| pocket | | |
| n. (artifact) | 1. pocket | a small pouch inside a garment for carrying small articles. |
| ~ breast pocket | a pocket inside of a man's coat. |
| ~ garment | an article of clothing.; "garments of the finest silk" |
| ~ hip pocket | a pocket in rear of trousers. |
| ~ patch pocket | a flat pocket sewn to the outside of a garment. |
| ~ pocket flap | a flap that covers the access to a pocket. |
| ~ pouch | a small or medium size container for holding or carrying things. |
| ~ 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. |
| n. (shape) | 2. pocket, pouch, sac, sack | an enclosed space.; "the trapped miners found a pocket of air" |
| ~ enclosed space, cavity | space that is surrounded by something. |
| n. (possession) | 3. pocket | a supply of money.; "they dipped into the taxpayers' pockets" |
| ~ cash in hand, finances, funds, monetary resource, pecuniary resource | assets in the form of money. |
| n. (shape) | 4. pocket | (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" |
| ~ 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. |
| ~ space | an empty area (usually bounded in some way between things).; "the architect left space in front of the building"; "they stopped at an open space in the jungle"; "the space between his teeth" |
| n. (shape) | 5. pocket, scoop | a hollow concave shape made by removing something. |
| ~ concave shape, concavity, incurvation, incurvature | a shape that curves or bends inward. |
| n. (phenomenon) | 6. air hole, air pocket, pocket | a local region of low pressure or descending air that causes a plane to lose height suddenly. |
| ~ atmospheric phenomenon | a physical phenomenon associated with the atmosphere. |
| n. (group) | 7. pocket | 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" |
| ~ people | (plural) any group of human beings (men or women or children) collectively.; "old people"; "there were at least 200 people in the audience" |
| n. (body) | 8. pocket, pouch | (anatomy) saclike structure in any of various animals (as a marsupial or gopher or pelican). |
| ~ 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. |
| ~ auricular appendage, auricular appendix, auricula | a pouch projecting from the top front of each atrium of the heart. |
| ~ sac | a structure resembling a bag in an animal. |
| ~ 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. |
| ~ anatomy, general anatomy | the branch of morphology that deals with the structure of animals. |
| n. (artifact) | 9. pocket | an opening at the corner or on the side of a billiard table into which billiard balls are struck. |
| ~ corner pocket | a pocket at the corner of a billiard table. |
| ~ billiard table, pool table, snooker table | game equipment consisting of a heavy table on which pool is played. |
| ~ side pocket | a pocket on the side of a billiard table. |
| ~ opening, gap | an open or empty space in or between things.; "there was a small opening between the trees"; "the explosion made a gap in the wall" |
| v. (possession) | 10. pocket | put in one's pocket.; "He pocketed the change" |
| ~ take | take into one's possession.; "We are taking an orphan from Romania"; "I'll take three salmon steaks" |
| v. (possession) | 11. bag, pocket | take unlawfully. |
| ~ steal | take without the owner's consent.; "Someone stole my wallet on the train"; "This author stole entire paragraphs from my dissertation" |
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