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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Socket \Sock"et\, noun [OE. soket, a dim. through OF. fr. L. soccus. See {Sock} a covering for the foot.]
1. An opening into which anything is fitted; any hollow thing or place which receives and holds something else; as, the sockets of the teeth.
His eyeballs in their hollow sockets sink. --Dryden.
2. Especially, the hollow tube or place in which a candle is fixed in the candlestick.
3. (Electricity) the receptacle of an electric lamp into which a light bulb is inserted, containing contacts to conduct electricity to the bulb. [PJC]
4. (Electricity) the receptacle fixed in a wall and connected by conductive wiring to an electrical supply, containing contacts to conduct electricity, and into which the plug of an electrical device is inserted; -- called also a {wall socket} or {outlet}. The socket will typically have two or three contacts; if three, the third is connected to a ground for safety. [PJC]
And in the sockets oily bubbles dance. --Dryden.
{Socket bolt} (Mach.), a bolt that passes through a thimble that is placed between the parts connected by the bolt.
{Socket chisel}. Same as {Framing chisel}. See under {Framing}.
{Socket pipe}, a pipe with an expansion at one end to receive the end of a connecting pipe.
{Socket pole}, a pole armed with iron fixed on by means of a socket, and used to propel boats, etc. [U.S.]
{Socket wrench}, a wrench consisting of a socket at the end of a shank or rod, for turning a nut, bolthead, etc., in a narrow or deep recess.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Outlet \Out"let'\, noun The place or opening by which anything is let out; a passage out; an exit; a vent.
Receiving all, and having no outlet. --Fuller.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Outlet \Out*let"\, verb (used with an object) To let out; to emit. [R.] --Daniel.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
outlet
noun
1: a place of business for retailing goods [syn: {mercantile establishment}, {retail store}, {sales outlet}]
2: receptacle providing a place in a wiring system where current can be taken to run electrical devices [syn: {wall socket}, {wall plug}, {electric outlet}, {electrical outlet}, {electric receptacle}]
3: an opening that permits escape or release; "he blocked the way out"; "the canyon had only one issue" [syn: {exit}, {issue}, {way out}]
4: activity that releases or expresses creative energy or emotion; "she had no other outlet for her feelings"; "he gave vent to his anger" [syn: {release}, {vent}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
146 Moby Thesaurus words for "outlet": abreaction, access, acting-out, aisle, alley, ambulatory, aperture, arcade, artery, avenue, bill of sale, blowhole, break, breakout, broaching, catharsis, cavity, channel, chasm, check, chute, clearing, cleft, cloister, colonnade, communication, conduit, connection, corridor, covered way, crack, debouch, defile, deliverance, delivery, demand, discharge, disclosure, door, egress, emergence, emotional release, emunctory, escape, escape hatch, escapism, estuary, evasion, exhaust, exit, extrication, fenestra, ferry, fistula, flight, floodgate, flume, fontanel, foramen, ford, freeing, gallery, gap, gape, gat, getaway, gulf, hiatus, hole, hollow, inlet, interchange, intersection, interval, issuance, issue, jailbreak, junction, lacuna, lane, laying open, leak, leakage, liberation, loophole, market, mass market, motor abreaction, opening, opening up, orifice, out, outcome, outfall, outgate, outgo, overpass, pass, passage, passageway, pore, port, portico, prisonbreak, psychocatharsis, psychodrama, purgation, railroad tunnel, release, release therapy, relief, rescue, retail, retailer, riddance, sale, sally port, setting-free, shop, showroom, slot, sluice, space, spiracle, split, spout, stoma, store, tap, throwing open, tie-in, traject, trajet, tunnel, turnover, uncorking, underpass, unstopping, vent, ventage, venthole, vomitory, way out, weir, wholesale, yawn
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