socket
英 ['s?k?t]
美['sɑk?t]
- n. 插座；窩，穴；牙槽
- vt. 給…配插座
CET6+TEM4IELTS低頻詞常用詞匯
詞態變化
復數:?sockets;
中文詞源
socket 孔，槽，窩，穴，插座
來自盎格魯法語 soket,犁樺，犁尖，小詞形式于古法語 soc,犁樺，可能最終來自 PIE*su,豬， 詞源同 sow,swine.即像個豬鼻子，后引申詞義孔，槽，窩，穴以及現代詞義插座，字面意思 即犁挖的小洞。
英文詞源
- 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.
雙語例句
- 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》