pocket, deep pocket, shelved, scrimmage

Madden NFL: The 33rd Team

A group of athletes, animators and technicians use motion capture technology to make the football video game Madden NFL as realistic as possible from every tackle to scrimmage line fidget.

Japan’s food supply is safe. But pockets of doubt have crept in, owing to a mishandling of safety inspections. On July 13th the Tokyo Metropolitan Government said that beef contaminated with radioactive caesium more than six times above the safety limit was sold and possibly consumed. It followed initial reports that the meat never made it to market.



Microsoft Tablet Project Shelved

Microsoft has shelved a development project working on plans for a two-screen, touch-sensing device that could be used to read electronic books and take notes.

In the film industry, a film is considered shelved if it is not released for public viewing after filming has started, or even completed.

HP pockets Palm.
惠普12亿美元收购Palm 英
并购使Palm摆脱现金断流危机，

使惠普立刻跻身迅速增长的智能手机行业

China's Pockets Aren't Deep Enough During Crisis: William Pesek
Bloomberg - USA
On June 4, commemorations of the 20th anniversary of the Tiananmen Square crackdown were splashed across global television screens as China struggled to ...

deep pocket
n.
A source of substantial wealth or financial support. Often used in the plural: “Japanese investors . . . have all but pulled out of the market—and there's no deep pocket outside Japan to take their place” (Larry Martz).


pocket
n.

1. 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.
2. A small sack or bag.
3. A receptacle, cavity, or opening.
4. Financial means; money supply: The cost of the trip must come out of your own pocket.
5. 1. A small cavity in the earth, especially one containing ore.
   2. A small body or accumulation of ore.
6. A pouch in an animal body, such as the cheek pouch of a rodent or the abdominal pouch of a marsupial.
7. Games. One of the pouchlike receptacles at the corners and sides of a billiard or pool table.
8. Baseball. The deepest part of a baseball glove, just below the web, where the ball is normally caught.
9. Sports. A racing position in which a contestant has no room to pass a group of contestants immediately to his or her front or side.
10. 1. A small, isolated, or protected area or group: pockets of dissatisfied voters.
    2. 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.
11. An air pocket.
12. A bin for storing ore, grain, or other materials.

adj.

1. Suitable for or capable of being carried in one's pocket: a pocket handkerchief; a pocket edition of a dictionary.
2. Small; miniature: a pocket backyard; a pocket museum.

tr.v., -et·ed, -et·ing, -ets.

1. To place in or as if in a pocket.
2. To take possession of for oneself, especially dishonestly: pocketed the receipts from the charity dance.
3. 1. To accept or tolerate (an insult, for example).
   2. To conceal or suppress: I pocketed my pride and asked for a raise.
4. To prevent (a bill) from becoming law by failing to sign until the adjournment of the legislature.
5. Sports. To hem in (a competitor) in a race.
6. Games. To hit (a ball) into a pocket of a pool or billiard table.

idioms:
in (one's) pocket

1. In one's power, influence, or possession: The defendant had the jury in his pocket.

in pocket

1. Having funds.
2. Having gained or retained funds of a specified amount: was a hundred dollars in pocket after a day at the races.

[Middle English, pouch, small bag, from Anglo-Norman pokete, diminutive of Old North French poke, bag, of Germanic origin.]

pocketable pock'et·a·ble adj.
pocketless pock'et·less adj.

scrimmage

Line breaks: scrim|mage

Pronunciation: /ˈskrɪmɪdʒ 

  

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NOUN

• 1a confused struggle or fight:there was a considerable scrimmage, with people anxious to obtain cabs

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• 2[MASS NOUN] American Football a sequence of play beginning with the placing of the ball on the ground with its longest axis at right angles to the goal line:Michigan was called for pass interference in the first play from scrimmage

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• 2.1[COUNT NOUN] chiefly American Football a session in which teams practise by playing a simulated game.

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VERB

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• 1engage in a scrimmage:I recommended that we be able to scrimmage against other schools during the spring

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• 1.1[WITH OBJECT] put (the ball) into a scrimmage.

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Derivatives

scrimmager

NOUN

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Origin

late Middle English: alteration of dialect scrimish, variant of the noun skirmish.