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pocket

/pok-it/US // ˈpɒk ɪt //UK // (ˈpɒkɪt) //

口袋,袋子,袋装,口袋里

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : a shaped piece of fabric attached inside or outside a garment and forming a pouch used especially for carrying small articles.
    • : a bag or pouch.
    • : means; financial resources: a selection of gifts to fit every pocket.
    • : any pouchlike receptacle, compartment, hollow, or cavity.
    • : an envelope, receptacle, etc., usually of heavy paper and open at one end, used for storing or preserving photographs, stamps, phonograph records, etc.: Each album has 12 pockets.
    • : a recess, as in a wall, for receiving a sliding door, sash weights, etc.
    • : any isolated group, area, element, etc., contrasted, as in status or condition, with a surrounding element or group: pockets of resistance; a pocket of poverty in the central city.
    • : Mining. a small orebody or mass of ore, frequently isolated.a bin for ore or rock storage.a raise or small slope fitted with chute gates.
    • : Billiards, Pool. any of the pouches or bags at the corners and sides of the table.
    • : a position in which a competitor in a race is so hemmed in by others that his or her progress is impeded.
    • : Football. the area from which a quarterback throws a pass, usually a short distance behind the line of scrimmage and protected by a wall of blockers.
    • : Bowling. the space between the headpin and the pin next behind to the left or right, taken as the target for a strike.
    • : Baseball. the deepest part of a mitt or glove, roughly in the area around the center of the palm, where most balls are caught.
    • : Nautical. a holder consisting of a strip of sailcloth sewed to a sail, and containing a thin wooden batten that stiffens the leech of the sail.
    • : Anatomy. any saclike cavity in the body: a pus pocket.
    • : stage pocket.
    • : an English unit of weight for hops equivalent to 168 pounds.
adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : small enough or suitable for carrying in the pocket: a pocket watch.
    • : relatively small; smaller than usual: a pocket war; a pocket country.
v.有主动词 verb
  1. 1
    • : to put into one's pocket: to pocket one's keys.
    • : to take possession of as one's own, often dishonestly: to pocket public funds.
    • : to submit to or endure without protest or open resentment: to pocket an insult.
    • : to conceal or suppress: to pocket one's pride.
    • : to enclose or confine in or as if in a pocket: The town was pocketed in a small valley.
    • : Billiards, Pool. to drive into a pocket.
    • : pocket-veto.
    • : to hem in so as to impede progress, as in racing.

Phrases

  • pocket money
  • pocket veto
  • deep pockets
  • in one's pocket
  • in pocket
  • line one's pockets
  • money burns a hole in one's pocket
  • out of pocket

Synonyms & Antonyms

Examples

  • Place your properly folded mask inside the bag and slip the bag into a pocket while you take a quick mask break.

  • Worn down and chipped from frequent handling, these figurines look like they might have been carried around in pockets or bags.

  • It’s great fuel, and I can cram it in a ski-jacket pocket and eat it on the lift.

  • Why can’t this be a superpower that every developer has in their pocket.

  • On every trip that involves wildlife, I have a secret urge to pocket the animals and take them home.

  • I was already over forty, had hardly a nickel in my pocket and this was the biggest break in my life.

  • It had a wide brim and a tall crown, which created an insulated pocket of air and could also be used to carry water.

  • This leaves thousands of women at companies across the United States left to pay out of pocket for their birth control.

  • One African American woman brandished a pocket-sized copy of the Constitution while marching.

  • Being dapper is all about attention to detail, like sporting a perfectly tucked handkerchief in your suit pocket.

  • The young man smiled at the girl, as he crushed up the notes and stuffed them into his pocket.

  • Down in his galleries and chambers where it was dark as a pocket Grandfather Mole enjoyed himself thoroughly.

  • Absently his hands wandered through the pockets, and found his purse and the money in an outside pocket.

  • “Of course we know it, sir,” rejoined Fogg, slapping his pocket—perhaps by accident.

  • Thinking it was a request for employment which he could not offer, Malcolm stuffed it carelessly into a pocket.