socket
Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
socket/ˈsɒkɪt/
▶noun
- 1 a hollow in which something fits or revolves.
■ the part of the head of a golf club into which the shaft is fitted.
- 2 an electrical device receiving a plug or light bulb to make a connection.
- 1 place in or fit with a socket.
- 2 Golf, dated shank (a ball).
– origin ME: from an Anglo-Norman Fr. dimin. of OFr. soc ‘ploughshare’, prob. of Celtic origin.
'socket' also found in these Oxford entries:
acetabulum
- adaptor
- alisphenoid
- Allen screw
- alveolus
- ball-and-socket joint
- bayonet
- bolt
- brace
- chair
- collet
- euglena
- extension
- eyeball
- eyebrow
- eye socket
- glenoid cavity
- gudgeon
- hip joint
- hosel
- hot shoe
- jack
- lachrymal
- light bulb
- line-in
- line-out
- machine screw
- orbit
- outlet
- palatine
- palstave
- phono
- pin
- plug
- point
- port
- prefrontal
- quadratus
- receptacle
- Scart
- shoe
- socket wrench
- spigot
- spud wrench
- stake
- tabernacle
- unplug
- ZIF socket
- zygomatic bone
