From en.wiktionary.org:
** English
[wikipedia]
*** Etymology
From [en], [enm], from [en], diminutive of [en], from [en], a word borrowed
from [en], from [en] (compare modern [cy]), literally "pig's snout", from
[en].
*** Pronunciation
- [en]
- [en]
- [en]
- [en]
- [en]
*** Noun
[en-noun]
1. [en] Any of various concave objects (or portions of larger objects) that envelop a counterpart object.
1. [en] [en] An opening into which a plug or other connecting part is designed to fit (e.g. _a light bulb socket_ ).
2. * [en]
3. [en] [en] A hollow into a bone which a part fits, such as an eye , or another bone, in the case of a joint .
4. [en] The socket head for a socket wrench .
5. A hollow tool for grasping and lifting tools dropped in a well-boring.
6. The hollow of a candlestick .
7. * {{ quote-text | en | year=1671 | author= 吴语: Thomas Watson (Puritan) | title=The Beatitudes | page=8
|passage=Chriſt calls his Miniſters, _Lux Mundi_, _the light of the World_,
Matth. 5. 14. therefore they must be alwayes giving forth their luſtre;
their light must not go out till it be in the SOCKET or till violent death as
an extinguisher put it out.}}
1. * [en]
1. [en] One endpoint of a two-way communication link, used for interprocess communication across a network.
2. [en] One endpoint of a two-way named pipe on Unix and Unix-like systems, used for interprocess communication .
3. A steel apparatus attached to a saddle to protect the thighs and legs.
**** Derived terms
{{col|en |alveolar socket |ball-and-socket joint |cock socket |cock-socket
|eye-socket |pole-socket |socket bolt |socket pipe |socket pole |socket wrench
|tube socket }}
**** Translations
[mechanical opening]
- Albanian: [sq]
- Arabic: [ar]
- Armenian: [hy] , [hy] , [hy] , [hy]
- Azerbaijani: [az] , [az] , [az]
- Belarusian: [be] , [be] , [be]
- Bulgarian: [bg] , [bg] , [bg]
- Burmese: [my]
- Catalan: [ca]
- Chinese:
- Czech: [cs] , [cs] , [cs] [power socket]
- Danish: [da] , [da]
- Dutch: [nl] , [nl]
- Esperanto: [eo] , [eo] , [eo] , [eo]
- Estonian: [et]
- Faroese: [fo] , [fo]
- Finnish: [fi] , [fi] , [fi]
- French: [fr] , [fr]
- Georgian: [ka]
- German: [de] , [de] , [de] [light bulb] , [de] [chip]
- Greek: [el] , [el]
- Greenlandic: [kl]
- Hebrew: [he]
- Hindi: [hi]
- Hungarian: [hu] , [hu] , [hu] , [hu] , [hu] , [hu]
- Icelandic: [is]
- Indonesian: [id]
- Irish: [ga]
- Italian: [it] , [it] [lamp socket]
- Japanese: [ja]
- Kazakh: [kk] , [kk]
- Khmer: [km]
- Korean: [ko] (North Korea), [ko] (South Korea)
- Kyrgyz: [ky]
- Lao: [lo]
- Latvian: [lv] , [lv]
- Lithuanian: [lt]
- Luhya: [luy]
- Macedonian: [mk] , [mk]
- Malay: [ms]
- Mongolian:
- Norwegian:
- Persian:
- Plautdietsch: [pdt]
- Polish: [pl] , [pl]
- Portuguese: [pt]
- Romanian: [ro] , [ro] , [ro] , [ro]
- Romansch: [rm]
- Russian: [ru] [power socket] , [ru] , [ru] , [ru] [lamp socket]
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Slovak: [sk] , [sk] [power socket]
- Slovene: [sl]
- Sorbian:
- Spanish: [es] , [es] , [es]
- Swahili: [sw]
- Swedish: [sv]
- Tagalog: [tl]
- Tajik: [tg]
- Tamil: [ta]
- Thai: [th] , [th]
- Tibetan: [bo] , [bo] , [bo] , [bo]
- Turkish: [tr]
- Ukrainian: [uk] , [uk] , [uk]
- Uzbek: [uz]
- Vietnamese: [vi] , [vi]
- Welsh: [cy]
[trans-bottom]
[hollow in a bone]
- Bulgarian: [bg]
- Czech: [cs] , [cs]
- Dutch: [for the eye] [nl] , [for joints] [nl]
- Finnish: [fi] , [fi]
- French: [fr] (for the eye), [fr] , [fr]
- Greek: [el] , [el]
- Hungarian: [hu] , [hu]
- Polish: [for the eye] [pl] , [for joints] [pl]
- Portuguese: [pt]
- Russian: [ru] (eye socket)
- Spanish: [es] (eye socket), [es]
- Tibetan: [bo]
[trans-bottom]
[computing interprocess communication channel]
- Bulgarian: [bg]
- Chinese:
- Czech: [cs]
- Finnish: [fi] , [fi]
- French: [fr]
- Hungarian: [hu]
- Japanese: [ja]
- Korean: [ko]
- Polish: [pl]
- Portuguese: [pt] [Brazil] , [pt]
- Russian: [ru]
- Spanish: [es]
- Thai: [th]
- Tibetan: [bo]
[trans-bottom]
**** See also
{{col|en |w:WebSocket }}
*** Verb
[en-verb]
1. To place or fit in a socket.
2. * {{ quote-text | en | year=1941 | author=w:Emily Carr | title=w:Klee Wyck | url=http://www.gutenberg.net.au/ebooks01/0100131.txt | chapter=6
|passage=Her head and trunk were carved out of, or rather into, the bole of a
great red cedar. She seemed to be part of the tree itself, as if she had
grown there at its heart, and the carver had only chipped away the outer wood
so that you could see her. Her arms were spliced and SOCKETED to the trunk,
and were flung wide in a circling, compelling movement.}}
*** References
- [R:Webster 1913]
[en]