1. socket - Noun
2. socket - Verb
An opening into which anything is fitted; any hollow thing or place which receives and holds something else; as, the sockets of the teeth.
Especially, the hollow tube or place in which a candle is fixed in the candlestick.
Source: Webster's dictionaryMy reality needs imagination like a bulb needs a socket. My imagination needs reality like a blind man needs a cane. Tom Waits
The good die first, And they whose hearts are dry as summer dust Burn to the socket. William Wordsworth
He picked up the skull and knocked an onion ring out of its eye socket. "I see Sophie has been busy again. Couldn't you have restrained her, my friend?" The skull yattered its teeth at him. Howl put it down rather hastily. Diana Wynne Jones
It is better to watch TV when it is switched off - that is, in the traditional way, but by pulling the plug out of the socket. One of the advantages of the alternative is electricity saving; in addition - the use of this method does not pose a threat to eyesight. Viktor Pinchuk
As a dad, he thinks that his philosophy is morally correct. He has no conscience whatsoever about letting his kids put a penny in a light socket to find out electricity is not so good for you, and if you want to learn how to swim, you have to be thrown into the deep end. Stacy Keach
If you stab out the eye of thy neighbor cut off two finger and dip them in honey. Cook them in lemon curd and present them to his family in a pigeon pie. If they dine on a full moon his eye will sprout again from it's socket. Gypsy Proverb