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socket

noun as in cavity

noun as in pocket

noun as in slot

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The final word on cordless vacuumsThere’s no doubt that getting rid of wires and power sockets makes life a lot easier, and these days, the best cordless vacuum cleaners have suction power that easily compares to their plugin-powered counterparts.

It is more like a USB socket, with both communication and power capabilities.

Electric vehicles are not appliancesWe’ve come to expect that we plug electric devices into a socket and they just work.

In August, one cable that supported this dome slipped out of a socket.

If you’ve ever traveled to South Africa and tried to use your multi-country adapter to recharge your phone or laptop, you may have been surprised that your adapter could not fit into the country’s unique sockets.

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It turns out that a nail clipper, divided into two halves and hooked up directly into a power socket will boil water.

In 1996, Smart was severely beaten in prison by two inmates, who broke her eye socket and left her with a metal plate in her head.

During a trip to Dallas for Super Bowl 2011 festivities, she writes that Russell “knocked her jaw out of the socket.”

When it was over, Keith had been stabbed in the shoulder, and Brandon had a fractured eye socket and orbital wall.

Fixed to the tumbler inboard there is a small bar which fits into a socket attached to the covering board.

Pour water in an earthenware jar, place the plates in it and turn the plug in a lamp socket.

The candle was burning to the socket; the moonlight lay on the floor between them, in a shifting, widening patch.

In testing a fixture, the plug A is turned into a socket of some source of current, and a lamp is turned into the socket B.

After attaching the socket to the wall with screws the board was easily put in place as shown in Fig. 2.

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On this page you'll find 149 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to socket, such as: crater, armpit, atrium, basin, bursa, and caries.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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