\pˈɒkɪt], \pˈɒkɪt], \p_ˈɒ_k_ɪ_t]\
Definitions of POCKET
- 2006 - WordNet 3.0
- 2011 - English Dictionary Database
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
- 1920 - A practical medical dictionary.
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 1894 - The Clarendon dictionary
- 1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
- 1914 - Nuttall's Standard dictionary of the English language
- 1874 - Etymological and pronouncing dictionary of the English language
- 1871 - The Cabinet Dictionary of the English Language
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a local region of low pressure or descending air that causes a plane to lose height suddenly
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a supply of money; "they dipped into the taxpayers' pockets"
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a hollow concave shape made by removing something
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put in one's pocket; "He pocketed the change"
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a small pouch inside a garment for carrying small articles
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an opening at the corner or on the side of a billiard table into which billiard balls are struck
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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"
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(bowling) the space between the headpin and the pins next bnehind it on the right or left; "the ball hit the pocket and gave him a perfect strike"
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an enclosed space; "the trapped miners found a pocket of air"
By Princeton University
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a local region of low pressure or descending air that causes a plane to lose height suddenly
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a small pouch in a garment for carrying small articles
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a supply of money; "they dipped into the taxpayers' pockets"
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a hollow concave shape made by removing something
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put in one's pocket; "He pocketed the change"
By DataStellar Co., Ltd
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Any hollow place suggestive of a pocket in form or use;
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A bin for storing coal, grain, etc.
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A bight on a lee shore.
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A bag or pouch; especially; a small bag inserted in a garment for carrying small articles, particularly money; hence, figuratively, money; wealth.
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One of several bags attached to a billiard table, into which the balls are driven.
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A large bag or sack used in packing various articles, as ginger, hops, cowries, etc.
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A hole or space covered by a movable piece of board, as in a floor, boxing, partitions, or the like.
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A cavity in a rock containing a nugget of gold, or other mineral; a small body of ore contained in such a cavity.
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A hole containing water.
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A strip of canvas, sewn upon a sail so that a batten or a light spar can placed in the interspace.
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Same as Pouch.
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To put, or conceal, in the pocket; as, to pocket the change.
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To take clandestinely or fraudulently.
By Oddity Software
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Any hollow place suggestive of a pocket in form or use;
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A bin for storing coal, grain, etc.
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A bight on a lee shore.
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A bag or pouch; especially; a small bag inserted in a garment for carrying small articles, particularly money; hence, figuratively, money; wealth.
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One of several bags attached to a billiard table, into which the balls are driven.
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A large bag or sack used in packing various articles, as ginger, hops, cowries, etc.
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A hole or space covered by a movable piece of board, as in a floor, boxing, partitions, or the like.
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A cavity in a rock containing a nugget of gold, or other mineral; a small body of ore contained in such a cavity.
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A hole containing water.
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A strip of canvas, sewn upon a sail so that a batten or a light spar can placed in the interspace.
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Same as Pouch.
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To put, or conceal, in the pocket; as, to pocket the change.
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To take clandestinely or fraudulently.
By Noah Webster.
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To put in a pocket; to take unlawfully, as money; to receive (an insult), without showing any feeling.
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
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1. A cul-de-sac or pouch-like cavity. 2. An abnormal space between the gum and the root of a tooth. 3. A collection of pus in a nearly closed sac. 4. To enclose the stump of the pedicle of an ovarian or other abdominal tumor between the lips of the external wound.
By Stedman, Thomas Lathrop
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A little pouch or bag, esp. one attached to a dress.
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To put in the pocket: to take stealthily:-pr.p. pocketing; pa.t. and pa.p. pocketed.
By Daniel Lyons
By William Hand Browne, Samuel Stehman Haldeman
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To put into a pocket; appropriate; accept, as an insult without resentment.
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A pouch attached to a garment; a cavity, opening, or receptacle.
By James Champlin Fernald
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A small bag inserted in a garment for carrying small articles; a small bag or net to receive the balls at billiards; a certain quantity, as of hops.
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To conceal in the pocket; to take clandestinely. To pocket an insult, &c., to receive it without resenting it.
By Nuttall, P.Austin.
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HEREDITAMENTS
- Tilings capable of being inherited, be it corporeal or incorporeal,real, personal, mixed, and including not only lands everything thereon, but alsolieir-looms, certain furniture which, by custom, may descend to the heir togetherwith (he land. Co. Litt. 5b; 2 Bl. Comm. 17; Nell is v. Munson, 108 N. Y. 453, 15 E.730; Owens Lewis, 40 Ind. 508, Am. Rep. 205; Whitlock Greacen. 4S J. Eq.350. 21 Atl. 944; Mitchell Warner, 5 Conn. 407; New York Mabie, 13 150, 04Am. Dec. 53S. Estates. Anything capable of being inherited, be it corporeal or incorporeal, real, personal, mixed and including not only lands everything thereon, but also heir looms, certain furniture which, by custom, may descend to the heir, together with land. Co. Litt. 5 b; 1 Tho. 219; 2 Bl. Com. 17. this term such things are denoted, as subject-matter inheritance, inheritance itself; cannot therefore, its own intrinsic force, enlarge an estate, prima facie a life into fee. B. & P. 251; 8 T. R. 503; 219, note Hereditaments are divided into corporeal and incorporeal. confined to lands. (q. v.) Vide Incorporeal hereditaments, Shep. To. 91; Cruise's Dig. tit. 1, s. 1; Wood's Inst.221; 3 Kent, Com. 321; Dane's Ab. Index, h.t.; 1 Chit. Pr. 203-229; 2 Bouv. Inst. n. 1595, et seq.