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socket (säk′it)

noun

a hollow piece or part into which something fits the socket for a light bulb, of the eye, of the hipbone, etc.

Etymology: ME soket, spearhead shaped like a plowshare < Anglo-Fr, dim. < OFr soc, plowshare < Gaul *soccus, plowshare, orig., pig's snout (hence, that which roots out) < IE *suk-, var. of base *su-, sow

transitive verb

to furnish with or fit into a socket

Webster's New World College Dictionary Copyright © 2009 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio.
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