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What's so wrong with the term 'plug socket'?
It's completely redundant. It's a socket. A plug goes into it. Prepending the word 'plug' in no way clarifies the type of socket.
True - but talking of 'plug' .... what is clarified, rather than confused, by 'postpending' it (probably no such word, but 'append' doesn't strictly have the right meaning!) with 'top'. If I want a plug, I want the bit with pins attached as well as the rest!

Kind Regards, John.
 
Prepending the word 'plug' in no way clarifies the type of socket.

... and I forgot to add .... that (above) is simply not true. Without the word 'plug', it could be a socket I use to undo nuts, the socket of an artifical limb, a socket into which I insert a piece of soil pipe or any number of other types of socket!

Kind Regards, John.
 
Prepending the word 'plug' in no way clarifies the type of socket.

... and I forgot to add .... that (above) is simply not true. Without the word 'plug', it could be a socket I use to undo nuts, the socket of an artifical limb, a socket into which I insert a piece of soil pipe or any number of other types of socket!

Kind Regards, John.

All of which could be considered a plug or have a plug attached. 'plug socket' could refer as easily to a 3.5mm TRS socket, or a C13, as it does a BS1363 socket.
 
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... Without the word 'plug', it could be a socket I use to undo nuts, the socket of an artifical limb, a socket into which I insert a piece of soil pipe or any number of other types of socket!
All of which could be considered a plug or have a plug attached.
I think you'd have to show me which parts of a nut, amputation stump or piece of pipe could be considered a plug, or have a plug attached :)

Kind Regards, John.
 
... Without the word 'plug', it could be a socket I use to undo nuts, the socket of an artifical limb, a socket into which I insert a piece of soil pipe or any number of other types of socket!
All of which could be considered a plug or have a plug attached.
I think you'd have to show me which parts of a nut, amputation stump or piece of pipe could be considered a plug, or have a plug attached :)

Kind Regards, John.

A plug or other mating connection. You're being even more pedantic than I am.
 
A plug or other mating connection. You're being even more pedantic than I am.
...in which case have succeeded in my aim. I hope you take the point :)

Let's face us, the term 'plug socket' niggles most of us, but we all know jolly well what is meant when someone says it, and life is, IMO, too short to get too excited about language which we can understand!

I still want to know about 'plug top' (which certainly niggles me) - I don't even understand how it arose!

Kind Regards, John.
 
A plug or other mating connection. You're being even more pedantic than I am.
...in which case have succeeded in my aim. I hope you take the point :)

Let's face us, the term 'plug socket' niggles most of us, but we all know jolly well what is meant when someone says it, and life is, IMO, too short to get too excited about language which we can understand!

I believe life is too short to have time wasted by inefficient communication. All those redundant 'plugs' take up a lot of time..

I still want to know about 'plug top' (which certainly niggles me) - I don't even understand how it arose!

The same way as 'plug socket', via the ignorant, uneducated masses.
 
I still want to know about 'plug top' (which certainly niggles me) - I don't even understand how it arose!
The same way as 'plug socket', via the ignorant, uneducated masses.
I'm not at all sure I agree with that. Admittedly the term is dying out, but I'm not sure that I ever heard it coming from the lips of an 'ordinary' member of the general public - it was those 'in the trade' who seemed to adopt it (not the least, in catalogues and price lists).

Kind Regards, John.
 
dunkan64
First place to look is inside the socket outlet that was being used by the tradesmen/women/people..
Isolate that circuit and investigate the socket outlets on the circuit. Starting at the one which was plugged into, for loose terminals.
If that is okay. Then methodical/logical thought is needed, so rules me out :LOL:
No only joking, the sockets will be linked together like a daisy chain so start at the last known socket that works, then to the next socket after that, which does not work on that circuit. You are looking for either loose conductors or damaged conductors within the back boxes for starters.
If you had a multimeter it could help.
 
Tnere was "plug socket" that had a pins ( as on a plug ) and receptables ( holes as in a socket. This hermaphrodite construction was needed as there were live circuits on both sides of the connection.

There was ( maybe still is ) a foreign socket which had normal receptables for live and neutral bit pin for the earth.
 
And before you know it we'll be into the discussion of what is a plug, and what is a socket.

Is this a plug?:

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Which is a plug:confused:

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