eye socket

1. The bony cavity which contains the eyeball and its associated muscles, vessels, and nerves. In humans, seven bones make up each bony orbit.

   Near-synonyms: eyehole, eye-pit

   Augenhöhle, Orbita

   глазна́я впа́динаglaznája vpádina, орби́таorbíta, глазни́цаglazníca

   очни́цяočnýcja

   the bony cavity in the skull containing the eyeball

2. The entire eyehole in the face: both the bony orbit and the flesh that surrounds it.

1. The eye socket is the bone receptacle in which the eye fits.

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2. This is an eye socket.

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3. Felix had deep eye sockets.

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4. Ziri didn't have eyes. His sockets were empty and black.

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5. From beneath the white, shaggy eyebrows, from the deep eye sockets, a pair of good-natured, mischievous eyes peeks out.

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