Receptacle

Receptacle may refer to:

  • Receptacle (botany), a plant anatomical part
  • Cigar lighter receptacle, a type of DC power outlet
  • Duplex receptacle, a part of a NEMA connector (a type of mains electricity connection)
  • Electric receptacle, a type of AC power outlet

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Famous quotes containing the word receptacle:

    “Oxford is—Oxford: not a mere receptacle for youth, like Cambridge. Perhaps it wants its inmates to love it rather than to love one another.”
    —E.M. (Edward Morgan)

    “A lonely man is a lonesome thing, a stone, a bone, a stick, a receptacle for Gilbey’s gin, a stooped figure sitting at the edge of a hotel bed, heaving copious sighs like the autumn wind.”
    —John Cheever (1912–1982)

    “The Times are the masquerade of the eternities; trivial to the dull, tokens of noble and majestic agents to the wise; the receptacle in which the Past leaves its history; the quarry out of which the genius of today is building up the Future.”
    —Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)