socket
noun
a hollow part or piece for receiving and holding some part or thing.
socketed
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past participleof socket.past participle
A verb form used in perfect and passive verb constructions and that can also function as a modifier.
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past tense formof socket.past tense
Used to describe completed actions or previous habitual actions.
socketnouna hollow part or piece for receiving and holding some part or thing.
Example Sentences
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They kept digging and found a hoard of other artifacts, including socketed ax heads, winged ax heads, cake ingots and blade fragments made of bronze.
From Seattle Times ● Dec. 3, 2021
In the Positano brochures, they tell you about the view: the impossible blue of the sea, the colorful buildings socketed like Legos into the craggy hillside, the narrow alleyways of shops and restaurants.
From Salon ● Jul. 12, 2019
Did it require special equipment, perhaps a rope woven around short lengths of bamboo that could be covertly socketed together?
From Washington Post ● Oct. 17, 2018
But it's the 11/2-point diamonds inserted in the socketed holes where winch handles fit that really raise eyebrows.
From Time Magazine Archive
Very early in the eighteenth century a further improvement was invented, in the shape of a socketed bayonet, which was firmer and more satisfactory than anything previously devised.
From Broad-Sword and Single-Stick With Chapters on Quarter-Staff, Bayonet, Cudgel, Shillalah, Walking-Stick, Umbrella and Other Weapons of Self-Defence by Rowland George Allanson Allanson-Winn, Baron Headley
