pocket
Từ điển Collocation
pocket noun
1 for keeping things in
ADJ. bulging tourists with bulging pockets | deep | zipped | coat, jacket, shirt, trouser, waistcoat, etc. | back, breast, hip, inner, inside, outer, top | door, seat Please read the safety leaflet in the seat pocket in front of you. (= on a plane) | secret Forged passports were found in a secret pocket in the suitcase.
VERB + POCKET feel in, fish in, fumble in, go through, rummage in, search He went through all his pockets looking for his key. | reach in She reached in her pocket and pulled out her phone. | dip into (figurative) Once again club members have had to dip into their pockets (= spend their own money) to buy new equipment. | fish/get/pull/take sth from/out of I fished the number out of my pocket and dialled. | empty, turn out The security guard made them empty their pockets. | put/stuff/thrust sth in/into She stuffed the money into her pocket and walked out. He walked past with his collar turned up and his hands thrust into his pockets. | fill, stuff We filled our pockets with apples. | line (figurative) Dishonest officials have been lining their pockets with public funds. | pick He caught a boy trying to pick his pocket on the bus.
POCKET + VERB bulge My pockets were bulging with loose change.
POCKET + NOUN lining
PREP. in the/your ~ My wallet was in the back pocket of my jeans. | out of the/your ~ He took a few coins out of his pocket.
PHRASES hands in pockets He stood there, hands in pockets. | the lining of a pocket
2 small area/group
ADJ. small | isolated
PHRASES a pocket of resistance Government forces are mopping up the last pockets of resistance.
Từ điển WordNet
n.
- a small pouch inside a garment for carrying small articles
- an enclosed space; pouch, sac, sack
the trapped miners found a pocket of air
- a supply of money
they dipped into the taxpayers' pockets
- (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
- a hollow concave shape made by removing something; scoop
- a local region of low pressure or descending air that causes a plane to lose height suddenly; air pocket, air hole
- 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
- (anatomy) saclike structure in any of various animals (as a marsupial or gopher or pelican); pouch
- an opening at the corner or on the side of a billiard table into which billiard balls are struck
v.
- put in one's pocket
He pocketed the change
- take unlawfully; bag
English Synonym and Antonym Dictionary
pockets|pocketed|pocketing
syn.: accept acquire get load pack receive stow take take in
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