Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A small bag often closing with a drawstring and used especially for carrying loose items in one's pocket.
- noun A bag or sack used to carry mail or diplomatic dispatches.
- noun A leather bag or case for carrying powder or small-arms ammunition.
- noun A sealed plastic or foil container used for packaging food or drink.
- noun Something resembling a bag in shape.
- noun Zoology A saclike structure, such as the cheek pockets of the gopher or the external abdominal pocket in which marsupials carry their young.
- noun Anatomy A pocketlike space in the body.
- noun Scots A pocket.
- noun Archaic A small purse for coins.
- intransitive verb To place in or as if in a pouch; pocket.
- intransitive verb To cause to resemble a pouch.
- intransitive verb To swallow. Used of certain birds or fishes.
- intransitive verb To assume the form of a pouch or pouchlike cavity.
from The Century Dictionary.
- To pocket; put into a pouch or pocket; inclose as in a pouch or sack.
- To swallow, as a bird or fish.
- To pocket; submit quietly to.
- To fill the pockets of; provide with money.
- To purse up.
- To form a pouch; bag.
- noun A bag or sack of any sort; especially, a poke or pocket, or something answering the same purpose, as the bag carried at the girdle in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, and serving as a purse to carry small articles.
- noun A mail-pouch. See
mail-bag . - noun In zoology, a dilated or sac-like part, capable of containing something.
- noun In botany, a silicle; also, some other purselike vessel, as the sac at the base of some petals.
- noun In anatomy, a cæcum, especially when dilated or saccular, or some similar sac or recess. See cut under
lamprey . - noun A bag for shot or bullets; hence, after the introduction of cartridges, a cartridge-box.
- noun A small bulkhead or partition in a ship's hold to prevent grain or other loose cargo from shifting.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb To put or take into a pouch.
- transitive verb To swallow; -- said of fowls.
- transitive verb obsolete To pout.
- transitive verb rare To pocket; to put up with.
- noun A small bag; usually, a leathern bag
- noun That which is shaped like, or used as, a pouch.
- noun A protuberant belly; a paunch; -- so called in ridicule.
- noun (Zoöl.) A sac or bag for carrying food or young.
- noun (Med.) A cyst or sac containing fluid.
- noun (Bot.) A silicle, or short pod, as of the shepherd's purse.
- noun A bulkhead in the hold of a vessel, to prevent grain, etc., from shifting.
- noun a mouth with blubbered or swollen lips.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A small
bag usually closed with adrawstring - noun A
pocket in which amarsupial carries its young - noun Any
pocket orbag shaped object; as, acheek pouch - verb transitive To
enclose within a pouch. - verb transitive To
transport within a pouch, especially adiplomatic pouch .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- verb put into a small bag
- verb swell or protrude outwards
- noun an enclosed space
- noun (anatomy) saclike structure in any of various animals (as a marsupial or gopher or pelican)
- verb send by special mail that goes through diplomatic channels
- noun a small or medium size container for holding or carrying things
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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The end of a metaphysical debate timprov: So if you make something that's half muffin and half kangaroo, but then you only frost it inside the pouch, is it a muffin or a cupcake?
mrissa: The end of a metaphysical debate mrissa 2010
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The end of a metaphysical debate timprov: So if you make something that's half muffin and half kangaroo, but then you only frost it inside the pouch, is it a muffin or a cupcake?
Barnstorming on an Invisible Segway timprov 2010
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While Europeans are experimenting with milk in pouch style packaging, Walmart's discount club store Sam's Club is switching its gallon milk packaging to a square case-less jug.
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Method's refill pouch is now widely available across the country and according to Method's Katie Molinari will be expanding into other forms of their liquid soaps by March.
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Method's refill pouch is now widely available across the country and according to Method's Katie Molinari will be expanding into other forms of their liquid soaps by March.
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She wore a small buckskin pouch like a locket on neck with the Thoreau newspaper scrap in it and told Trefethan she wished the Thoreau man would happen along so she could marry him.
“Samuel! There was a rolling wonder in the sound. Ay, there was!” 2008
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Wrapping a lap band around a gastric pouch is an operation that makes no sense and they have just multiplied the problems of a gastric bypass by the problems of the band for limited if any benifit.
Dr. Sharma’s Obesity Notes » Blog Archive » LABG to Salvage Roux-en-Y Gastric Bypass 2008
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So, I went tromping out to get some weather features and test a new camera rain pouch (it's a Pelican collapsible rain pouch and soft-sided blimp - two thumbs up).
Archive 2007-01-01 2007
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A group of four hospitals, led by Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, are starting a large-scale study this spring examining how children respond to various types of weight-loss surgery, including the gastric bypass, in which a pouch is stapled off from the rest of the stomach and connected to the small intestine.
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So, I went tromping out to get some weather features and test a new camera rain pouch (it's a Pelican collapsible rain pouch and soft-sided blimp - two thumbs up).
hernesheir commented on the word pouch
In heraldry, the Pilgrim's scrip, often associated with a staff or bourdon.
October 2, 2011