What's the difference between pocket and pocketbook?

Pocket


Definition:

  • (n.) A bag or pouch; especially; a small bag inserted in a garment for carrying small articles, particularly money; hence, figuratively, money; wealth.
  • (n.) One of several bags attached to a billiard table, into which the balls are driven.
  • (n.) A large bag or sack used in packing various articles, as ginger, hops, cowries, etc.
  • (n.) A hole or space covered by a movable piece of board, as in a floor, boxing, partitions, or the like.
  • (n.) A cavity in a rock containing a nugget of gold, or other mineral; a small body of ore contained in such a cavity.
  • (n.) A hole containing water.
  • (n.) A strip of canvas, sewn upon a sail so that a batten or a light spar can placed in the interspace.
  • (n.) Same as Pouch.
  • (v. t.) To put, or conceal, in the pocket; as, to pocket the change.
  • (v. t.) To take clandestinely or fraudulently.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) In this study, bacterial flora, especially the occurrence of A. actinomycetemcomitans, in the periodontal pockets of one juvenile with gingivitis (G), one JP patients, five rapidly progressive periodontitis (RP) patients and one adult periodontitis(AP) patient, and one adult with healthy periodontium was investigated using a blood agar medium and a selective medium for A. actinomycetemcomitans.
  • (2) The penetration coefficient, determined by the surface tension, contact angle and viscosity, is a measure of the ability of a liquid to penetrate into a capillary space, such as interproximal regions, gingival pockets and pores.
  • (3) This structural change opens the heme pocket and modifies the general conformation of the EF segment, thus explaining the increase in oxygen affinity and the achievement of a three-dimensional structure favoring asparagine deamidation.
  • (4) Heads you 'own it' Ian Read, the Scottish-born accountant who runs the biggest drug firm in the US carries in his pocket a special gold coin, about the size and weight of a £2 piece.
  • (5) Domino’s had been in touch with Driscoll on Thursday morning and was “working to make it up to him ... and to ensure he is not out of pocket for any expenses incurred”.
  • (6) Arsenal had the game in their pocket and the Welshman was having such a nightmare - he missed the target with a far-post volley in the second half - that the Arsenal fans were mocking him with chants of 'Give it to Giggsy'.
  • (7) A three-dimensional model of yeast alcohol dehydrogenase, based on the homologous horse liver enzyme, was used to compare the substrate binding pockets of the three isozymes (I, II, and III) from Saccharomyces cerevisiae and the enzyme from Schizosaccharomyces pombe.
  • (8) It’s about state sovereignty.” The BLM’s retreat vindicated his stance, he said, tapping a copy of the US constitution which he keeps in a breast pocket.
  • (9) Mutants resistant to R 61837 (up to 85 times the MIC) were shown to bear some cross-resistance (up to 23 times the MIC) to the new compound, indicating that pirodavir also binds into the hydrophobic pocket beneath the canyon floor of rhinoviruses.
  • (10) Unlike posterior tympanoplasty, this technique makes it possible to meticulously remove the osteitic bone invariably found in the facial recess when there is infection of the retraction pocket.
  • (11) To develop a better model for studying GPIC immunity, conjunctival pockets were established under the abdominal skin of guinea pigs by subcutaneous implantation.
  • (12) A program is presented which permits use of a pocket-size programmable calculator, the HP-65, to tally phenotypes resulting from a three-point cross.
  • (13) The surgical modality used was the modified Widman flap operation and the pockets under scrutiny were those with an initial probing depth of 4-6 mm.
  • (14) This study investigates bacterial invasion of the soft tissue walls of deep pockets from cases with adult (AP) and juvenile periodontitis (JP).
  • (15) Most travel in overcrowded inflatable dinghies that have just one air pocket, making deflation more likely.
  • (16) A health committee meeting in Sacramento, the state capital, on Wednesday turned into a tense showdown between lawmakers seeking to argue that the science is unequivocally on the side of universal vaccination, and activists accusing them of being in the pocket of unscrupulous big pharmaceutical companies.
  • (17) A program is developed for estimation of median effective dose (ED50 or LD50), using the hand-held programmable pocket calculator HP41CV.
  • (18) The tryptase sequence includes the essential residues of the catalytic triad and an aspartic acid at the base of the putative substrate binding pocket that confers P1 Arg and Lys specificity on tryptic serine proteases.
  • (19) These results, together with information from the amino acid sequences, infer that the native carotenoid, astaxanthin, is bound to each apoprotein within an internal hydrophobic pocket, or calyx.
  • (20) Nonetheless, Blatter was investigated by Swiss police over his attempts in secret to repay more than £1m worth of bribes pocketed by football officials.

Pocketbook


Definition:

  • (n.) A small book or case for carrying papers, money, etc., in the pocket; also, a notebook for the pocket.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) "Women did not vote with their ladyparts, they voted with their pocketbooks like they always do".
  • (2) To cover themselves, they wrote a log of the incident from their pocketbook notes, and very soon afterwards emailed it up through the chain of command at the Metropolitan police to a sergeant, an inspector and – it is understood – even higher up the ranks.
  • (3) But large-scale studies of class mobility show that the forces that move people out of poverty are more diffuse than can fit in any pocketbook.
  • (4) Nurses have always been regarded as a major drain on the hospital's pocketbook, rather than as a revenue-generating resource.
  • (5) Their clothes are the rewards of immaculate girlhood: dresses of taffeta and velvet with lace collars, petticoats, ankle straps, pocketbooks and initialled handkerchiefs, seasonal gloves of cotton and kid, matching coats and muffs.
  • (6) My dad had a wonderful collection of soft-cover pocketbooks that were dramatically illustrated with film noir-looking artwork on the covers.
  • (7) These are critical pocketbook issues for millions of American families, and thus they are critical issues for the health and competitiveness of the American economy.” A question from Becky Quick, one of the debate’s three moderators, for Texas senator Ted Cruz provided the night’s only discussion of either issue.
  • (8) People are worried about Europe, the fiscal cliff, the election, no one wants to open their pocketbooks," said Faucher.
  • (9) Those who have had contact with the officers say that, in the immediate aftermath of the altercation at the gates of Downing Street, both officers made notes of what they say happened in their pocketbooks.
  • (10) Obama has been highlighting his energy agenda this week in Nevada, New Mexico, Oklahoma and later Thursday in battleground Ohio, a trip that reflects the degree to which high gas prices have begun hitting consumers in their pocketbooks.
  • (11) There was a wonderful opportunity squandered to highlight what this service would mean for artists who are struggling and to make a plea to people’s hearts and pocketbooks to pay a little more for this service that was going to pay these artists a more reasonable streaming rate.
  • (12) Since Air Force fliers may "quit" only at some personal cost to pride or pocketbook, they may develop a fear of flying.
  • (13) There is a well-funded group out there that is pushing this agenda … that want to get into your pocketbooks,” Palmer was quoted as saying in an appearance at an industry forum in St Louis.
  • (14) The ads are playing nationwide in states that elected a president who promised them change but who now, the Kochs argue, is threatening their livelihoods and their pocketbooks.

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