POUCH

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does pouch mean? 

• POUCH (noun)
  The noun POUCH has 3 senses:

1. a small or medium size container for holding or carrying things

2. an enclosed space

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

  Familiarity information: POUCH used as a noun is uncommon.

• POUCH (verb)
  The verb POUCH has 3 senses:

1. put into a small bag

2. send by special mail that goes through diplomatic channels

3. swell or protrude outwards

  Familiarity information: POUCH used as a verb is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• POUCH (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A small or medium size container for holding or carrying things

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

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

bag (a flexible container with a single opening)

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

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)

Derivation:

pouch (put into a small bag)

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 ("pouch" is a kind of...):

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

Sense 3

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 ("pouch" 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 "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)

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)

• POUCH (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they pouch    ... he / she / it pouches   
Past simple: pouched   
Past participle: pouched   
-ing form: pouching   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Put into a small bag

Classified under:

Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging

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

bag (put into a bag)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Derivation:

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

Sense 2

Meaning:

Send by special mail that goes through diplomatic channels

Classified under:

Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging

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

get off; mail (send via the postal service)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Sense 3

Meaning:

Swell or protrude outwards

Classified under:

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.

Synonyms:

bulge; pouch; protrude

Context example:

His stomach bulged after the huge meal

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

change form; change shape; deform (assume a different shape or form)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "pouch"):

bulk (stick out or up)

Sentence frame:

Something ----s

 Context examples 

I handed him my pouch, and he seated himself opposite to me and smoked for some time in silence.

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

A pouch formed from a piece of small intestine to hold urine after the bladder has been removed.

(Continent reservoir, NCI Dictionary)

A neoplasm or the cellar region presumed to be derived from Rathke's pouch epithelial cells.

(Mouse Craniopharyngioma, NCI Thesaurus/MMHCC)

A small pouch or sac that bulges out from the wall of a hollow organ, such as the colon.

(Diverticulum, NCI Dictionary)

A condition marked by small sacs or pouches in the walls of a hollow organ, such as the colon.

(Diverticulosis, NCI Dictionary)

A malignant epithelial neoplasm of the sellar region, presumably derived from Rathke pouch epithelium.

(Carcinoma Arising from Craniopharyngioma, NCI Thesaurus/CDISC)

A benign epithelial neoplasm of the sellar region, presumably derived from Rathke pouch epithelium.

(Craniopharyngioma, NCI Thesaurus/CDISC)

Surgery to remove the appendix (small finger-shaped pouch at the end of the first part of the large intestine).

(Appendectomy, NCI Dictionary)

Like a fool I left my baccy-pouch upon the table.

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

This procedure is similar to the J-pouch coloanal anastomosis but a much smaller pouch is formed.

(End-to-Side Anastomosis, NCI Dictionary)