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- noun Plural form of
socket .
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Examples
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The Kenosha, Wis. -based company, a pioneer in designing wrench handles with interchangeable sockets, is benefitting from a pick-up in the automotive market, which accounts for 71% of sales.
Snap-on Could Be the Tool To Fix a Recovering Portfolio Dimitra DeFotis 2010
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Here, buzzing in his shoulder sockets, is the struggle for authenticity; there, warping his tongue, is the torment of becoming.
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Here, buzzing in his shoulder sockets, is the struggle for authenticity; there, warping his tongue, is the torment of becoming.
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My eye balls dissolve into their cranial sockets from the insides of my skull, eaten away by a thousand maggots spewing acid.
365 tomorrows » 2007 » November : A New Free Flash Fiction SciFi Story Every Day 2007
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My eye balls dissolve into their cranial sockets from the insides of my skull, eaten away by a thousand maggots spewing acid.
365 tomorrows » Dream Wave : A New Free Flash Fiction SciFi Story Every Day 2007
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Many server admins would prefer to go for the no sockets version because they can avoid installing an extension called sockets which is quite unnecessary.
Planet Malaysia 2009
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It was inmates who worked here at the mining enterprise since the camp was right next to the mine The reason for the emergency situation -- an ignorance of elementary engineering -- could have been clarified without having to fly out to the site Its consequences could have been eliminated as well by instruction from a competent engineer What was needed were experienced pyrotechnic specialists and demolition experts And they sent us a demolition-qualified inmate tall, exhausted by hunger and the Artic, with a very characteristic, slightly elongated artistic face on which the unnatural protrusion of gray eyes in sockets sunken from emaciation revealed someone ill with exophthalmos goiter In an accent clearly that of an English speaker, he also only identified himself as a citizen of the United States of America,
FULL downloadable PDF file is available from the DPMO Website 2007
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Arriving TCP data packets are identified as belonging to a specific TCP connection by its sockets, that is, the combination of source host address, source port, destination host address, and destination port.
ASP.net and IIS 2 million pageviews per hour « The Paradigm Shift 2007
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Arriving TCP data packets are identified as belonging to a specific TCP connection by its sockets, that is, the combination of source host address, source port, destination host address, and destination port.
ASP.net and IIS 2 million pageviews per hour « The Paradigm Shift 2007
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So even if one dies screaming with eyeballs bulging out of the sockets, that is not what one sees in the coffin.
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