Usually means: Container designed to hold items.
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We found 38 dictionaries that define the word receptacle:

General (27 matching dictionaries)
  1. receptacle: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. receptacle: Merriam-Webster
  3. receptacle: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. receptacle: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. receptacle: Collins English Dictionary
  6. receptacle: Vocabulary.com
  7. Receptacle, receptacle: Wordnik
  8. receptacle: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. Receptacle: InfoVisual Visual Dictionary
  10. receptacle: Wiktionary
  11. receptacle: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  12. receptacle: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  13. receptacle: Infoplease Dictionary
  14. receptacle: Dictionary.com
  15. receptacle: Online Etymology Dictionary
  16. receptacle: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  17. Receptacle (botany), Receptacle: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  18. Receptacle: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  19. receptacle: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  20. receptacle: Rhymezone
  21. receptacle: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  22. receptacle: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  23. receptacle: FreeDictionary.org
  24. receptacle: Mnemonic Dictionary
  25. receptacle: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Construction Term Glossary (No longer online)
  2. receptacle: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. receptacle: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)

Science (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. Botanical Terms (No longer online)
  2. On-Line Biology Book: GLOSSARY (No longer online)
  3. Bryological (No longer online)
  4. Flora of New South Wales (No longer online)

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. receptacle: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. receptacle: Urban Dictionary

Tech (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Receptacle: Construction Glossary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  A container.
noun:  (botany) The part of the flower stalk (peduncle or pedicel) to which the floral parts are attached; a thalamus, a torus.
noun:  A condensed rachis of a capitate or umbellate inflorescence at the end of the peduncle, to which all of the florets or pedicels are attached.
noun:  (phycology) A structure at the end of a branch of an alga containing conceptacles (reproductive organs).
noun:  (zoology) An organ that receives and holds a secretion.
noun:  (electricity, US) 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.

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