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sock
English
Pronunciation
- (General American) IPA(key): /s?k/
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /s?k/
- Rhymes: -?k
Etymology 1
From Middle English socke, sokke, sok, from Old English socc (“sock, light shoe, slipper”), a West Germanic borrowing from Latin soccus (“a light shoe or slipper, buskin”), from Ancient Greek ?????? (súkkhos, “a kind of shoe”), probably from Phrygian or from an Anatolian language. Cognate with Scots sok (“sock, stocking”), West Frisian sok (“sock”), Dutch sok (“sock”), German Socke (“sock”), Danish sok, sokke (“sock”), Swedish sock, socka (“sock”), Icelandic sokkur (“sock”).
Noun
sock (plural socks or (informal, nonstandard) sox)
- A knitted or woven covering for the foot.
- A shoe worn by Greco-Roman comedy actors.
- A cat's or dog's lower leg that is a different color (usually white) from the color pattern on the rest of the animal.
- Synonym: mitten
- (Wiktionary and WMF jargon) A sock puppet.
- (firearms, informal) A gun sock.
Derived terms
Descendants
- ? French: socquette
- ? Portuguese: soquete
- Japanese: ???? (sokkusu) < socks
- Swahili: soksi < socks (plural)
Translations
Etymology 2
Unknown, but compare Portuguese soco ("a hit with one's hand; a punch").This etymology is incomplete. You can help Wiktionary by elaborating on the origins of this term.
Alternative forms
- (W. Eng. dial.): zock
Adjective
sock (not comparable)
- (slang, dated) Extremely successful.
- 1960, Billboard magazine reviewer
- Sock performance on a catchy rhythm ditty with infectious tempo.
- 1960, Billboard magazine reviewer
Synonyms
- socko
Noun
sock (plural socks)
- (slang) A violent blow; a punch.
Verb
sock (third-person singular simple present socks, present participle socking, simple past and past participle socked)
- (slang, transitive) To hit or strike violently; to deliver a blow to.
- 1951, J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye, Chapter 13:
- What you should be is not yellow at all. If you're supposed to sock somebody in the jaw, and you sort of feel like doing it, you should do it.
- 1951, James Jones, From Here to Eternity, Book Four:
- They may let you off the first time because you're new maybe. But the second time they'll sock it to you, give you a couple of days in the Hole, then throw you in Number Two.
- 1951, J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye, Chapter 13:
- (slang, transitive) To throw.
Derived terms
- sock away
- sock in
- sockdolager
Translations
Etymology 3
From French soc, from Late Latin soccus, perhaps of Celtic origin.
Noun
sock (plural socks)
- A ploughshare.
- D. Brewster, The Edinburgh Encyclopaedia
- In Wexford, the beam is shorter than in any of the other counties, and the sock in general is of cast iron.
- D. Brewster, The Edinburgh Encyclopaedia
Etymology 4
From socket.
Noun
sock (plural socks)
- (computing, networking) Abbreviation of socket.
Swedish
Noun
sock c
- sock
Declension
See also
- socka
- strumpa
References
- sock in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
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socket
English
Etymology
From Middle English socket, soket, from Anglo-Norman soket (“spearhead”), diminutive of Old French soc (“plowshare”), from Vulgar Latin *soccus, a word borrowed from Gaulish, from Proto-Celtic *sukkos (compare modern Welsh swch (“plowshare”)), literally "pig's snout," from Proto-Indo-European *suH-.
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /?s?k?t/
- (General American) IPA(key): /?s?k?t/
- Rhymes: -?k?t
- Hyphenation: sock?et
Noun
socket (plural sockets)
- (mechanics) An opening into which a plug or other connecting part is designed to fit (e.g. a light bulb socket).
- Synonym: jack
- (anatomy) A hollow into a bone which a part fits, such as an eye, or another bone, in the case of a joint.
- (computing) One endpoint of a two-way communication link, used for interprocess communication across a network.
- (computing) One endpoint of a two-way named pipe on Unix and Unix-like systems, used for interprocess communication.
- A hollow tool for grasping and lifting tools dropped in a well-boring.
- The hollow of a candlestick.
- A steel apparatus attached to a saddle to protect the thighs and legs.
Hyponyms
Derived terms
- WebSocket
Related terms
- ball-and-socket joint
Translations
See also
- outlet
Verb
socket (third-person singular simple present sockets, present participle socketing, simple past and past participle socketed)
- To place or fit in a socket.
- 1941, Emily Carr, Klee Wyck, Chapter 6,[1]
- Her head and trunk were carved out of, or rather into, the bole of a great red cedar. She seemed to be part of the tree itself, as if she had grown there at its heart, and the carver had only chipped away the outer wood so that you could see her. Her arms were spliced and socketed to the trunk, and were flung wide in a circling, compelling movement.
- 1941, Emily Carr, Klee Wyck, Chapter 6,[1]
References
- socket in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
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