Pocket vs. Placket — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Pocket and Placket
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A pocket is a bag- or envelope-like receptacle either fastened to or inserted in an article of clothing to hold small items. Pockets are also attached to luggage, backpacks, and similar items.
Placket
A placket (also spelled placquet) is an opening in the upper part of trousers or skirts, or at the neck or sleeve of a garment. Plackets are almost always used to allow clothing to be put on or removed easily but are sometimes used purely as a design element.
A small baglike attachment forming part of a garment and used to carry small articles, as a flat pouch sewn inside a pair of pants or a piece of material sewn on its sides and bottom to the outside of a shirt.
Placket
An opening or slit in a garment, as at the collar or sleeve of a shirt, that makes the garment easy to put on.
A small sack or bag.
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Placket
A pocket, especially in a skirt.
A receptacle, cavity, or opening.
Placket
A slit or other opening in an item of clothing, to allow access to pockets or fastenings
Financial means; money supply
The cost of the trip must come out of your own pocket.
Placket
(obsolete) A petticoat, especially an underpetticoat.
A small cavity in the earth, especially one containing ore.
Placket
A woman.
A small body or accumulation of ore.
Placket
(obsolete) A woman's pocket.
A pouch in an animal body, such as the cheek pouch of a rodent or the abdominal pouch of a marsupial.
Placket
(historical) A leather jacket strengthened with strips of steel.
(Games) One of the pouchlike receptacles at the corners and sides of a billiard or pool table.
Placket
(historical) An additional plate of steel on the lower half of the breastplate or backplate.
(Sports) The webbing attached to the head of a lacrosse stick, in which the ball is caught and held.
Placket
A petticoat, esp. an under petticoat; hence, a cant term for a woman.
(Baseball) The deepest part of a baseball glove, just below the web, where the ball is normally caught.
Placket
The opening or slit left in a petticoat or skirt for convenience in putting it on; - called also placket hole.
(Sports) A racing position in which a contestant has no room to pass a group of contestants immediately to that contestant's front or side.
Placket
A woman's pocket.
A small, isolated, or protected area or group
Pockets of dissatisfied voters.
Placket
A piece of cloth sewn under an opening
(Football) The area a few yards behind the line of scrimmage that blockers attempt to keep clear so that the quarterback can pass the ball.
An air pocket.
A bin for storing ore, grain, or other materials.
Suitable for or capable of being carried in one's pocket
A pocket handkerchief.
A pocket edition of a dictionary.
Small; miniature
A pocket backyard.
A pocket museum.
Designating the two cards that are dealt to a player face down in Texas hold'em
Was holding pocket eights.
To place in a pocket
Pocketed her key.
To take possession of for oneself, especially dishonestly
Pocketed the receipts from the charity dance.
To accept or tolerate (an insult, for example).
To conceal or suppress
I pocketed my pride and asked for a raise.
To prevent (a bill) from becoming law by failing to sign until the adjournment of the legislature.
(Sports) To hem in (a competitor) in a race.
(Games) To hit (a ball) into a pocket of a pool or billiard table.
A bag stitched to an item of clothing, used for carrying small items.
Such a receptacle seen as housing someone's money; hence, financial resources.
I paid for it out of my own pocket.
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.
An enclosed volume of one substance surrounded by another.
The drilling expedition discovered a pocket of natural gas.
(Australia) An area of land surrounded by a loop of a river.
(Australian rules football) 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.
(American football) The area behind the line of scrimmage subject to certain rules regarding intentional grounding, illegal contact, etc., formally extending to the end zone but more usually understood as the central area around the quarterback directly protected by the offensive line.
(military) An area where military units are completely surrounded by enemy units.
(rugby) The position held by a second defensive middle, where an advanced middle must retreat after making a touch on the attacking middle.
(surfing) The unbroken part of a wave that offers the surfer the most power.
A large bag or sack formerly used for packing various articles, such as ginger, hops, or cowries; the pocket of wool held about 168 pounds.
(architecture) A hole or space covered by a movable piece of board, as in a floor, boxing, partitions, etc.
(mining) A cavity in a rock containing a nugget of gold, or other mineral; a small body of ore contained in such a cavity.
(nautical) A strip of canvas sewn upon a sail so that a batten or a light spar can placed in the interspace.
The pouch of an animal.
(bowling) The ideal point where the pins are hit by the bowling ball.
A socket for receiving the base of a post, stake, etc.
A bight on a lee shore.
(dentistry) A small space between a tooth and the adjoining gum, formed by an abnormal separation of the two.
A small, isolated group or area.
(transitive) To put (something) into a pocket.
To cause a ball to go into one of the pockets of the table; to complete a shot.
To take and keep (something, especially money, that is not one's own).
Record executives pocketed most of the young singer's earnings.
The thief was caught on camera pocketing the diamond.
To put up with; to bear without complaint.
Of a size suitable for putting into a pocket.
A pocket dictionary
Smaller or more compact than usual.
Pocket battleship, pocket beach
Referring to the two initial hole cards.
A pocket pair of kings
Any hollow place suggestive of a pocket in form or use;
A bag or pouch; especially; a small bag inserted in a garment for carrying small articles, particularly money; hence, figuratively, money; wealth.
One of several bags attached to a billiard table, into which the balls are driven.
A large bag or sack used in packing various articles, as ginger, hops, cowries, etc.
A hole or space covered by a movable piece of board, as in a floor, boxing, partitions, or the like.
A cavity in a rock containing a nugget of gold, or other mineral; a small body of ore contained in such a cavity.
A strip of canvas, sewn upon a sail so that a batten or a light spar can placed in the interspace.
Same as Pouch.
Any hollow place suggestive of a pocket in form or use;
An isolated group or area which has properties in contrast to the surrounding area; as, a pocket of poverty in an affluent region; pockets of resistance in a conquered territory; a pocket of unemployment in a booming ecomony.
The area from which a quarterback throws a pass, behind the line of scrimmage, delineated by the defensive players of his own team who protect him from attacking opponents; as, he had ample time in the pocket to choose an open receiver.
The part of a baseball glove covering the palm of the wearer's hand.
The space between the head pin and one of the pins in the second row, considered as the optimal point at which to aim the bowling ball in order to get a strike.
To put, or conceal, in the pocket; as, to pocket the change.
He would pocket the expense of the license.
To take clandestinely or fraudulently.
He pocketed pay in the names of men who had long been dead.
A small pouch inside a garment for carrying small articles
An enclosed space;
The trapped miners found a pocket of air
A supply of money;
They dipped into the taxpayers' pockets
(bowling) the space between the headpin and the pins next bnehind it on the right or left;
The ball hit the pocket and gave him a perfect strike
A hollow concave shape made by removing something
A local region of low pressure or descending air that causes a plane to lose height suddenly
A small isolated group of people;
They were concentrated in pockets inside the city
The battle was won except for cleaning up pockets of resistance
(anatomy) saclike structure in any of various animals (as a marsupial or gopher or pelican)
An opening at the corner or on the side of a billiard table into which billiard balls are struck
Put in one's pocket;
He pocketed the change
Take unlawfully
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