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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.

v. To furnish with or insert into a socket.

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.

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.

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.

To provide with or place in a socket.

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.

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

"For reasons that I haven't bothered to figure out, the socket module is named _socket in the minipython distribution."

socketed    socketing    sockets   

receptacle   

dental socket    ball and socket   

wall socket    outlet   

tooth socket    socket wrench    power socket    mains socket    network socket    eye socket    dry socket    wall socket    light bulb socket   

hole    pane    nozzle    pit    bucket    alveolus    budget    tabernacle    step    pad   

docket    pocket    rocket    sprocket   

plug    connector    adapter    pin    fitting    cylinder    clamp    screw    bolt    switch