Socket
- n. Especially, the hollow tube or place in which a candle is fixed in the candlestick.
- n. An opening into which anything is fitted; any hollow thing or place which receives and holds something else; as, the sockets of the teeth.
The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.