Synonyms of the word pocket


POCKETBAG - CAVITY - CONCAVITY - FINANCES - FUNDS - GAP - INCURVATION - OPENING - PEOPLE - POUCH - SAC - SACK - SCOOP - SPACE - STEAL - TAKE

pocket

  • n. A bag stitched to an item of clothing, used for carrying small items.
  • n. Such a receptacle seen as housing someone's money; hence, financial resources.
  • n. (sports, billiards, pool, snooker) An indention and cavity with a net sack or similar structure (into…
  • n. An enclosed volume of one substance surrounded by another.
  • n. (Australia) An area of land surrounded by a loop of a river.
  • n. (Australian rules football) The area of the field to the side of the goal posts (four pockets in total…
  • n. (American Football) The region directly behind the offensive line in which the quarterback executes plays.
  • n. (military) An area where military units are completely surrounded by enemy units.
  • n. (rugby) The position held by a second defensive middle, where an advanced middle must retreat after making…
  • n. A large bag or sack formerly used for packing various articles, such as ginger, hops, or cowries.
  • n. (architecture) A hole or space covered by a movable piece of board, as in a floor, boxing, partitions,…
  • n. (mining) A cavity in a rock containing a nugget of gold, or other mineral; a small body of ore contained…
  • n. (nautical) A strip of canvas sewn upon a sail so that a batten or a light spar can placed in the interspace.
  • n. The pouch of an animal.
  • n. (bowling) The ideal point where the pins are hit by the bowling ball.
  • n. A socket for receiving the base of a post, stake, etc.
  • n. A bight on a lee shore.
  • n. (dentistry) A small space between a tooth and the adjoining gum, formed by an abnormal separation of the…
  • v. To put (something) into a pocket.
  • v. (sports, billiards, snooker, pool) To cause a ball to go into one of the pockets of the table; to complete…
  • v. (slang) To take and keep (especially money) that which is not one's own.
  • v. (slang) To shoplift, to steal.
  • v. (transitive, obsolete) To receive (an insult, an affront, etc.) without open resentment, or without seeking…
  • adj. Of a size suitable for putting into a pocket.
  • adj. Smaller or more compact than usual.
  • adj. (Texas hold'em poker) Referring to the two initial hole cards.

bag

  • n. A flexible container made of cloth, paper, plastic, etc.
  • n. (informal) A handbag.
  • n. A suitcase.
  • n. A schoolbag, especially a backpack.
  • n. One’s preference.
  • n. (derogatory) An ugly woman.
  • n. (baseball) The cloth-covered pillow used for first, second, and third base.
  • n. (baseball) First, second, or third base.
  • n. (preceded by "the") A breathalyzer, so named because it formerly had a plastic bag over the end to measure…
  • n. (mathematics) A collection of objects, disregarding order, but (unlike a set) in which elements may be…
  • n. A sac in animal bodies, containing some fluid or other substance.
  • n. A sort of silken purse formerly tied about men's hair behind, by way of ornament.
  • n. The quantity of game bagged in a hunt.
  • n. (slang, vulgar) A scrotum.
  • n. (Britain) A unit of measure of cement equal to 94 pounds.
  • v. To put into a bag.
  • v. (informal) To catch or kill, especially when fishing or hunting.
  • v. To gain possession of something, or to make first claim on something.
  • v. (transitive) To furnish or load with a bag.
  • v. (slang, African American Vernacular) To bring a woman one met on the street with one.
  • v. (slang, African American Vernacular) To laugh uncontrollably.
  • v. (Australia, slang) To criticise sarcastically.
  • v. (medicine) To provide artificial ventilation with a bag valve mask (BVM) resuscitator.
  • v. (obsolete, intransitive) To swell or hang down like a full bag.
  • v. To hang like an empty bag.
  • v. (obsolete, intransitive) To swell with arrogance.
  • v. (obsolete, intransitive) To become pregnant.

cavity

  • n. A hole or hollow depression.
  • n. A hollow area within the body (such as the sinuses).
  • n. (dentistry) A soft area in a decayed tooth.

concavity

  • n. (uncountable) The state of being concave.
  • n. (countable) A concave structure or surface.

finances

  • n. plural of finance.
  • n. (plural only) funds or other financial resources.
  • v. Third-person singular simple present indicative form of finance.

funds

  • n. plural of fund.
  • n. Financial resources.
  • v. Third-person singular simple present indicative form of fund.

gap

  • n. An opening in anything made by breaking or parting.
  • n. An opening allowing passage or entrance.
  • n. An opening that implies a breach or defect.
  • n. A vacant space or time.
  • n. A hiatus.
  • n. A mountain or hill pass.
  • n. (Sussex) A sheltered area of coast between two cliffs (mostly restricted to place names).
  • n. (baseball) The regions between the outfielders.
  • n. (Australia, for a medical or pharmacy item) The shortfall between the amount the medical insurer will…
  • n. (Australia) (usually written as "the gap") The disparity between the indigenous and non-indigenous communities…
  • n. (genetics) An unsequenced region in a sequence alignment.
  • v. (transitive) To notch, as a sword or knife.
  • v. (transitive) To make an opening in; to breach.
  • v. (transitive) To check the size of a gap.
  • n. Alternative form of gup (elected head of a gewog in Bhutan).

incurvation

  • n. The act of acquiring or being given a curved form; a curving or bending; any instance of this.
  • n. (obsolete) Bowing in reverence or worship.
  • n. The state of being curved or bent; any curved shape or formation; curvature; a curve; a bend.
  • n. A curving inwards; the condition of being curved inwards.

opening

  • v. present participle of open.
  • n. An act or instance of making or becoming open.
  • n. Something that is open.
  • n. An act or instance of beginning.
  • n. Something that is a beginning.
  • n. A vacant position, especially in an array.
  • n. An opportunity, as in a competitive activity.
  • adj. (cricket) describing the first period of play, usually up to the fall of the first wicket; describing…

people

  • n. Used as plural of person; a body of human beings considered generally or collectively; a group of two…
  • n. (countable) Persons forming or belonging to a particular group, such as a nation, class, ethnic group,…
  • n. A group of persons regarded as being employees, followers, companions or subjects of a ruler.
  • n. One's colleagues or employees.
  • n. A person's ancestors, relatives or family.
  • n. The mass of a community as distinguished from a special class (elite); the commonalty; the populace; the…
  • n. plural of person.
  • v. (transitive) To stock with people or inhabitants; to fill as with people; to populate.
  • v. (intransitive) To become populous or populated.
  • v. (transitive) To inhabit; to occupy; to populate.

pouch

  • n. A small bag usually closed with a drawstring.
  • n. A pocket in which a marsupial carries its young.
  • n. Any pocket or bag-shaped object, such as a cheek pouch.
  • n. (slang, dated, derogatory) A protuberant belly; a paunch.
  • n. A cyst or sac containing fluid.
  • n. (botany) A silicle, or short pod, as of the shepherd's purse.
  • n. A bulkhead in the hold of a vessel, to prevent grain etc. from shifting.
  • v. (transitive) To enclose within a pouch.
  • v. (transitive) To transport within a pouch, especially a diplomatic pouch.
  • v. (of fowls and fish) To swallow.
  • v. (obsolete) To pout.
  • v. (obsolete) To pocket; to put up with.

sac

  • n. A bag or pouch inside a plant or animal that typically contains a fluid.
  • v. (transitive, informal, games) To sacrifice.
  • n. (transitive, informal, games) A sacrifice.
  • n. (Britain, law, obsolete) The privilege, formerly enjoyed by the lord of a manor, of holding courts, trying…

sack

  • n. A bag; especially a large bag of strong, coarse material for storage and handling of various commodities,…
  • n. The amount a sack holds; also, an archaic or historical measure of varying capacity, depending on commodity…
  • n. (uncountable) The plunder and pillaging of a captured town or city.
  • n. (uncountable) Loot or booty obtained by pillage.
  • n. (American football) A successful tackle of the quarterback. See verb sense4 below.
  • n. (baseball) One of the square bases anchored at first base, second base, or third base.
  • n. (informal) Dismissal from employment, or discharge from a position, usually as give (someone) the sack…
  • n. (colloquial, US) Bed; usually as hit the sack or in the sack. See also sack out.
  • n. (dated) (also sacque) A kind of loose-fitting gown or dress with sleeves which hangs from the shoulders,…
  • n. (dated) A sack coat; a kind of coat worn by men, and extending from top to bottom without a cross seam.
  • n. (vulgar, slang) The scrotum.
  • v. To put in a sack or sacks.
  • v. To bear or carry in a sack upon the back or the shoulders.
  • v. To plunder or pillage, especially after capture; to obtain spoils of war from.
  • v. (American football) To tackle, usually to tackle the offensive quarterback behind the line of scrimmage…
  • v. (informal) To discharge from a job or position; to fire.
  • v. (colloquial) In the phrase sack out, to fall asleep. See also hit the sack.
  • n. (dated) A variety of light-colored dry wine from Spain or the Canary Islands; also, any strong white wine…
  • v. Alternative spelling of sac.
  • n. Alternative spelling of sac.

scoop

  • n. Any cup- or bowl-shaped tool, usually with a handle, used to lift and move loose or soft solid material.
  • n. The amount or volume of loose or solid material held by a particular scoop.
  • n. The act of scooping, or taking with a scoop or ladle; a motion with a scoop, as in dipping or shovelling.
  • n. A story or fact; especially, news learned and reported before anyone else.
  • n. (automotive) An opening in a hood/bonnet or other body panel to admit air, usually for cooling the engine.
  • n. The digging attachment on a front-end loader.
  • n. A place hollowed out; a basinlike cavity; a hollow.
  • n. A spoon-shaped surgical instrument, used in extracting certain substances or foreign bodies.
  • n. A special spinal board used by emergency medical service staff that divides laterally to literally scoop…
  • n. A sweep; a stroke; a swoop.
  • v. (transitive) To lift, move, or collect with a scoop or as though with a scoop.
  • v. (transitive) To report on something, especially something worthy of a news article, before (someone else).
  • v. (music, often with "up") To begin a vocal note slightly below the target pitch and then to slide up to…
  • v. To consume an alcoholic beverage.

space

  • n. (heading) Of time.
  • n. (heading) Unlimited or generalized physical extent.
  • n. (heading) A bounded or specific physical extent.
  • v. (obsolete, intransitive) To roam, walk, wander.
  • v. (transitive) To set some distance apart.
  • v. To insert or utilise spaces in a written text.
  • v. (transitive) To eject into outer space, usually without a space suit.

steal

  • v. (transitive) To take illegally, or without the owner's permission, something owned by someone else.
  • v. (transitive, of ideas, words, music, a look, credit, etc.) To appropriate without giving credit or acknowledgement.
  • v. (transitive) To get or effect surreptitiously or artfully.
  • v. (transitive, colloquial) To acquire at a low price.
  • v. (transitive) To draw attention unexpectedly in (an entertainment), especially by being the outstanding…
  • v. (intransitive) To move silently or secretly.
  • v. To withdraw or convey (oneself) clandestinely.
  • v. (transitive, baseball) To advance safely to (another base) during the delivery of a pitch, without the…
  • v. (sports, transitive) To dispossess.
  • v. (humorous, transitive) To acquire; to get.
  • n. The act of stealing.
  • n. A piece of merchandise available at a very attractive price.
  • n. (basketball, ice hockey) A situation in which a defensive player actively takes possession of the ball…
  • n. (baseball) A stolen base.
  • n. (curling) Scoring in an end without the hammer.
  • n. (computing) A policy in database systems that a database follows which allows a transaction to be written…

take

  • v. (transitive) To get into one's hands, possession, or control, with or without force.
  • v. (transitive) To receive or accept (something) (especially something given or bestowed, awarded, etc).
  • v. (transitive) To remove.
  • v. (transitive) To have sex with.
  • v. (transitive) To defeat (someone or something) in a fight.
  • v. (transitive) To grasp or grip.
  • v. (transitive) To select or choose; to pick.
  • v. (transitive) To adopt (select) as one's own.
  • v. (transitive) To carry or lead (something or someone).
  • v. (transitive) To use as a means of transportation.
  • v. (obsolete) To visit; to include in a course of travel.
  • v. (transitive) To obtain for use by payment or lease.
  • v. (transitive) To consume.
  • v. (transitive) To experience, undergo, or endure.
  • v. (transitive) To cause to change to a specified state or condition.
  • v. (transitive) To regard in a specified way.
  • v. (transitive) To conclude or form (a decision or an opinion) in the mind.
  • v. (transitive) To understand (especially in a specified way).
  • v. (transitive) To accept or be given (rightly or wrongly); assume (especially as if by right).
  • v. (transitive) To believe, to accept the statements of.
  • v. (transitive) To assume or suppose; to reckon; to regard or consider.
  • v. (transitive) To draw, derive, or deduce (a meaning from something).
  • v. (transitive) To derive (as a title); to obtain from a source.
  • v. (transitive) To catch or contract (an illness, etc).
  • v. (transitive) To come upon or catch (in a particular state or situation).
  • v. (transitive) To captivate or charm; to gain or secure the interest or affection of.
  • v. (transitive, of cloth, paper, etc) To absorb or be impregnated by (dye, ink, etc); to be susceptible to…
  • v. (transitive, of a ship) To let in (water).
  • v. (transitive) To require.
  • v. (transitive) To proceed to fill.
  • v. (transitive) To fill, to use up (time or space).
  • v. (transitive) To avail oneself of.
  • v. (transitive) To perform, to do.
  • v. (transitive) To assume or perform (a form or role).
  • v. (transitive) To bind oneself by.
  • v. (transitive) To move into.
  • v. (transitive) To go into, through, or along.
  • v. (transitive) To have or take recourse to.
  • v. (transitive) To ascertain or determine by measurement, examination or inquiry.
  • v. (transitive) To write down; to get in, or as if in, writing.
  • v. (transitive) To make (a photograph, film, or other reproduction of something).
  • v. (transitive, dated) To take a picture, photograph, etc of (a person, scene, etc).
  • v. (transitive) To obtain money from, especially by swindling.
  • v. (transitive, now chiefly by enrolling in a class or course) To apply oneself to the study of.
  • v. (transitive) To deal with.
  • v. (transitive) To consider in a particular way, or to consider as an example.
  • v. (transitive, baseball) To decline to swing at (a pitched ball); to refrain from hitting at, and allow…
  • v. (transitive, grammar) To have an be used with (a certain grammatical form, etc).
  • v. (intransitive) To get or accept (something) into one's possession.
  • v. (intransitive) To engage, take hold or have effect.
  • v. (intransitive) To become; to be affected in a specified way.
  • v. (intransitive, possibly dated) To be able to be accurately or beautifully photographed.
  • v. (intransitive, dialectal, proscribed) An intensifier.
  • v. (transitive, obsolete) To deliver, give (something) to (someone).
  • v. (transitive, obsolete outside dialects and slang) To give or deliver (a blow, to someone); to strike or…
  • n. The or an act of taking.
  • n. Something that is taken; a haul.
  • n. An interpretation or view, opinion or assessment; perspective.
  • n. An approach, a (distinct) treatment.
  • n. (film) A scene recorded (filmed) at one time, without an interruption or break; a recording of such a…
  • n. (music) A recording of a musical performance made during an uninterrupted single recording period.
  • n. A visible (facial) response to something, especially something unexpected; a facial gesture in response…
  • n. (medicine) An instance of successful inoculation/vaccination.
  • n. (rugby, cricket) A catch of the ball (in cricket, especially one by the wicket-keeper).
  • n. (printing) The quantity of copy given to a compositor at one time.

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