socket

• n. 插座；窩，穴；牙槽
• vt. 給…配插座

來自盎格魯法語 soket,犁樺，犁尖，小詞形式於古法語 soc,犁樺，可能最終來自 PIE*su,豬， 詞源同 sow,swine.即像個豬鼻子，後引申詞義孔，槽，窩，穴以及現代詞義插座，字麵意思 即犁挖的小洞。

socket (n.)

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.

1. I'm sure that yellow lead matched up to that yellow socket.

我敢肯定那根黃線接那個黃色插口。

來自柯林斯例句

2. Never overload an electrical socket.

千萬不要使電源插座過載。

來自柯林斯例句

3. an aerial socket on the television

電視機上的天線插孔

來自《權威詞典》

4. The battery charger plugs into any mains socket.

這個電池充電器可以插入任何類型的電源插座.

來自《簡明英漢詞典》

5. He put the electric plug into the socket.

他把電插頭插入插座.

來自《簡明英漢詞典》