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Sounds | paa'kaht |
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Rhymes | abbot, abut, accredit, and 364 more rhymes in aht at the HyperDic website... |
Meaning | A small pouch inside a garment for carrying small articles. |
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Part of | garment |
Parts | pocket flap |
Narrower | breast pocket; hip pocket; patch pocket; slash pocket; vest pocket |
Broader | pouch |
Verbs | pocket; pocket |
Meaning | An enclosed space. |
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Examples | "the trapped miners found a pocket of air" |
Synonyms | pouch, sac, sack |
Broader | cavity, enclosed space |
Meaning | A supply of money. |
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Examples | "they dipped into the taxpayers' pockets" |
Broader | funds, finances, monetary resource, cash in hand, pecuniary resource |
Meaning | (bowling) the space between the headpin and the pins next bnehind it on the right or left. |
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Examples | "the ball hit the pocket and gave him a perfect strike" |
Category | bowling |
Broader | space |
Meaning | A hollow concave shape made by removing something. |
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Synonyms | scoop |
Broader | concave shape, concavity, incurvation, incurvature |
Meaning | A local region of low pressure or descending air that causes a plane to lose height suddenly. |
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Synonyms | air pocket, air hole |
Broader | atmospheric phenomenon |
Meaning | A small isolated group of people. |
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Examples | "they were concentrated in pockets inside the city"; "the battle was won except for cleaning up pockets of resistance" |
Broader | people |
Meaning | (anatomy) saclike structure in any of various animals (as a marsupial or gopher or pelican). |
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Synonyms | pouch |
Category | anatomy, general anatomy |
Narrower | gizzard, ventriculus, gastric mill; utricle, utriculus; auricle, atrial auricle, auricula atrii; auricula, auricular appendage, auricular appendix; cheek pouch; marsupium; scrotum |
Broader | sac |
Meaning | An opening at the corner or on the side of a billiard table into which billiard balls are struck. |
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Part of | pool table, billiard table, snooker table |
Narrower | corner pocket; side pocket |
Broader | opening, gap |
Meaning | Put in one's pocket. |
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Pattern | Somebody ----s something; Somebody ----s something from somebody |
Model | They pocket the money |
Examples | "He pocketed the change" |
Broader | take |
Nouns |
Meaning | Take unlawfully. |
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Pattern | Somebody ----s something |
Model | They pocket the money |
Synonyms | bag |
Broader | steal |
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