Meaning of potato | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A plant of species Solanum tuberosum or its edible starchy tuber.
   countable, uncountable
2. pope (an honorary title of the Roman Catholic bishop of Rome)
3. A sweet potato (Ipomoea batatas)
   countable, obsolete, uncountable
4. A conspicuous hole in a sock or stocking.
   UK, countable, informal, uncountable
5. very bland soup, or more broadly, food in general
6. A person or animal shaped like a potato, that is, with a large belly and/or short legs.
   countable, uncountable
7. nonsense, trifle, rubbish
8. Metaphor for a person or thing of little value.
   countable, uncountable
9. third-person singular present indicative
10. A mentally handicapped person.
    countable, offensive, slang, uncountable
11. A camera that takes poor-quality pictures or videos.
    countable, humorous, uncountable
12. An underpowered computer or other device, especially when small in size.
    countable, humorous, slang, uncountable

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Examples

“Do not let your child have potato for another year; he will probably take milk well enough after he is weaned.”

“The protein value of this dish is equal to that of 1⅛ pounds of potato and beef, the fuel value, however, being much in excess of these.”

“A number of the children said that they had potato for breakfast, potato and herring for dinner, potato and milk for supper.”

“What was that about potatoes? Were they just a thing from foreign parts, like coffee; a luxury, an extra? Oh, the potato is a lordly fruit; drought or downpour, it grows and grows all the same. It laughs at the weather, and will stand anything; only deal kindly with it, and it yields fifteen-fold again. … A man may lack grain to make bread, but give him potatoes and he will not starve. Roast them in embers, and there is supper; boil them in water, and there's a breakfast ready.”

“Although the potato actually has no exciting value, it was believed, in the seventeenth century, to possess definite aphrodisiac qualities, and is frequent mentioned in this respect in Elizabethan drama.”

“Potatoes were introduced to Ireland in 1590 after being brought to Europe by Spanish conquistadores from their place of origin in the South American Andes.”

“The rocketing popularity of potatoes in London's diet led to the conversion of the temporary GNR passenger station north of the canal [...] as a dedicated potato terminal, whose significant traffic was stolen from coastal shipping.”

“I don't value Monſieur de Champignon a rotten potatoe; […]”

“When most people refer to their computers as a potato they're being hyperbolic, but not Ethan. He plays Overwatch at 800x600 resolution with all settings on low and is excited when he gets 30 fps.”

“If you want to have a go right now, then Famitracker will let you compose songs for the NES and it'll run on a Windows-operated potato.”

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