noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
electric
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We had, to the uninitiated, a bewildering assortment of electric sockets throughout the house.
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Could you kill yourself by putting your fingers into the electric socket ?
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Are there any snags regarding wall space, radiators, electric sockets , lighting, windows?
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This applies equally to light switches and electric sockets .
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She remembered Doc Threadneedle suggesting she try sucking her finger and sticking it in an electric socket .
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High electric sockets , along with all gas supplies and vacuum, ensure no cables or tubes trail on floor.
empty
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No-one else went around with empty eye sockets and, of course, the scythe over one shoulder was another clue.
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He worked the hot ember loose, leaving an empty socket like a pulled tooth.
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Human eyes peered out through the empty sockets of beasts.
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But she was as vacant as an empty eye socket .
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Adding a coprocessor is relatively easy in that all you have to do is plug in a chip into an empty socket .
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He had huge empty eye sockets wadded with cotton, a scraggly Fu Manchu moustache and a long grey pigtail.
■ NOUN
eye
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No-one else went around with empty eye sockets and, of course, the scythe over one shoulder was another clue.
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One is hemorrhage produced by gas in the capillaries in the eye socket .
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He saw his flesh rotting and twitching with maggots, his eye sockets empty, his face eaten away.
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The next morning the damaged eye was swollen and protruding from the eye socket .
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And every waking hour she chipped at the ugly block, sanded, scored, chiselled, gouged gaping eye sockets .
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I looked and saw: hair tangled through and around maggoty eye sockets and nostrils.
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It was the face of a man whose brain was sliding out through his eye socket .
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But she was as vacant as an empty eye socket .
outlet
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Lastly, each spur can feed one single or one double socket outlet , or one fused connection unit.
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Radial circuits are sometimes used for socket outlets , where installing a ring circuit would waste cable.
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Overloading a socket outlet can easily start a fire, and all those trailing flexes pose a serious trip hazard.
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Each spur can feed one new outlet , and this can be a single, double or triple socket outlet.
power
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Switch off the power socket and remove the plug. 2.
■ VERB
plug
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I don't shut all the internal doors and I certainly don't pull most plugs out at the socket .
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The device, small enough to fit in a shirt pocket, plugs into a wall socket .
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The transformer simply plugs into a mains socket indoors or in a garage, and only the low-voltage wire is taken outside.
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It's a portable car phone that can be plugged into the socket of a cigarette lighter.
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There are many portable types available for hire which simply plug into the 13amp socket .
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Her head was back and her chin raised, resin plugging the eye sockets .
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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But she was as vacant as an empty eye socket .
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He pressed the heels of his hands against his eyes until the sockets ached.
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He stuck the candle upright in a socket then sat and gazed at the flame, letting it mesmerize him into memory.
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Her mouth was dry and hollow, a socket , no longer a well, as if she had no tongue to kiss with.
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I don't shut all the internal doors and I certainly don't pull most plugs out at the socket .
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The eyes dissolve into red sockets.