pouch

pouch

P0485800 (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.

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[Middle English, from Old French, of Germanic origin.]

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pouch′y adj.

pouch

(paʊtʃ) n1. 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 rodents3. (Anatomy) anatomy any sac, pocket, or pouchlike cavity or space in an organ or part4. another word for mailbag5. (Clothing & Fashion) a Scot word for pocketvb6. (tr) to place in or as if in a pouch7. to arrange or become arranged in a pouchlike form8. (Zoology) (tr) (of certain birds and fishes) to swallow[C14: from Old Norman French pouche, from Old French poche bag; see poke²] ˈpouchy adj

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]

pouch

Past participle: pouched
Gerund: pouching

Imperative
pouch
pouch

Present
I pouch
you pouch
he/she/it pouches
we pouch
you pouch
they pouch

Preterite
I pouched
you pouched
he/she/it pouched
we pouched
you pouched
they pouched

Present Continuous
I am pouching
you are pouching
he/she/it is pouching
we are pouching
you are pouching
they are pouching

Present Perfect
I have pouched
you have pouched
he/she/it has pouched
we have pouched
you have pouched
they have pouched

Past Continuous
I was pouching
you were pouching
he/she/it was pouching
we were pouching
you were pouching
they were pouching

Past Perfect
I had pouched
you had pouched
he/she/it had pouched
we had pouched
you had pouched
they had pouched

Future
I will pouch
you will pouch
he/she/it will pouch
we will pouch
you will pouch
they will pouch

Future Perfect
I will have pouched
you will have pouched
he/she/it will have pouched
we will have pouched
you will have pouched
they will have pouched

Future Continuous
I will be pouching
you will be pouching
he/she/it will be pouching
we will be pouching
you will be pouching
they will be pouching

Present Perfect Continuous
I have been pouching
you have been pouching
he/she/it has been pouching
we have been pouching
you have been pouching
they have been pouching

Future Perfect Continuous
I will have been pouching
you will have been pouching
he/she/it will have been pouching
we will have been pouching
you will have been pouching
they will have been pouching

Past Perfect Continuous
I had been pouching
you had been pouching
he/she/it had been pouching
we had been pouching
you had been pouching
they had been pouching

Conditional
I would pouch
you would pouch
he/she/it would pouch
we would pouch
you would pouch
they would pouch

Past Conditional
I would have pouched
you would have pouched
he/she/it would have pouched
we would have pouched
you would have pouched
they would have pouched

Thesaurus

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 mailpocket - a small pouch inside a garment for carrying small articlessporran - a fur or leather pouch worn at the front of the kilt as part of the traditional dress of Scottish Highlanderstobacco pouch - a pouch for carrying pipe tobaccobelt 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"sac, sack, pocketenclosed 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)pocketgastric mill, gizzard, ventriculus - thick-walled muscular pouch below the crop in many birds and reptiles for grinding foodutricle, utriculus - a small pouch into which the semicircular canals openatrial auricle, auricle, auricula atrii - a small conical pouch projecting from the upper anterior part of each atrium of the heartauricular appendage, auricular appendix, auricula - a pouch projecting from the top front of each atrium of the heartsac - a structure resembling a bag in an animalcheek 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 suckledscrotum - the external pouch that contains the testesanatomy, general anatomy - the branch of morphology that deals with the structure of animals
Verb	1.	pouch - put into a small bagbag - put into a bag; "The supermarket clerk bagged the groceries"
	2.	pouch - send by special mail that goes through diplomatic channelsmail, get off - send via the postal service; "I'll mail you the check tomorrow"
	3.	pouch - swell or protrude outwards; "His stomach bulged after the huge meal"bulge, protrudechange form, change shape, deform - assume a different shape or formbulk - stick out or up; "The parcel bulked in the sack"

pouch

noun bag, pocket, sack, container, purse, poke (dialect) a leather pouch full of tobacco

pouch

verbTo curve outward past the normal or usual limit:bag, balloon, beetle, belly, bulge, jut, overhang, project, protrude, protuberate, stand out, stick out.

Translations

动物的育儿袋小袋袋状物

pouch

(pautʃ) noun1. a small bag. a tobacco-pouch. 小袋 小袋2. something bag-like. This animal stores its food in two pouches under its chin. 袋狀物 袋状物3. the pocket of skin in which the young of certain kinds of animal, eg the kangaroo, are reared. (動物的)育兒袋 （动物的）育儿袋