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Hocket vs Socket - What's the difference?

hocket | socket |

As nouns the difference between hocket and socket

is that hocket is hiccup while socket is (mechanics) an opening into which a plug or other connecting part is designed to fit (eg a light bulb socket ).

As a verb socket is

to place or fit in a socket.

hocket

English

(Hocket)

Noun

(en noun)
  • hiccup
  • * 1977 , Lloyd Ultan, Music theory: problems and practices in the Middle Ages and Renaissance , U of Minnesota Press, page 91:
  • All of these tend to produce something of a hiccough effect we know as hocket and which Reese suggests has a long history dating back to primitive instruments.
  • (music) In medieval music, hocket is the rhythmic linear technique using the alternation of notes, pitches, or chords. A single melody is shared between two (or occasionally more) voices such that alternately one voice sounds while the other rests.
  • * 1977 , Lloyd Ultan, Music theory: problems and practices in the Middle Ages and Renaissance , U of Minnesota Press, page 91:
  • Hocket is a contrapuntal technique described by the early fourteenth-century Walter Odington as "A truncation … made over the tenor … in such a way that one voice is always silent while the other sings."

    Derived terms

    * hocketing * hockettor

    References

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    socket

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (mechanics) An opening into which a plug or other connecting part is designed to fit (e.g. a light bulb socket ).
  • (anatomy) A hollow into a bone which a part fits, such as an eye, or another bone, in the case of a joint.
  • (computing) A two-way named pipe on Unix and Unix-like systems, used for interprocess communication.
  • Derived terms

    * ball-and-socket joint * dry socket * eye socket * light bulb socket * mains socket * network socket * power socket * socket wrench * tooth socket * wall socket

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To place or fit in a socket.