Meaning

21 senses
  1. A bag stitched to an item of clothing, used for carrying small items.

    Tasche, Sack

    карма́нkarmán, карма́шекkarmášek

    кише́няkyšénja

    a small pouch inside a garment for carrying small articles

  2. (broadly)A person's financial resources.

    I paid for it out of my own pocket.

    Tasche

    де́ньгиdénʹgi, сре́дстваsrédstva

  3. 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.

    Loch, Tasche

    лу́заlúza

    лу́заlúza

    an opening at the corner or on the side of a billiard table into which billiard balls are struck

  4. An enclosed volume of one substance surrounded by another.

    The drilling expedition discovered a pocket of natural gas.

    Blase, Insel, Tasche

    an enclosed space

  5. (Australia)An area of land surrounded by a loop of a river.

  6. 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.

  7. 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.

  8. An area where military units are completely surrounded by enemy units.

    Kessel

    котёлkotjól

    каза́нkazán, коте́лkotél

  9. The position held by a second defensive middle, where an advanced middle must retreat after making a touch on the attacking middle.

  10. The unbroken part of a wave that offers the surfer the most power.

  11. 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.

  12. A hole or space covered by a movable piece of board, as in a floor, boxing, partitions, etc.

Examples

918 sentences
  1. Tom has something in his pocket.

    У Тома є щось у кишені.

    deTom hat etwas in seiner Tasche.

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  2. What do you have in your pocket?

    Що у тебе в кишені?

    ruЧто у тебя в кармане?

    deWas hast du in deiner Hosentasche?

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  3. Tom put his keys in his pocket.

    Том поклав ключі до кишені.

    ruТом положил ключи в карман.

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  4. What did Tom have in his pocket?

    Що було у кишені Тома?

    ruЧто было у Тома в кармане?

    deWas hatte Tom in der Tasche?

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  5. Tom put his keys into his pocket.

    Том поклав свої ключі до кишені.

    ruТом положил ключи в карман.

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Translations

9 languages
Українська
By meaning 3
bag stitched to an item of clothing:
billiards: net into which balls are struck:
military: area where military units are completely surrounded by enemy units:
Русский
By meaning 4
bag stitched to an item of clothing:
financial resources:
billiards: net into which balls are struck:
military: area where military units are completely surrounded by enemy units:
Deutsch
By meaning 4
bag stitched to an item of clothing:
billiards: net into which balls are struck:
enclosed volume of one substance surrounded by another:
military: area where military units are completely surrounded by enemy units:

Origin

From Middle English pocket (“bag, sack”), from Anglo-Norman poket, Old Northern French poq

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.

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Forms

plural: pockets
Singularpocket
Pluralpockets

regular

Synonyms

10 synonyms
Close in meaning
  • (anatomy) saclike structure in any of various animals (as a marsupial or gopher or pelican):pouch
  • a local region of low pressure or descending air that causes a plane to lose height suddenly:air pocketair hole
  • a hollow concave shape made by removing something:scoop
  • an enclosed space:pouchsacsack

Word family

107 related words

Collocations

12 patterns
  • in his pocket
  • of his pocket
  • his pocket and
  • in my pocket
  • into his pocket
  • in your pocket
  • pocket and pulled
  • his shirt pocket
  • his pocket for
  • from his pocket
  • his coat pocket
  • pocket for his

See also

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