c. 1300, "spearhead" (originally one shaped like a plowshare), from Anglo-French soket "spearhead, plowshare" (mid-13c.), diminutive of Old French soc "plowshare," from Vulgar Latin *soccus, perhaps from a Gaulish source, from Celtic *sukko- (cognates: Welsh swch "plowshare," Middle Irish soc "plowshare"), properly "hog's snout," from PIE *su- "pig" (cognates: Latin sus "swine;" see sow (n.) "female pig").
Meaning "hollow part or piece for receiving and holding something" first recorded early 15c.; anatomical sense is from c. 1600; domestic electrical sense first recorded 1885. Socket wrench is attested from 1837. The verb is 1530s, from the noun. Related: Socketed; socketing.
实用例句
1. I'm sure that yellow lead matched up to that yellow socket.
我敢肯定那根黄线接那个黄色插口。
来自柯林斯例句
2. Never overload an electrical socket.
千万不要使电源插座过载。
来自柯林斯例句
3. an aerial socket on the television
电视机上的天线插孔
来自《权威词典》
4. The battery charger plugs into any mains socket.
