Pocket - English meaning

adjective

Suitable or proper in the circumstances.

Usage examples:

This isn't the appropriate time or place

verb

Take (something) for one's own use, typically without the owner's permission.

Usage examples:

The accused had appropriated the property

Suitable for a particular person, place, or situation

noun

A region or part of a town, a country, or the world.

Usage examples:

Rural areas of britain

noun

A part of the earth’s surface of land and water, or a particular part of a country, city, town, etc.

Usage examples:

An industrial/suburban/mountainous area, this area of the brain is called the cerebral cortex., his…

noun

A particular part of a place, piece of land, or country

Usage examples:

This is an area of the city where 48% of the properties are rental properties., our goal is to grow…

noun

The point that is equally distant from every point on the circumference of a circle or sphere.

Usage examples:

She was so angered by this thought that she had changed forms and was halfway to the center of the …

verb

Occur mainly in or around (a specified place).

Usage examples:

The textile industry was centred in lancashire and yorkshire

proper noun

A region of central france, including the cities of orleans, tours, and chartres.

noun

A group of similar things or people positioned or occurring closely together.

Usage examples:

Clusters of creamy-white flowers

verb

Form a cluster or clusters.

Usage examples:

The children clustered round her skirts

verb

To form or gather together

Usage examples:

All his grandchildren clustered around him., dense clusters of delicate pink blossoms, this section…

verb

Embezzle (funds with which one has been entrusted).

Usage examples:

The officials were charged with defalcating government money

noun

The taking or illegal use of money by someone who has responsibility for it, such as a company or government official

Usage examples:

Our office represents title insurance agents and others accused of defalcation and fraud., they wer…

noun

The act of secretly taking money that is in your care or that belongs to an organization or business you work for

Usage examples:

There are charges against them of defalcation and mismanagement., we referred earlier to the very h…

noun

An area of a country or city, especially one characterized by a particular feature or activity.

Usage examples:

A coal-mining district

verb

Divide into areas.

Usage examples:

The committee districted the city into blocks

noun

An area of a country, state, or city that has been given fixed borders for official purposes, or one having a particular feature that makes it different from surrounding areas

Usage examples:

The theater district in new york is in midtown manhattan.

verb

Steal or misappropriate (money placed in one's trust or belonging to the organization for which one works).

Usage examples:

She had embezzled £5,600,000 in company funds

verb

To secretly and illegally take money that is in your care or that belongs to an organization or business you work for

Usage examples:

They were arrested for the embezzlement of company funds.

verb

To steal money that is in your care or that belongs to an organization or business you work for

Usage examples:

While employed as business banking manager of the bank, he embezzled £300,000., embezzle sth from s…

verb

(of the state or an authority) take (property) from its owner for public use or benefit.

Usage examples:

Their assets were expropriated by the government

verb

To take and keep money or property belonging to someone else

verb

If a government expropriates property, it takes it for public use, sometimes without payment to the owner

Usage examples:

The new regime wiped out organized crime and vice, expropriated factories and built new ones, setti…

verb

Pilfer or steal (something, especially an item of small value) in a casual way.

Usage examples:

They filched milk off morning doorsteps

verb

To steal something of little value

Usage examples:

Ok – who filched my pencils?

noun

A piece of land surrounded by water.

Usage examples:

The island of crete

noun

A land mass that is surrounded by water

noun

A piece of land completely surrounded by water

Usage examples:

Manhattan is an island.

verb

Raise to a higher position or level.

Usage examples:

He lifted his trophy over his head

noun

A platform or compartment housed in a shaft for raising and lowering people or things to different levels.

Usage examples:

Alice went up to the second floor in the lift

verb

To move something from a lower to a higher position

Usage examples:

[ t ] i can’t lift you up – you’re a big boy now!, [ i always + adv/prep ] the top of the stool lif…

verb

Dishonestly or unfairly take (something, especially money, belonging to another) for one's own use.

Usage examples:

The report revealed that department officials had misappropriated funds

verb

To steal something that you have been trusted to manage and use it for your own benefit

Usage examples:

He misappropriated $30,000 to pay for personal travel.

verb

To steal something that you have been asked to take care of, and use it for yourself

Usage examples:

The court found that he had misappropriated €50,000 intended for investment on behalf of a customer…

noun

A small cut or notch.

Usage examples:

A small nick on his wrist

verb

Make a nick or nicks in.

Usage examples:

He had nicked himself while shaving

verb

Go quickly or surreptitiously.

Usage examples:

They nicked across the road

verb

Try to influence or thwart by underhand or unfair methods.

Usage examples:

An attempt to nobble the jury

verb

To make something fail, especially to make a horse in a race fail by giving it drugs

Usage examples:

The jury who convicted him were suspected of being nobbled., he nobbled her in the corridor to sign…

noun

A piece of cloth or other material used to mend or strengthen a torn or weak point.

Usage examples:

The jacket was of well-worn tweed with leather patches on the elbows

verb

Mend or strengthen (fabric or clothing) with a patch.

Usage examples:

Her jeans were neatly patched

noun

A small part of a surface that is different in some way from the area around it

Usage examples:

Watch for patches of ice on the road., we have a small vegetable patch (= area for growing vegetabl…

verb

Embezzle or steal (money, especially public funds).

Usage examples:

The people accused them of having peculated the public money

verb

Grip (something, typically a person's flesh) tightly and sharply between finger and thumb.

Usage examples:

She pinched his cheek

noun

An act of pinching someone.

Usage examples:

He gave her a gentle pinch

verb

Squeeze tightly between the fingers

verb

Steal (something).

Usage examples:

He must have managed to purloin a copy of the key

noun

An area, especially part of a country or the world having definable characteristics but not always fixed boundaries.

Usage examples:

The equatorial regions

noun

A particular area or part of a state, country, or the earth’s surface

Usage examples:

Wheat is the major crop of this region., he’s complaining of pain in the lower abdominal region., a…

noun

A particular area or part of the world, or one of the areas into which a country is divided

Usage examples:

The less-developed regions of the world, coastal regions of the country have much better infrastruc…

verb

Remove (a substance) from the surface of a liquid.

Usage examples:

As the scum rises, skim it off

noun

A thin layer of a substance on the surface of a liquid.

Usage examples:

A skim of ice

verb

Remove from the surface

noun

(on a bridle) a simple bit, typically a jointed one, used with a single set of reins.

Usage examples:

To learn the two track maneuver, use a martingale or a snaffle bit with draw reins to encourage the…

verb

Take (something) for oneself, typically quickly or without permission.

Usage examples:

Shall we snaffle some of bernard's sherry?

verb

Take (another person's property) without permission or legal right and without intending to return it.

Usage examples:

Thieves stole her bicycle

noun

A bargain.

Usage examples:

At £59.95 it's an absolute steal

verb

Take without the owner's consent

verb

Hit or try to hit with a swinging blow.

Usage examples:

She swiped me right across the nose

noun

A sweeping blow.

Usage examples:

He missed the ball with his first swipe

verb

A sweeping stroke or blow

verb

Be a thief; steal something.

Usage examples:

They began thieving again

noun

A strip of leather or length of cord fastened to a handle, used for flogging or beating a person or for urging on an animal.

Usage examples:

I wouldn't be surprised if they walked around their office wearing tight leather and vinyl with whi…

verb

Short for whipper-in.

noun

An instrument with a handle and a flexible lash