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socket

 
 
/ˈsɒkɪt/ noun [C]

Translation

ELECTRICITY the place on a wall where you connect electrical equipment to the electricity supply
priz
1319
HOLLOW PLACE a hollow place where one thing fits inside another thing
yuva, oyuk, çukur
Your eyeball is in your eye socket.1657
(Definition of socket noun from the Cambridge Learner's Dictionary English-Turkish © Cambridge University Press)

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