POCKET

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does pocket mean? 

• POCKET (noun)
  The noun POCKET has 9 senses:

1. a small pouch inside a garment for carrying small articles

2. an enclosed space

3. a supply of money

4. (bowling) the space between the headpin and the pins behind it on the right or left

5. a hollow concave shape made by removing something

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

7. a small isolated group of people

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

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

  Familiarity information: POCKET used as a noun is familiar.

• POCKET (verb)
  The verb POCKET has 2 senses:

1. put in one's pocket

2. take unlawfully

  Familiarity information: POCKET used as a verb is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• POCKET (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A small pouch inside a garment for carrying small articles

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Hypernyms ("pocket" is a kind of...):

pouch (a small or medium size container for holding or carrying things)

Meronyms (parts of "pocket"):

pocket flap (a flap that covers the access to a pocket)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "pocket"):

breast pocket (a pocket inside of a man's coat)

hip pocket (a pocket in rear of trousers)

patch pocket (a flat pocket sewn to the outside of a garment)

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)

Holonyms ("pocket" is a part of...):

garment (an article of clothing)

Derivation:

pocket (put in one's pocket)

pocket (take unlawfully)

Sense 2

Meaning:

An enclosed space

Classified under:

Nouns denoting two and three dimensional shapes

Synonyms:

pocket; pouch; sac; sack

Context example:

the trapped miners found a pocket of air

Hypernyms ("pocket" is a kind of...):

cavity; enclosed space (space that is surrounded by something)

Sense 3

Meaning:

A supply of money

Classified under:

Nouns denoting possession and transfer of possession

Context example:

they dipped into the taxpayers' pockets

Hypernyms ("pocket" is a kind of...):

cash in hand; finances; funds; monetary resource; pecuniary resource (assets in the form of money)

Sense 4

Meaning:

(bowling) the space between the headpin and the pins behind it on the right or left

Classified under:

Nouns denoting two and three dimensional shapes

Context example:

the ball hit the pocket and gave him a perfect strike

Hypernyms ("pocket" is a kind of...):

space (an empty area (usually bounded in some way between things))

Domain category:

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)

Sense 5

Meaning:

A hollow concave shape made by removing something

Classified under:

Nouns denoting two and three dimensional shapes

Synonyms:

pocket; scoop

Hypernyms ("pocket" is a kind of...):

concave shape; concavity; incurvation; incurvature (a shape that curves or bends inward)

Sense 6

Meaning:

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural phenomena

Synonyms:

air hole; air pocket; pocket

Hypernyms ("pocket" is a kind of...):

atmospheric phenomenon (a physical phenomenon associated with the atmosphere)

Sense 7

Meaning:

A small isolated group of people

Classified under:

Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects

Context example:

the battle was won except for cleaning up pockets of resistance

Hypernyms ("pocket" is a kind of...):

people ((plural) any group of human beings (men or women or children) collectively)

Sense 8

Meaning:

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting body parts

Synonyms:

pocket; pouch

Hypernyms ("pocket" is a kind of...):

sac (a structure resembling a bag in an animal)

Domain category:

anatomy; general anatomy (the branch of morphology that deals with the structure of animals)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "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)

auricula; auricular appendage; auricular appendix (a pouch projecting from the top front of each atrium of the heart)

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)

Sense 9

Meaning:

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Hypernyms ("pocket" is a kind of...):

gap; opening (an open or empty space in or between things)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "pocket"):

corner pocket (a pocket at the corner of a billiard table)

side pocket (a pocket on the side of a billiard table)

Holonyms ("pocket" is a part of...):

billiard table; pool table; snooker table (game equipment consisting of a heavy table on which pool is played)

• POCKET (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they pocket    ... he / she / it pockets   
Past simple: pocketed   
Past participle: pocketed   
-ing form: pocketing   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Put in one's pocket

Classified under:

Verbs of buying, selling, owning

Context example:

He pocketed the change

Hypernyms (to "pocket" is one way to...):

take (take into one's possession)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s something from somebody

Sentence example:

They pocket the money

Derivation:

pocket (a small pouch inside a garment for carrying small articles)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Take unlawfully

Classified under:

Verbs of buying, selling, owning

Synonyms:

bag; pocket

Hypernyms (to "pocket" is one way to...):

rip; rip off; steal (take without the owner's consent)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Sentence example:

They pocket the money

Derivation:

pocket (a small pouch inside a garment for carrying small articles)

 Context examples 

One idea is that it may have been born in a star-forming region, but was ejected into its present lonely pocket of the galaxy.

(Loneliest Young Star Seen by Spitzer and WISE, NASA)

I was certain that Alec had torn it out of the dead man’s hand, and almost certain that he must have thrust it into the pocket of his dressing-gown.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

An abscess is a pocket of pus.

(Abscess, NIH)

Aliskiren selectively binds to the S3 sub-pocket of renin, an enzyme in the renin-angiotensin-aldosterone system (RAAS) that is responsible for converting angiotensinogen to angiotensin I (AT I).

(Aliskiren, NCI Thesaurus)

I believe you have some matches in your pocket Watson.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

“What is there of good to be expected?” said he, taking the letter from his pocket.

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)

The huntsman took pity on her, and put his hand in his pocket and gave her what he had.

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)

The gums can start to pull away from the teeth, creating open pockets that then become infected.

(New Link Found between Alzheimer's & Gum Disease Bacteria, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

A closed, sac-like pocket of tissue that can form anywhere in the body.

(Cyst, NCI Dictionary)

"What have you got in your vest pockets?"

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)