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| 释义 | pocket (once / 82 pages) 1nv 2n 3n 4n A pocket is a kind of pouch that's sewn into your clothes. If you are worried about your ink pen leaking in your shirt pocket, then you might spring for a pocket protector. Nice look! You can keep things like your keys in a pocket, or you can use your pockets to keep your hands warm. Jackets and jeans have pockets, and so do kangaroos and pool tables. In the case of kangaroos, it's a handy pouch in a mother's belly where she can keep a baby kangaroo warm and comfortable. And when you shoot pool, you aim for the pockets. As a verb, pocket can literally mean "put into your pocket," or more figuratively, "steal money." To be "in someone's pocket" is to be under their control or influence. WORD FAMILYpocket: pocketable, pocketed, pocketful, pocketing, pockets+/pocketful: pocketfuls USAGE EXAMPLESBuyers of a four-bedroom family home in London need deep pockets - but perhaps not as cavernous as a year ago. BBC(Jan 02, 2017) “The end of the world,” Cara Todd said as she walked through pockets of celebrating Giants fans at FedEx Field. Washington Post(Jan 01, 2017) Down by a field goal late in the fourth, Cousins moved forward in the pocket to throw over the middle toward Pierre Garcon. Washington Times(Jan 01, 2017) 1 1n a small pouch inside a garment for carrying small articles Hypo|Hyper breast pocket a pocket inside of a man's coat hip pocketa pocket in rear of trousers patch pocketa flat pocket sewn to the outside of a garment slash pocketa pocket in a garment (usually below the waist) to which access is provided by a vertical or diagonal slit in the outside of the garment vest pocketa small pocket in a man's vest fob, watch pocketa vest pocket to hold a pocket watch pouch a small or medium size container for holding or carrying things 2n (anatomy) saclike structure in any of various animals (as a marsupial or gopher or pelican) Syn|Hypo|Hyper pouch gastric mill, gizzard, ventriculus thick-walled muscular pouch below the crop in many birds and reptiles for grinding food utricle, utriculusa small pouch into which the semicircular canals open atrial auricle, auricle, auricula atriia small conical pouch projecting from the upper anterior part of each atrium of the heart auricula, auricular appendage, auricular appendixa pouch projecting from the top front of each atrium of the heart cheek poucha membranous pouch inside the mouth of many rodents (as a gopher) marsupiuman external abdominal pouch in most marsupials where newborn offspring are suckled scrotumthe external pouch that contains the testes sac a structure resembling a bag in an animal 3n a supply of money they dipped into the taxpayers' pockets Hyper cash in hand, finances, funds, monetary resource, pecuniary resource assets in the form of money 4v put in one's pocket He pocketed the change Hyper take take into one's possession 5v take unlawfully 2Syn|Hyper bag steal take without the owner's consent 1n an enclosed space the trapped miners found a pocket of air Syn|Hyper pouch, sac, sack cavity, enclosed space space that is surrounded by something 2n a hollow concave shape made by removing something Syn|Hyper scoop concave shape, concavity, incurvation, incurvature a shape that curves or bends inward 3n a local region of low pressure or descending air that causes a plane to lose height suddenly 3Syn|Hyper air hole, air pocket atmospheric phenomenon a physical phenomenon associated with the atmosphere 1n (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 Hyper space an empty area (usually bounded in some way between things) 2n an opening at the corner or on the side of a billiard table into which billiard balls are struck 4Hypo|Hyper corner pocket a pocket at the corner of a billiard table side pocketa pocket on the side of a billiard table gap, opening an open or empty space in or between things n 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 Hyper people (plural) any group of human beings (men or women or children) collectively |
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