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pock·et  (pkt)

n.

1. A small baglike attachment forming part of a garment and used to carry small articles, as a flat pouch sewn inside a pair of pants or a piece of material sewn on its sides and bottom to the outside of a shirt.

2. A small sack or bag.

3. A receptacle, cavity, or opening.

4. Financial means; money supply: The cost of the trip must come out of your own pocket.

5.

a. A small cavity in the earth, especially one containing ore.

b. A small body or accumulation of ore.

6. A pouch in an animal body, such as the cheek pouch of a rodent or the abdominal pouch of a marsupial.

7. Games One of the pouchlike receptacles at the corners and sides of a billiard or pool table.

8. Baseball The deepest part of a baseball glove, just below the web, where the ball is normally caught.

9. Sports A racing position in which a contestant has no room to pass a group of contestants immediately to his or her front or side.

10.

a. A small, isolated, or protected area or group: pockets of dissatisfied voters.

b. Football The area a few yards behind the line of scrimmage that blockers attempt to keep clear so that the quarterback can pass the ball.

11. An air pocket.

12. A bin for storing ore, grain, or other materials.

adj.

1. Suitable for or capable of being carried in one's pocket: a pocket handkerchief; a pocket edition of a dictionary.

2. Small; miniature: a pocket backyard; a pocket museum.

tr.v. pock·et·ed, pock·et·ing, pock·ets

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

2. To take possession of for oneself, especially dishonestly: pocketed the receipts from the charity dance.

3.

a. To accept or tolerate (an insult, for example).

b. To conceal or suppress: I pocketed my pride and asked for a raise.

4. To prevent (a bill) from becoming law by failing to sign until the adjournment of the legislature.

5. Sports To hem in (a competitor) in a race.

6. Games To hit (a ball) into a pocket of a pool or billiard table.

Idioms:

in (one's) pocket

In one's power, influence, or possession: The defendant had the jury in his pocket.

in pocket

1. Having funds.

2. Having gained or retained funds of a specified amount: was a hundred dollars in pocket after a day at the races.

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[Middle English, pouch, small bag, from Anglo-Norman pokete, diminutive of Old North French poke, bag, of Germanic origin.]

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pocket·a·ble adj.

pocket·less adj.

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pocket

Noun

1. a small pouch sewn into clothing for carrying small articles

2. any pouchlike container, esp. for catching balls at the edge of a snooker table

3. a small isolated area or group: a pocket of resistance

4. a cavity in the earth, such as one containing ore

5. in one's pocket under one's control

6. out of pocket having made a loss

Verb

[-eting, -eted]

1. to put into one's pocket

2. to take secretly or dishonestly

3. Billiards etc. to drive (a ball) into a pocket

4. to conceal or suppress: he pocketed his pride and asked for help

Adjective

small: a pocket edition [Anglo-Norman poket a little bag]

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Pocket a collection or small quantity, as of ore. See also layer.

Examples: pocket of air; of clay crops, 1872; of earth; of gold, 1850; of hops, 1767; of nuggets of gold, 1896; of red soil, 1893; of water, 1852; of wool (half a sack), 1706.

Thesaurus

Noun	1.	pocket - a small pouch inside a garment for carrying small articles breast pocket - a pocket inside of a man's coat garment - an article of clothing; "garments of the finest silk" hip pocket - a pocket in rear of trousers patch pocket - a flat pocket sewn to the outside of a garment pocket flap - a flap that covers the access to a pocket pouch - a small or medium size container for holding or carrying things slash pocket - a pocket in a garment (usually below the waist) to which access is provided by a vertical or diagonal slit in the outside of the garment vest pocket - a small pocket in a man's vest
	2.	pocket - an enclosed space; "the trapped miners found a pocket of air" sac, sack, pouch enclosed space, cavity - space that is surrounded by something
	3.	pocket - a supply of money; "they dipped into the taxpayers' pockets" cash in hand, finances, funds, monetary resource, pecuniary resource - assets in the form of money
	4.	pocket - (bowling) the space between the headpin and the pins behind it on the right or left; "the ball hit the pocket and gave him a perfect strike" bowling - a game in which balls are rolled at an object or group of objects with the aim of knocking them over or moving them space - an empty area (usually bounded in some way between things); "the architect left space in front of the building"; "they stopped at an open space in the jungle"; "the space between his teeth"
	5.	pocket - a hollow concave shape made by removing something scoop concave shape, concavity, incurvation, incurvature - a shape that curves or bends inward
	6.	pocket - a local region of low pressure or descending air that causes a plane to lose height suddenly air hole, air pocket atmospheric phenomenon - a physical phenomenon associated with the atmosphere
	7.	pocket - a small isolated group of people; "they were concentrated in pockets inside the city"; "the battle was won except for cleaning up pockets of resistance" people - (plural) any group of human beings (men or women or children) collectively; "old people"; "there were at least 200 people in the audience"
	8.	pocket - (anatomy) saclike structure in any of various animals (as a marsupial or gopher or pelican) pouch 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
	9.	pocket - an opening at the corner or on the side of a billiard table into which billiard balls are struck corner pocket - a pocket at the corner of a billiard table billiard table, pool table, snooker table - game equipment consisting of a heavy table on which pool is played side pocket - a pocket on the side of a billiard table opening, gap - an open or empty space in or between things; "there was a small opening between the trees"; "the explosion made a gap in the wall"
Verb	1.	pocket - put in one's pocket; "He pocketed the change" take - take into one's possession; "We are taking an orphan from Romania"; "I'll take three salmon steaks"
	2.	pocket - take unlawfully                       bag steal - take without the owner's consent; "Someone stole my wallet on the train"; "This author stole entire paragraphs from my dissertation"

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pocket

noun 1. pouch, bag, sack, hollow, compartment, receptacle

modifier 2. small, compact, miniature, portable, little, potted (informal) concise, pint-size(d) (informal) abridged

verb 3. steal, take, lift (informal) appropriate, pilfer, purloin, filch, help yourself to, snaffle Brit. (informal)

Translations

pocket [ˈpɔkɪt] n → bolsillo; [of air,] (GEO), (fig) → bolsa;

(BILLIARDS) → tronera

vt → meter en el bolsillo (= steal); embolsarse;

(BILLIARDS) → entronerar;

breast pocket → bolsillo de pecho;

pocket of resistance → foco de resistencia;

pocket of warm air → bolsa de aire caliente;

to be out of pocket → salir perdiendo;

to be £5 in/out of pocket → salir ganando/perdiendo 5 libras

pocket [ˈpɔkɪt] n → poche f

vt → empocher;

to be (£5) out of pocket (Brit) → en être de sa poche (pour 5 livres)

pocket [ˈpɔkɪt] n → Tasche f (fig) (= small area); vereinzelter Bereich m

vt (= put in one's pocket, steal) → einstecken;

to be out of pocket (Brit) → Verlust machen;

pocket of resistance → Widerstandsnest nt

pocket [ˈpɔkɪt] n → tasca

vt → intascare;

to be out of pocket → rimetterci;

to be £5 in/out of pocket (BRIT) → trovarsi con 5 sterline in più/in meno;

air pocket → vuoto d'aria

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pocket

n pocket [ˈpokit]

1 a small bag sewn into or on to clothes, for carrying things in He stood with his hands in his pockets; a coat-pocket; (also adjective ) a pocket-handkerchief, a pocket-knife.sakجَيْبджобkapsa; kapesnílomme; -lomme; lomme-die Tasche; Taschen-...τσέπηbolsillotaskuجیبtasku(de) pocheכִּיסजेबdžepzsebsakuvasitasca; da tascaポケット호주머니kišenė; kišeniniskabata; kabatas-poketzaklomme(-)kieszeńbolso(de) buzunarкарманvrecko; vreckovýžepdžepfickaกระเป๋าเสื้อหรือกางเกงcep衣袋кишеняجيبtúi衣袋

2 a small bag attached to the corners and sides of a billiard-table etc to catch the balls. sakجَيْب في طاولة البلياردوджобvak, kapsalomme; netdas Lochτσέπηtroneravõrkaukکیسهpussipocheכִּיסबिल्यर्ड टेबी इत्यादि के किनारों में लगा एक छोटी सी थैलीu uglovima i na stranama biljarskog stolalyuk (biliárdasztalban)kantungvasibuca玉受け(당구대의 공이 굴러 들어가는) 포켓kišenėmakspoketzakhullłuzaventanilhagaurăлузаvrecko, vakluknja (pri biljardu)rupe u bilijarskom stoluhålหลุมบิลเลียดcep(彈子球臺四角的)球袋лузаتھيليtúi hứng bi a（弹子球台四角的）球袋

3 a small isolated area or group a pocket of warm air.borrel, groepجَيْب هوائيзатворено мястоkapsalommeder Einschlußθύλακαςbolsa(vastupanu)kolle, (õhu)aukتودهpesäkepocheכִּיסएक अलग-थलग क्षेत्र या समूहopkoljeno područjelégzsákkantungafmarkað svæði; einangraður hópursacca区域고립된 구역; 일단duobėgaisa bedrekawasange{#225}{#139}{#225}soleerd gebied, groepjelomme, hullobszar, komora, przestrzeńbolsazonăрайон, очагoblasťotočekdžepfickaพื้นที่ขนาดเล็กbölge, küme, grup孤立的小塊地區район, зонаالگ تھلگ علاقہ يا جماعتnhóm biệt lập孤立的小块地区

4 (a person's) income or amount of money available for spending a range of prices to suit every pocket.sakمَدْخول، مالдоходkapsaindkomst; pengepungder Geldbeutelεισόδημαbolsillotaskuدرآمد؛ پولkukkarobourseדְמֵי כִּיסकिसी व्यक्ति की आय या खर्च के लिए उपलब्ध धनराशिfig.novcizsebdaya belipyngja; tekjur, efnitascaふところ자력(資力), 재력kišenėienākumi; naudas līdzekļipendapatanbeurslommebokkieszeńbolsobani de buzunarсредстваvrecko, príjemžepdžepplånbok, portmonnäรายได้bütçe, cep金錢，零用錢грошіجيب خرچtúi tiền金钱，零用钱

v

1 to put in a pocket He pocketed his wallet; He pocketed the red ball.in sy sak steekيَضَعُ في الجَيْبприбирам в джобdát si do kapsystikke i lommeneinsteckenβάζω στην τσέπηmeterse/guardar en el bolsillotaskusse pistmaدر جیب گذاشتنlaittaa taskuun, lyödä pussiinmettre dans la/sa pocheלְהַכנִיס לַכִּיסजेब में रखनाstaviti u džepzsebre teszmengantungisetja í vasamettere in tascaポケットに入れる호주머니에 넣다į(si)dėti į kišenęielikt kabatāmemasukkan ke dlm poketin zijn zak stekenstikke i lommawkładać do kieszenimeter no bolsoa băga în buzunarкласть в карманdať (si) do vreckadati v žepstaviti u džepstoppa i fickanใส่กระเป๋าcebe koymak把...放入袋內класти в кишенюجيب ميں رکھناcho vào túi把...放入袋内

2 to steal Be careful he doesn't pocket the silver.steelيَسْرُق، يَخْتَلِسкрадаstrčit do vlastní kapsyputte i lommeneinsteckenκλέβωembolsar, quedarse conpihta panemaبالا کشیدنpihistääempocherלְשַלשֵל לַכִּיסचुरानाnepovlasno prisvojitizsebre vágmencuristelaintascare盗む훔치다, 착복하다pasisavinti, nušvilpti[]zagt, []čieptmencuristelenstjele, stikke til seggwizdnąć, przywłaszczyć sobieroubara furaприкарманиватьstrčiť do vlastného vreckavtakniti v žepukrastistoppa på sig, knyckaยักยอกcebine indirmek, iç etmek扒竊привласнювати, прибирати до кишеніچوري کرناăn trộm扒窃

n ˈpocketful

the amount contained by a pocket a pocketful of coins.sak volمِلء جَيْبпълен джобplná kapsalommefuldeine Tasche voll(γεμάτη) τσέπηbolsillo llenotaskutäisیک جیب پرtaskullinenpoche pleineמְלוֹא הַכִּיסजेबभरdžep nečegazsebnyisekantungvasafyllitascataポケット一杯포켓에 가득한 분량kišenėpilna kabatapoket penuhzak vollommefull; god slumpkieszeńbolso cheiobuzunar (plin cu)полный карманplné vreckopoln žep (česa)pun džepfickan fullจำนวนเต็มกระเป๋าcep dolusu(指容量)一袋повна кишеняجيب بھر کرtúi đầy（指容量）一袋

n ˈpocket-book

a wallet for holding papers. beursمِحْفَظَة جَيْبбележникnáprsní taškategnebogdie Brieftascheπορτοφόλιcartera, billeterorahatasku, taskuraamatدفترچه جیبیlompakko, muistikirjaportefeuilleסֵפֶר כִּיסनोट बुकdžepna knjiga,noteslevéltárcadompet, buku sakuseðlaveskiportafoglio財布지갑užrašų knygelė, piniginėkabatasportfelisbuku kecilportefeuillelommebokportfelcarteiraportofelбумажникnáprsná taškalistnicanovčanikplånbokหนังสือเล็กที่ใส่กระเป๋าได้cep defteri錢包，皮夾子портмонетپاکٹ بکtúi xách nhỏ钱包，皮夹子

n ˈpocket-money

money for personal use, especially a child's regular allowance He gets $2 a week pocket-money.sakgeldمَصْروف الجَيْبджобни париkapesnélommepengedas Taschengeldχαρτζιλίκιpagataskurahaپول تو جیبیviikkorahade poche argentדְמֵי כִּיסजेब खर्चdžeparaczsebpénzuang sakuvasapeningurpaghetta小遣銭용돈kišenpinigiaikabatasnaudaduit belanjazakgeldlommepengerkieszonkowemesadabani de buzunarкарманные деньгиvreckovéžepninadžeparacfickpeng[]เงินติดตัวcep harçlığı零用錢дрібні грошіجيب خرچtiền tiêu vặt零用钱

adj ˈpocket-size(d)

small enough to carry in one's pocket a pocket-size(d) dictionary.sakgrootteبِحَجْم الجَيْبджобенkapesníi lommestørrelse; i lommeformatTaschen-...μικρού μεγέθους, τσέπηςde bolsillotasku-جیبیtaskukokoinende pocheקָטַןजेब में रखने लायक आकार काdžepni,malenzseb-ukuran sakulítill, vasa-; vasabrots-tascabileポケット型の(포켓에 들어가는) 소형의kišeniniskabatas lieluma-kecilin zakformaati lommeformat, lomme-kieszonkowyde bolsode buzunarкарманного форматаvreckovýžepne velikostidžepnii fickformatซึ่งมีขนาดเล็กสำหรับพกพาcebe sığacak büyüklükte袖珍型的кишенькового розміру; мініатюрнийجيب کي سائز کاcỡ nhỏ bỏ túi袖珍型的