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Pocket can be a verb, a noun or an adjective.

pocket used as a verb:

  1. To put (something) into a pocket.
  2. To cause a ball to go into one of the pockets of the table; to complete a shot.
  3. To take and keep (especially money) that which is not one's own.
  4. To shoplift, to steal.

Verbs are action words and state of being words. Examples of action words are: ran, attacking, dreamed. Examples of "state of being" words are: is, was, be. Learn more →

pocket used as a noun:

  1. A bag stitched to an item of clothing, used for carrying small items.
  2. 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.
  3. An enclosed volume of one substance surrounded by another.
    "The drilling expedition discovered a pocket of natural gas."
  4. An area of land surrounded by a loop of a river (Australian English)
  5. 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.
  6. The region directly behind the offensive line in which the quarterback executes plays.

Nouns are naming words. They are used to represent a person (soldier, Jamie), place (Germany, beach), thing (telephone, mirror), quality (hardness, courage), or an action (a run, a punch). Learn more →

pocket used as an adjective:

  1. Of a size suitable for putting into a pocket.
    "pocket dictionary"
  2. Smaller or more compact than usual.
    "pocket battleship"
  3. Referring to the two initial hole cards.
    "A pocket pair of kings."

Adjectives are are describing words. An adjective is a word that modifies a noun or pronoun (examples: small, scary, silly). Adjectives make the meaning of a noun more precise. Learn more →

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What type of word is pocket?

As detailed above, 'pocket' can be a verb, a noun or an adjective. Here are some examples of its usage:
  1. Noun usage: The drilling expedition discovered a pocket of natural gas.
  2. Adjective usage: pocket dictionary
  3. Adjective usage: pocket battleship
  4. Adjective usage: A pocket pair of kings.

Unfortunately, with the current database that runs this site, I don't have data about which senses of pocket are used most commonly. I've got ideas about how to fix this but will need to find a source of "sense" frequencies. Hopefully there's enough info above to help you understand the part of speech of pocket, and guess at its most common usage.

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For those interested in a little info about this site: it's a side project that I developed while working on Describing Words and Related Words. Both of those projects are based around words, but have much grander goals. I had an idea for a website that simply explains the word types of the words that you search for - just like a dictionary, but focussed on the part of speech of the words. And since I already had a lot of the infrastructure in place from the other two sites, I figured it wouldn't be too much more work to get this up and running.

The dictionary is based on the amazing Wiktionary project by wikimedia. I initially started with WordNet, but then realised that it was missing many types of words/lemma (determiners, pronouns, abbreviations, and many more). This caused me to investigate the 1913 edition of Websters Dictionary - which is now in the public domain. However, after a day's work wrangling it into a database I realised that there were far too many errors (especially with the part-of-speech tagging) for it to be viable for Word Type.

Finally, I went back to Wiktionary - which I already knew about, but had been avoiding because it's not properly structured for parsing. That's when I stumbled across the UBY project - an amazing project which needs more recognition. The researchers have parsed the whole of Wiktionary and other sources, and compiled everything into a single unified resource. I simply extracted the Wiktionary entries and threw them into this interface! So it took a little more work than expected, but I'm happy I kept at it after the first couple of blunders.

Special thanks to the contributors of the open-source code that was used in this project: the UBY project (mentioned above), @mongodb and express.js.

Currently, this is based on a version of wiktionary which is a few years old. I plan to update it to a newer version soon and that update should bring in a bunch of new word senses for many words (or more accurately, lemma).

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