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pouch
(pouch)n.
1. A small bag often closing with a drawstring and used especially for carrying loose items in one's pocket.
2. A bag or sack used to carry mail or diplomatic dispatches.
3. A leather bag or case for carrying powder or small-arms ammunition.
4. A sealed plastic or foil container used for packaging food or drink.
5. Something resembling a bag in shape: the pouches under one's eyes.
6. Zoology A saclike structure, such as the cheek pockets of the gopher or the external abdominal pocket in which marsupials carry their young.
7. Anatomy A pocketlike space in the body: the pharyngeal pouch.
8. Scots A pocket.
9. Archaic A small purse for coins.
v. pouched, pouch·ing, pouch·es
v.tr.
1. To place in or as if in a pouch; pocket.
2. To cause to resemble a pouch.
3. To swallow. Used of certain birds or fishes.
v.intr.
To assume the form of a pouch or pouchlike cavity.
[Middle English, from Old French, of Germanic origin.]
pouch′y adj.
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pouch
(paʊtʃ)n
1. a small flexible baglike container: a tobacco pouch.
2. (Zoology) a saclike structure in any of various animals, such as the abdominal receptacle marsupium in marsupials or the cheek fold in rodents
3. (Anatomy) anatomy any sac, pocket, or pouchlike cavity or space in an organ or part
4. another word for mailbag
5. (Clothing & Fashion) a Scot word for pocket
vb
6. (tr) to place in or as if in a pouch
7. to arrange or become arranged in a pouchlike form
8. (Zoology) (tr) (of certain birds and fishes) to swallow
[C14: from Old Norman French pouche, from Old French poche bag; see poke2]
ˈpouchy adj
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pouch
(paʊtʃ)n.
1. a bag, sack, or similar receptacle, esp. one for small articles or quantities: a tobacco pouch.
2. a small moneybag.
3. a bag for carrying mail.
4. a bag or case of leather, used by soldiers to carry ammunition.
5. something shaped like or resembling a bag or pocket.
6. a baggy fold of flesh under the eye.
7. a baglike anatomical structure, as the dilated cheeks of certain rodents or the receptacle for the young of marsupials.
v.t. 8. to put into or enclose in a pouch, bag, or pocket; pocket.
9. to arrange in the form of a pouch.
10. (of a fish or bird) to swallow.
v.i. 11. to form a pouch.
[1350–1400; Middle English pouche < Anglo-French; Old French poche]
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pouch
Past participle: pouched
Gerund: pouching
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| Noun | 1. |  pouch - a small or medium size container for holding or carrying thingsbag - a flexible container with a single opening; "he stuffed his laundry into a large bag" 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 |
| 2. |  pouch - an enclosed space; "the trapped miners found a pocket of air"enclosed space, cavity - space that is surrounded by something | |
| 3. | pouch - (anatomy) saclike structure in any of various animals (as a marsupial or gopher or pelican) gastric mill, gizzard, ventriculus - thick-walled muscular pouch below the crop in many birds and reptiles for grinding food atrial auricle, auricle, auricula atrii - a small conical pouch projecting from the upper anterior part of each atrium of the heart auricular appendage, auricular appendix, auricula - a pouch projecting from the top front of each atrium of the heart sac - a structure resembling a bag in an animal 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 anatomy, general anatomy - the branch of morphology that deals with the structure of animals | |
| Verb | 1. | pouch - put into a small bag bag - put into a bag; "The supermarket clerk bagged the groceries" |
| 2. | pouch - send by special mail that goes through diplomatic channels | |
| 3. | pouch - swell or protrude outwards; "His stomach bulged after the huge meal" bulk - stick out or up; "The parcel bulked in the sack" |
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Translations
جِرابكيسمِحْفَظَه
vakváček
pung
pussittaa
erszény
pokitaska, poki
kapšaskapšiukaspagurklissterblė
maisiņšmaisspazodesoma
pouch
[paʊtʃ] N (for tobacco) → petaca f; (for ammunition) → cartuchera f; (hunter's) → morral m (Zool, Anat) → bolsa fCollins Spanish Dictionary - Complete and Unabridged 8th Edition 2005 © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1971, 1988 © HarperCollins Publishers 1992, 1993, 1996, 1997, 2000, 2003, 2005
pouch
[ˈpaʊtʃ] n (ZOOLOGY) [animal] → poche f
(= small bag) → pochette f
(for tobacco) → blague f tobacco pouch
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pouch
Collins German Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged 7th Edition 2005. © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1980 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1997, 1999, 2004, 2005, 2007
Collins Italian Dictionary 1st Edition © HarperCollins Publishers 1995
pouch
(pautʃ) noun1. a small bag. a tobacco-pouch.
2. something bag-like. This animal stores its food in two pouches under its chin.
3. the pocket of skin in which the young of certain kinds of animal, eg the kangaroo, are reared.
Kernerman English Multilingual Dictionary © 2006-2013 K Dictionaries Ltd.
pouch
n. bolsa, saco, cavidad.
English-Spanish Medical Dictionary © Farlex 2012
pouch
n (surg) reservorio; ileal — reservorio ilealEnglish-Spanish/Spanish-English Medical Dictionary Copyright © 2006 by The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All rights reserved.