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POCKET

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 I. (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 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)

Sense 3

Meaning:

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

Synonyms:

pocket; pouch

Classified under:

Nouns denoting body parts

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 4

Meaning:

A small isolated group of people

Example:

the battle was won except for cleaning up pockets of resistance

Classified under:

Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects

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

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

Sense 5

Meaning:

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

Synonyms:

air hole; air pocket; pocket

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural phenomena

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

atmospheric phenomenon (a physical phenomenon associated with the atmosphere)

Sense 6

Meaning:

A supply of money

Example:

they dipped into the taxpayers' pockets

Classified under:

Nouns denoting possession and transfer of possession

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

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

Sense 7

Meaning:

A hollow concave shape made by removing something

Synonyms:

pocket; scoop

Classified under:

Nouns denoting two and three dimensional shapes

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

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

Sense 8

Meaning:

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

Example:

the ball hit the pocket and gave him a perfect strike

Classified under:

Nouns denoting two and three dimensional shapes

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 9

Meaning:

An enclosed space

Example:

the trapped miners found a pocket of air

Synonyms:

pocket; pouch; sac; sack

Classified under:

Nouns denoting two and three dimensional shapes

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

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

 II. (verb) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Put in one's pocket

Example:

He pocketed the change

Classified under:

Verbs of buying, selling, owning

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

Synonyms:

bag; pocket

Classified under:

Verbs of buying, selling, owning

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)

Credits

 Context examples: 

It was a tiny house, with a little garden behind and a lawn about as big as a pocket handkerchief in the front.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

Signaling effectors containing binding pockets for pY-containing peptides are recruited to activated receptors and induce the various signaling pathways.

(ERBB Family Signaling Pathway, NCI Thesaurus/KEGG)

A question about whether an individual has or had pockets of fluid develop.

(Have Pockets of Fluid Develop, NCI Thesaurus)

Imatinib binds to an intracellular pocket located within tyrosine kinases (TK), thereby inhibiting ATP binding and preventing phosphorylation and the subsequent activation of growth receptors and their downstream signal transduction pathways.

(Imatinib mesylate, NCI Thesaurus)

Mr. Quinion, with his hands in his pockets, stood looking out of window; and I stood looking at them all.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

I kept, among other little necessaries, a pair of spectacles in a private pocket, which, as I observed before, had escaped the emperor’s searchers.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

I bent over and took it from his pocket.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

And what do you think they found in the pockets?

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

When I had written in my diary and had fortunately replaced the book and pen in my pocket I felt sleepy.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

Nesbuvir binds to the palm site II pocket of HCV NS5B polymerase and inhibits viral genome replication.

(Nesbuvir, NCI Thesaurus)