socket
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
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Etymology: From Middle English socket, soket, from Anglo-Norman soket (“spearhead”), diminutive of Old French soc (“plowshare”), from Vulgar Latin *soccus, a word borrowed from Gaulish, from Proto-Celtic *sukkos (compare modern Welsh swch (“plowshare”)), literally "pig's snout", from Proto-Indo-European *suH-.
Inflected forms:
form: sockets
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: sockets
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: socketing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: socketed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: socketed
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: Any of various concave objects (or portions of larger objects) that envelop a counterpart object.
pos: noun
examples: Near-synonyms: jack, outlet, receptacle, wall socket
Each seat must have a 230V socket, a USB socket, a coat hook, reading light and cup holder.
gloss: Any of various concave objects (or portions of larger objects) that envelop a counterpart object.
pos: noun
gloss: Any of various concave objects (or portions of larger objects) that envelop a counterpart object.
pos: noun
gloss: Any of various concave objects (or portions of larger objects) that envelop a counterpart object.
pos: noun
gloss: Any of various concave objects (or portions of larger objects) that envelop a counterpart object.
pos: noun
examples: Chriſt calls his Miniſters, Lux Mundi, the light of the World, Matth. 5. 14. therefore they must be alwayes giving forth their luſtre; their light must not go out till it be in the ſocket or till violent death as an extinguisher put it out.
The candle burned to its socket, the fire went out, the night air grew heavy with silence, before Herbert lay down.
gloss: One endpoint of a two-way communication link, used for interprocess communication across a network.
pos: noun
gloss: One endpoint of a two-way named pipe on Unix and Unix-like systems, used for interprocess communication.
pos: noun
gloss: A steel apparatus attached to a saddle to protect the thighs and legs.
pos: noun
gloss: To place or fit in a socket.
pos: verb
examples: Her head and trunk were carved out of, or rather into, the bole of a great red cedar. She seemed to be part of the tree itself, as if she had grown there at its heart, and the carver had only chipped away the outer wood so that you could see her. Her arms were spliced and socketed to the trunk, and were flung wide in a circling, compelling movement.
Related words: WebSocket
Derived words: alveolar socket
ball-and-socket joint
cock socket
cock-socket
cocksocket
eye-socket
multisocket
pole-socket
resocket
socket bolt
socketless
socket lichen
socketlike
socket pipe
socket pole
socketry
socketwood
socket wrench
tube socket
unsocket
whipsocket
Winsock
Translations:
lang: Bulgarian
word: ямка
roman: jamka
lang: Czech
word: jamka
lang: Czech
word: důlek
lang: Dutch
word: kas
lang: Dutch
word: kom
lang: Finnish
word: ontelo
lang: Finnish
word: kuoppa
lang: French
word: orbite
lang: French
word: cavité
lang: French
word: capsule
lang: German
word: Höhle
lang: Greek
word: φατνίο
roman: fatnío
lang: Greek
word: κόγχη
roman: kónchi
lang: Ancient Greek
word: ὁλμίσκος
roman: holmískos
lang: Hungarian
word: üreg
lang: Hungarian
word: gödör
lang: Polish
word: oczodół
lang: Polish
word: panewka
lang: Portuguese
word: cavidade
lang: Russian
word: глазни́ца
roman: glazníca
lang: Spanish
word: cuenca
lang: Spanish
word: glena
lang: Bulgarian
word: сокет
roman: soket
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 套接字
roman: tàojiēzì
lang: Czech
word: soket
lang: Finnish
word: pistoke
lang: Finnish
word: vastake
lang: French
word: socket
lang: Hungarian
word: foglalat
lang: Japanese
word: ソケット
roman: soketto
lang: Korean
word: 소켓
roman: soket
lang: Polish
word: gniazdo
lang: Portuguese
word: soquete
lang: Portuguese
word: socket
lang: Russian
word: со́кет
roman: sóket
lang: Spanish
word: zócalo
lang: Thai
word: ซ็อกเก็ต
roman: sɔ́k-gèt
lang: Tibetan
word: སྒྲོག་མཐུད་ཡི་གེ
roman: sgrog mthud yi ge