Socket
['sɒkɪt] or ['sɑkɪt]
Definition
(noun.) a receptacle into which an electric device can be inserted.
(noun.) receptacle where something (a pipe or probe or end of a bone) is inserted.
(noun.) a bony hollow into which a structure fits.
Inputed by Fidel--From WordNet
Definition
(n.) An opening into which anything is fitted; any hollow thing or place which receives and holds something else; as, the sockets of the teeth.
(n.) Especially, the hollow tube or place in which a candle is fixed in the candlestick.
Inputed by Agnes
Definition
n. a hollow into which something is inserted the receptacle of the eye &c.: a hollow tool for grasping and lifting tools dropped in a well-boring: the hollow of a candlestick: a steel apparatus attached to the saddle to protect thighs and legs.—v.t. to provide with or place in a socket.—n. Sock′et-bolt a bolt for passing through a thimble placed between the parts connected by the bolt.—p.adj. Sock′eted provided with placed in or received in a socket.
Checked by Erwin
Examples
- The candle was burning low in the socket when he rose to his feet. Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
- ELECTRIC LAMP-SOCKET OVEN] Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- One thing most desirable in connection with practically all of the lamp-socket appliances described and illustrated in this section is the very small cost of operation. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- These are termed light-duty appliances, as they operate from the light socket. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- The accompanying illustration (Fig. 13) is of a rectangular grill, made of pressed steel and highly polished, designed to operate from any electric light socket. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- It might be well to explain that the lamp-socket appliances are those operating from the light socket and are built to carry not over 660 watts of current. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- These required special wiring, as the wattage was too heavy to allow of their operation from the light socket. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- One of the most important and yet seemingly simple parts of an electric iron is the switch plug which connects the electric light socket with the iron. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- It operates from any light socket and consumes but a very small amount of current, much less than is consumed by a toaster. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- The first oven herewith shown (Fig. 17) is of the lamp-socket type, equipped with three heats, providing a very efficient oven for small operations. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- Should you attach an appliance of heavier wattage to a light socket you will doubtless blow a fuse. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- The other one grabbed me from behind and pulled my arm up so that it twisted in the socket. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
- If the flame streamed up bright one moment, the next it sank dim in the socket. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- The torch had been stuck in a socket beside the door, so that its rays illuminated both the corridor and the cell at the same time. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
- Here the socket of the candle dropped, and the wick went out. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- He has the same deep eye-sockets. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- They projected so far, and they rolled about so loosely, that you wondered uneasily why they remained in their sockets. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- Search him, slaves--for an ye suffer a second impostor to be palmed upon you, I will have your eyes torn out, and hot coals put into the sockets. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
- His eyes were blue and keen as ever, and as firm in their sockets. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- The candles were flickering in their sockets. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
- The wells of the brass double-inkstand danced in their sockets. Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
- On looking up under the second gallery at this end is seen a great roll resting in sockets placed on each side of the room. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- Here were made all the small things used on the electric-lighting system, such as sockets, chandeliers, switches, meters, etc. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- His manners, she thought, were very dignified; the set of his iron-gray hair and his deep eye-sockets made him resemble the portrait of Locke. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- Our eyes cannot turn in their sockets without varying our perceptions. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
- Presently I saw the great eyes of my beast bulging completely from their sockets and blood flowing from its nostrils. Edgar Rice Burroughs. A Princess of Mars.
- On either side of her thin, hawk-like nose her eyes burned from the depths of horribly sunken sockets. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
- His face was taking on a livid hue, his eyes were bulging from their sockets. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
- The slabs, where they join, are then bored along the edges and brass dowels are inserted which engage sockets set in the opposite slab. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- The back of the rubber is reinforced by a wood strip, into which are placed metal sockets. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
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