Pocket

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. isim A bag stitched to an item of clothing, used for carrying small items.

   ““Do I fidget you ?” he asked apologetically, whilst his long bony fingers buried themselves, string, knots, and all, into the capacious pockets of his magnificent tweed ulster.”

2. isim A person's financial resources.

   “I paid for it out of my own pocket.”

3. isim 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. isim An enclosed volume of one substance surrounded by another.

   “The drilling expedition discovered a pocket of natural gas.”

5. isim An area of land surrounded by a loop of a river.
6. isim 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.
7. isim 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.

   “With some notable exceptions, NFL teams that are successful on dropbacks outside the pocket have tended to win more games”

8. isim An area where military units are completely surrounded by enemy units.
9. isim The position held by a second defensive middle, where an advanced middle must retreat after making a touch on the attacking middle.

   “Matt Stevens was crumpled by Euan Murray in another scrum, allowing Parks to kick for the corner, and when Richie Gray's clean take from the subsequent line-out set up a series of drives under the posts, Parks was back in the pocket to belt over a drop-goal to make it 9-3 at the interval.”

10. isim The unbroken part of a wave that offers the surfer the most power.
11. isim 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.
12. isim A hole or space covered by a movable piece of board, as in a floor, boxing, partitions, etc.
13. isim A cavity in a rock containing a nugget of gold, or other mineral; a small body of ore contained in such a cavity.
14. isim A strip of canvas sewn upon a sail so that a batten or a light spar can placed in the interspace.
15. isim The pouch of an animal.
16. isim The ideal point where the pins are hit by the bowling ball.
17. isim A socket for receiving the base of a post, stake, etc.
18. isim A bight on a lee shore.
19. isim A small space between a tooth and the adjoining gum, formed by an abnormal separation of the two.
20. isim A small, isolated group or area.

    “They are comfortable trains with decent windows, ideal for observing a line which is one of the last pockets of manually operated crossing gates and semaphore signalling - [...].”

21. fiil To put (something) into a pocket.

    “[Y]ou / Did pocket vp my Letters: and with taunts / Did gibe my Miſive out of audience.”

22. fiil To cause a ball to go into one of the pockets of the table; to complete a shot.
23. fiil To take and keep (something, especially money, that is not one's own).

    “Record executives pocketed most of the young singer's earnings.”

24. fiil To put up with; to bear without complaint.

    “As long as the house suffered the practice to prevail, they must submit to pocket the insult of being told that it existed.”

25. sıfat Of a size suitable for putting into a pocket.

    “a pocket dictionary”

26. sıfat Smaller or more compact than usual.

    “pocket battleship”

27. sıfat Belonging to the two initial hole cards.

    “a pocket pair of kings”

28. özel isim A surname.

    “I derived from this speech that Mr. Herbert Pocket (for Herbert was the pale young gentleman's name) still rather confounded his intention with his execution.”