The eye socket is the bone receptacle in which the eye fits.
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Receptacle
/ɹɪˈsɛp.tə.kl̩/
Synonyms for "receptacle" (147 found)
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Closest matches (30)
Strong matches (44)
Noun(11 words)
containercontainerselectrical outletenclosurefloral baseflower basefont relatedfood containerholderindustrial troughjar
Adjective(1 words)
grounded outlet
Related words (73)
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3 entriesCollocations
6 entriescoin receptacleelectrical receptaclereceptacle coverreceptacle testerrecycling receptacletrash receptacle
Inflections
1 entriesDerivations
1 entriesTranslations
13 translations across 12 languages.
Czech
1 entries- lůžko noun (botany: part of flower)
Finnish
1 entries- kukkapohjus noun (botany: part of flower)
German
2 entries- Blütenachse noun (botany: part of flower)
- Blütenboden noun (botany: part of flower)
Hungarian
1 entries- vacok noun (botany: part of flower)
Italian
1 entries- ricettacolo noun (botany: part of flower)
Japanese
1 entries- 花托 noun (botany: part of flower)
Norwegian
1 entries- blomsterbunn noun (botany: part of flower)
Polish
1 entries- dno kwiatowe noun (botany: part of flower)
Spanish
1 entries- receptáculo noun (botany: part of flower)
Thai
1 entries- ฐานรองดอก noun (botany: part of flower)
Turkish
1 entries- çiçek tablası noun (botany: part of flower)
Ukrainian
1 entries- квітколо́же noun (botany: part of flower)
Sample sentences
16 total sentences available.
The waterskin is a sheepskin or goat skin sewn in the shape of a bag and serving as a receptacle.
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Thus, one of the loveliest of earthly paradises was doomed to be a receptacle for the very worst of malefactors.
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Kelly shops for wood all over the city. He found some of his latest guitar-quality wood in a trash receptacle — planks and beams from a Serbian Orthodox church that burned down earlier this year.
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