English Dictionary

pocket

IPA（発音記号）

/ˈpɑkɪt/

名詞

オーストラリア英語

A bag stitched to an item of clothing, used for carrying small items. / Such a receptacle seen as housing someone's money; hence, financial resources.

日本語の意味

衣服に縫い付けられて、小物を入れるための袋 / （比喩的な意味）お金を入れている場所、あるいは経済的資源

He slipped the concert ticket into his pocket before the show started.

彼はコンサートのチケットをショーが始まる前にジャケットのポケットに入れた。

意味（1）

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.

意味（2）

Such a receptacle seen as housing someone's money; hence, financial resources.

I paid for it out of my own pocket.

意味（3）

(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.

意味（4）

An enclosed volume of one substance surrounded by another.

She knew from avalanche safety courses that outstretched hands might puncture the ice surface and alert rescuers. She knew that if victims ended up buried under the snow, cupped hands in front of the face could provide a small pocket of air for the mouth and nose. Without it, the first breaths could create a suffocating ice mask.

意味（5）

(Australia) An area of land surrounded by a loop of a river.

意味（6）

(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.

意味（7）

(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.

意味（8）

(military) An area where military units are completely surrounded by enemy units.

意味（9）

(rugby) 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.

意味（10）

(surfing) The unbroken part of a wave that offers the surfer the most power.

意味（11）

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.

意味（12）

(architecture) A hole or space covered by a movable piece of board, as in a floor, boxing, partitions, etc.

意味（13）

(mining) A cavity in a rock containing a nugget of gold, or other mineral; a small body of ore contained in such a cavity.

意味（14）

(nautical) A strip of canvas sewn upon a sail so that a batten or a light spar can placed in the interspace.

意味（15）

The pouch of an animal.

意味（16）

(bowling) The ideal point where the pins are hit by the bowling ball.

意味（17）

A socket for receiving the base of a post, stake, etc.

意味（18）

A bight on a lee shore.

意味（19）

(dentistry) A small space between a tooth and the adjoining gum, formed by an abnormal separation of the two.

意味（20）

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 - ….

pockets （ plural ）