different between pocket vs compact

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)

1. A bag stitched to an item of clothing, used for carrying small items.
2. 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.

4. (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.
5. 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.

6. (Australia) An area of land surrounded by a loop of a river.
7. (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.
8. (American football) The region directly behind the offensive line in which the quarterback executes plays.
9. (military) An area where military units are completely surrounded by enemy units.
10. (rugby) The position held by a second defensive middle, where an advanced middle must retreat after making a touch on the attacking middle.
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.
12. (architecture) A hole or space covered by a movable piece of board, as in a floor, boxing, partitions, etc.
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.
14. (nautical) A strip of canvas sewn upon a sail so that a batten or a light spar can placed in the interspace.
15. The pouch of an animal.
16. (bowling) The ideal point where the pins are hit by the bowling ball.
17. A socket for receiving the base of a post, stake, etc.
18. A bight on a lee shore.
19. (dentistry) A small space between a tooth and the adjoining gum, formed by an abnormal separation of the two.
20. 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)

1. (transitive) To put (something) into a pocket.
2. (sports, billiards, snooker, pool) To cause a ball to go into one of the pockets of the table; to complete a shot.
3. (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.

4. (transitive, slang) To shoplift; to steal. (Can we add an example for this sense?)

   The thief was caught on camera pocketing the diamond.

5. (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.

Synonyms

• (in billiards, etc): pot
• (take and keep, etc): trouser

Derived terms

• pocket up

Translations

Adjective

pocket (not comparable)

1. Of a size suitable for putting into a pocket.

   a pocket dictionary

2. 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.

3. (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)

1. pocket

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from English pocket.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?p?.k?t/
• Hyphenation: poc?ket

Noun

pocket m (plural pockets)

1. A pocket book, a portable book of compact size, usually a paperback.

Derived terms

• pocketwoordenboek

Swedish

Noun

pocket c

1. 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

pocket

1. 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

English

Pronunciation

• Noun:
  • (UK) IPA^(key): /?k?m?pækt/
  • (US) IPA^(key): /?k?m?pækt/
• Adjective:
  • (UK) IPA^(key): /k?m?pækt/
  • (US) IPA^(key): /k?m?pækt/, /?k?m?pækt/
• Verb:
  • (US, UK) IPA^(key): /k?m?pækt/

Etymology 1

From Latin compactum (“agreement”).

Noun

compact (plural compacts)

1. An agreement or contract.

   Synonyms: agreement, contract, pact, treaty

Translations

Verb

compact (third-person singular simple present compacts, present participle compacting, simple past and past participle compacted)

1. (intransitive) To form an agreement or contract.
   • 2004, Ronan Deazley, On the Origin of the Right to Copy (page 94)

     In return for the sovereign's protection, they compacted to police the content of public literature.

Etymology 2

From Middle French [Term?], from Latin comp?ctus, perfect passive participle of comping? (“join together”), from com- (“together”) + pang? (“fasten”), from Proto-Indo-European *pag- (“to fasten”).

Adjective

compact (comparative more compact, superlative most compact)

1. Closely packed, i.e. packing much in a small space.

   Synonyms: concentrated, crowded, dense, serried; see also Thesaurus:compact

   Hyponym: ultracompact
2. Having all necessary features fitting neatly into a small space.

3. (mathematics, not comparable, of a set in an Euclidean space) Closed and bounded.

4. (topology, not comparable, of a set) Such that every open cover of the given set has a finite subcover.
5. Brief; close; pithy; not diffuse; not verbose.

6. (obsolete) Joined or held together; leagued; confederated.

   • 1622, Henry Peacham (Junior), The Compleat Gentleman

     a pipe of seven reeds, compact with wax together

7. (obsolete) Composed or made; with of.

Derived terms

• compact disc
• locally compact

Translations

Noun

compact (plural compacts)

1. A small, slim folding case, often featuring a mirror, powder and a powderpuff; that fits into a woman's purse or handbag, or that slips into one's pocket.
2. A broadsheet newspaper published in the size of a tabloid but keeping its non-sensational style.
   • 2012, BBC News: Dundee Courier makes move to compact [2]:

     The Dundee Courier has announced the newspaper will be relaunching as a compact later this week. Editor Richard Neville said a "brighter, bolder" paper would appear from Saturday, shrunk from broadsheet to tabloid size.

Translations

Verb

compact (third-person singular simple present compacts, present participle compacting, simple past and past participle compacted)

1. (transitive) To make more dense; to compress.
2. To unite or connect firmly, as in a system.

Synonyms

• (make more dense): compress, condense; see also Thesaurus:compress

Translations

See also

• Compact (cosmetics) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• accompt

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from French compact, from Latin comp?ctus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /k?m?p?kt/
• Hyphenation: com?pact
• Rhymes: -?kt

Adjective

compact (comparative compacter, superlative compactst)

1. compact (closely packed), dense
2. compact (having all necessary features fitting neatly into a small space)

Inflection

Derived terms

• compactheid

French

Etymology

From Latin comp?ctus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /k??.pakt/

Adjective

compact (feminine singular compacte, masculine plural compacts, feminine plural compactes)

1. compact (closely packed), dense
2. compact (having all necessary features fitting neatly into a small space)

Derived terms

• disque compact

Noun

compact m (plural compacts)

1. compact disc
2. music center (US), music centre (UK)
3. compact camera

Synonyms

• (compact disc): Compact Disc, disque compact

Further reading

• “compact” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Romanian

Etymology

From French compact, from Latin compactus.

Adjective

compact m or n (feminine singular compact?, masculine plural compac?i, feminine and neuter plural compacte)

1. compact

Declension