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Electrical outlet
Answer for the clue "Electrical outlet ", 6 letters:
socket
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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS ■ ADJECTIVE electric ▪ We had, to the uninitiated, a bewildering assortment of electric sockets throughout the house. ▪ Could you kill yourself by putting your fingers into the electric socket ? ▪ Are there any snags regarding ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
c.1300, "spearhead" (originally one shaped like a plowshare), from Anglo-French soket "spearhead, plowshare" (mid-13c.), diminutive of Old French soc "plowshare," from Vulgar Latin *soccus , perhaps from a Gaulish source, from Celtic *sukko- (cognates: ...
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. a bony hollow into which a structure fits receptacle where something (a pipe or probe or end of a bone) is inserted a receptacle into which an electric device can be inserted
Usage examples of socket.
It has a large round head, which is received into the acetabulum, thus affording a good illustration of a ball and socket joint.
SOCKETS LAYER A protocol developed by Netscape that provides authentication of both client and server in a secure communication on the internet.
One woman gets visibly queasy when I describe punched-out areas of skull and an eyeball that was virtually avulsed, or hanging out of the socket.
Whereupon the coachman stood up, put the whip in its socket, opened the locker beneath the box seat, and produced two horse-pistols and a blunderbuss, which he lay on the roof of the vehicle.
For the purulent scrofulous ophthalmic inflammation of infants, by cleansing the eyes thoroughly every half-hour with warm water, and then packing the sockets each time with fresh Cabbage leaves cleaned and bruised to a soft pulp, the flow of matter will be increased for a few days, but a cure will be soon effected.
Downward bound, with the ancient rungs wobbling in their sockets as I put my weight on them, I began to receive clairvoyant images from the long abandoned mine.
The skin around both of his sockets, the only part of his true skin that was visible because of the ooglith cloaker and the star-shaped breather, was heavily tattooed.
Polmont throws a load ay papers oaf the desk, n tries tae yank the phone oot by the socket, like they dae in the films, only the cunt disnae budge, once, twice.
There was no one at the board and only a single plug was socketed, indicating the call that Durand had just made.
Firebird was affected with hip dysplasia, a malformation of the hip sockets.
Greg yanked the other end of the pole out of its socket with a burst of ebullient strength, tearing the netting as it came free.
I was sure that he intended to gouge his fingers into the sockets, to feel for the eyestrings, to blind him.
As Boba Fett slammed the locking armature into its socket, then spun and dived for the floor, the cannon barrel swung down from nearly vertical to aiming level.
Tom went and got the little electric fogger and plugged it into a socket on one of the flood lamps and killed them off, commenting to me when he was finished that he hated to use it because it was so unselective.
Tony yanked the lines from the nearest socket, and plugged the foggers in.