Pouch

Word POUCH
Character 5
Hyphenation pouch
Pronunciations /paʊt͡ʃ/

Definitions and meanings of "Pouch"

What do we mean by pouch?

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

A saclike structure, such as the cheek pockets of the gopher or the external abdominal pocket in which marsupials carry their young. noun

A pocketlike space in the body. noun

A pocket. noun

A small purse for coins. noun

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. intransitive verb

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. noun

A small bag usually closed with a drawstring.

A pocket in which a marsupial carries its young.

Any pocket or bag-shaped object, such as a cheek pouch.

A protuberant belly; a paunch.

A cyst or sac containing fluid.

A silicle, or short pod, as of the shepherd's purse.

A bulkhead in the hold of a vessel, to prevent grain etc. from shifting.

Synonyms and Antonyms for Pouch

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The word "pouch" in example sentences

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? ❋ Timprov (2010)

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. ❋ Unknown (2008)

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. ❋ Unknown (2008)

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. ❋ Unknown (2008)

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. ❋ Unknown (2008)

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. ❋ Unknown (2007)

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). ❋ Unknown (2007)

The ventral surface of the pouch is covered by grooved blubber, on which the 50-90 grooves extend from the jaw tips to as far posteriorly as the umbilicus. ❋ Darren Naish (2006)

Like the Sleeve, the Satchel's laptop pouch is lined with Air Squares for protection if when you drop it. ❋ Unknown (2006)

Moreover there fell to me last night a pair of saddle-bags, full of gold, and a young lady worth more than the money in pouch; and I have left all that with my mother in the cave. ❋ Unknown (2006)

Then he put hand in pouch, but found not a single dirham and said to ❋ Unknown (2006)

Take it out and throw it to them and spare not; for as often as thou thrustest fingers in pouch thou shalt find it full of coin. ❋ Unknown (2006)

Then he put hand in pouch and, taking out three of the dinars which Sanjar had given him, said, O fisherman, excuse me. ❋ Unknown (2006)

Actually the little pouch is not for storing cards, etc. ❋ Unknown (2005)

She landed in the very center of the surprised group of people, then thrust her coin pouch upward, ripping it in two. ❋ Sanderson_Brandon (2006)

She pulled her coin pouch and metal vials from a hidden pocket, and then — still running — she ripped the dress, petticoats, and attached leggings free, tossing it all aside. ❋ Sanderson_Brandon (2006)

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