receptaclen.

Brit.

/rᵻˈsɛptəkl/, U.S.

/rəˈsɛptək(ə)l/,

/riˈsɛptək(ə)l/

Forms: Middle English receptakel, Middle English– receptacle, 1500s receptakle; Scottish pre-1700 receptakill, pre-1700 receptakle, pre-1700 1700s– receptacle.

Origin: Of multiple origins. Partly a borrowing from French. Partly a borrowing from Latin. Etymons: French receptacle; Latin receptāculum.

Etymology: < Anglo-Norman and Middle French receptacle (French réceptacle ) organ that contains a fluid or humour (mid 13th cent. in Anglo-Norman), place where things accumulate (1314), water basin (1370), place where people congregate (14th cent.) and its etymon classical Latin receptāculum place where things are put or stored, repository, container, place for keeping animals, place of refuge, shelter, retreat < receptāre reset v.¹ + -culum -cle suffix. Compare Spanish receptáculo (c1400), Portuguese receptáculo (1597), Italian recettaculo, ricettaculo (a1308).Stress on the first syllable is occasionally attested in the 17th and 18th centuries. In receptacle of the chyle n. at sense 1 after post-classical Latin chyli receptaculum (see receptaculum n.).

I. Technical uses.

1. Anatomy and Biology. An organ, structure, or space that contains a fluid, a secretion, or air. receptacle of the chyle n. now rare or disused the cisterna chyli (the dilated lower portion of the thoracic duct).

ΘΚΠ

the world > life > the body > secretory organs > organ receiving secretion > [noun]

receptaclea1398

receptory?a1425

receptaculum1667

retentives1678

the world > plants > part of plant > part defined by form or function > [noun] > function of part > receptacle

receptory?a1425

reservatory1670

reservoir1710

receptacle1832

a1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomaeus Anglicus De Proprietatibus Rerum (BL Add. 27944) (1975) I. v. xxiii. 211 Som of þese fongiþ þe voys, as þe longen with þe receptacles, woosun, and pipes þerof.

c1475 ( Surg. Treat. in MS Wellcome 564 f. 40^v (MED) The splene..is þe receptacle of malancolie.

1543 B. Traheron tr. J. de Vigo Most Excellent Wks. Chirurg. viii. xii. f. 205^v/1 By oppilation of the poores..as by stronge bynding and replecyon of the receptacles.

1576 T. Newton tr. L. Lemnie Touchstone of Complexions ii. v. f. 128^v The bagge or Bladder of the Gall or Receptacle of Choler [L. flauae receptaculum].

1653 tr. J. Pecquet New Anat. Exper. i. 1 The Receptacle of the Chyle above the Loyns..is discovered.

1671 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 6 2293 The Bladder of Gall is the receptacle of the Gall.

1702 tr. Nat. Hist. Animals 99 The Vessel or Receptacle of the Odoriferous Liquor..was alike in both the one and the other of our Civet-Catts.

1722 J. Quincy Lexicon Physico-medicum (ed. 2) at Lacteal Veins The Receptacle of the Chyle is easily found in live Bodies... The Receptacle receives all the second order of Lacteals.

1813 J. M. Good et al. Pantologia at Receptaculum Chyli In brute animals the receptacle of the chyle is situated on the dorsal vertebræ where the lacteals all meet.

1832 J. Lindley Introd. Bot. i. i. 27 The receptacles..in the leaves of the Orange and of all Myrtaceæ..are called..receptacles of oil.

1887 Lancet 29 Oct. 872/2 The sack-like receptacle of the prepuce in early life forms a place to which the flukes would readily have access.

a1933 J. A. Thomson Biol. for Everyman (1934) I. xx. 606 Many of them have special capillary arrangements around the mouth of the nectar receptacle, which tend to prevent wasteful overflow.

2006 Jrnl. Insect Physiol. 52 840/2 In Ceratitis capitata, the ventral receptacle serves as a fertilization chamber, storing small quantities of sperm and also receiving sperm from the spermothecae.

2. Botany. The central axis to which the parts of a flower are attached, consisting of the modified (often enlarged and convex) end of the pedicel or peduncle (also floral receptacle, formerly †proper receptacle); also called torus. Also: the modified (usually flattened) top of the axis of a capitulum or head; the hollow top of the axis of a syconium or hypanthodium; (also common receptacle).

ΘΚΠ

the world > plants > part of plant > reproductive part(s) > flower or part containing reproductive organs > [noun] > parts of > receptacle or thalamus

receptaculum1725

receptacle1753

thalamus1753

torus1829

1753 Chambers's Cycl. Suppl. at Receptaculum The disk of the receptacle is of various shapes in the various plants.

1793 T. Martyn Lang. Bot. sig. P6^v Proprium receptaculum, a Proper or peculiar receptacle... In opposition to a Common receptacle, connecting several florets.

1798 W. Curtis Flora Londinensis II. Pl. 100 Receptacle [of Dandelion] naked, and full of little holes.

1825 Brewster's Edinb. Jrnl. Sci. 3 166 The base of the style and the floral receptacle are taken into account, and thus the genera..are characterized..solely by their flowers and fruit.

1829 T. Castle Introd. Systematical & Physiol. Bot. iii. 89 The proper receptacle or apex of the peduncle swells in some flowers, and becomes the fruit.

1870 J. D. Hooker Student's Flora Brit. Islands 254 Nutlets..attached by the edge to an elevated receptacle.

1912 New Phytologist 11 303 The pappose calyx of Compositæ..is readily conceived as advantageous in operating to release the inferior fruit quickly..from a common receptacle.

1940 R. Matheson Entomol. xxi. 530 The fig is not a true fruit, but is known as a receptacle, on the inner surface of which are hundreds of small, unisexual flowers.

1991 A. D. Bell Plant Form (1993) i. 146/1 The various components of a flower may be considered to be attached in sequence along a usually very short and variously shaped central axis, the torus or floral receptacle.

2005 Developmental Biol. 284 459/2 Lateral sepals were no longer opposite in these flowers disrupting the symmetrical arrangement of organs around the receptacle circumference.

3. Botany and Mycology. In cryptogams: any of various specialized structures supporting reproductive organs; esp. (a) (in certain ferns) a small outgrowth from the indusium to which sporangia are attached; (b) (in certain liverworts) a stalked structure bearing antheridia or archegonia; (c) (in brown algae) a swollen tip of a thallus, bearing conceptacles.

ΘΚΠ

the world > plants > part of plant > reproductive part(s) > spore or sporule > [noun] > parts of or related to > spore-case

perithecium1800

conceptacle1819

sporangium1821

sporidium1821

receptacle1824

sporangiolum1824

spore-case1836

perispore1851

polyspore1855

perisporangium1856

sporange1857

thalamium1861

sporidiole1863

theke1872

macrosporange1882

polysporangium1890

1824 R. K. Greville Sc. Cryptog. Flora II. 86 Spherules immersed in the receptacle, and containing a gelatinous sporuliferous mass.

1852 J. S. Henslow Dict. Bot. (at cited word) Receptacle..is also applied to various forms of support to the fructification of cryptogamous plants.

1874 M. C. Cooke Fungi 59 There is manifestly a succession in formation and maturity of the asci in a receptacle.

1882 S. H. Vines tr. J. von Sachs Text-bk. Bot. (ed. 2) 370 The receptacle of Mosses either terminates the growth of a primary axis,..or the axis is indeterminate, and the receptacle is placed at the end of an axis of the second or third order.

1898 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) B. 190 629 When plants of Fucus..bearing mature receptacles, are exposed during the ebb tide..mounds of mucilage..are found over the openings of the conceptacles.

1926 S. M. MacVicar Student's Handbk. Brit. Hepatics (ed. 2) p. xv The antheridia are also collected upon a receptacle which is generally stalked.

1959 Amer. Fern Jrnl. 49 78 From the indusium the bristle like receptacle..arises... From it are produced numerous small sporangia.

2005 Aquaculture 245 327/2 By tumbling the algae..at elevated temperature, receptacle formation occurred 20 or 30 days earlier.

II. General uses.

a. Something that receives and holds a thing or substance, or into which another thing may be put; a containing vessel, place, or space; a repository.

ΘΚΠ

society > occupation and work > equipment > receptacle or container > [noun]

receivera1398

resetc1400

receipta1425

receptaclec1425

repository1485

receptorya1500

pot1503

container?1504

hold1517

containing?1541

continent?1541

receptable1566

nest1589

conceptacle1611

keep1617

house1625

reception1646

inholder1660

conceptaculum1691

penholder1815

holder1833

carrier1855

compactum1907

c1425 J. Lydgate Troyyes Bk. (Augustus A.iv) iii. 5617 (MED) Þei made firste be þe hiȝe auter..a litel oratorie..Where was set a riche receptacle..for a large ymage.

tr. Palladius De re Rustica (Duke Humfrey) (1896) i. 497 (MED) But clene, Thyn oiles receptaclis thow demene.

a1500 (a1450) tr. Secreta Secret. (Ashm. 396) (1977) 50 (MED) The bodies of men, that ben receptacles of mete and drynke, ben thynned and resolued.

1527 L. Andrewe tr. H. Brunschwig Vertuose Boke Distyllacyon sig. Biv/1 Ye shal set a receptacle or vyole so that the pype of the alembyke hange within it.

1555 R. Eden tr. Peter Martyr of Angleria Decades of Newe Worlde ii. ix. f. 85 They may be the receptacles of the water passing through the landes.

1607 E. Topsell Hist. Foure-footed Beastes 195 In this receiueth he his meate, hauing no other receptacle for it.

1630 R. Norton tr. W. Camden Hist. Princesse Elizabeth ii. 111 He fired a rich receptacle or Store-house of Marchandies.

1654 J. Tombes Anti-pædobaptism: 2nd Pt. xxiv. 306 The sea was some vessel or receptacle of waters wherein they washed their bodies before the giving of the Law.

1717 G. Berkeley Jrnls. Trav. Italy Sept. in Wks. (1955) VII. 314 I saw likewise the ruines of a Piscina or receptacle for water.

1783 W. Cowper Let. 23 Nov. (1981) II. 183 His receptacle of my squibs is the Public Advertiser.

1834 E. Bulwer-Lytton Last Days of Pompeii II. iii. i. 8 His belt, or girdle, contained a small receptacle for ink.

1878 T. H. Huxley Physiography (ed. 2) 117 The river becomes the common receptacle for all the soluble matter delivered by its tributary streams.

1906 Westm. Gaz. 29 Dec. 9/3 Receptacles to the number of 2,486, containing 21,800 parcels, were sent to that country [sc. New Zealand].

1993 Daily Rec. (Morristown, New Jersey) 3 Sept. 5/1 What is now proposed is a toxic-waste receptacle, and its opponents..increasingly take it as a doomsday given that someday it will leak poison.

2007 A. Brachfeld & M. Choate Eat your Food! 7 If possible, reduce the oxygen in the atmosphere in the receptacle: oxygen will still cause the dairy, juice or other pasteurized food to become rancid.

b. figurative. With reference to qualities, feelings, etc.

ΚΠ

c1425 J. Lydgate Troyyes Bk. (Augustus A.iv) iv. 5885 (MED) Þei ben in her entent Of couetise verray receptacle.

1559 W. Cuningham Cosmogr. Glasse 43 The receptakle of heauenly influence.

1597 R. Hooker Of Lawes Eccl. Politie v. lxvii. 174 The soule of man is the receptacle of Christs presence.

a1627 J. Fletcher & T. Middleton Nice Valour v. i, in F. Beaumont & J. Fletcher Comedies & Trag. (1647) sig. Xxx^v/2 Away receptacle Of Luxury, and dishonour.

1664 H. Power Exper. Philos. i. 2 One would wonder at the great strength lodged in so small a Receptacle.

1709 F. Atterbury Serm. St. Brigit's 7 Some of these Publick Funds and Receptacles of Charity.

1798 J. S. Murray Traveller Returned i. in Gleaner III. 125 Angelic loveliness! and could such a form become the receptacle of deliberate vice?

1827 E. Bulwer-Lytton Falkland i. 37 I have descended into the receptacles of vice.

1863 E. M. Goulburn Thoughts Pers. Relig. (ed. 2) i. iii. 26 His glorified humanity is the appointed receptacle of Grace.

1984 A. Livingstone Lou Andreas-Salomé x. 160 He saw the Unconscious mainly as a receptacle for repressed material.

2004 S. S. Subramuniyaswami Merging with Śiva (ed. 2) xxix. 329 The subsuperconscious mind..is a receptacle for the superconscious areas of mind to permeate the physical body from the psyche.

†5.

a. A place into which a person, animal, ship, etc., is received and sheltered; a haven. Also occasionally: a room or apartment in a building (see quot. 1634). Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

the world > action or operation > safety > protection or defence > refuge or shelter > [noun] > a place of refuge

havenc1225

infleeinga1300

leinda1300

harbourc1300

reseta1325

harbouryc1325

refutec1350

asylec1384

receipta1393

refugec1405

port salut?1407

recept1423

porta1425

receptaclec1425

place (etc.) of refuge?a1439

retreat1481

port haven1509

stelling-place1513

refugie1515

retraict1550

safe haven1555

havening place1563

sanctuarya1568

safe harbour1569

sheepfold1579

subterfuge1593

arka1616

lopeholt1616

latebra1626

asylum1642

creep-hole1646

harbourage1651

reverticle1656

creeping-hole1665

a port in a (also the) storm1714

receptory1856

padded cell1876

funk-hole1900

society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > dwelling place or abode > accommodation or lodging > [noun] > place of shelter

shroudc1380

receipta1393

recept1423

receptaclec1425

cottage1535

shelterage1632

ambalama1807

receptory1856

society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > parts of building > room > [noun]

clevec825

chamber?c1225

loftc1385

clochera1400

room1438

roomth1567

receipt1593

stance1632

receptacle1634

stanza1648

apartment1715

slum1819

space1921

shovel and broom1928

c1425 J. Lydgate Troyyes Bk. (Augustus A.iv) ii. 8660 From storm & reyn hem silf for to saue, Þei deuised oþer habitacles, Tugurries & smale receptacles.

1548 Hall's Vnion: Edward IV f. ccxxiiii Least his neighbors countrey might be an harborough, or receptacle of his foes and aduersaries.

1598 R. Hakluyt tr. William of Malmesbury in Princ. Navigations (new ed.) I. 127 An Hauen..which is a commodious and safe receptacle for all ships directing their course for the same.

1615 G. Sandys Relation of Journey Ded. Those rich lands..remaine waste and ouergrowne with bushes, receptacles of wild beasts.

1634 T. Herbert Relation Some Yeares Trauaile 59 A third Chamber..was a receptacle for the Queene and Ladies.

a1687 W. Petty Polit. Anat. Ireland xii, in Tracts (1769) 364 Holy-wells, rocks and caves, which have been the reputed cells and receptacles of men reputed saints.

1713 R. Steele Guardian No. 17 The Lock Hospital..is a Receptacle for all Sufferers mangled by this Iniquity.

1751 S. Johnson Rambler No. 91. ⁋11 They entered this general receptacle [sc. the Hall of Expectation] with ardour.

1809 N. Pinkney Trav. South of France 196 It was a standing receptacle for all vagabonds and beggars.

1868 E. A. Freeman Hist. Norman Conquest II. viii. 221 Now applied to the degrading purposes of a receptacle of French cavalry.

1882 Cent. Mag. July 402/1 Bellevue is the general receptacle of all cases for which there is not better provision, and the sorting-place for patients on their way to other institutions.

b. to give receptacle: to receive; to give admittance; to offer sanctuary. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > going or coming in > [noun] > letting in or fact of being let in > specifically of a person to a place

receipt1479

receptionc1525

receptation1574

to give receptacle1620

recep.1918

1620 J. Webbe tr. Cicero Fam. Epist. xv. 840 They gaue receptacle to all that fled [L. cum et fugitivos reciperent], making open defence, through hope they had, that the Parthian would arriue to their succour.

1656 Earl of Monmouth tr. T. Boccalini Ragguagli di Parnasso (1674) i. lxxxix. 175 Whosoever durst give receptacle to so pernicious a man in his Library.

a1661 Earl of Monmouth tr. P. G. Capriata Hist. Wars Italy (1663) v. 154 Lest the Towns of Montferrat might prejudice his affairs by giving receptacle to the Enemies.

6. Chiefly U.S. An electrical socket.

ΘΚΠ

the world > matter > physics > electromagnetic radiation > electricity > electrical appliances or devices > [noun] > socket

socket1885

receptacle1887

wall plug1888

electric socket1892

keyholder1892

outlet1892

point1904

power point1912

power socket1922

socket outlet1934

lighter socket1946

line in1970

line out1970

out1980

1887 Med. News 3 Sept. 279/2 Special wires being..connected with plug receptacles, which are placed in the base-boards near each bed in the wards, and beneath the lamps in the private rooms.

1894 D. J. Cartwright U.S. Patent 530,066 2/1 My invention relates to the electrical devices which are known as plugs and receptacles or sockets.

1927 Washington Post 16 Jan. F13/3 These receptacles for the blades of contact plugs..are safety devices of high order, and safety house wiring entails their installation and use for electric appliances.

1969 E. P. Anderson Home Appliance Servicing (ed. 2) xxii. 392 Some washers are equipped with a special polarized plug that requires a special receptacle to accommodate this plug.

2002 Gleaner (Jamaica) 23 Nov. c2/4 The most convenient light strings have a male plug at one end and a female receptacle at the other.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2009; most recently modified version published online June 2022).

单词	receptacle
释义	receptaclen. Brit. /rᵻˈsɛptəkl/, U.S. /rəˈsɛptək(ə)l/, /riˈsɛptək(ə)l/ Forms: Middle English receptakel, Middle English– receptacle, 1500s receptakle; Scottish pre-1700 receptakill, pre-1700 receptakle, pre-1700 1700s– receptacle. Origin: Of multiple origins. Partly a borrowing from French. Partly a borrowing from Latin. Etymons: French receptacle; Latin receptāculum. Etymology: < Anglo-Norman and Middle French receptacle (French réceptacle ) organ that contains a fluid or humour (mid 13th cent. in Anglo-Norman), place where things accumulate (1314), water basin (1370), place where people congregate (14th cent.) and its etymon classical Latin receptāculum place where things are put or stored, repository, container, place for keeping animals, place of refuge, shelter, retreat < receptāre reset v.¹ + -culum -cle suffix. Compare Spanish receptáculo (c1400), Portuguese receptáculo (1597), Italian recettaculo, ricettaculo (a1308).Stress on the first syllable is occasionally attested in the 17th and 18th centuries. In receptacle of the chyle n. at sense 1 after post-classical Latin chyli receptaculum (see receptaculum n.). I. Technical uses. 1. Anatomy and Biology. An organ, structure, or space that contains a fluid, a secretion, or air. receptacle of the chyle n. now rare or disused the cisterna chyli (the dilated lower portion of the thoracic duct). ΘΚΠ the world > life > the body > secretory organs > organ receiving secretion > [noun] receptaclea1398 receptory?a1425 receptaculum1667 retentives1678 the world > plants > part of plant > part defined by form or function > [noun] > function of part > receptacle receptory?a1425 reservatory1670 reservoir1710 receptacle1832 a1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomaeus Anglicus De Proprietatibus Rerum (BL Add. 27944) (1975) I. v. xxiii. 211 Som of þese fongiþ þe voys, as þe longen with þe receptacles, woosun, and pipes þerof. c1475 ( Surg. Treat. in MS Wellcome 564 f. 40^v (MED) The splene..is þe receptacle of malancolie. 1543 B. Traheron tr. J. de Vigo Most Excellent Wks. Chirurg. viii. xii. f. 205^v/1 By oppilation of the poores..as by stronge bynding and replecyon of the receptacles. 1576 T. Newton tr. L. Lemnie Touchstone of Complexions ii. v. f. 128^v The bagge or Bladder of the Gall or Receptacle of Choler [L. flauae receptaculum]. 1653 tr. J. Pecquet New Anat. Exper. i. 1 The Receptacle of the Chyle above the Loyns..is discovered. 1671 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 6 2293 The Bladder of Gall is the receptacle of the Gall. 1702 tr. Nat. Hist. Animals 99 The Vessel or Receptacle of the Odoriferous Liquor..was alike in both the one and the other of our Civet-Catts. 1722 J. Quincy Lexicon Physico-medicum (ed. 2) at Lacteal Veins The Receptacle of the Chyle is easily found in live Bodies... The Receptacle receives all the second order of Lacteals. 1813 J. M. Good et al. Pantologia at Receptaculum Chyli In brute animals the receptacle of the chyle is situated on the dorsal vertebræ where the lacteals all meet. 1832 J. Lindley Introd. Bot. i. i. 27 The receptacles..in the leaves of the Orange and of all Myrtaceæ..are called..receptacles of oil. 1887 Lancet 29 Oct. 872/2 The sack-like receptacle of the prepuce in early life forms a place to which the flukes would readily have access. a1933 J. A. Thomson Biol. for Everyman (1934) I. xx. 606 Many of them have special capillary arrangements around the mouth of the nectar receptacle, which tend to prevent wasteful overflow. 2006 Jrnl. Insect Physiol. 52 840/2 In Ceratitis capitata, the ventral receptacle serves as a fertilization chamber, storing small quantities of sperm and also receiving sperm from the spermothecae. 2. Botany. The central axis to which the parts of a flower are attached, consisting of the modified (often enlarged and convex) end of the pedicel or peduncle (also floral receptacle, formerly †proper receptacle); also called torus. Also: the modified (usually flattened) top of the axis of a capitulum or head; the hollow top of the axis of a syconium or hypanthodium; (also common receptacle). ΘΚΠ the world > plants > part of plant > reproductive part(s) > flower or part containing reproductive organs > [noun] > parts of > receptacle or thalamus receptaculum1725 receptacle1753 thalamus1753 torus1829 1753 Chambers's Cycl. Suppl. at Receptaculum The disk of the receptacle is of various shapes in the various plants. 1793 T. Martyn Lang. Bot. sig. P6^v Proprium receptaculum, a Proper or peculiar receptacle... In opposition to a Common receptacle, connecting several florets. 1798 W. Curtis Flora Londinensis II. Pl. 100 Receptacle [of Dandelion] naked, and full of little holes. 1825 Brewster's Edinb. Jrnl. Sci. 3 166 The base of the style and the floral receptacle are taken into account, and thus the genera..are characterized..solely by their flowers and fruit. 1829 T. Castle Introd. Systematical & Physiol. Bot. iii. 89 The proper receptacle or apex of the peduncle swells in some flowers, and becomes the fruit. 1870 J. D. Hooker Student's Flora Brit. Islands 254 Nutlets..attached by the edge to an elevated receptacle. 1912 New Phytologist 11 303 The pappose calyx of Compositæ..is readily conceived as advantageous in operating to release the inferior fruit quickly..from a common receptacle. 1940 R. Matheson Entomol. xxi. 530 The fig is not a true fruit, but is known as a receptacle, on the inner surface of which are hundreds of small, unisexual flowers. 1991 A. D. Bell Plant Form (1993) i. 146/1 The various components of a flower may be considered to be attached in sequence along a usually very short and variously shaped central axis, the torus or floral receptacle. 2005 Developmental Biol. 284 459/2 Lateral sepals were no longer opposite in these flowers disrupting the symmetrical arrangement of organs around the receptacle circumference. 3. Botany and Mycology. In cryptogams: any of various specialized structures supporting reproductive organs; esp. (a) (in certain ferns) a small outgrowth from the indusium to which sporangia are attached; (b) (in certain liverworts) a stalked structure bearing antheridia or archegonia; (c) (in brown algae) a swollen tip of a thallus, bearing conceptacles. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > part of plant > reproductive part(s) > spore or sporule > [noun] > parts of or related to > spore-case perithecium1800 conceptacle1819 sporangium1821 sporidium1821 receptacle1824 sporangiolum1824 spore-case1836 perispore1851 polyspore1855 perisporangium1856 sporange1857 thalamium1861 sporidiole1863 theke1872 macrosporange1882 polysporangium1890 1824 R. K. Greville Sc. Cryptog. Flora II. 86 Spherules immersed in the receptacle, and containing a gelatinous sporuliferous mass. 1852 J. S. Henslow Dict. Bot. (at cited word) Receptacle..is also applied to various forms of support to the fructification of cryptogamous plants. 1874 M. C. Cooke Fungi 59 There is manifestly a succession in formation and maturity of the asci in a receptacle. 1882 S. H. Vines tr. J. von Sachs Text-bk. Bot. (ed. 2) 370 The receptacle of Mosses either terminates the growth of a primary axis,..or the axis is indeterminate, and the receptacle is placed at the end of an axis of the second or third order. 1898 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) B. 190 629 When plants of Fucus..bearing mature receptacles, are exposed during the ebb tide..mounds of mucilage..are found over the openings of the conceptacles. 1926 S. M. MacVicar Student's Handbk. Brit. Hepatics (ed. 2) p. xv The antheridia are also collected upon a receptacle which is generally stalked. 1959 Amer. Fern Jrnl. 49 78 From the indusium the bristle like receptacle..arises... From it are produced numerous small sporangia. 2005 Aquaculture 245 327/2 By tumbling the algae..at elevated temperature, receptacle formation occurred 20 or 30 days earlier. II. General uses. 4. a. Something that receives and holds a thing or substance, or into which another thing may be put; a containing vessel, place, or space; a repository. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > equipment > receptacle or container > [noun] receivera1398 resetc1400 receipta1425 receptaclec1425 repository1485 receptorya1500 pot1503 container?1504 hold1517 containing?1541 continent?1541 receptable1566 nest1589 conceptacle1611 keep1617 house1625 reception1646 inholder1660 conceptaculum1691 penholder1815 holder1833 carrier1855 compactum1907 c1425 J. Lydgate Troyyes Bk. (Augustus A.iv) iii. 5617 (MED) Þei made firste be þe hiȝe auter..a litel oratorie..Where was set a riche receptacle..for a large ymage. tr. Palladius De re Rustica (Duke Humfrey) (1896) i. 497 (MED) But clene, Thyn oiles receptaclis thow demene. a1500 (a1450) tr. Secreta Secret. (Ashm. 396) (1977) 50 (MED) The bodies of men, that ben receptacles of mete and drynke, ben thynned and resolued. 1527 L. Andrewe tr. H. Brunschwig Vertuose Boke Distyllacyon sig. Biv/1 Ye shal set a receptacle or vyole so that the pype of the alembyke hange within it. 1555 R. Eden tr. Peter Martyr of Angleria Decades of Newe Worlde ii. ix. f. 85 They may be the receptacles of the water passing through the landes. 1607 E. Topsell Hist. Foure-footed Beastes 195 In this receiueth he his meate, hauing no other receptacle for it. 1630 R. Norton tr. W. Camden Hist. Princesse Elizabeth ii. 111 He fired a rich receptacle or Store-house of Marchandies. 1654 J. Tombes Anti-pædobaptism: 2nd Pt. xxiv. 306 The sea was some vessel or receptacle of waters wherein they washed their bodies before the giving of the Law. 1717 G. Berkeley Jrnls. Trav. Italy Sept. in Wks. (1955) VII. 314 I saw likewise the ruines of a Piscina or receptacle for water. 1783 W. Cowper Let. 23 Nov. (1981) II. 183 His receptacle of my squibs is the Public Advertiser. 1834 E. Bulwer-Lytton Last Days of Pompeii II. iii. i. 8 His belt, or girdle, contained a small receptacle for ink. 1878 T. H. Huxley Physiography (ed. 2) 117 The river becomes the common receptacle for all the soluble matter delivered by its tributary streams. 1906 Westm. Gaz. 29 Dec. 9/3 Receptacles to the number of 2,486, containing 21,800 parcels, were sent to that country [sc. New Zealand]. 1993 Daily Rec. (Morristown, New Jersey) 3 Sept. 5/1 What is now proposed is a toxic-waste receptacle, and its opponents..increasingly take it as a doomsday given that someday it will leak poison. 2007 A. Brachfeld & M. Choate Eat your Food! 7 If possible, reduce the oxygen in the atmosphere in the receptacle: oxygen will still cause the dairy, juice or other pasteurized food to become rancid. b. figurative. With reference to qualities, feelings, etc. ΚΠ c1425 J. Lydgate Troyyes Bk. (Augustus A.iv) iv. 5885 (MED) Þei ben in her entent Of couetise verray receptacle. 1559 W. Cuningham Cosmogr. Glasse 43 The receptakle of heauenly influence. 1597 R. Hooker Of Lawes Eccl. Politie v. lxvii. 174 The soule of man is the receptacle of Christs presence. a1627 J. Fletcher & T. Middleton Nice Valour v. i, in F. Beaumont & J. Fletcher Comedies & Trag. (1647) sig. Xxx^v/2 Away receptacle Of Luxury, and dishonour. 1664 H. Power Exper. Philos. i. 2 One would wonder at the great strength lodged in so small a Receptacle. 1709 F. Atterbury Serm. St. Brigit's 7 Some of these Publick Funds and Receptacles of Charity. 1798 J. S. Murray Traveller Returned i. in Gleaner III. 125 Angelic loveliness! and could such a form become the receptacle of deliberate vice? 1827 E. Bulwer-Lytton Falkland i. 37 I have descended into the receptacles of vice. 1863 E. M. Goulburn Thoughts Pers. Relig. (ed. 2) i. iii. 26 His glorified humanity is the appointed receptacle of Grace. 1984 A. Livingstone Lou Andreas-Salomé x. 160 He saw the Unconscious mainly as a receptacle for repressed material. 2004 S. S. Subramuniyaswami Merging with Śiva (ed. 2) xxix. 329 The subsuperconscious mind..is a receptacle for the superconscious areas of mind to permeate the physical body from the psyche. †5. a. A place into which a person, animal, ship, etc., is received and sheltered; a haven. Also occasionally: a room or apartment in a building (see quot. 1634). Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > safety > protection or defence > refuge or shelter > [noun] > a place of refuge havenc1225 infleeinga1300 leinda1300 harbourc1300 reseta1325 harbouryc1325 refutec1350 asylec1384 receipta1393 refugec1405 port salut?1407 recept1423 porta1425 receptaclec1425 place (etc.) of refuge?a1439 retreat1481 port haven1509 stelling-place1513 refugie1515 retraict1550 safe haven1555 havening place1563 sanctuarya1568 safe harbour1569 sheepfold1579 subterfuge1593 arka1616 lopeholt1616 latebra1626 asylum1642 creep-hole1646 harbourage1651 reverticle1656 creeping-hole1665 a port in a (also the) storm1714 receptory1856 padded cell1876 funk-hole1900 society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > dwelling place or abode > accommodation or lodging > [noun] > place of shelter shroudc1380 receipta1393 recept1423 receptaclec1425 cottage1535 shelterage1632 ambalama1807 receptory1856 society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > parts of building > room > [noun] clevec825 chamber?c1225 loftc1385 clochera1400 room1438 roomth1567 receipt1593 stance1632 receptacle1634 stanza1648 apartment1715 slum1819 space1921 shovel and broom1928 c1425 J. Lydgate Troyyes Bk. (Augustus A.iv) ii. 8660 From storm & reyn hem silf for to saue, Þei deuised oþer habitacles, Tugurries & smale receptacles. 1548 Hall's Vnion: Edward IV f. ccxxiiii Least his neighbors countrey might be an harborough, or receptacle of his foes and aduersaries. 1598 R. Hakluyt tr. William of Malmesbury in Princ. Navigations (new ed.) I. 127 An Hauen..which is a commodious and safe receptacle for all ships directing their course for the same. 1615 G. Sandys Relation of Journey Ded. Those rich lands..remaine waste and ouergrowne with bushes, receptacles of wild beasts. 1634 T. Herbert Relation Some Yeares Trauaile 59 A third Chamber..was a receptacle for the Queene and Ladies. a1687 W. Petty Polit. Anat. Ireland xii, in Tracts (1769) 364 Holy-wells, rocks and caves, which have been the reputed cells and receptacles of men reputed saints. 1713 R. Steele Guardian No. 17 The Lock Hospital..is a Receptacle for all Sufferers mangled by this Iniquity. 1751 S. Johnson Rambler No. 91. ⁋11 They entered this general receptacle [sc. the Hall of Expectation] with ardour. 1809 N. Pinkney Trav. South of France 196 It was a standing receptacle for all vagabonds and beggars. 1868 E. A. Freeman Hist. Norman Conquest II. viii. 221 Now applied to the degrading purposes of a receptacle of French cavalry. 1882 Cent. Mag. July 402/1 Bellevue is the general receptacle of all cases for which there is not better provision, and the sorting-place for patients on their way to other institutions. b. to give receptacle: to receive; to give admittance; to offer sanctuary. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > going or coming in > [noun] > letting in or fact of being let in > specifically of a person to a place receipt1479 receptionc1525 receptation1574 to give receptacle1620 recep.1918 1620 J. Webbe tr. Cicero Fam. Epist. xv. 840 They gaue receptacle to all that fled [L. cum et fugitivos reciperent], making open defence, through hope they had, that the Parthian would arriue to their succour. 1656 Earl of Monmouth tr. T. Boccalini Ragguagli di Parnasso (1674) i. lxxxix. 175 Whosoever durst give receptacle to so pernicious a man in his Library. a1661 Earl of Monmouth tr. P. G. Capriata Hist. Wars Italy (1663) v. 154 Lest the Towns of Montferrat might prejudice his affairs by giving receptacle to the Enemies. 6. Chiefly U.S. An electrical socket. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > physics > electromagnetic radiation > electricity > electrical appliances or devices > [noun] > socket socket1885 receptacle1887 wall plug1888 electric socket1892 keyholder1892 outlet1892 point1904 power point1912 power socket1922 socket outlet1934 lighter socket1946 line in1970 line out1970 out1980 1887 Med. News 3 Sept. 279/2 Special wires being..connected with plug receptacles, which are placed in the base-boards near each bed in the wards, and beneath the lamps in the private rooms. 1894 D. J. Cartwright U.S. Patent 530,066 2/1 My invention relates to the electrical devices which are known as plugs and receptacles or sockets. 1927 Washington Post 16 Jan. F13/3 These receptacles for the blades of contact plugs..are safety devices of high order, and safety house wiring entails their installation and use for electric appliances. 1969 E. P. Anderson Home Appliance Servicing (ed. 2) xxii. 392 Some washers are equipped with a special polarized plug that requires a special receptacle to accommodate this plug. 2002 Gleaner (Jamaica) 23 Nov. c2/4 The most convenient light strings have a male plug at one end and a female receptacle at the other. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2009; most recently modified version published online June 2022). < n.a1398
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