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What's The Definition Of Pocket?
[n] a small pouch in a garment for carrying small articles
[n] (anatomy) saclike structure in any of various animals (as a marsupial or gopher or pelican) [n] a supply of money; "they dipped into the taxpayers' pockets" [n] a hollow concave shape made by removing something [n] an enclosed space [v] put in one's pocket; "He pocketed the change" [v] take unlawfully Synonyms | Synonyms for Pocket: bag | pouch | pouch | sac | sack | scoop Related Terms | Find terms related to Pocket: abstract | acquire | aerospace | aerosphere | air hole | air pocket | airspace | alveolation | alveolus | antrum | appropriate | area | armpit | assets | baby | baby-sized | bag | balance | balloon | bank account | bantam | banty | barrel | basin | bear with | beleaguer | beset | besiege | billfold | bladder | blind alley | blockade | bottle | bottom dollar | bound | bowl | box | box in | budget | bump | burden | cage | camp | can | canned | capsule | cash reserves | CAT | catch up | cavity | ceiling | chamber | checking account | claim | clap hands on | clasp | claw | clench | clinch | close in | cluster | clutch | collar | command of money | compact | compass | concave | concavity | concentration | constitute | contain | coop | coop in | coop up | cordon | cordon off | corral | crate | crater | crosswind | crypt | cul-de-sac | cup | dead end | decree | depression | digest | diminutive | dip | disregard | down | drain off | draw off | duodecimo | dwarfish | eat | embezzle | embrace | empty space | enact | enact laws | encircle | enclose | encompass | endure | enshrine | exchequer | favorable wind | fence in | filch | filibuster | fill | finances | fiscal | fob | fog | fold | follicle | freight | front | fund | funds | funnel chest | get | get hold of | get the floor | glom on to | grab | grab hold of | grapple | grasp | grip | gripe | handbag | handy | have the floor | head wind | heap | heap up | hedge in | hem in | high-pressure area | hole | hollow | hollow shell | hook | house in | hug | ignore | impasse | impound | imprison | incarcerate | include | ionosphere | island | itsy-bitsy | jail | jetstream | keep | kennel | kill | kitty | lacuna | lade | lay hands on | lay hold of | leaguer | legislate | life savings | lift | load | lobby through | logroll | loot | low-pressure area | mass | means | mew | mew up | miniature | miniaturized | minikin | minimal | minuscule | minute | monetary | money belt | money clip | moneys | nab | nail | nest egg | nick | nip | nip up | ordain | overcast | pack | pack away | palm | partake | pass | pecuniary | pecuniary resources | pen | pen in | pigeonhole | pile | pilfer | pillage | pinch | pit | pocket the affront | pocketbook | pocket-size | pocket-sized | poke | pony | pool | porte-monnaie | possess | potted | pouch | punch bowl | purloin | purse | purse strings | put in force | put through | quarantine | rail in | railroad through | receive | receptacle | reserves | resources | reticule | rip off | roll logs | roughness | sac | sack | satchel | savings | savings account | scoop | seize | shell | ship | shrine | shut in | shut up | sink | sinus | small-scale | snaffle | snap up | snatch | snitch | socket | soup | space | stable | stack | steal | stomach | store | stow | stratosphere | subminiature | substance | substratosphere | surround | swallow | swallow an insult | swipe | Swiss bank account | table | tail wind | take | take by assault | take by storm | take hold of | take possession | take the floor | thieve | tolerate | toy | treasure | tropopause | troposphere | trough | turbulence | turn aside provocation | twelvemo | unregistered bank account | vest-pocket | veto | visibility | visibility zero | vug | wall in | wallet | wee | weeny | wherewithal | whip up | wrap | yard | yard up | yield the floor See Also | atrial auricle | auricle | auricula | auricula atrii | auricular appendage | auricular appendix | breast pocket | cash in hand | cavity | cheek pouch | concave shape | concavity | enclosed space | finances | funds | garment | gastric mill | gizzard | hip pocket | incurvation | incurvature | marsupium | monetary resource | patch pocket | pecuniary resource | pocket flap | pouch | sac | scrotum | slash pocket | steal | take | utricle | utriculus | ventriculus | vest pocket Pocket In Webster's Dictionary \Pock"et\, n.
Any hollow place suggestive of a pocket in form or use;
specif.:
(a) A bin for storing coal, grain, etc.
(b) A socket for receiving the foot of a post, stake, etc.
(c) A bight on a lee shore.
\Pock"et\, n. [OE. poket, Prov. F. & OF. poquette, F. pochette, dim. fr. poque, pouque, F. poche; probably of Teutonic origin. See {Poke} a pocket, and cf. {Poach} to cook eggs, to plunder, and {Pouch}.] 1. A bag or pouch; especially; a small bag inserted in a garment for carrying small articles, particularly money; hence, figuratively, money; wealth. 2. One of several bags attached to a billiard table, into which the balls are driven. 3. A large bag or sack used in packing various articles, as ginger, hops, cowries, etc. Note: In the wool or hop trade, the pocket contains half a sack, or about 168 Ibs.; but it is a variable quantity, the articles being sold by actual weight. 4. (Arch.) A hole or space covered by a movable piece of board, as in a floor, boxing, partitions, or the like. 5. (Mining.) (a) A cavity in a rock containing a nugget of gold, or other mineral; a small body of ore contained in such a cavity. (b) A hole containing water. 6. (Nat.) A strip of canvas, sewn upon a sail so that a batten or a light spar can placed in the interspace. 7. (Zo["o]l.) Same as {Pouch}. Note: Pocket is often used adjectively, or in the formation of compound words usually of obvious signification; as, pocket comb, pocket compass, pocket edition, pocket handkerchief, pocket money, pocket picking, or pocket-picking, etc. {Out of pocket}. See under {Out}, prep. {Pocket borough}, a borough ``owned'' by some person. See under {Borough}. [Eng.] {Pocket gopher} (Zo["o]l.), any one of several species of American rodents of the genera {Geomys}, and {Thomomys}, family {Geomyd[ae]}. They have large external cheek pouches, and are fossorial in their habits. they inhabit North America, from the Mississippi Valley west to the Pacific. Called also {pouched gopher}. {Pocket mouse} (Zo["o]l.), any species of American mice of the family {Saccomyid[ae]}. They have external cheek pouches. Some of them are adapted for leaping (genus {Dipadomys}), and are called {kangaroo mice}. They are native of the Southwestern United States, Mexico, etc. {Pocket piece}, a piece of money kept in the pocket and not spent. {Pocket pistol}, a pistol to be carried in the pocket. {Pocket sheriff} (Eng. Law), a sheriff appointed by the sole authority of the crown, without a nomination by the judges in the exchequer. --Burrill. \Pock"et\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Pocketed}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Pocketing}.] 1. To put, or conceal, in the pocket; as, to pocket the change. He would pocket the expense of the license. --Sterne. 2. To take clandestinely or fraudulently. He pocketed pay in the names of men who had long been dead. --Macaulay. {To pocket a ball} (Billiards), to drive a ball into a pocket of the table. {To pocket an insult}, {affront}, etc., to receive an affront without open resentment, or without seeking redress. ``I must pocket up these wrongs.'' --Shak. |
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