Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
- n. An opening or a cavity into which an inserted part is designed to fit: a light-bulb socket.
- n. Anatomy The concave part of a joint that receives the end of a bone.
- n. Anatomy A hollow or concavity into which a part, such as the eye, fits.
- transitive v. To furnish with or insert into a socket.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
- n. An opening into which a plug or other connecting part is designed to fit (e.g. a light bulb socket).
- n. A hollow into a bone which a part fits, such as an eye, or another bone, in the case of a joint.
- n. A two-way named pipe on Unix and Unix-like systems, used for interprocess communication.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
- n. An opening into which anything is fitted; any hollow thing or place which receives and holds something else.
- n. Especially, the hollow tube or place in which a candle is fixed in the candlestick.
- n. the receptacle of an electric lamp into which a light bulb is inserted, containing contacts to conduct electricity to the bulb.
- n. 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.
from The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- To provide with or place in a socket.
- n. An opening or cavity into which anything is fitted; any hollow thing or place which receives and holds something else.
- n. Specifically A small hollow tube or depression in a candlestick to hold a candle. Also called nozle.
- n. In anatomy, specifically, the hollow of one part which receives another; the concavity or excavation of an articulation: as, an eye-socket; the socket of the hip.
- n. In mining, the end of a shot-hole, when this remains visible after the shot has been fired.
- n. In well-boring, a tool with various forms of gripping mechanism, for seizing and lifting tools dropped in the tube.
- n. In the just, a defense of steel attached to the saddle, and serving to protect the legs and thighs. Compare bur, 3 . Also socquette.
- n. In golf, the neck of a club into which the shaft runs.
- n. A chuck or holder on the end of a drill-spindle having a taper-hole to receive the corresponding taper-shank of the drill or of another socket.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- n. a receptacle into which an electric device can be inserted
- n. receptacle where something (a pipe or probe or end of a bone) is inserted
- n. a bony hollow into which a structure fits
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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For reasons that I haven't bothered to figure out, the socket module is named _socket in the minipython distribution.
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For Exchange, five VMs per socket is more often typical.
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Things to go shopping for in Malaysia: a powerboard where every socket is a universal socket.
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The socket is always connected to the neutral wire, so no big deal … unless the trouble light is plugged in to an outlet with reversed polarity.
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The version with the E27 socket is recommended when a soft ambience is required, whereas the version with the G12 socket and metal-halogen light source is recommended for environments in which a high level of light and lower energy consumption is needed.
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"This limited edition Revival features all the benefits of a DAB radio as well as rotary tuning and volume controls, RDS station name display, a stereo line in socket for iPod/MP3 playback, headphone socket and portability."
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A socket is identified by the combination of source address, source port, destination address, destination address.
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Allow it record fron a mic in socket at selectable sample rates just like the iRiver ifp799, and give it a good powered mic preamp with clean flat A to D conversion.
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This "safe" -- really a cache -- disguised as a wall-socket is pretty clever and goes for a mere $10.
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Okay - the lighter socket is what I wanted - for things like cd player car kits and cell phone chargers.
reesetee commented on the word socket
That's an American stress? I didn't realize that. I use both pronunciations, depending on how I'm using the word (ADD-ress for noun, addRESS for verb).
August 6, 2008
bilby commented on the word socket
Hmmmm, stress is workable even with adDRESS although involves duffing the as thee. Wish I was as good as you with the IPA!
August 6, 2008
sarra commented on the word socket
Oh gosh! I haven't heard that for ages. It does annoy me that it's written with American stress though (ADdress not adDRESS).
socket makes me a little bit queasy. Learning about dry socket only intensified that feeling, so I'm not sure quite where it came from.
August 6, 2008
bilby commented on the word socket
"If a packet hits a pocket on a socket on a port,
And the bus is interrupted as a very last resort.
And the address of the memory makes your floppy disk abort,
Then the socket packet pocket has an error to report!"
- anon.
December 19, 2007