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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
socket
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 wall space, radiators, electric sockets, lighting, windows?
▪ This applies equally to light switches and electric sockets.
▪ She remembered Doc Threadneedle suggesting she try sucking her finger and sticking it in an electric socket.
▪ High electric sockets, along with all gas supplies and vacuum, ensure no cables or tubes trail on floor.
empty
▪ No-one else went around with empty eye sockets and, of course, the scythe over one shoulder was another clue.
▪ He worked the hot ember loose, leaving an empty socket like a pulled tooth.
▪ Human eyes peered out through the empty sockets of beasts.
▪ But she was as vacant as an empty eye socket.
▪ Adding a coprocessor is relatively easy in that all you have to do is plug in a chip into an empty socket.
▪ He had huge empty eye sockets wadded with cotton, a scraggly Fu Manchu moustache and a long grey pigtail.
■ NOUN
eye
▪ No-one else went around with empty eye sockets and, of course, the scythe over one shoulder was another clue.
▪ One is hemorrhage produced by gas in the capillaries in the eye socket.
▪ He saw his flesh rotting and twitching with maggots, his eye sockets empty, his face eaten away.
▪ The next morning the damaged eye was swollen and protruding from the eye socket.
▪ And every waking hour she chipped at the ugly block, sanded, scored, chiselled, gouged gaping eye sockets.
▪ I looked and saw: hair tangled through and around maggoty eye sockets and nostrils.
▪ It was the face of a man whose brain was sliding out through his eye socket.
▪ But she was as vacant as an empty eye socket.
outlet
▪ Lastly, each spur can feed one single or one double socket outlet, or one fused connection unit.
▪ Radial circuits are sometimes used for socket outlets, where installing a ring circuit would waste cable.
▪ Overloading a socket outlet can easily start a fire, and all those trailing flexes pose a serious trip hazard.
▪ Each spur can feed one new outlet, and this can be a single, double or triple socket outlet.
power
▪ Switch off the power socket and remove the plug. 2.
■ VERB
plug
▪ I don't shut all the internal doors and I certainly don't pull most plugs out at the socket.
▪ The device, small enough to fit in a shirt pocket, plugs into a wall socket.
▪ The transformer simply plugs into a mains socket indoors or in a garage, and only the low-voltage wire is taken outside.
▪ It's a portable car phone that can be plugged into the socket of a cigarette lighter.
▪ There are many portable types available for hire which simply plug into the 13amp socket.
▪ Her head was back and her chin raised, resin plugging the eye sockets.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ But she was as vacant as an empty eye socket.
▪ He pressed the heels of his hands against his eyes until the sockets ached.
▪ He stuck the candle upright in a socket then sat and gazed at the flame, letting it mesmerize him into memory.
▪ Her mouth was dry and hollow, a socket, no longer a well, as if she had no tongue to kiss with.
▪ I don't shut all the internal doors and I certainly don't pull most plugs out at the socket.
▪ The eyes dissolve into red sockets.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Socket

Socket \Sock"et\, n. [OE. soket, a dim. through OF. fr. L. soccus. See Sock a covering for the foot.]

  1. An opening into which anything is fitted; any hollow thing or place which receives and holds something else; as, the sockets of the teeth.

    His eyeballs in their hollow sockets sink.
    --Dryden.

  2. Especially, the hollow tube or place in which a candle is fixed in the candlestick.

  3. (Electricity) the receptacle of an electric lamp into which a light bulb is inserted, containing contacts to conduct electricity to the bulb.

  4. (Electricity) the receptacle fixed in a wall and connected by conductive wiring to an electrical supply, containing contacts to conduct electricity, and into which the plug of an electrical device is inserted; -- called also a wall socket or outlet. The socket will typically have two or three contacts; if three, the third is connected to a ground for safety.

    And in the sockets oily bubbles dance.
    --Dryden.

    Socket bolt (Mach.), a bolt that passes through a thimble that is placed between the parts connected by the bolt.

    Socket chisel. Same as Framing chisel. See under Framing.

    Socket pipe, a pipe with an expansion at one end to receive the end of a connecting pipe.

    Socket pole, a pole armed with iron fixed on by means of a socket, and used to propel boats, etc. [U.S.]

    Socket wrench, a wrench consisting of a socket at the end of a shank or rod, for turning a nut, bolthead, etc., in a narrow or deep recess.

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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
socket

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: Welsh swch "plowshare," Middle Irish soc "plowshare"), properly "hog's snout," from PIE *su- "pig" (cognates: Latin sus "swine;" see sow (n.) "female pig").\n

\nMeaning "hollow part or piece for receiving and holding something" first recorded early 15c.; anatomical sense is from c.1600; domestic electrical sense first recorded 1885. Socket wrench is attested from 1837. The verb is 1530s, from the noun. Related: Socketed; socketing.

Wiktionary
socket

n. 1 (context mechanics English) An opening into which a plug or other connecting part is designed to fit (e.g. ''a light bulb socket''). 2 (context anatomy English) A hollow into a bone which a part fits, such as an eye, or another bone, in the case of a joint. 3 (context computing English) A two-way named pipe on Unix and Unix-like systems, used for interprocess communication. vb. To place or fit in a socket.

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WordNet
socket

  1. n. a bony hollow into which a structure fits

  2. receptacle where something (a pipe or probe or end of a bone) is inserted

  3. a receptacle into which an electric device can be inserted

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Wikipedia
Socket

Socket may refer to:

Socket (video game)

Socket, known in Japan as , is a platform game developed and published by Vic Tokai for the Mega Drive/Genesis.

Socket (film)

Socket is an independent sci-fi thriller directed by Sean Abley and produced by John Carrozza, Sean Abley, Matt Mishkoff and Doug Prinzivalli, starring Derek Long as Dr. Bill and Matthew Montgomery as Dr. Craig Murphy. It was released in 2007.

Socket (telecommunications)

Socket is a Missouri-based telecommunications provider, with its headquarters in Columbia, Missouri. Socket is a privately held company and offers local and long distance phone service, DSL and dial-up internet, and data solutions to residents and businesses across Missouri.

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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.