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Definition of socket in English: socketnounPlural sockets ˈsɒkɪtˈsɑkət 1A natural or artificial hollow into which something fits or in which something revolves. 窝，槽，臼 眼窝。 Example sentencesExamples - The left maxilla preserves 13 tooth sockets, which are slightly larger than the premaxillary tooth sockets.
- He's going to remake the socket, building in a soft rubber pad and extra space to accommodate the troublesome bone.
- The artificial socket is made of high density plastic and the new ball with its stem is made of strong, stainless metal.
- The orbit is a socket for the eyeball, muscles, nerves, and vessels that are necessary for proper functioning of the eye.
- If the socket continues to bleed lie a gauze pad across the socket and ask the patient to bite on it for 15-30 minutes.
- More often than not, due to the delay and lack of adequate care of the socket, a ready fitting of the artificial eye is impossible.
- The skull, which measures a metre by a metre-and-a-half, is so well preserved that delicate features, such as cheekbones, are still intact and some teeth are still in their sockets.
- Located between the teeth, hinge sockets provide the space for holding the tooth of the opposite valve.
- Their eyes are darkened in their sockets, cheeks hollow and shrunken, their heads and hands unnaturally out of proportion as if they are famine victims.
- I managed to reach the bouldering height limit after stretching as far as I could and practically pulling the bones out of my shoulder sockets.
- And all the time her eyes, with their long lashes in their dark hollow sockets will gaze into the eyes of a man who loved her truly and knowingly married her.
- The hip socket will be hollowed out to make a shallow cup and an artificial socket will be placed into it.
- The result was an exact plaster mould of my stump, which Ian will use to make the socket onto which my artificial leg will be attached.
- He saw himself incredibly emaciated, covered in filth, his cheeks drawn and his own eyes looked back at him from hollow sockets colored with despair, pleading for help.
- Thomas fractured a shoulder socket during his first crack at the World Masters tournament in Ireland's Londonderry.
- Now lean on the club by bending from the hip sockets to get into a ‘ready’ position, the knees slightly flexed and the upper back straight, not rounded.
- The eyes often escape unharmed even when facial injury is severe and the bony socket (the orbit) has been fractured.
- Robinson's next patent, also with Draper and Lord, was for a method of attaching a knob to the socket by turning over the edge of the socket to grasp the bottom of the knob.
- My prosthetist, Ian, bulked up the inside of the socket of the artificial leg with a liner, which has made for a much tighter and snugger fit.
- You can hold rock still in the chair where you are now reading this and roll your eyes around in their sockets to look at the floor, left wall, ceiling or right wall.
Synonyms space, chamber, hollow, hole, pocket, pouch - 1.1 The part of the head of a golf club into which the shaft is fitted.
（高尔夫插球杆的）棒头承口 Example sentencesExamples - Seve cut his sticks to length, whittled a point in the slender end and drove it into the hosel - the round socket at the top of the iron head.
- The shaft must be attached to the clubhead at the heel either directly or through a single plain neck and/or socket.
- The heads were attached to the wooden shaft by a socket.
- The shaft or neck or socket of a putter may be fixed at any point in the head.
2An electrical device receiving a plug or light bulb to make a connection. 插座 Example sentencesExamples - Unlike conventional electrical appliances, which are simply plugged into a wall socket, computers and their peripherals are connected by any number of lines.
- Inventor Adrian Oldham has designed a gadget aimed at preventing children playing with plugs and electric sockets.
- The vehicle has a compressor driven from plugging into an electric socket that recharges the compressed air in 3 to 4 hours.
- Do not attempt to plug a generator into an electric socket in a wall.
- When you look at those lights remember all those who in past years on voluntary work that took months in planning, putting bulbs in sockets and putting the lights up and taking them down.
- All it needs is a flat surface to rest on and an electrical socket to plug into.
- Catherine was having trouble screwing a light bulb in its socket and one of the men lifted her up and allowed her to reach it.
- Unplug appliances and lamps, and remove light bulbs from their sockets.
- By plugging the $129 device into an electric socket, Mac and PC owners can extend their wireless network to any room.
- In all six conference rooms sockets for digital telephones have been installed, making it possible to install fax machines and modems, which can be rented from the hotel.
- Now the Bobby Van teams will advise on fire safety, suggesting that too many electrical devices plugged into the one socket is not a good idea and making sure that smoke alarms are fitted and working.
- Other scenes depict the agents as idiots and slapstick figures barely able to push a plug into an electric socket.
- Remember, you can only plug mains voltage lighting into an external socket as low voltage lighting requires a transformer and currently most transformers are not suitable for outside use.
- Korjo and Design Go both make travel jugs, for plugging in to electrical sockets or car cigarette lighters, costing around $80.
- Southern Electric claims it has received a ‘good amount of interest’ in its commercial trial of broadband through three-pin electrical sockets in Winchester.
- At the inquest, local electrician Thomas Durkin revealed that there was no leaked earth or circuit breaker in the connection to a plug socket in a neighbouring house.
- Communications Minister Dermot Ahern has finalised plans to trial technology that delivers an internet connection through power sockets.
- The quick-thinking mum also pulled all plugs from electric sockets in the house.
- Agatha gave a little squeak of distress and pulled the computer's electrical cable out of the plug socket.
- Socket guards stop children receiving electric shocks from poking objects into plug sockets.
Synonyms aperture, opening, outlet, inlet, vent, passage, porthole, trap, embrasure, door, gate
verbsockets, socketed, socketing ˈsɒkɪtˈsɑkət [with object]1Place in or fit with a socket. 插入，使装入插座 by then, arrowheads were normally socketed Example sentencesExamples - Beside the swords lay a bundle of about a dozen 2ft long socketed iron spearheads, and overlying the whole group of objects were large chunks of a broken amphora.
- I thought most newer MBs do not have socketed BIOS chips anymore, they have them soldered in.’
- Most BIOS chips are socketed, meaning that the chip resides in a socket, much like your CPU, but without a lever.
- The BIOS chip is socketed on both boards so it can be changed in case of disaster.
- By then, arrowheads were normally socketed, but it is a matter of conjecture as to how many arrows were expected to be recovered, even if you were the victors.
- In some chairs the top of the front legs forms a cylinder into which the lists are socketed.
- A mile to the west, at Platt Wood Farm, near Skidby, the archaeologists from York-based On Site Archaeology found a palstave - a solid axehead - a spearhead, and five socketed axeheads.
- More sinister was the burial of an adult male whose legs had been bound together, and a socketed iron spear point stabbed through both ankles.
- The caissons themselves are socketed into rock located 1.2 or 2.4 m below ground, depending on the location.
2Golf
a mashie that persists in socketing the ball old-fashioned term for shank Example sentencesExamples - There he pushed his tee shot into the semi-rough, and from there socketed the ball into the thick, deep rough, that he had so successfully avoided before.
- After a stylish waggle, I made a graceful swing and clean socketed the ball straight into the middle branches of a beautiful willow that guarded the 17th green.
OriginMiddle English (in the sense 'head of a spear, resembling a ploughshare'): from an Anglo-Norman French diminutive of Old French soc 'ploughshare', probably of Celtic origin. Early use was as a term for the ‘head of a spear, resembling a ploughshare’. It comes from a diminutive of Old French soc ‘ploughshare’, probably of Celtic origin. The notion of a hollow part in a cylindrical shape for fitting together with another part dates from the 15th century.
Rhymesbrocket, crocket, Crockett, docket, locket, pocket, rocket, sprocket Definition of socket in US English: socketnounˈsäkətˈsɑkət 1A natural or artificial hollow into which something fits or in which something revolves. 窝，槽，臼 眼窝。 Example sentencesExamples - My prosthetist, Ian, bulked up the inside of the socket of the artificial leg with a liner, which has made for a much tighter and snugger fit.
- If the socket continues to bleed lie a gauze pad across the socket and ask the patient to bite on it for 15-30 minutes.
- The eyes often escape unharmed even when facial injury is severe and the bony socket (the orbit) has been fractured.
- The skull, which measures a metre by a metre-and-a-half, is so well preserved that delicate features, such as cheekbones, are still intact and some teeth are still in their sockets.
- The orbit is a socket for the eyeball, muscles, nerves, and vessels that are necessary for proper functioning of the eye.
- Robinson's next patent, also with Draper and Lord, was for a method of attaching a knob to the socket by turning over the edge of the socket to grasp the bottom of the knob.
- And all the time her eyes, with their long lashes in their dark hollow sockets will gaze into the eyes of a man who loved her truly and knowingly married her.
- The hip socket will be hollowed out to make a shallow cup and an artificial socket will be placed into it.
- He saw himself incredibly emaciated, covered in filth, his cheeks drawn and his own eyes looked back at him from hollow sockets colored with despair, pleading for help.
- Thomas fractured a shoulder socket during his first crack at the World Masters tournament in Ireland's Londonderry.
- You can hold rock still in the chair where you are now reading this and roll your eyes around in their sockets to look at the floor, left wall, ceiling or right wall.
- More often than not, due to the delay and lack of adequate care of the socket, a ready fitting of the artificial eye is impossible.
- The artificial socket is made of high density plastic and the new ball with its stem is made of strong, stainless metal.
- I managed to reach the bouldering height limit after stretching as far as I could and practically pulling the bones out of my shoulder sockets.
- The left maxilla preserves 13 tooth sockets, which are slightly larger than the premaxillary tooth sockets.
- The result was an exact plaster mould of my stump, which Ian will use to make the socket onto which my artificial leg will be attached.
- He's going to remake the socket, building in a soft rubber pad and extra space to accommodate the troublesome bone.
- Their eyes are darkened in their sockets, cheeks hollow and shrunken, their heads and hands unnaturally out of proportion as if they are famine victims.
- Now lean on the club by bending from the hip sockets to get into a ‘ready’ position, the knees slightly flexed and the upper back straight, not rounded.
- Located between the teeth, hinge sockets provide the space for holding the tooth of the opposite valve.
Synonyms space, chamber, hollow, hole, pocket, pouch - 1.1 The part of the head of a golf club into which the shaft is fitted.
（高尔夫插球杆的）棒头承口 Example sentencesExamples - The shaft or neck or socket of a putter may be fixed at any point in the head.
- The heads were attached to the wooden shaft by a socket.
- The shaft must be attached to the clubhead at the heel either directly or through a single plain neck and/or socket.
- Seve cut his sticks to length, whittled a point in the slender end and drove it into the hosel - the round socket at the top of the iron head.
2An electrical device receiving a plug or light bulb to make a connection. 插座 Example sentencesExamples - Unlike conventional electrical appliances, which are simply plugged into a wall socket, computers and their peripherals are connected by any number of lines.
- Agatha gave a little squeak of distress and pulled the computer's electrical cable out of the plug socket.
- Korjo and Design Go both make travel jugs, for plugging in to electrical sockets or car cigarette lighters, costing around $80.
- Catherine was having trouble screwing a light bulb in its socket and one of the men lifted her up and allowed her to reach it.
- By plugging the $129 device into an electric socket, Mac and PC owners can extend their wireless network to any room.
- When you look at those lights remember all those who in past years on voluntary work that took months in planning, putting bulbs in sockets and putting the lights up and taking them down.
- Inventor Adrian Oldham has designed a gadget aimed at preventing children playing with plugs and electric sockets.
- Remember, you can only plug mains voltage lighting into an external socket as low voltage lighting requires a transformer and currently most transformers are not suitable for outside use.
- Other scenes depict the agents as idiots and slapstick figures barely able to push a plug into an electric socket.
- In all six conference rooms sockets for digital telephones have been installed, making it possible to install fax machines and modems, which can be rented from the hotel.
- Socket guards stop children receiving electric shocks from poking objects into plug sockets.
- Now the Bobby Van teams will advise on fire safety, suggesting that too many electrical devices plugged into the one socket is not a good idea and making sure that smoke alarms are fitted and working.
- Southern Electric claims it has received a ‘good amount of interest’ in its commercial trial of broadband through three-pin electrical sockets in Winchester.
- The vehicle has a compressor driven from plugging into an electric socket that recharges the compressed air in 3 to 4 hours.
- Communications Minister Dermot Ahern has finalised plans to trial technology that delivers an internet connection through power sockets.
- At the inquest, local electrician Thomas Durkin revealed that there was no leaked earth or circuit breaker in the connection to a plug socket in a neighbouring house.
- Unplug appliances and lamps, and remove light bulbs from their sockets.
- Do not attempt to plug a generator into an electric socket in a wall.
- The quick-thinking mum also pulled all plugs from electric sockets in the house.
- All it needs is a flat surface to rest on and an electrical socket to plug into.
Synonyms aperture, opening, outlet, inlet, vent, passage, porthole, trap, embrasure, door, gate
verbˈsäkətˈsɑkət [with object]1Place in or fit with a socket. 插入，使装入插座 Example sentencesExamples - I thought most newer MBs do not have socketed BIOS chips anymore, they have them soldered in.’
- In some chairs the top of the front legs forms a cylinder into which the lists are socketed.
- A mile to the west, at Platt Wood Farm, near Skidby, the archaeologists from York-based On Site Archaeology found a palstave - a solid axehead - a spearhead, and five socketed axeheads.
- Beside the swords lay a bundle of about a dozen 2ft long socketed iron spearheads, and overlying the whole group of objects were large chunks of a broken amphora.
- More sinister was the burial of an adult male whose legs had been bound together, and a socketed iron spear point stabbed through both ankles.
- By then, arrowheads were normally socketed, but it is a matter of conjecture as to how many arrows were expected to be recovered, even if you were the victors.
- Most BIOS chips are socketed, meaning that the chip resides in a socket, much like your CPU, but without a lever.
- The BIOS chip is socketed on both boards so it can be changed in case of disaster.
- The caissons themselves are socketed into rock located 1.2 or 2.4 m below ground, depending on the location.
2Golf
old-fashioned term for shank Example sentencesExamples - There he pushed his tee shot into the semi-rough, and from there socketed the ball into the thick, deep rough, that he had so successfully avoided before.
- After a stylish waggle, I made a graceful swing and clean socketed the ball straight into the middle branches of a beautiful willow that guarded the 17th green.
OriginMiddle English (in the sense ‘head of a spear, resembling a plowshare’): from an Anglo-Norman French diminutive of Old French soc ‘plowshare’, probably of Celtic origin. |