencesA self-contained unit, container, or enclosure that holds, protects, or transports something.
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A self-contained unit, container, or enclosure that holds, protects, or transports something.
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A self-contained unit, container, or enclosure that holds, protects, or transports something.
- Near-synonym: escape pod
- cart, that is clouted and shod, cart ladder and wimble, with perser and pod
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A self-contained unit, container, or enclosure that holds, protects, or transports something.
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obsoletedialectalA self-contained unit, container, or enclosure that holds, protects, or transports something.
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A small, self-contained unit within a larger system.
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A small, self-contained unit within a larger system.
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biologynatural-scienceszoologyA group or collective.
- Thar she blows! I point to a pod of beluga whales we encountered in Cunningham Inlet off Somerset Island during our third and final season.
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A group or collective.
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broadcastingmediaA group or collective.
- These matrilineal groups associate with related families, who are probably sister lineages, to form pods.
- For many people forming pods last year, finding compatible people to group with was not a cost but a goal. Private companies that create educational software for pods report that people prefer to group with their friends in order to reduce the incentive to have social contacts outside of their pods.
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ball-gamesgameshobbiesA group or collective.
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A lie-flat seat in business or first class.
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A tapered, cylindrical body of ore or minerals.
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A tapered, cylindrical body of ore or minerals.
podverb/ˈpɒd/
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To bear or produce pods
- Wherefore it was, that many ignorant Mardians, who had not pushed their investigations into the science of physiology, sagely divined, that the Tapparians must have podded into life like peas, instead of being otherwise indebted for their existence.
- David looked seawards along the river. He stared, rubbed his eyes, and stared again. One of the rocks seemed to have podded into something swollen, black and smooth.
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To remove peas from their case.
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To put into a pod or to enter a pod.
- Thus the torpedoes will have to be stored internally or be podded into streamline containers.
- Lycoming is working on a twin T53 or T55 turboprop installation whereby two engines would be podded together to drive a single propeller.
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To swell or fill.
這個拼法也被記錄為下列字的變化形：
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。