socket
34
6.0
- noun
- /ˈsɑkɪt/
:
cavidad ósea
- A broken cheekbone and a fractured eye socket.
- ball-and-socket
So like pulled out of its socket in my my hip.
- So like pulled out of its socket in my my hip.
- Oh, this eye is going to go beyond the eye socket.
Examples
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And it didn't have a face, just a skull with eyes in deep sockets.
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Three big front teeth were missing, the sockets bloody and deep.
Fiction book (1994) -
And this is going to help to define the socket of the eye.
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I'm kind of following the natural socket of my eye.
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I think my shoulder is out of the socket.
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Fortunately it just slipped out of the socket.
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Well, that means that your arm has popped out of the socket.
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For a moment, he felt as though it might burst from its socket, but the creature's strength was failing.
Fiction book (1994) -
His face appeared to have two gaping eye sockets, like those of a fleshless skull.
Fiction book (1992) -
The dentist carefully placed the tooth back into its socket after the extraction.
Synonyms
14
3.5
A hollow space in the skull that holds the eyeball
1
4.4
A hollow in the pelvis where the top of the thigh bone fits to connect the leg to the body
1
6.8
A bony socket in the skull that holds and protects the eye
A hollow in the jaw where a tooth sits
Compounds
6
4.2
A hand tool with a handle and removable metal pieces that fit over and turn nuts and bolts
- Specialized
1
4.4
A hollow in the pelvis where the top of the thigh bone fits to connect the leg to the body
- Specialized
1
4.1
A joint where a round bone end fits into a cup, allowing movement in many directions
- Specialized
Severe pain in the empty hole after a tooth is removed when the blood clot falls out
How Deep
34
6.0
- Specialized
1
9.8
Surface Forms
Etymology
Socket comes from an old word like sock (Latin soccus) meaning a small 'shoe' or cover. That helps you remember a bone socket as the hollow that 'holds' an eye or tooth, like a sock holds a foot.