SOCKET
\sˈɒkɪt], \sˈɒkɪt], \s_ˈɒ_k_ɪ_t]\
Definitions of SOCKET
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- 2011 - English Dictionary Database
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- 1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
- 1920 - A practical medical dictionary.
- 1898 - Warner's pocket medical dictionary of today.
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 1894 - The Clarendon dictionary
- 1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
- 1874 - Etymological and pronouncing dictionary of the English language
- 1920 - A dictionary of scientific terms.
- 1898 - American pocket medical dictionary
- 1871 - The Cabinet Dictionary of the English Language
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By Princeton University
By DataStellar Co., Ltd
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An opening into which anything is fitted; any hollow thing or place which receives and holds something else; as, the sockets of the teeth.
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Especially, the hollow tube or place in which a candle is fixed in the candlestick.
By Oddity Software
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
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1. The hollow part of a joint, the excavation in one bone of a joint which receives the articular end of the other bone. 2. Any hollow or concavity into which another part fits, as the eye-socket.
By Stedman, Thomas Lathrop
By William R. Warner
By Daniel Lyons
By William Hand Browne, Samuel Stehman Haldeman
By James Champlin Fernald
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The hollow base upon which a candle is fixed, like a tree upon its stump; any small hollow to receive and hold something; the receptacle of the eye.
By Stormonth, James, Phelp, P. H.
By Henderson, I. F.; Henderson, W. D.
By Willam Alexander Newman Dorland
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