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Pocket-sized

Definitions: Pocket-sized

Pocket-sized

Adjective

1. Limited in size or scope; "a small business"; "a newspaper with a modest circulation"; "small-scale plans"; "a pocket-size country".

2. Small enough to be carried in your pocket; "pocket-size paperbacks".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "pocket-sized" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1985. (references)


Synonyms: Pocket-sized

Synonyms: minor (adj), modest (adj), pocket-size (adj), small (adj), small-scale (adj). (additional references)
Synonyms by domain: pocket radio (fine arts, post & telecom), pocket-size radio, pocket-sized radio, pocket-sized station (post & telecom).

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Crosswords: Pocket-sized

Specialty definitions using "pocket-sized": pocket-sized radio, pocket-sized stationTOBACCO BLENDERValentine scale. (references)

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Commercial Usage: Pocket-sized

DomainTitle

Books

  • Mini Mickey : The Pocket-Sized Unofficial Guide to Walt Disney World (reference)

  • JaLor Medical References - Quick Reference System for Basic Medication & Fluid Administration Pocket-sized, Laminated, Spiral-bound Cards) (reference)

  • Mini Mickey: The Pocket-Sized Unofficial Guide to Walt Disney World (reference)

    (more book examples)

  

High Tech

  

Consumer Goods

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Usage Frequency: Pocket-sized

"Pocket-sized" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Pocket-sized" is used about 25 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)
Parts of SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Adjective (general or positive)100%2569,787

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Modern Translations: Pocket-sized

Language Translations for "pocket-sized"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Arabic 

  

‏في حجم الجيب, ‏حجم الجيب. (various references)

   

Chinese 

  

能入口袋 (pocket-size). (various references)

   

French

  

tout petit, de poche (pocket, vest pocket). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

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Turkish

  

küçük boy (pocket-size, small size, small-sized), cep tipi (pocket-size). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: Pocket-sized

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "c-d-e-e-i-k-o-p-s-t-z"

-3 letters: despotic, diestock, epidotes, peckiest, pectized, pectizes, picketed, picotees, pocketed, pockiest, poetised, poetized, poetizes, socketed, tickseed.

-4 letters: cestode, cestoid, coedits, coesite, coziest, deceits, depicts, deposit, desktop, despite, deticks, diocese, discept, dockets, dopiest, doziest, epidote, episode, escoted, pectize, pickets, picoted, picotee, pockets, podites, poetics, poetise, poetize, pokiest, posited, skeptic, sopited, specked, sticked, stocked, topside.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: Pocket-sized


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

50 6F 63 6B 65 74 2D 73 69 7A 65 64

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01010000 01101111 01100011 01101011 01100101 01110100 00101101 01110011 01101001 01111010 01100101 01100100

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#80 &#111 &#99 &#107 &#101 &#116 &#45 &#115 &#105 &#122 &#101 &#100

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0050 006F 0063 006B 0065 0074 002D 0073 0069 007A 0065 0064

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

508169777186158575927170

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Non-English Dictionaries with "Pocket-sized"

LanguageCoverageLanguage Translations

Arabic

‏معجم, ‏قاموس, ‏الوضوحية في الشيء, ‏حد, ‏تحديد, ‏تعريف, ‏التحديد, ‏الإيضاحية, ‏ترجمة من لغة أجنبية للغة الأم, ‏ترجمة, ‏إفتتان‏العربية, ‏عربي, ‏اللغة العربية, 阿拉伯 , arabe, arapça, arap, araplara özgü

Chinese

字典 , 定義 , 定义, 翻译‏الصينية, ‏لغة الصين, ‏صيني, ‏الصيني أحد أبناء الصين, 汉语, 中 , 漢 , 中國 , Chinois, çinli, çince, çin ile ilgili, çin

French

dictionnaire, définition, traduction‏اللغة الفرنسية, ‏فرنسي, ‏الشعب الفرنسي, 法國 , 法文 , 法語 , 法语, français, fransızca, fransız, Fransiz, fransızca ile ilgili, fransa ile ilgili

Turkish

sözlük, ansiklopedik sözlük, açıklama, belirleme, belirtme, kesinleştirme, tanım, tarif, seçiklik, tanımlama, tercüme‏تركي أحد أبناء تركيا, ‏اللغة التركية, 土耳其語 , 土耳其, turque, türkçe, türk

English

Dictionary, Definition, Translation‏الإنجليزية, ‏الأنكليزي, ‏إنكليزي, ‏ترجمة إنكليزية, ‏اللغة الإنكليزية, 英语, 英國 , 英文 , 英 , 英語 , anglais, ingiltere, ingiliz, Íngílízce, ingilizce, Íngílíz, ýngilizce
 


INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Usage: Commercial
5. Usage Frequency
6. Translations: Modern
7. Anagrams
8. Orthography
9. Bibliography


  

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