pocket
1. a small pouch inside a garment for carrying small articles (Freq. 21)
• Hypernyms:
pouch
• Hyponyms:
breast pocket, hip pocket, patch pocket, slash pocket, vest pocket
• Part Holonyms:
garment
• Part Meronyms:
pocket flap
2. an enclosed space (Freq. 2)
- the trapped miners found a pocket of air
• Syn:
pouch, sac, sack
• Hypernyms:
cavity, enclosed space
3. a supply of money (Freq. 2)
- they dipped into the taxpayers' pockets
• Hypernyms:
funds, finances, monetary resource, cash in hand, pecuniary resource
4. (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
• Topics:
bowling
• Hypernyms:
space
5. a hollow concave shape made by removing something
• Syn:
scoop
• Derivationally related forms:
scoop (for: scoop)
• Hypernyms:
concave shape, concavity, incurvation, incurvature
6. a local region of low pressure or descending air that causes a plane to lose height suddenly
• Syn:
air pocket, air hole
• Hypernyms:
atmospheric phenomenon
7. 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
• Hypernyms:
people
8. (anatomy) saclike structure in any of various animals (as a marsupial or gopher or pelican)
• Syn:
pouch
• Topics:
anatomy, general anatomy
• Hypernyms:
sac
• Hyponyms:
gizzard, ventriculus, gastric mill, utricle, utriculus,
auricle, atrial auricle, auricula atrii, auricula, auricular appendage, auricular appendix,
cheek pouch, marsupium, scrotum
9. an opening at the corner or on the side of a billiard table into which billiard balls are struck
• Hypernyms:
opening, gap
• Hyponyms:
corner pocket, side pocket
• Part Holonyms:
pool table, billiard table, snooker table
1. put in one's pocket (Freq. 1)
- He pocketed the change
• Hypernyms:
take
• Verb Frames:
- Somebody ----s something
- Somebody ----s something from somebody
- They pocket the money
2. take unlawfully
• Syn:
bag
• Hypernyms:
steal
• Verb Frames:
- Somebody ----s something
- They pocket the money
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