Pod
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Pod may refer to:
- Pod, a shortened, affectionate term for a Podiatrist (Doctor of Podiatric Medicine)
- Pod, the seed-case of a flowering plant, particularly of the pea family Leguminosae, and most often of the edible pea
- Pod, a term used in the vernacular to mean: body, capsule, case, container, frame, framework, hull, husk, mold, shell, skeleton, structure, vessel, and the like
- Pod, a method of propulsion for ships, also known as Azimuth thruster
- Pod (sms.ac), applications using sms.ac mobile home pages
- Pod, a social group of cetaceans
- Pod, Bosnia-Hercegovina, a location in the upper Vrbas River valley in Bosnia-Hercegovina where settlements of a Bronze Age people identified by some archaeologists with the "Proto-Illyrians" have been found
- Pod (album), a rock album by The Breeders
- Pod (Afro Celt Sound System album), a 2004 album
- The Pod, a 1991 album by Ween
- Pod, a Welsh poet, real name Arwel Roberts
- Pod, slang for Cannabis, as referenced in William S. Burroughs' novel, Naked Lunch
- Pod, short for a tripod
- Pod, a slang term used to describe a jail or prison
- Pod, a short video, usually non-professionally produced, also known as Viewer Created Content on the TV network Current TV
- Pod, an aerodynamic container to be mounted under an aeroplane, containing, e.g., electronic equipment or rockets
- pod: a slang term for an entity living as a human, but unable and/or unwilling to conform to societal and cultural norms and mores. There are a disproportionate number of IT professionals and math teachers who live as pods. The first known use of the term was on the Seinfeld television show when Jerry Seinfeld told Cosmo Kramer that he (Kramer) was a pod.
- Pod: a slang term for people who appear normal and who in many respects function perfectly well within social and cultural norms, but who are capable neither of expansive feelings nor meaningful self-reflection. The term is inspired by the soulless beings of the 1950’s version of Invasion of the Body Snatchers who were hatched from pods. In this respect, Kramer of Seinfeld could not be described as a pod. But Putty could.
- POD, short for a Plain Old Documentation, which used in Perl.
- POD (list of things named POD)
[edit] See also
- POD (disambiguation page)
