noun especially, the hollow tube or place in which a candle is fixed in the candlestick.
2. socket ·noun an opening into which anything is fitted; any hollow thing or place which receives and holds something else; as, the sockets of the teeth.
noun especially, the hollow tube or place in which a candle is fixed in the candlestick.
2. socket ·noun an opening into which anything is fitted; any hollow thing or place which receives and holds something else; as, the sockets of the teeth.
Webster English vocab. Английский словарь Webster. 2012