socket

Etymology
From, , from , diminutive of , from , a word borrowed from , from (compare modern 🇨🇬), literally "pig's snout", from.

Noun

 * 1)  An opening into which a plug or other connecting part is designed to fit (e.g. a light bulb socket).
 * 2)  A hollow into a bone which a part fits, such as an eye, or another bone, in the case of a joint.
 * 3)  One endpoint of a two-way communication link, used for interprocess communication across a network.
 * 4)  One endpoint of a two-way named pipe on Unix and Unix-like systems, used for interprocess communication.
 * 5) A hollow tool for grasping and lifting tools dropped in a well-boring.
 * 6) The hollow of a candlestick.
 * 7) A steel apparatus attached to a saddle to protect the thighs and legs.
 * 1) The hollow of a candlestick.
 * 2) A steel apparatus attached to a saddle to protect the thighs and legs.
 * 1) A steel apparatus attached to a saddle to protect the thighs and legs.
 * 1) A steel apparatus attached to a saddle to protect the thighs and legs.

Translations

 * Albanian:
 * Arabic: مَقْبِس
 * Egyptian Arabic: بريزه, كوبس, كبس
 * Armenian:, հարակցիչ, ,
 * Azerbaijani: rozetka
 * Belarusian: разе́тка,, разды́м
 * Bulgarian: ,
 * Burmese:
 * Catalan:
 * Chinese:
 * Cantonese: 插蘇, 插座
 * Hokkien:
 * Mandarin: ,
 * Czech: patice, zdířka,
 * Danish: ,
 * Dutch: ,
 * Esperanto: aksingo, ampolingo,konektingo,
 * Estonian:
 * Faroese: stungudós, stikkkontakt
 * Finnish:, pistukka,
 * French: ,
 * Georgian: როზეტი
 * German:, , light bulb,  chip
 * Greek: ,
 * Ancient: ὁλμίσκος
 * Greenlandic: ikkussuiffik
 * Hebrew:
 * Hindi: सॉकेट
 * Hungarian:, , , , ,
 * Icelandic:
 * Indonesian:
 * Irish: soicéad
 * Italian:
 * Japanese:
 * Kazakh: розетка, рәзеткі
 * Khmer: ឌូយ
 * Korean: 소케트 (North Korea), (South Korea)
 * Kyrgyz: розетка
 * Lao: ຮູສຽບໄຟຟ້າ
 * Latvian: kontaktligzdā, ligzdā
 * Lithuanian: rozetė
 * Luhya: esoket
 * Macedonian: приклучница, утичница
 * Malay: soket
 * Mongolian:
 * Cyrillic: эм залгуур,, разетк
 * Norwegian: ,
 * Persian:
 * Plautdietsch: Hollinj
 * Polish:, gniazdko elektryczne
 * Portuguese: ,
 * Romanian:, , ,
 * Romansch: bischla da contact
 * Russian:, , ,
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: у̀тичница
 * Roman:
 * Slovak: pätica, zásuvka
 * Slovene:
 * Sorbian:
 * Upper Sorbian: tykačka
 * Spanish:, ,
 * Swahili:
 * Swedish:
 * Tagalog: entsupe
 * Tajik: розетка
 * Tamil:
 * Thai: ซ็อกเก็ต, เต้ารับ
 * Tibetan: འཁོར་མིག, བསྒར་གནད, བསྒར་མིག, འཛུགས་ས
 * Turkish:
 * Ukrainian: розе́тка, гніздо́, роз'є́м
 * Uzbek:
 * Vietnamese: ổ cắm điện, ổ điện
 * Welsh: soced


 * Czech:, důlek
 * Dutch: ,
 * Finnish: ,
 * French: (for the eye), ,
 * Greek: ,
 * Ancient: ὁλμίσκος
 * Hungarian: ,
 * Polish: ,
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian: (eye socket)
 * Spanish: (eye socket), glena
 * Tibetan: རུས་མིག


 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: 套接字
 * Czech: soket
 * Finnish:, vastake
 * French:
 * Hungarian:
 * Japanese: ソケット
 * Korean:
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese: ,
 * Russian:
 * Spanish:
 * Thai: ซ็อกเก็ต
 * Tibetan: སྒྲོག་མཐུད་ཡི་གེ

Verb

 * 1) To place or fit in a socket.