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Cosa (chi) è pocket - definizione

SMALL COMPARTMENT IN CLOTHING WHERE MINOR OBJECTS CAN BE CARRIED INSIDE
Fob pocket; Pockets; Pocket packet; Snap pocket; Besom pocket; Clear pocket; Trouser pocket; Trouser-pocket; Trouserpocket; Trouserpockets; Trouser-pockets; Trouser pockets; Camp pockets; Patch pocket; Welt pocket; Flap pocket; Pouch pocket; Beer pocket; Watch pocket; Change pocket; Front pocket
  • Patch pocket with [[topstitch]]ing and [[bar tack]]ing on the back of a pair of blue jeans.
  • siligo wheat]] in a ''[[Tacuinum Sanitatis]]''
  • 18th-century woman's hanging pocket

Pocket         
·noun A hole containing water.
II. Pocket ·add. ·noun A bight on a lee shore.
III. Pocket ·vt To take clandestinely or fraudulently.
IV. Pocket ·noun ·same·as Pouch.
V. Pocket ·add. ·noun A bin for storing coal, grain, ·etc.
VI. Pocket ·vt To put, or conceal, in the pocket; as, to pocket the change.
VII. Pocket ·add. ·noun A socket for receiving the foot of a post, stake, ·etc.
VIII. Pocket ·add. ·noun Any hollow place suggestive of a pocket in form or use;.
IX. Pocket ·noun One of several bags attached to a billiard table, into which the balls are driven.
X. Pocket ·noun A large bag or sack used in packing various articles, as ginger, hops, cowries, ·etc.
XI. Pocket ·noun A strip of canvas, sewn upon a sail so that a batten or a light spar can placed in the interspace.
XII. Pocket ·noun A hole or space covered by a movable piece of board, as in a floor, boxing, partitions, or the like.
XIII. Pocket ·noun A cavity in a rock containing a nugget of gold, or other mineral; a small body of ore contained in such a cavity.
XIV. Pocket ·noun A bag or pouch; especially; a small bag inserted in a garment for carrying small articles, particularly money; hence, figuratively, money; wealth.
pocket         
I. n.
Pouch.
II. v. a.
(Colloq.) Endure (as an affront), suffer, bear, tolerate, put up with.
pocket         
(pockets, pocketing, pocketed)
Frequency: The word is one of the 3000 most common words in English.
1.
A pocket is a kind of small bag which forms part of a piece of clothing, and which is used for carrying small things such as money or a handkerchief.
He took his flashlight from his jacket pocket and switched it on...
The man stood with his hands in his pockets.
N-COUNT: oft poss N, n N
2.
You can use pocket in a lot of different ways to refer to money that people have, get, or spend. For example, if someone gives or pays a lot of money, you can say that they dig deep into their pocket. If you approve of something because it is very cheap to buy, you can say that it suits people's pockets.
...ladies' fashions to suit all shapes, sizes and pockets...
N-COUNT
3.
You use pocket to describe something that is small enough to fit into a pocket, often something that is a smaller version of a larger item.
...a pocket calculator.
...my pocket edition of the Oxford English Dictionary.
ADJ: ADJ n
4.
A pocket of something is a small area where something is happening, or a small area which has a particular quality, and which is different from the other areas around it.
He survived the earthquake after spending 3 days in an air pocket...
The army controls the city apart from a few pockets of resistance.
N-COUNT: usu N of n
5.
If someone who is in possession of something valuable such as a sum of money pockets it, they steal it or take it for themselves, even though it does not belong to them.
Dishonest importers would be able to pocket the VAT collected from customers.
VERB: V n
6.
If you say that someone pockets something such as a prize or sum of money, you mean that they win or obtain it, often without needing to make much effort or in a way that seems unfair. (JOURNALISM)
He pocketed more money from this tournament than in his entire three years as a professional.
VERB: V n
7.
If someone pockets something, they put it in their pocket, for example because they want to steal it or hide it.
Anthony snatched his letters and pocketed them...
VERB: V n
8.
If you say that someone is in someone else's pocket, you disapprove of the fact that the first person is willing to do whatever the second person tells them, for example out of weakness or in return for money.
The board of directors must surely have been in Johnstone's pocket.
PHRASE: usu v-link PHR [disapproval]
9.
If you say that someone is lining their own or someone else's pockets, you disapprove of them because they are making money dishonestly or unfairly.
It is estimated that 5,000 bank staff could be lining their own pockets from customer accounts.
PHRASE: V inflects [disapproval]
10.
If you are out of pocket, you have less money than you should have or than you intended, for example because you have spent too much or because of a mistake.
They were well out of pocket-they had spent far more in Hollywood than he had earned...
PHRASE: v-link PHR, PHR after v
see also out-of-pocket
11.
If someone picks your pocket, they steal something from your pocket, usually without you noticing.
They were more in danger of having their pockets picked than being shot at.
PHRASE: V and N inflect

Wikipedia

Pocket

A pocket is a bag- or envelope-like receptacle either fastened to or inserted in an article of clothing to hold small items. Pockets are also attached to luggage, backpacks, and similar items. In older usage, a pocket was a separate small bag or pouch.

Esempi dal corpus di testo per pocket
1. "So the Pakistani government made money twice, from our pocket and from your pocket," he told the military panel.
2. Still don‘t fancy Livingstone picking your pocket?
3. "I‘m always paying, never making / But you can‘t look back." Its end, frenziedly shouted along to at the band‘s gigs, runs thus: "There‘s a hole in my pocket, my pocket, my pocket ..." Then there is the matter of work.
4. Out of pocket "This has effectively left us out of pocket making it impossible to actually replace all the lost jewellery.
5. One contractor believed someone had placed two of the quarters in an outer coat pocket after the contractor had emptied the pocket hours earlier.