pouch

pouch

 (pouch)

n.

1. A small bag often closing with a drawstring and used especially for carrying loose items in one's pocket.

2. A bag or sack used to carry mail or diplomatic dispatches.

3. A leather bag or case for carrying powder or small-arms ammunition.

4. A sealed plastic or foil container used for packaging food or drink.

5. Something resembling a bag in shape: the pouches under one's eyes.

6. Zoology A saclike structure, such as the cheek pockets of the gopher or the external abdominal pocket in which marsupials carry their young.

7. Anatomy A pocketlike space in the body: the pharyngeal pouch.

8. Scots A pocket.

9. Archaic A small purse for coins.

v. pouched, pouch·ing, pouch·es

v.tr.

1. To place in or as if in a pouch; pocket.

2. To cause to resemble a pouch.

3. To swallow. Used of certain birds or fishes.

v.intr.

To assume the form of a pouch or pouchlike cavity.

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[Middle English, from Old French, of Germanic origin.]

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pouch′y adj.

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pouch

(paʊtʃ)

n

1. a small flexible baglike container: a tobacco pouch.

2. (Zoology) a saclike structure in any of various animals, such as the abdominal receptacle marsupium in marsupials or the cheek fold in rodents

3. (Anatomy) anatomy any sac, pocket, or pouchlike cavity or space in an organ or part

4. another word for mailbag

5. (Clothing & Fashion) a Scot word for pocket

vb

6. (tr) to place in or as if in a pouch

7. to arrange or become arranged in a pouchlike form

8. (Zoology) (tr) (of certain birds and fishes) to swallow

[C14: from Old Norman French pouche, from Old French poche bag; see poke²]

ˈpouchy adj

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pouch

(paʊtʃ)

n.

1. a bag, sack, or similar receptacle, esp. one for small articles or quantities: a tobacco pouch.

2. a small moneybag.

3. a bag for carrying mail.

4. a bag or case of leather, used by soldiers to carry ammunition.

5. something shaped like or resembling a bag or pocket.

6. a baggy fold of flesh under the eye.

7. a baglike anatomical structure, as the dilated cheeks of certain rodents or the receptacle for the young of marsupials.

v.t.

8. to put into or enclose in a pouch, bag, or pocket; pocket.

9. to arrange in the form of a pouch.

10. (of a fish or bird) to swallow.

v.i.

11. to form a pouch.

[1350–1400; Middle English pouche < Anglo-French; Old French poche]

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pouch

Past participle: pouched
Gerund: pouching

Imperative

pouch

pouch

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Thesaurus

Noun	1.	pouch - a small or medium size container for holding or carrying things bag - a flexible container with a single opening; "he stuffed his laundry into a large bag" mail pouch, mailbag - pouch used in the shipment of mail pocket - a small pouch inside a garment for carrying small articles sporran - a fur or leather pouch worn at the front of the kilt as part of the traditional dress of Scottish Highlanders tobacco pouch - a pouch for carrying pipe tobacco belt bag, waist pack - a small pouch (usually with a zipper) that attaches to a belt and is worn around the waist
	2.	pouch - an enclosed space; "the trapped miners found a pocket of air" sac, sack, pocket enclosed space, cavity - space that is surrounded by something
	3.	pouch - (anatomy) saclike structure in any of various animals (as a marsupial or gopher or pelican) pocket gastric mill, gizzard, ventriculus - thick-walled muscular pouch below the crop in many birds and reptiles for grinding food utricle, utriculus - a small pouch into which the semicircular canals open atrial auricle, auricle, auricula atrii - a small conical pouch projecting from the upper anterior part of each atrium of the heart auricular appendage, auricular appendix, auricula - a pouch projecting from the top front of each atrium of the heart sac - a structure resembling a bag in an animal cheek pouch - a membranous pouch inside the mouth of many rodents (as a gopher) marsupium - an external abdominal pouch in most marsupials where newborn offspring are suckled scrotum - the external pouch that contains the testes anatomy, general anatomy - the branch of morphology that deals with the structure of animals
Verb	1.	pouch - put into a small bag bag - put into a bag; "The supermarket clerk bagged the groceries"
	2.	pouch - send by special mail that goes through diplomatic channels mail, get off - send via the postal service; "I'll mail you the check tomorrow"
	3.	pouch - swell or protrude outwards; "His stomach bulged after the huge meal" bulge, protrude change form, change shape, deform - assume a different shape or form bulk - stick out or up; "The parcel bulked in the sack"

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pouch

noun bag, pocket, sack, container, purse, poke (dialect) a leather pouch full of tobacco

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pouch

verb

To curve outward past the normal or usual limit:

bag, balloon, beetle, belly, bulge, jut, overhang, project, protrude, protuberate, stand out, stick out.

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Translations

جِرابكيسمِحْفَظَه

vakváček

pung

Beutel

πουγκί

pussittaa

pochesac

erszény

pokitaska, poki

borsamarsupio

kapšaskapšiukaspagurklissterblė

maisiņšmaisspazodesoma

pung

сумка

ağız kesesicepgöz altı torbacığıkese

动物的育儿袋小袋袋状物

pouch

[paʊtʃ] N (for tobacco) → petaca f; (for ammunition) → cartuchera f; (hunter's) → morral m (Zool, Anat) → bolsa f

Collins Spanish Dictionary - Complete and Unabridged 8th Edition 2005 © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1971, 1988 © HarperCollins Publishers 1992, 1993, 1996, 1997, 2000, 2003, 2005

pouch

[ˈpaʊtʃ] n

(ZOOLOGY) [animal] → poche f

(= small bag) → pochette f

(for tobacco) → blague f tobacco pouch

Collins English/French Electronic Resource. © HarperCollins Publishers 2005

pouch

n → Beutel m; (under eyes) → (Tränen)sack m; (of pelican, hamster) → Tasche f; (Mil) → (Patronen)tasche f; (Hist: for gunpowder) → (Pulver)beutel m; (esp US: = mail pouch) → Postsack m

Collins German Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged 7th Edition 2005. © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1980 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1997, 1999, 2004, 2005, 2007

pouch

[paʊtʃ] n (Anat) (for tobacco) → borsa; (for money) → borsellino (Zool) → marsupio

Collins Italian Dictionary 1st Edition © HarperCollins Publishers 1995

pouch

(pautʃ) noun

1. a small bag. a tobacco-pouch. sakkie كيس торбичка bolsa váček der Beutel pung; -pung σακούλι bolsa pequeña, petaca, morral, zurrón (väike) kott کیسه کوچک pussukka sac, blagueנרתיק थैली, जेब vrećica zacskó kantung kecil taska, poki borsa 小袋 작은 주머니 kapš(iuk)as maisiņš dompet zakjepung, pose woreczek كوچنى بكس bolsa săculeţ мешочек, сумка; кисет vrecúško mošnja vrećica pung, påse ถุงเล็ก ๆ kese 小袋 торбинка; кисет چھوٹي تھيلي túi nhỏ 小袋

2. something bag-like. This animal stores its food in two pouches under its chin. sakkie مِحْفَظَه торбичка bolsa vak der Beutel pung σάκοςbolsa tasku هر چیز کیسه مانند pussi pocheנרתיק जेब या थैली में रखना kesica zacskó kantung poki sacca 袋状のもの 주머니 같이 생긴 것 pagurklis maiss; pazode kantung zakpung, posetorba هر هغه شې چې لاسى بكس ته ورته وې bolsa buzu­năraş что-л., похожее на мешочек vak vrečka torba påse ที่เหมือนถุง ağız kesesi; göz altı torbacığı 袋狀物 щось схоже на мішечок تھيلي جيسي چيز túi 袋状物

3. the pocket of skin in which the young of certain kinds of animal, eg the kangaroo, are reared. buidel جِراب торба bolsa vak der Beutel pung μάρσιποςbolsa kukkur کیسه برخی حیوانات که بچه خود را در آن پرورش می دهند pussi pocheכיס जेब tobolac erszény kantung poki marsupio 腹袋 캥거루의 육아 주머니 sterblė soma kantung buidelpungtorba د ځينو ژويو خلطه چې خپل بچى هلته زيږوى bolsa marsupiu сумка vak vreča torba pung ถุงหน้าท้องสัตว์ kese, cep (動物的)育兒袋 сумка کھال جس ميں کنگارو وغيرہ کے بچے پرورز پاتے ہيں túi của một số động vật （动物的）育儿袋

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pouch

n. bolsa, saco, cavidad.

English-Spanish Medical Dictionary © Farlex 2012

pouch

n (surg) reservorio; ileal — reservorio ileal

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