Pinch vs. Pocket

Pinchverb

To squeeze a small amount of a person's skin and flesh, making it hurt.

Pinchverb

To squeeze between the thumb and forefinger.

Pinchverb

To squeeze between two objects.

Pinchverb

To steal, usually something inconsequential.

Pinchverb

To arrest or capture.

Pinchverb

(horticulture) To cut shoots or buds of a plant in order to shape the plant, or to improve its yield.

Pinchverb

(nautical) To sail so close-hauled that the sails begin to flutter.

Pinchverb

(hunting) To take hold; to grip, as a dog does.

Pinchverb

To be stingy or covetous; to live sparingly.

Pinchverb

To seize; to grip; to bite; said of animals.

Pinchverb

(figurative) To cramp; to straiten; to oppress; to starve.

Pinchverb

To move, as a railroad car, by prying the wheels with a pinch.

Pinchverb

(obsolete) To complain or find fault.

Pinchnoun

The action of squeezing a small amount of a person's skin and flesh, making it hurt.

Pinchnoun

A close compression of anything with the fingers.

Pinchnoun

A small amount of powder or granules, such that the amount could be held between fingertip and thumb tip.

Pinchnoun

An awkward situation of some kind (especially money or social) which is difficult to escape.

Pinchnoun

A metal bar used as a lever for lifting weights, rolling wheels, etc.

Pinchnoun

An organic herbal smoke additive.

Pinchnoun

(physics) A magnetic compression of an electrically-conducting filament.

Pinchnoun

The narrow part connecting the two bulbs of an hourglass.

Pinchnoun

(slang) An arrest.

Pinchverb

To press hard or squeeze between the ends of the fingers, between teeth or claws, or between the jaws of an instrument; to squeeze or compress, as between any two hard bodies.

Pinchverb

to seize; to grip; to bite; - said of animals.

Pinchverb

To plait.

Pinchverb

Figuratively: To cramp; to straiten; to oppress; to starve; to distress; as, to be pinched for money.

Pinchverb

To move, as a railroad car, by prying the wheels with a pinch. See Pinch, n., 4.

Pinchverb

To seize by way of theft; to steal; to lift.

Pinchverb

to catch; to arrest (a criminal).

Pinchverb

To act with pressing force; to compress; to squeeze; as, the shoe pinches.

Pinchverb

To take hold; to grip, as a dog does.

Pinchverb

To spare; to be niggardly; to be covetous.

Pinchnoun

A close compression, as with the ends of the fingers, or with an instrument; a nip.

Pinchnoun

As much as may be taken between the finger and thumb; any very small quantity; as, a pinch of snuff.

Pinchnoun

Pian; pang.

Pinchnoun

A lever having a projection at one end, acting as a fulcrum, - used chiefly to roll heavy wheels, etc. Called also pinch bar.

Pinchnoun

a painful or straitened circumstance;

Pinchnoun

an injury resulting from getting some body part squeezed

Pinchnoun

a slight but appreciable addition;

Pinchnoun

a sudden unforeseen crisis (usually involving danger) that requires immediate action;

Pinchnoun

small sharp biting

Pinchnoun

a squeeze with the fingers

Pinchnoun

the act of apprehending (especially apprehending a criminal);

Pinchverb

squeeze tightly between the fingers;

Pinchverb

make ridges into by pinching together

Pinchverb

make off with belongings of others

Pinchverb

cut the top off;

Pinchverb

irritate as if by a nip, pinch, or tear;

Pocketnoun

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

Pocketnoun

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

Pocketnoun

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.

Pocketnoun

An enclosed volume of one substance surrounded by another.

Pocketnoun

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

Pocketnoun

(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.

Pocketnoun

(American football) The region directly behind the offensive line in which the quarterback executes plays.

Pocketnoun

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

Pocketnoun

(rugby) The position held by a second defensive middle, where an advanced middle must retreat after making a touch on the attacking middle.

Pocketnoun

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.

Pocketnoun

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

Pocketnoun

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

Pocketnoun

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

Pocketnoun

The pouch of an animal.

Pocketnoun

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

Pocketnoun

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

Pocketnoun

A bight on a lee shore.

Pocketnoun

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

Pocketnoun

A small, isolated group or area.

Pocketverb

(transitive) To put (something) into a pocket.

Pocketverb

To cause a ball to go into one of the pockets of the table; to complete a shot.

Pocketverb

To take and keep (something, especially money that is not one's own).

Pocketverb

To shoplift; to steal. en

Pocketverb

To put up with; to bear without complaint.

Pocketadjective

Of a size suitable for putting into a pocket.

Pocketadjective

Smaller or more compact than usual.

Pocketadjective

Referring to the two initial hole cards.

Pocketnoun

Any hollow place suggestive of a pocket in form or use;

Pocketnoun

A bag or pouch; especially; a small bag inserted in a garment for carrying small articles, particularly money; hence, figuratively, money; wealth.

Pocketnoun

One of several bags attached to a billiard table, into which the balls are driven.

Pocketnoun

A large bag or sack used in packing various articles, as ginger, hops, cowries, etc.

Pocketnoun

A hole or space covered by a movable piece of board, as in a floor, boxing, partitions, or the like.

Pocketnoun

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

Pocketnoun

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

Pocketnoun

Same as Pouch.

Pocketnoun

Any hollow place suggestive of a pocket in form or use;

Pocketnoun

An isolated group or area which has properties in contrast to the surrounding area; as, a pocket of poverty in an affluent region; pockets of resistance in a conquered territory; a pocket of unemployment in a booming ecomony.

Pocketnoun

The area from which a quarterback throws a pass, behind the line of scrimmage, delineated by the defensive players of his own team who protect him from attacking opponents; as, he had ample time in the pocket to choose an open receiver.

Pocketnoun

The part of a baseball glove covering the palm of the wearer's hand.

Pocketnoun

the space between the head pin and one of the pins in the second row, considered as the optimal point at which to aim the bowling ball in order to get a strike.

Pocketverb

To put, or conceal, in the pocket; as, to pocket the change.

Pocketverb

To take clandestinely or fraudulently.

Pocketnoun

a small pouch inside a garment for carrying small articles

Pocketnoun

an enclosed space;

Pocketnoun

a supply of money;

Pocketnoun

(bowling) the space between the headpin and the pins next bnehind it on the right or left;

Pocketnoun

a hollow concave shape made by removing something

Pocketnoun

a local region of low pressure or descending air that causes a plane to lose height suddenly

Pocketnoun

a small isolated group of people;

Pocketnoun

(anatomy) saclike structure in any of various animals (as a marsupial or gopher or pelican)

Pocketnoun

an opening at the corner or on the side of a billiard table into which billiard balls are struck

Pocketverb

put in one's pocket;

Pocketverb

take unlawfully

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.