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.
例文
1. I 'm sure that yellow lead matched up to that yellow socket .
その黄色い糸がその黄色いソケットにつながっていることを確信しています。
2.Never overload an electrical socket .
電源コンセントを過負荷にしないでください。/
3.an aerial socket on the television
テレビのアンテナジャック
4.The battery charger plugs into any mains socket .