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socket

noun
🔊/ˈsɒkɪt/
🔊/ˈsɑːkɪt/
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  1. (British English also power point)
    (North American English also outlet, receptacle)
     a device in a wall that you put a plug into in order to connect electrical equipment to the power supply of a building（电源）插座
    • a wall socket墙壁插座
    • The battery charger plugs into any mains socket.这个电池充电器可以插入任何类型的电源插座。
    Topics Houses and homesc1
    Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective
    • electric
    • electrical
    • light
    • …
    verb + socket
    • plug (something) into
    socket + noun
    • outlet
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  2. a device on a piece of electrical equipment that you can fix a plug, a light bulb, etc. into（电器上的）插口，插孔，管座
    • an aerial socket on the television电视机上的天线插孔
    Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective
    • electric
    • electrical
    • light
    • …
    verb + socket
    • plug (something) into
    socket + noun
    • outlet
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  3. a curved hollow space in the surface of something that another part fits into or moves around in托座；孔穴；窝；槽；臼
    • His eyes bulged in their sockets.他的两眼从眼窝里鼓出来。🔊🔊
    • The dog nearly pulled my arm out of its socket.那只狗差点把我的胳膊从它的窝里拉出来。
    Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective
    • empty
    • hollow
    • sunken
    • …
    preposition
    • in its socket
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    4. Word 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.