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View definitions for socket

socket

noun as in cavity

noun as in pocket

noun as in slot

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Example Sentences

It turns out that a nail clipper, divided into two halves and hooked up directly into a power socket will boil water.

In 1996, Smart was severely beaten in prison by two inmates, who broke her eye socket and left her with a metal plate in her head.

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

When it was over, Keith had been stabbed in the shoulder, and Brandon had a fractured eye socket and orbital wall.

Fixed to the tumbler inboard there is a small bar which fits into a socket attached to the covering board.

Pour water in an earthenware jar, place the plates in it and turn the plug in a lamp socket.

The candle was burning to the socket; the moonlight lay on the floor between them, in a shifting, widening patch.

In testing a fixture, the plug A is turned into a socket of some source of current, and a lamp is turned into the socket B.

After attaching the socket to the wall with screws the board was easily put in place as shown in Fig. 2.

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On this page you'll find 149 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to socket, such as: crater, armpit, atrium, basin, bursa, and caries.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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