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socketing

socketing is the present participle and gerund of socket.

Meaning of socket

Verb

socket (third-person singular simple present sockets, present participle socketing, simple past and past participle socketed)

  1. (transitive) To place or fit in a socket.
    • 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...1941, Emily Carr, chapter 6, in Klee Wyck

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Questions about socketing

What is socketing the present participle and gerund of?
Socketing is the present participle and gerund of socket.

Words near socketing in the dictionary

  1. socket pole
  2. socket poles
  3. socket wrench
  4. socket wrenches
  5. socketed
  6. socketing
  7. socketless
  8. socketlike
  9. socketry
  10. sockets
  11. Sockett

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