Difference between Potted and Preserved

Potted

Part of speech: verb

Definition: To put (something) into a pot.

Part of speech: adjective

Definition: Prepared in advance, as though preserved by potting. (First used in a published work, by L. Susan Stebbing in her Pelican classic 'Thinking to some purpose,' 1939, where Stebbing describes potted thinking as "a compressed statement to save us the trouble of thinking."

Preserved

Part of speech: verb

Definition: To protect; to keep from harm or injury.

Example sentence: Soldiers, I had lately like to have been taken from you by the attempt of a few desperate men, but by the grace and providence of the gods, I am still preserved.