pocket meaning

Noun: pocket  pókit

1. A small pouch inside a garment for carrying small articles 
2. An enclosed space
   "the trapped miners found a pocket of air"
   - pouch, sac, sack 
3. A supply of money
   "they dipped into the taxpayers' pockets" 
4. (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" 
5. A hollow concave shape made by removing something
   - scoop 
6. A local region of low pressure or descending air that causes a plane to lose height suddenly
   - air pocket, air hole 
7. 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" 
8. (anatomy) saclike structure in any of various animals (as a marsupial or gopher or pelican)
   - pouch 
9. An opening at the corner or on the side of a billiard table into which billiard balls are struck

Verb: pocket  pókit

1. Put in one's pocket
   "He pocketed the change" 
2. Take unlawfully
   - bag

Derived forms: pocketed, pockets, pocketing

Type of: atmospheric phenomenon, cash in hand, cavity, concave shape, concavity, enclosed space, finances, funds, gap, incurvation, incurvature, monetary resource, opening, pecuniary resource, people, pouch, sac, space, steal, take

Part of: billiard table, garment, pool table, snooker table

Encyclopedia: Pocket Pocket, Sacramento, Califorina Pocket, Sacramento, California

[Architecture]
1.

A recess in masonry to receive the end of a beam.

2.

The slot in the pulley stile of a double-hung window frame, through which the sash weight is passed into the sash weight channel; a sash pocket.

3.

A recess at the head or jamb of a wall opening to receive a curtain.

4.

A recess in the interior jamb of a window to receive a folding shutter when open.

5.

A recess in a wall to receive a folding door in the open position.

6.

See stage pocket.

7.

A well-defined opening between the annual rings which develops during the growth of a tree.

[Business]
AmE / noun, verb, adjective

■ noun [C, usually sing.]

OUT-OF-POCKET

the amount of money that a person, an organization or a government has available to spend:

London has hotels to suit every pocket.

Employees pay for small items from their own pockets and then claim the money back.

SYN PURSE

IDIOMS

out of pocket (especially BrE)

having lost money as a result of sth:

The collapse of the company has left thousands of investors out of pocket.

After paying legal costs, they were $50 000 out of pocket.

BURN, DEEP adj., DEEP adv., DIP verb, FILL, LINE verb, HAND noun

■ verb [+ obj]

1

to earn or win an amount of money:

He pocketed a profit of $6 million from the deal.

2

to take or keep sth, especially an amount of money, in an illegal or a dishonest way; to steal sth:

He regularly charges passengers more than the normal fare and pockets the difference.

■ adjective [only before noun]

used to describe sth that is very small or small enough to be put and carried in a pocket:

a pocket pager/organizer/dictionary

You can use a pocket PC to send and receive email.

⇨ POCKET-SIZED

[Medicine]
n : a small cavity or space; esp : an abnormal cavity formed in diseased tissue ‹a gingival pocket›

Examples

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1. she stitched a pocket on the new apron.
2. i mean big money, not pocket change.
3. she took from her pocket a little purse.
4. he put his injured finger into his pocket.
5. he felt in his pocket for some money.