The word 'socket' is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it as a noun to refer to the opening in a wall or other surface into which a plug is inserted in order to provide electricity or another power source. For example, "The extension cord runs from the wall socket to the computer."
"We put our phones and iPads upstairs and then I went round and turned absolutely everything off at the socket, apart from the fridge-freezer and the smart energy monitor.
The Manchester United midfielder Darren Fletcher (ankle and eye socket) and West Bromwich Albion's Graham Dorrans (ankle) have pulled out, while there are doubts over Gary Caldwell.
Of Kimberley who placed her licked finger on a lightbulb socket with the result that "bingo balls halted and the whole hall gasped/ in silence".
We put our phones and iPads upstairs and then I went round and turned absolutely everything off at the socket, apart from the fridge-freezer and the smart monitor.
No, I can't move it, I need to be near that socket, so if you wouldn't mind keeping your voices down if you have to sit here?
Even as one group of nVidia engineers struggles to perfect these powerhouse chips, which are capable of making the virtual world look startlingly real, another group worries about the plumbing.Like microprocessors for desktop PCs, graphics chips tend to have access to all the power they want, courtesy of an electricity socket on the wall.
Theresa Spence, a Cree chief from a troubled reserve in northern Ontario, has taken up residence in a tepee near the parliament buildings in Ottawa, and has refused solid food since December 11th.In this section Time we stopped meeting like this Wrong numbers From tap to socket Sparks in the dark ReprintsThe spark for the protests was the government's omnibus budget bill, approved last month.
Yet we've long run out of descriptors for the light-socket hairdo made famous by wretched, slimy, reptilian boxing promoter Don King.
"The gas canister hit my brow and cracked my skull and eye-socket, look," he said pointing at an X-ray of his skull.
On a recent trip abroad, Babbage finally realised that a single charger (plus an appropriate power-socket adapter) can be used to top up the batteries in his tablet and smartphone as well as a bunch of foreign phones.
The hip joint is a ball-and-socket joint; the round head of the femur rests in a cavity (the acetabulum) that allows free rotation of the limb.
