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pocket

 
Noun pocket has 9 senses
  1. pocket - a small pouch inside a garment for carrying small articles
    --1 is a kind of
    pouch
    --1 is a part of garment
    --1 has part: pocket flap
    --1 has particulars:
     breast pocket; hip pocket; patch pocket; slash pocket; vest pocket
    Derived forms: verb pocket2, verb pocket1
  2. pouch, sac, sack, pocket - an enclosed space; "the trapped miners found a pocket of air"
    --2 is a kind of cavity, enclosed space
  3. pocket - a supply of money; "they dipped into the taxpayers' pockets"
    --3 is a kind of
    funds, finances, monetary resource, cash in hand, pecuniary resource
  4. pocket - (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"
    --4 is a kind of
    space
  5. scoop, pocket - a hollow concave shape made by removing something
    --5 is a kind of concave shape, concavity, incurvation, incurvature
  6. air pocket, pocket, air hole - a local region of low pressure or descending air that causes a plane to lose height suddenly
    --6 is a kind of atmospheric phenomenon
  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"
    --7 is a kind of
    people
  8. pouch, pocket - (anatomy) saclike structure in any of various animals (as a marsupial or gopher or pelican)
    --8 is a kind of sac
    --8 has particulars:
     gizzard, ventriculus, gastric mill; utricle, utriculus; auricle, atrial auricle, auricula atrii; auricula, auricular appendage, auricular appendix; cheek pouch; marsupium; scrotum
  9. pocket - an opening at the corner or on the side of a billiard table into which billiard balls are struck
    --9 is a kind of
    opening, gap
    --9 is a part of pool table, billiard table, snooker table
    --9 has particulars: corner pocket; side pocket
Verb pocket has 2 senses
  1. pocket - put in one's pocket; "He pocketed the change"
    --1 is one way to
    take
    Derived form: noun pocket1
    Sample sentence:
    They pocket the money
  2. pocket, bag - take unlawfully
    --2 is one way to steal
    Derived form: noun pocket1
    Sample sentence:
    They pocket the money
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