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pocket

noun

1 pocket

A small pouch inside a garment for carrying small articles.

Roget 800: money, legal tender; money matters, money market; finance; accounts etc. 811; funds, treasure; capital, stock; assets etc. ... show more

Roget 802: treasury, bank, exchequer, fisc, hanaper; cash register, kutcherry, bursary; strong box, strong hold, strong room; coffer; chest etc. ... show more

Dutch: zak
Polish: kiermana, kiejda

2 pocket

An enclosed space:
— The trapped miners found a pocket of air.

synonyms: pouch, sac, sack.

Roget 191: receptacle; inclosure etc. 232; recipient, receiver, reservatory.    compartment; cell, cellule; follicle; hole, corner, niche, ... show more

3 pocket

A supply of money.

Polish: kieszeń

4 pocket

bowling The space between the headpin and the pins behind it on the right or left.

5 pocket

A hollow concave shape made by removing something.

synonym: scoop.

Dutch: zakformaat

6 pocket

A local region of low pressure or descending air that causes a plane to lose height suddenly.

synonyms: air hole, air pocket.

7 pocket

A small isolated group of people.

8 pocket

anatomy Saclike structure in any of various animals (as a marsupial or gopher or pelican).

synonym: pouch.

Dutch: beurs, buidel, draagzak, zak
Polish: torba

9 pocket

An opening at the corner or on the side of a billiard table into which billiard balls are struck.

Dutch: wegstoppen
Polish: łuza

verb

1 pocket

Put in one's pocket.

Roget 785: receive; take etc. 789; acquire etc. 775; admit.    take in, catch, touch; pocket; put into one's pocket, put into one's purse; ... show more

Roget 826: be composed etc. adj.. laisser faire [Fr.], laisser aller [Fr.]; take things easily, take things as they come; take it easy, rub on, live and let live; take easily, take cooly, take in good part; aequam servare mentem [Lat.].    ... show more

2 pocket

Take unlawfully.

synonym: bag.

Roget 789: take, catch, hook, nab, bag, sack, pocket, put into one's pocket; receive; accept.    reap, crop, cull, ... show more

Roget 184: place, situate, locate, localize, make a place for, put, lay, set, seat, station, lodge, quarter, post, install; ... show more


adjective

Roget 193: little; small etc. (in quantity) 32; minute, diminutive, microscopic; microzoal; inconsiderable etc. (unimportant) 643; exiguous, ... show more

Moby thesaurus: CAT, Swiss bank account, abstract, acquire, aerospace, aerosphere, air hole, air pocket, airspace, alveolation, alveolus, antrum, appropriate, area, armpit, assets, baby, baby-sized, bag, balance ... show more.

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