Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun An opening or a cavity into which an inserted part is designed to fit.
- noun The concave part of a joint that receives the end of a bone.
- noun A hollow or concavity into which a part, such as the eye, fits.
- transitive verb To furnish with or insert into a socket.
from The Century Dictionary.
- To provide with or place in a socket.
- noun In golf, the neck of a club into which the shaft runs.
- noun 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.
- noun An opening or cavity into which anything is fitted; any hollow thing or place which receives and holds something else.
- noun Specifically A small hollow tube or depression in a candlestick to hold a candle. Also called
nozle . - noun 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.
- noun In mining, the end of a shot-hole, when this remains visible after the shot has been fired.
- noun In well-boring, a tool with various forms of gripping mechanism, for seizing and lifting tools dropped in the tube.
- noun In the just, a defense of steel attached to the saddle, and serving to protect the legs and thighs. Compare
bur , 3 . Alsosocquette .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun An opening into which anything is fitted; any hollow thing or place which receives and holds something else.
- noun Especially, the hollow tube or place in which a candle is fixed in the candlestick.
- noun (Electricity) the receptacle of an electric lamp into which a light bulb is inserted, containing contacts to conduct electricity to the bulb.
- noun (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 oroutlet . Thesocket will typically have two or three contacts; if three, the third is connected to a ground for safety. - noun (Mach.) a bolt that passes through a thimble that is placed between the parts connected by the bolt.
- noun Same as
Framing chisel . See underFraming . - noun a pipe with an expansion at one end to receive the end of a connecting pipe.
- noun [U.S.] a pole armed with iron fixed on by means of a socket, and used to propel boats, etc.
- noun 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.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun mechanics An opening into which a
plug or other connecting part is designed to fit (e.g. alight bulb socket). - noun anatomy A
hollow into abone which a part fits, such as aneye , or another bone, in the case of ajoint . - noun computing A
two-way named pipe on Unix and Unix-like systems, used forinterprocess communication .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- 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
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
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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.
Manifest Density 2009
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For reasons that I haven't bothered to figure out, the socket module is named _socket in the minipython distribution.
Manifest Density 2009
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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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For Exchange, five VMs per socket is more often typical.
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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.
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
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
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
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