2the place on a piece of electrical equipment that you put a plug or a light bulb into 〔电器上的〕插口,插孔
a headphone socket
耳机插口
3JOIN something TOGETHERa hollow part of a structure into which something fits 窝,臼,槽,穴
the eye sockets
眼窝
Examples from the Corpus
socket• Her mouth was dry and hollow, a socket, no longer a well, as if she had no tongue to kiss with.• He stuck the candleupright in a socket then sat and gazed at the flame, letting it mesmerize him into memory.• But she was as vacant as an empty eye socket.• The eyes dissolve into redsockets.• I don't shut all the internal doors and I certainly don't pull most plugs out at the socket.• He pressed the heels of his hands against his eyes until the socketsached.
Originsocket
(1200-1300)Anglo-Frenchsoket, from Old Frenchsoc“broad curved blade of a plow”