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Verb
/ˈsäkit/,
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sockets, plural;
  1. Place in or fit with a socket

Noun
  1. A natural or artificial hollow into which something fits or in which something revolves
    • - the eye socket
  2. The part of the head of a golf club into which the shaft is fitted

  3. An electrical device receiving a plug or light bulb to make a connection


  1. a bony hollow into which a structure fits
  2. receptacle where something (a pipe or probe or end of a bone) is inserted
  3. a receptacle into which an electric device can be inserted
  4. Socket is an independent sci-fi thriller released in 2007. Dark and sexual, it tells the story of a gay man being drawn into a cult of electricity addicts after being struck by lightning. It is reportedly the first gay sci-fi thriller. ...
  5. (Socket S) Socket S1 is the CPU socket type used by AMD for their Turion 64, Athlon 64 Mobile and later Sempron processors, which debuted with the dual core Turion 64 X2 CPUs on May 17, 2006.
  6. An opening into which a plug or other connecting part is designed to fit (e.g. a light bulb socket); A hollow into a bone which a part fits, such as an eye, or another bone, in the case of a joint; A two-way named pipe on Unix and Unix-like systems, used for interprocess communication
  7. Sockets are a method for communication between a client program and a server program over a network. A socket is defined as "the endpoint in a connection. ...
  8. (Sockets) C one-shaped cavities in the upper and lower arch, in which the teeth are embedded.
  9. (Sockets) In the early 1980s, the Advanced Research Projects Agency (ARPA) funded a group at the University of California at Berkeley to transport TCP/IP software to UNIX and make the resulting interface software available to others. ...
  10. Sockets describe the software methods invoked to correctly form an IP packet on the processor to physical communications interface. Aka President Clinton's cat.
  11. The hole in the jawbone into which the tooth fits.
  12. This is a communication mechanism originally implemented on the BSD version of the UNIX operating system. Sockets are used as endpoints for sending and receiving data between computers.
  13. The socket tells a host's IP stack where to plug in a data stream so that it connects to the right application.
  14. The wound left after you take out a tooth.
  15. A software object used by a client to connect to a server; basic components include the port number and the network address of the local host.
  16. The part of the prosthesis (artificial limb) that fits around the residual limb
  17. An endpoint for network communication among multiple processes that works much like a telephone or a post office box. The most important thing about a socket is its network address (like a phone number). ...
  18. A receptacle usually on a motherboard, that processors or chips can be inserted into.
  19. The threaded, wired receptacle that an HID bulb screws into.
  20. An IP socket is defined by source and destination IP addresses and Ports and (binding)
  21. The port a program utilizes to connect to another program that is running on a different computer on the Internet.
  22. In computer networking, an Internet socket or network socket is an endpoint of a bidirectional inter-process communication flow across an Internet.
  23. the portion of a jointing system that is designed to accept a plain-end pipe or a spigot-end pipe.
  24. mounting  device for plug-in coils, plug-in   capacitors, plug-in resistors and crystals having holes with spring clips arranged to fit and grip the terminal prongs of the component being plugged in.
  25. The part of the light fixture that holds the light bulb and provides electrical contact.