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How to pronounce socket in English?

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Type Words
Type of bodily cavity, cavity, cavum
Has types tooth socket, alveolus, cotyloid cavity, hip socket, acetabulum
Type Words
Type of receptacle
Has types electric socket
Type Words
Type of receptacle

Examples of socket

socket
Again, pull until the wing comes out of its socket, and then slice off the wing.
From the orlandosentinel.com
I bent a couple of spoon rings around a socket and someone actually bought them.
From the dmjuice.desmoinesregister.com
These tubes did not have pins plugging into a socket but were soldered in place.
From the en.wikipedia.org
The fibrous connection between a tooth and its socket is a periodontal ligament.
From the en.wikipedia.org
Where no electric socket exists, the machines operate on portable battery packs.
From the time.com
He will undergo surgery to replace the hip with a metal ball and plastic socket.
From the time.com
Different authorities credit both Hugh Mackay and Vauban for the socket bayonet.
From the en.wikipedia.org
They also help hold the ball of the upper arm bone firmly in the shoulder socket.
From the latimes.com
Combat this by using a separate eye cream and massaging around the entire socket.
From the telegraph.co.uk
More examples
  • A bony hollow into which a structure fits
  • Receptacle where something (a pipe or probe or end of a bone) is inserted
  • A receptacle into which an electric device can be inserted
  • 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. ...
  • (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.
  • 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
  • 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. ...
  • (Sockets) C one-shaped cavities in the upper and lower arch, in which the teeth are embedded.
  • (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. ...