Receptacle

Etymology
Borrowed from, from (modern 🇨🇬), from , from  or , frequentative of  (from  + ) + ; cognate with 🇨🇬, , 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬.

Noun

 * 1) A container.
 * 2) * 1818, anonymous &#91;Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley&#93;, chapter III, in Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus. In Three Volumes, London: Printed for Lackington, Hughes, Harding, Mavor, & Jones,, 682152368 ; republished as Frankenstein: or, The Modern Prometheus (Standard Novels; no. IX), rev. and corr. edition, London: Richard Bentley, ; Bell & Bradfute Edinburgh; J. Cumming, Dublin, 1839,  316824153 , page 38:
 * Darkness had no effect upon my fancy; and a churchyard was to me merely the receptacle of bodies deprived of life, which, from being the seat of beauty and strength, had become food for the worm.
 * 1)  The part of the flower stalk (peduncle or pedicel) to which the floral parts are attached; a thalamus, a torus.
 * 2) In the Asteraceae (aster or sunflower family), the end of the peduncle to which all of the florets of the flower head are attached.
 * 3)  A structure at the end of a branch of an alga containing conceptacles (reproductive organs).
 * 4)  An organ that receives and holds a secretion.
 * 5)  A contact device installed at an outlet for the connection of an attachment plug (typically by receiving the plug's prongs) to supply portable appliances or equipment.
 * 1) In the Asteraceae (aster or sunflower family), the end of the peduncle to which all of the florets of the flower head are attached.
 * 2)  A structure at the end of a branch of an alga containing conceptacles (reproductive organs).
 * 3)  An organ that receives and holds a secretion.
 * 4)  A contact device installed at an outlet for the connection of an attachment plug (typically by receiving the plug's prongs) to supply portable appliances or equipment.
 * 1)  An organ that receives and holds a secretion.
 * 2)  A contact device installed at an outlet for the connection of an attachment plug (typically by receiving the plug's prongs) to supply portable appliances or equipment.
 * 1)  A contact device installed at an outlet for the connection of an attachment plug (typically by receiving the plug's prongs) to supply portable appliances or equipment.

Synonyms

 * See also Thesaurus:container
 * See also Thesaurus:container

Translations

 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:
 * Czech: ,
 * Esperanto: ricevujo
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * Middle French: receptacle
 * German: ,
 * Greek: ,
 * Ancient: ἀποδέκτης, δοχεῖον
 * Icelandic: geymsla,


 * Irish: coimeádán, gabháltóir, glac, gabhdán
 * Italian: recettaculo, ricettaculo
 * Japanese: 入れ物
 * Latin: receptāculum
 * Maori: takotoranga, taiaroa
 * Norwegian: beholder
 * Plautdietsch: Jefäss
 * Portuguese: ,
 * Spanish: ,
 * Swedish: ,
 * Tocharian B: tāsi


 * Czech:
 * Finnish:
 * German: ,
 * Italian:
 * Japanese: 花托


 * Norwegian: blomsterbunn
 * Spanish:
 * Thai: ฐานรองดอก
 * Ukrainian: квітколо́же


 * Czech:
 * Finnish:
 * German:, , Anschlussbuchse, , Steckerbuchse, Federleiste, Steckbuchse, Steckhülse
 * Japanese:, ソケット


 * Norwegian:
 * Russian:
 * Thai: เต้ารับ


 * Hebrew: