different between pocket vs cave
English
Etymology
From Middle English pocket (“bag, sack”), from Anglo-Norman poket, Old Northern French poquet, poquete, diminutive of poque, poke (“bag, sack”) (compare modern French pochette from Old French pochete, from puche), from Frankish *poka (“pouch”), from Proto-Germanic *pukkô, *pukô (“bag; pouch”), from Proto-Indo-European *bew- (“to blow, swell”). Cognate with Middle Dutch poke, Alemannic German Pfoch (“purse, bag”), Old English pocca, pohha (“poke, pouch, pocket, bag”), Old Norse poki (“bag, pocket”). Compare the related poke ("sack or bag"). See also Modern French pochette and Latin bucca.
Pronunciation
- (General American) IPA(key): /?p?k?t/
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /?p?k?t/
- Hyphenation: pock?et
- Rhymes: -?k?t
Noun
pocket (plural pockets)
- 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.
- I paid for it out of my own pocket.
- 2012, Simon Heffer, "In Fagin's Footsteps", Literary Review, 403:
- There was, for much of the period, no cheap public transport; and even the Underground, or one of Shillibeer's horse-drawn omnibuses, was beyond the pocket of many of the poor.
- (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.
- 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.
- (Australia) An area of land surrounded by a loop of a river.
- (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.
- (American football) The region directly behind the offensive line in which the quarterback executes plays.
- (military) An area where military units are completely surrounded by enemy units.
- (rugby) The position held by a second defensive middle, where an advanced middle must retreat after making a touch on the attacking middle.
- 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.
- (architecture) A hole or space covered by a movable piece of board, as in a floor, boxing, partitions, etc.
- (mining) A cavity in a rock containing a nugget of gold, or other mineral; a small body of ore contained in such a cavity.
- (nautical) A strip of canvas sewn upon a sail so that a batten or a light spar can placed in the interspace.
- The pouch of an animal.
- (bowling) The ideal point where the pins are hit by the bowling ball.
- A socket for receiving the base of a post, stake, etc.
- A bight on a lee shore.
- (dentistry) A small space between a tooth and the adjoining gum, formed by an abnormal separation of the two.
- A small, isolated group or area.
Derived terms
Related terms
- poke
Translations
Further reading
- Pocket in the Encyclopædia Britannica (11th edition, 1911)
Verb
pocket (third-person singular simple present pockets, present participle pocketing, simple past and past participle pocketed)
- (transitive) To put (something) into a pocket.
- (sports, billiards, snooker, pool) To cause a ball to go into one of the pockets of the table; to complete a shot.
- (transitive, slang) To take and keep (something, especially money that is not one's own).
- Record executives pocketed most of the young singer's earnings.
- (transitive, slang) To shoplift; to steal. (Can we add an example for this sense?)
- The thief was caught on camera pocketing the diamond.
- (transitive, slang, dated) To put up with; to bear without complaint.
- 1810, Great Britain. Parliament, The Parliamentary Register (page 557)
- As long as the house suffered the practice to prevail, they must submit to pocket the insult of being told that it existed.
- 1810, Great Britain. Parliament, The Parliamentary Register (page 557)
Synonyms
- (in billiards, etc): pot
- (take and keep, etc): trouser
Derived terms
- pocket up
Translations
Adjective
pocket (not comparable)
- Of a size suitable for putting into a pocket.
- a pocket dictionary
- Smaller or more compact than usual.
- pocket battleship, pocket beach
- 1990, Stephen King, The Moving Finger
- She ate, drank, worked, danced, and made love in exactly the same way: con brio. She came into the apartment like a pocket hurricane.
- (Texas hold'em poker) Referring to the two initial hole cards.
- a pocket pair of kings
Synonyms
- (of a size suitable for a pocket): pocket-size, pocket-sized
Translations
Derived terms
See also
- bag
- pouch
- purse
- sack
References
- “pocket”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–present.
Cornish
Noun
pocket m (plural pocketow or pocketys)
Dutch
Etymology
Borrowed from English pocket.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?p?.k?t/
- Hyphenation: poc?ket
Noun
pocket m (plural pockets)
- A pocket book, a portable book of compact size, usually a paperback.
Derived terms
- pocketwoordenboek
Swedish
Noun
pocket c
- paperback; book with flexible binding
Declension
Synonyms
- pocketbok
Yola
Alternative forms
- pucket
Etymology
(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)
Noun
- a lump of bread
References
- Jacob Poole (1867) , William Barnes, editor, A glossary, with some pieces of verse, of the old dialect of the English colony in the baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, J. Russell Smith, ?ISBN
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cave
English
Etymology 1
From Middle English, borrowed from Old French cave, from Latin cava (“cavity”), from cavus (“hollow”). Cognate with Tocharian B throat (kor), Albanian cup (“odd, uneven”), Ancient Greek ???? (kúar, “eye of needle, earhole”), Old Armenian ??? (sor, “hole”), Sanskrit ????? (??nya, “empty, barren, zero”). Displaced native Old English s?ræf.
Pronunciation
- enPR: k?v, IPA(key): /ke?v/
- Rhymes: -e?v
Noun
cave (plural caves)
- A large, naturally-occurring cavity formed underground or in the face of a cliff or a hillside.
- A hole, depression, or gap in earth or rock, whether natural or man-made.
- A storage cellar, especially for wine or cheese.
- A place of retreat, such as a man cave.
- (caving) A naturally-occurring cavity in bedrock which is large enough to be entered by an adult.
- (nuclear physics) A shielded area where nuclear experiments can be carried out.
- (drilling, uncountable) Debris, particularly broken rock, which falls into a drill hole and interferes with drilling.
- (mining) A collapse or cave-in.
- (figuratively, also slang) The vagina.
- (slang, politics, often "Cave") A group that breaks from a larger political party or faction on a particular issue.
- (obsolete) Any hollow place, or part; a cavity.
- (programming) A code cave.
Synonyms
- earthhole
Derived terms
- cave dweller
- caveman
- cave painting
- cavewoman
- seacave
Translations
Verb
cave (third-person singular simple present caves, present participle caving, simple past and past participle caved)
- To surrender.
- To collapse.
- To hollow out or undermine.
- To engage in the recreational exploration of caves.
- Synonym: spelunk
- (mining) In room-and-pillar mining, to extract a deposit of rock by breaking down a pillar which had been holding it in place.
- (mining, obsolete) To work over tailings to dress small pieces of marketable ore.
- (obsolete) To dwell in a cave.
Derived terms
- block caving
- cave in
- caver
- caving hammer
Translations
Etymology 2
Borrowed from Latin cav?, second-person singular present active imperative of cave? (“to beware”). Used at Eton College, Berkshire.
Pronunciation
- enPR: k??v?, IPA(key): /?ke?vi/
- Rhymes: -e?vi
- Homophone: cavy
Interjection
cave
- (Britain, school slang) look out!; beware!
Synonyms
- heads up, look out, watch it, see also Thesaurus:heads up
Derived terms
- keep cave
Translations
Anagrams
- evac
French
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /kav/
Etymology 1
Borrowed from Latin cavus (“concave; cavity”).
Adjective
cave (plural caves)
- pitted
- concave
- cavernous
Etymology 2
Borrowed from Late Latin cava, substantivized form of Latin cava, feminine of the adjective cavus.
Noun
cave f (plural caves)
- A cellar or basement.
- (specifically) A wine cellar; or, a piece of furniture that serves the purpose of a wine cellar.
- (by extension) A wine selection.
- caves: An estate where wine grapes are grown or (especially) where wine is produced.
- cave à liqueurs: A chest for the storage of liquors.
Derived terms
- cave à vin
Etymology 3
Probably from cavé, from the past participle of caver, a term used in games.
Noun
cave m (plural caves)
- (Quebec, slang) An imbecile, a stupid person.
Anagrams
- avec
Further reading
- “cave” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
Italian
Adjective
cave
- feminine plural of cavo
Noun
cave f
- plural of cava
Latin
Verb
cav?
- second-person singular present imperative of cave?
- 1st century AD, Petronius, Satyricon
- Cave canem.
- Beware of the dog.
- Cave canem.
- 1st century AD, Petronius, Satyricon
Norman
Etymology
(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)
Noun
cave f (plural caves)
- (Jersey) cave, cellar
Portuguese
Pronunciation
- Rhymes: -avi
Noun
cave m (plural caves)
- cellar
Verb
cave
- first-person singular present subjunctive of cavar
- third-person singular present subjunctive of cavar
- third-person singular imperative of cavar
Spanish
Verb
cave
- First-person singular (yo) present subjunctive form of cavar.
- Formal second-person singular (usted) present subjunctive form of cavar.
- Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted?) present subjunctive form of cavar.
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