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What (who) is socket - definition
WIKIMEDIA DISAMBIGUATION PAGE
Sockets; Socket (disambiguation)
socket
¦ noun
1. a hollow in which something fits or revolves.
the part of the head of a golf club into which the shaft is fitted.
2. an electrical device receiving a plug or light bulb to make a connection.
¦ verb (sockets, socketing, socketed)
1. place in or fit with a socket.
2. Golf, dated shank (a ball).
Origin
ME: from an Anglo-Norman Fr. dimin. of OFr. soc 'ploughshare', prob. of Celtic origin.
socket
n. a wall socket
Socket
·noun Especially, the hollow tube or place in which a candle is fixed in the candlestick.
II. Socket ·noun An opening into which anything is fitted; any hollow thing or place which receives and holds something else; as, the sockets of the teeth.
Examples of use of socket
1. "I felt down to the eye socket with my two fingers and poked them into the socket," he said.
2. She recalled the night the pimp broke her eye socket.
3. "His skull shattered at the front above the eye socket.
4. It was as though he‘d stuck their fingers into a mains socket.
5. The theory was that some technician had tripped and pulled a lead out of a socket.