adj
Meaning 1
Of a size suitable for putting into a pocket.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: not-comparable
Examples
- a pocket dictionary
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adj
Of a size suitable for putting into a pocket.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: not-comparable
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adj
Smaller or more compact than usual.
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Usage: not-comparable
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adj
Belonging to the two initial hole cards.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: not-comparable
Qualifier: Texas hold'em poker
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name
A surname.
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noun
A bag stitched to an item of clothing, used for carrying small items.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: business, clothing, fashion, lifestyle, manufacturing, textiles
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Synonyms: pockét, poket, pokét
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noun
A person's financial resources.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: broadly
Synonyms: pocketbook
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noun
An indention and cavity with a net sack or similar structure (into which the balls are to be struck) at each corner and one centered on each side of a pool or snooker table.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: ball-games, billiards, games, hobbies, lifestyle, pool, snooker, sports
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noun
An enclosed volume of one substance surrounded by another.
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noun
An area of land surrounded by a loop of a river.
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Usage: Australia
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noun
The area of the field to the side of the goal posts (four pockets in total on the field, one to each side of the goals at each end of the ground). The pocket is only a roughly defined area, extending from the behind post, at an angle, to perhaps about 30 meters out.
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Qualifier: Australian rules football
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noun
The area behind the line of scrimmage subject to certain rules regarding intentional grounding, illegal contact, etc., formally extending to the end zone but more usually understood as the central area around the quarterback directly protected by the offensive line.
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Topics: American-football, ball-games, football, games, hobbies, lifestyle, sports
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noun
An area where military units are completely surrounded by enemy units.
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Topics: government, military, politics, war
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noun
The position held by a second defensive middle, where an advanced middle must retreat after making a touch on the attacking middle.
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Topics: ball-games, games, hobbies, lifestyle, rugby, sports
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noun
The unbroken part of a wave that offers the surfer the most power.
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Topics: hobbies, lifestyle, sports, surfing
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noun
A large bag or sack formerly used for packing various articles, such as ginger, hops, or cowries; the pocket of wool held about 168 pounds.
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noun
A hole or space covered by a movable piece of board, as in a floor, boxing, partitions, etc.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: architecture
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noun
A cavity in a rock containing a nugget of gold, or other mineral; a small body of ore contained in such a cavity.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: business, mining
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noun
A strip of canvas sewn upon a sail so that a batten or a light spar can placed in the interspace.
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Topics: nautical, transport
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noun
The pouch of an animal.
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noun
The ideal point where the pins are hit by the bowling ball.
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Topics: bowling, hobbies, lifestyle, sports
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noun
A socket for receiving the base of a post, stake, etc.
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noun
A bight on a lee shore.
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noun
A small space between a tooth and the adjoining gum, formed by an abnormal separation of the two.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: dentistry, medicine, sciences
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noun
A small, isolated group or area.
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noun
A state achieved with steady, enjoyable drumming.
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Topics: entertainment, lifestyle, music
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verb
To put (something) into a pocket.
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Usage: transitive
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verb
To cause a ball to go into one of the pockets of the table; to complete a shot.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: ball-games, billiards, games, hobbies, lifestyle, pool, snooker, sports
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verb
To take and keep (something, especially money, that is not one's own).
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Usage: informal, transitive
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verb
To put up with; to bear without complaint.
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Usage: dated, informal, transitive
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noun
a small pouch inside a garment for carrying small articles
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Broader terms: pouch
Narrower terms: breast pocket, hip pocket, patch pocket, slash pocket, vest pocket
noun
an opening at the corner or on the side of a billiard table into which billiard balls are struck
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Broader terms: opening, gap
Narrower terms: corner pocket, side pocket
noun
(anatomy) saclike structure in any of various animals (as a marsupial or gopher or pelican)
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Synonyms: pouch
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: sac
Narrower terms: gizzard, ventriculus, gastric mill, utricle, utriculus, auricle, atrial auricle, auricula atrii, auricula, auricular appendage, auricular appendix, cheek pouch, marsupium, scrotum
noun
a small isolated group of people
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Broader terms: people
noun
a local region of low pressure or descending air that causes a plane to lose height suddenly
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Synonyms: air pocket, air hole
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Broader terms: atmospheric phenomenon
noun
a supply of money
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Broader terms: funds, finances, monetary resource, cash in hand, pecuniary resource
noun
a hollow concave shape made by removing something
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Synonyms: scoop
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Broader terms: concave shape, concavity, incurvation, incurvature
noun
(bowling) the space between the headpin and the pins behind it on the right or left
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Broader terms: space
noun
an enclosed space
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Synonyms: pouch, sac, sack
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Broader terms: cavity, enclosed space
verb
put in one's pocket
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Broader terms: take
verb
take unlawfully
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Synonyms: bag
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: steal
History
Etymology tree Proto-Germanic *puhô Frankish *pokōbor. Old French poche Proto-Indo-European *-tós Proto-Italic *-tosder.? Latin -ittus Old French -ete Anglo-Norman poketbor. Middle English pocket English pocket From Middle English pocket (“bag, sack”), from Anglo-Norman poket, Old Northern French poquet, poquete, diminutive of poque, poke (“bag, sack”) (compare modern Norman pouquette and modern French pochette from Old French pochete, from puche), from Frankish *pokō (“pouch”), from Proto-Germanic *puhô (“bag; pouch”), from Proto-Indo-European *bew- (“to blow, swell”). Equivalent to poke + -et. Doublet of pochette. Cognate with Middle Dutch poke, Alemannic German Pfoch (“purse, bag”), Old English pocca, pohha (“poke, pouch, pocket, bag”), Old Norse poki (“bag, pocket”). Compare the related poke (“sack or bag”). See also Modern French pochette and Latin bucca.
Across languages
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