Library / English Dictionary

POUCH

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

A small or medium size container for holding or carrying things

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Hypernyms ("pouch" is a kind of...):

bag (a flexible container with a single opening)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "pouch"):

mail pouch; mailbag (pouch used in the shipment of mail)

pocket (a small pouch inside a garment for carrying small articles)

sporran (a fur or leather pouch worn at the front of the kilt as part of the traditional dress of Scottish Highlanders)

tobacco pouch (a pouch for carrying pipe tobacco)

belt bag; waist pack (a small pouch (usually with a zipper) that attaches to a belt and is worn around the waist)

Derivation:

pouch (put into a small bag)

Sense 2

Meaning:

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

Synonyms:

pocket; pouch

Classified under:

Nouns denoting body parts

Hypernyms ("pouch" is a kind of...):

sac (a structure resembling a bag in an animal)

Domain category:

anatomy; general anatomy (the branch of morphology that deals with the structure of animals)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "pouch"):

gastric mill; gizzard; ventriculus (thick-walled muscular pouch below the crop in many birds and reptiles for grinding food)

utricle; utriculus (a small pouch into which the semicircular canals open)

atrial auricle; auricle; auricula atrii (a small conical pouch projecting from the upper anterior part of each atrium of the heart)

auricula; auricular appendage; auricular appendix (a pouch projecting from the top front of each atrium of the heart)

cheek pouch (a membranous pouch inside the mouth of many rodents (as a gopher))

marsupium (an external abdominal pouch in most marsupials where newborn offspring are suckled)

scrotum (the external pouch that contains the testes)

Sense 3

Meaning:

An enclosed space

Example:

the trapped miners found a pocket of air

Synonyms:

pocket; pouch; sac; sack

Classified under:

Nouns denoting two and three dimensional shapes

Hypernyms ("pouch" is a kind of...):

cavity; enclosed space (space that is surrounded by something)

 II. (verb) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Swell or protrude outwards

Example:

His stomach bulged after the huge meal

Synonyms:

bulge; pouch; protrude

Classified under:

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.

Hypernyms (to "pouch" is one way to...):

change form; change shape; deform (assume a different shape or form)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "pouch"):

bulk (stick out or up)

Sentence frame:

Something ----s

Sense 2

Meaning:

Send by special mail that goes through diplomatic channels

Classified under:

Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging

Hypernyms (to "pouch" is one way to...):

get off; mail (send via the postal service)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Sense 3

Meaning:

Put into a small bag

Classified under:

Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging

Hypernyms (to "pouch" is one way to...):

bag (put into a bag)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Derivation:

pouch (a small or medium size container for holding or carrying things)

Credits

 Context examples: 

Even the deep, burning eyes seemed set amongst swollen flesh, for the lids and pouches underneath were bloated.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

I have crowns in my pouch, my sweet, and I mean to spend them.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Holmes lit his pipe and handed me his pouch.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Inflammation of one or more pouches or sacs that bulge out from the wall of a hollow organ, such as the colon.

(Diverticulitis, NCI Dictionary)

A benign, partly cystic, epithelial tumor of the sellar region, presumably derived from Rathke pouch epithelium.

(Craniopharyngioma, NCI Thesaurus/Adapted from WHO)

If you have these pouches, you have a condition called diverticulosis.

(Diverticulosis and Diverticulitis, NIH: National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases)

The thick-walld muscular pouch, part of the digestive system of birds, insects and invertebrates, which is responsible for digestion.

(Gizzard, NCI Thesaurus)

A pathological condition manifested as a pouch or sac opening from a tubular or saccular organ.

(Diverticulum, NLM, Medical Subject Headings)

A finding indicating the presence of multiple pouches, usually in the colonic or gastric wall.

(Diverticulosis, NCI Thesaurus)

A balloon type pouch or bulge in the wall of a cerebral artery.

(Cerebral Arterial Aneurysm, NCI Thesaurus)