Definitions for socket

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socket sock·et

Spelling: [sok-it]

IPA: /ˈsɒk ɪt/

Socket is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 12 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 13 points.

You can make 102 anagrams from letters in socket (cekost).

Definitions for socket

noun

1. a hollow part or piece for receiving and holding some part or thing.
2. Electricity. a device intended to hold an electric light bulb mechanically and connect it electrically to circuit wires. Also called wall socket. a socket placed in a wall to receive a plug that makes an electrical connection with supply wiring.
3. Anatomy. a hollow in one part that receives another part: the concavity of a joint:

verb (used with object)

1. to place in or fit with a socket.

Origin of socket

1300-50; Middle English soket Anglo-French, equivalent to Old French soc plowshare (Gaulish *soccos; compare Welsh swch, Old Irish socc) + -et -et

Examples for socket

Then with a great wrench the cross was lifted into the socket prepared for it.

He absently took the whip from its socket, flecking the horse with it as he spoke.

With a report that rang through the room like a pistol shot, it broke off in its socket.

During a trip to Dallas for Super Bowl 2011 festivities, she writes that Russell “knocked her jaw out of the socket.”

I fell into the chair, jammed the rod-butt into the socket, and began to pump and wind.

Do you think the button at the top may have had a socket for a horse hair plume?

When I sat down to jam the rod-butt in the socket I had awakened to possibilities.

Then I sat down, jammed the rod in the socket, put on the drag, and began to strike.

And behind her the lamp in its socket on the wall smoked a trifle from a too-high wick.

A candle had been burning in the parlour, but it was now spluttering in the fat at the socket.