pocket
Part of speech: noun
verb
adj
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: American-football
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mining
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nautical
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sports
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textiles
transport
war
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Germanic *puhô
Frankish *pokōbor.
Anglo-Norman poche
Proto-Indo-European *-tós
Proto-Italic *-tosder.?
Latin -ittus
Anglo-Norman -ete
Anglo-Norman poketbor.
Middle English pocket
English pocket
From Middle English pocket (“bag, sack”), from Anglo-Norman poket, Old Northern French poquet, poquete, diminutive of poque, poke (“bag, sack”) (compare modern Norman pouquette and modern French pochette from Old French pochete, from puche), from Frankish *pokō (“pouch”), from Proto-Germanic *puhô (“bag; pouch”), from Proto-Indo-European *bew- (“to blow, swell”). Equivalent to poke + -et. Doublet of pochette. Cognate with Middle Dutch poke, Alemannic German Pfoch (“purse, bag”), Old English pocca, pohha (“poke, pouch, pocket, bag”), Old Norse poki (“bag, pocket”). Compare the related poke (“sack or bag”). See also Modern French pochette and Latin bucca.
Base: poke
Affixes: -et
Inflected forms:
form: pockets
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: pockets
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: pocketing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: pocketting
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
rare
form: pocketed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: pocketed
pos: verb
tags: past
form: pocketted
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
rare
form: pocketted
pos: verb
tags: past
rare
Senses:
gloss: A bag stitched to an item of clothing, used for carrying small items.
pos: noun
examples: “Do I fidget you ?” he asked apologetically, whilst his long bony fingers buried themselves, string, knots, and all, into the capacious pockets of his magnificent tweed ulster.
gloss: A person's financial resources.
pos: noun
tags: broadly
examples: I paid for it out of my own pocket.
It should be remembered, however, that [Sir Thomas] Lawrence, who was now in demand, was charging from eighty to a hundred guineas for even his smallest portraits, a sum which would have been far beyond the pocket or inclination of the canny North countryman [George Stephenson], who had little use for empty honours.
There was, for much of the period, no cheap public transport; and even the Underground, or one of Shillibeer's horse-drawn omnibuses, was beyond the pocket of many of the poor.
"The financial impact of the fuel duty cut on people's pockets will in fact be minimal, […]"
gloss: An indention and cavity with a net sack or similar structure (into which the balls are to be struck) at each corner and one centered on each side of a pool or snooker table.
pos: noun
gloss: An enclosed volume of one substance surrounded by another.
pos: noun
examples: She knew from avalanche safety courses that outstretched hands might puncture the ice surface and alert rescuers. She knew that if victims ended up buried under the snow, cupped hands in front of the face could provide a small pocket of air for the mouth and nose. Without it, the first breaths could create a suffocating ice mask.
The drilling expedition discovered a pocket of natural gas.
gloss: An area of land surrounded by a loop of a river.
pos: noun
tags: Australia
gloss: The area of the field to the side of the goal posts (four pockets in total on the field, one to each side of the goals at each end of the ground). The pocket is only a roughly defined area, extending from the behind post, at an angle, to perhaps about 30 meters out.
pos: noun
gloss: The area behind the line of scrimmage subject to certain rules regarding intentional grounding, illegal contact, etc., formally extending to the end zone but more usually understood as the central area around the quarterback directly protected by the offensive line.
pos: noun
examples: For many years, the popular belief among NFL analysts was that the success of an NFL team comes with a quarterback who can stand tall in the pocket and deliver the ball downfield. Members of the elite group of active quarterbacks, Peyton Manning, Tom Brady and Drew Brees, for instance, also earned their reputation by making plays almost exclusively from the pocket.
With some notable exceptions, NFL teams that are successful on dropbacks outside the pocket have tended to win more games
The Pocket Area is the area between the outside edges of the normal tackle positions on each side of the center extending backward to the offensive team's end line. After the ball leaves the pocket area, this area no longer exists.
gloss: An area where military units are completely surrounded by enemy units.
pos: noun
gloss: The position held by a second defensive middle, where an advanced middle must retreat after making a touch on the attacking middle.
pos: noun
examples: Matt Stevens was crumpled by Euan Murray in another scrum, allowing Parks to kick for the corner, and when Richie Gray's clean take from the subsequent line-out set up a series of drives under the posts, Parks was back in the pocket to belt over a drop-goal to make it 9-3 at the interval.
gloss: The unbroken part of a wave that offers the surfer the most power.
pos: noun
gloss: A large bag or sack formerly used for packing various articles, such as ginger, hops, or cowries; the pocket of wool held about 168 pounds.
pos: noun
gloss: A hole or space covered by a movable piece of board, as in a floor, boxing, partitions, etc.
pos: noun
gloss: A cavity in a rock containing a nugget of gold, or other mineral; a small body of ore contained in such a cavity.
pos: noun
gloss: A strip of canvas sewn upon a sail so that a batten or a light spar can placed in the interspace.
pos: noun
gloss: The pouch of an animal.
pos: noun
gloss: The ideal point where the pins are hit by the bowling ball.
pos: noun
gloss: A socket for receiving the base of a post, stake, etc.
pos: noun
gloss: A bight on a lee shore.
pos: noun
gloss: A small space between a tooth and the adjoining gum, formed by an abnormal separation of the two.
pos: noun
gloss: A small, isolated group or area.
pos: noun
examples: They are comfortable trains with decent windows, ideal for observing a line which is one of the last pockets of manually operated crossing gates and semaphore signalling - [...].
gloss: A state achieved with steady, enjoyable drumming.
pos: noun
examples: in the pocket
gloss: To put (something) into a pocket.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: [Y]ou / Did pocket vp my Letters: and with taunts / Did gibe my Miſive out of audience.
[…] I ſtopt ſhort, and, pocketting my ducats in a great hurry, took out ſome rials, approached the hat, that was expoſed for the reception of charity extorted from chriſtians by fear, and dropt them into it, one after another, that the beggar might ſee how nobly I uſed him.
[M]y lord said that she did not flatter at any rate; and pocketted his snuff-box, not desirous that Madame Brack’s dubious fingers should plunge too frequently into his Mackabaw.
She produced a Gillette blade from her coat pocket. / “Where did you get that?” / “Stole it from Mr Taylor!” she said proudly. / “That’s dangerous! You could cut yourself.” / Jemima looked unmoved and pocketted the blade.
gloss: To cause a ball to go into one of the pockets of the table; to complete a shot.
pos: verb
gloss: To take and keep (something, especially money, that is not one's own).
pos: verb
tags: informal
transitive
examples: Record executives pocketed most of the young singer's earnings.
The thief was caught on camera pocketing the diamond.
But, Tom, thy ſelfe art paſt grace; for ſome of thyne owne faction, envying thy proficiencie and honour to which thou aſpireſt, hath pocketted thy grace.
The store manager, a woman in her 50s, saw Sasaki pocket the condoms and detained him at the entrance to the store, while another employee called police.
Under the Shadow GBR, it will be interesting to see how the government resolves the current mismatch whereby the DfT is responsible for spending money, but HM Treasury pockets the cash from train operators.
gloss: To put up with; to bear without complaint.
pos: verb
tags: dated
informal
transitive
examples: As long as the house suffered the practice to prevail, they must submit to pocket the insult of being told that it existed.
gloss: Of a size suitable for putting into a pocket.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: a pocket dictionary
gloss: Smaller or more compact than usual.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: pocket battleship
pocket beach
She ate, drank, worked, danced, and made love in exactly the same way: con brio. She came into the apartment like a pocket hurricane.
“There is never a shortage of pocket [Neville]^([sic]) Chamberlains willing to sacrifice other people’s land for their own peace of mind,” Sikorski said.
gloss: Belonging to the two initial hole cards.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: a pocket pair of kings
Synonyms: backfield
passing pocket
tackle box
Related words: poke
pouch
bag
purse
sack
Derived words: Alabama hot pocket
back-pocket
back pocket
be in the pocket of someone
besom pocket
big pocket
blind pocket
book pocket
breast pocket
burn a hole in someone's pocket
camas pocket gopher
cheat the pocket
cosh pocket
deep pocket
double besom pocket
forepocket
frog in one's pocket
frost pocket
gas pocket
green pocket
Henry's pocket
hindpocket
hip-pocket
hip pocket
hip-pocket client
hip-pocket flask
hip pocket frog
hop pocket
impocket
in one's back pocket
in one's hip pocket
in one's pocket
in pocket
inside pocket
in someone's pocket
in the pocket
in the pocket of someone
is that a gun in your pocket or are you just pleased to see me
is there a mouse in your pocket
kangaroo pocket
love pocket
map pocket
micropocket
Middle Pocket
one-pocket
out of one's own pocket
out of pocket
out-of-pocket
patch pocket
pick-pocket
pill in the pocket
pill pocket
pizza pocket
plum pocket
pocketable
pocket battleship
pocket bike
pocket billiards
pocket-book
pocket book
pocket borough
pocket bra
pocket bread
pocket calculator
pocket call
pocket-call
pocket cartoon
pocket cartoonist
pocket CD
pocket change
pocket clock
pocket computer
pocket dial
pocket-dial
pocket diaper
pocket dictionary
pocket door
pocket edition
pocket-flask
pocketful
pocket gopher
pocket handkerchief
pocket-handkerchief
pocket-hole
pocket-hole jig
pocket-knife
pocket knife
pocketknife
pocket lamp
pocketless
pocketlight
pocket light
pocketlike
pocket litter
pocket melon
pocket money
pocket monster
pocket mouse
pocket nappy
pocket net
pocket pair
pocket park
pocket pet
pocketphone
pocket piece
pocket pistol
pocket plum
pocket-pool
pocket pool
pocket protector
pocketpussy
pocket pussy
pocket rocket
pocket rockets
pocket-sheriff
pocket shrapnel
pocket square
pocket symphony
pocket T
pocket tee
pocket trumpet
pocket T-shirt
pocket universe
pocketwards
pocket-watch
pockety
poly pocket
prison pocket
pseudopocket
punched pocket
punch pocket
put one's hand in one's pocket
putpocket
rot pocket
slash pocket
spiny pocket mouse
spring pocket
stercoral pocket
subpocket
The Pocket
ticket pocket
trouser pocket
unpocket
vest-pocket
watch pocket
water pocket
wetter than an otter's pocket
yellow pocket
you got a mouse in your pocket
pocketability
pocketer
pocket up
repocket
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