Pocketful

Definition

pocket /'pɒkÇt/ n ၁။ (က) အိတ္ကပ္။ (အက်ႌ၊ ေဘာင္းဘီ စသည္) အိတ္။ a coat/ jacket/ trouser pocket ❍ He picked up his keys and put them in his pocket. ❍ a pocket dictionary/ calculator/ guide (ie one small enough to fit in a pocket). (ခ) (ကားတံခါး၊ အဝတ္ေသတၱာ စသည္ရိွ) အိတ္။ You will find information about safety procedures in the pocket in front of you (eg on an aircraft). ၂။ (usu sing ) ဝယ္ယူသံုးစြဲႏိုင္ေသာ ေငြအင္အား။ ေငြ အင္အား။ prices to suit every pocket ❍ The expedition was a drain on her pocket. ၃။ အကြက္။ pockets of unemployment ❍ a few isolated pockets of opposition/ resistance to the new regime. ၄။ = AIR POCKET. ၅။ (ဘိလိယက္ခံု) က်င္း (သို႔) က်င္းအိတ္။ ❍ snooker v ၁။ အိတ္ကပ္ထဲ ထည့္လိုက္သည္။ She quickly pocketed the note without reading it. ၂။ အိတ္ထဲ ထည့္လိုက္သည္။ ေျဖာင္လိုက္သည္။ She pays $2 for them, sells them for $ 4 and pockets the difference. ❍ He was given £20 for expenses, but pocketed most of it. ၃။ (ဘိလိယက္၌ ေဘာလံုးကို) က်င္းထဲသြင္းလိုက္ သည္။ ❏ be/ live in each other's pocket(s) [ IDM ] တပူးတြဲတြဲ ျဖစ္ေနၾကသည္။ ❏ be in sb's pocket [ IDM ] တစ္စံုတစ္ေယာက္၏ လက္ခုပ္တြင္း၌ ရိွသည္။ ❏ have sb in one's pocket [ IDM ] ခါးပိုက္ထဲ ထည့္ထားသည္။ ❏ in pocket [ IDM ] လက္ဝယ္ရိွသည္။ လက္ထဲ၌ရိွသည္။ Even after paying all our expenses, we were still over £100 in pocket. ❏ out of pocket [ IDM ] လက္ထဲက ထြက္သြားသည္ (သို႔) အိတ္စိုက္ရသည္။ His mistake left us all out of pocket. ❍ out-of-pocket expenses. ေခတၱ စိုက္သံုးေငြ။ ❏ pocketful /-fƱl/ n ( pl -fuls ) အိတ္ကပ္တစ္ခုစာ။ အိတ္ကပ္အျပည့္။ a pocketful of coins. ❏ pocket knife n ( esp US ) = PENKNIFE ❍ KNIFE ❏ pocket money n [U] (က) ( Brit ) မုန္႔ဖိုး။ (ခ) ေဈးသံုး။ အေသးသံုး။

Examples

1. The money had fallen out of a hole in my pocket.
2. A trouser/shirt/coat pocket
3. A top pocket (=on the front of a jacket)
4. A back pocket (=of a pair of trousers)
5. He slipped his wallet into an inside pocket (=of his jacket).
6. [put something into/take something out of a pocket] : She had put her hands in her pockets to keep them warm.
7. [turn out/empty your pockets] : The police officer asked us to empty our pockets.
8. The safety instructions are in the pocket of the seat in front of you.
9. She put the money in a zipped pocket of her handbag.
10. Hit the ball into one of the side pockets.
11. [out of/from your own pocket] : Our boss expects us to pay for the trip out of our own pockets.
12. [deep pockets] : It’s a company with very deep pockets.
13. [to suit every pocket] : We have prices to suit every pocket.
14. [pocket of] : There are still pockets of resistance to the government forces.