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noun- 1.
(clothing) A bag stitched to an item of clothing, used for carrying small items.
- 2.
(broadly)(by extension) A person's financial resources.
I paid for it out of my own pocket.
Đồng nghĩa: pocketbook
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(sports, billiards, pool, snooker) An indention and cavity with a net sack or similar structure (into which the balls are to be struck) at each corner and one centered on each side of a pool or snooker table.
- 4.
An enclosed volume of one substance surrounded by another.
The drilling expedition discovered a pocket of natural gas.
- 5.
(Australia)An area of land surrounded by a loop of a river.
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(Australian rules football) The area of the field to the side of the goal posts (four pockets in total on the field, one to each side of the goals at each end of the ground). The pocket is only a roughly defined area, extending from the behind post, at an angle, to perhaps about 30 meters out.
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(American football) The area behind the line of scrimmage subject to certain rules regarding intentional grounding, illegal contact, etc., formally extending to the end zone but more usually understood as the central area around the quarterback directly protected by the offensive line.
For many years, the popular belief among NFL analysts was that the success of an NFL team comes with a quarterback who can stand tall in the pocket and deliver the ball downfield. Members of the elite group of active quarterbacks, Peyton Manning, Tom Brady and Drew Brees, for instance, also earned their reputation by making plays almost exclusively from the pocket.
With some notable exceptions, NFL teams that are successful on dropbacks outside the pocket have tended to win more games
The Pocket Area is the area between the outside edges of the normal tackle positions on each side of the center extending backward to the offensive team's end line. After the ball leaves the pocket area, this area no longer exists.
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(military) An area where military units are completely surrounded by enemy units.
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(rugby) The position held by a second defensive middle, where an advanced middle must retreat after making a touch on the attacking middle.
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(surfing) The unbroken part of a wave that offers the surfer the most power.
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A large bag or sack formerly used for packing various articles, such as ginger, hops, or cowries; the pocket of wool held about 168 pounds.
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(architecture) A hole or space covered by a movable piece of board, as in a floor, boxing, partitions, etc.
Động từ
verb- 1.
(transitive)To put (something) into a pocket.
- 2.
(billiards, snooker, pool) To cause a ball to go into one of the pockets of the table; to complete a shot.
- 3.
(informal, transitive)To take and keep (something, especially money, that is not one's own).
Record executives pocketed most of the young singer's earnings.
The thief was caught on camera pocketing the diamond.
- 4.
(dated, informal, transitive)To put up with; to bear without complaint.
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adjective- 1.
(not comparable)Of a size suitable for putting into a pocket.
a pocket dictionary
- 2.
(not comparable)Smaller or more compact than usual.
pocket battleship
pocket beach
- 3.
(not comparable)(Texas hold'em poker) Belonging to the two initial hole cards.
a pocket pair of kings
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From Middle English pocket (bag, sack), from poket, poquet, poquete, diminutive of poque, poke (bag, sack) (compare modern Norman pouquette and modern French pochette from Old French pochete, from puche), from *pokō (pouch), from Proto-Germanic *puhô (bag; pouch), from Proto-Indo-European *bew- (to blow, swell). Equivalent to poke + --et. pochette.