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If we have "Plug Tops" why don't we have "Socket Bottoms"?

As per the Subject really. This expression "Plug Tops" has puzzled me for years.


I can understand confusion with D-Sub Connectors where the Plug has a Female Body and Male Pins and vice-versa. Trying to describe a D-Sub Gender Changer is like explaining the Rules of Cricket:-

"You have two sides, one out in the field and one in. Each man that's in the side that's in goes out, and when he's out he comes in and the next man goes in until he's out. When they are all out, the side that's out comes in and the side that's been in goes out and tries to get those coming in, out. Sometimes you get men still in and not out.

When a man goes out to go in, the men who are out try to get him out, and when he is out he goes in and the next man in goes out and goes in. There are two men called umpires who stay out all the time and they decide when the men who are in are out. When both sides have been in and all the men have been out, and both sides have been out twice after all the men have been in, including those who are not out, that is the end of the game."


Clive

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  • Kelly Marie:

    I thought it was because non electrical people used to call sockets wall plugs so the bit we know as a plug became the plug top I was told this by an electrician back n he 1980s. What really gets my goat is when people usually computer types call a socket a port  I have to correct them it just grinds my gears



    Not just non electrical people.

    I have seen pre-war circuit lists in an old bank building that referred to "plugs" in different areas when clearly referring to what we would call socket outlets these days. The circuit lists for a large and high profile  installation would presumably have been approved by a technical person.
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  • Kelly Marie:

    I thought it was because non electrical people used to call sockets wall plugs so the bit we know as a plug became the plug top I was told this by an electrician back n he 1980s. What really gets my goat is when people usually computer types call a socket a port  I have to correct them it just grinds my gears



    Not just non electrical people.

    I have seen pre-war circuit lists in an old bank building that referred to "plugs" in different areas when clearly referring to what we would call socket outlets these days. The circuit lists for a large and high profile  installation would presumably have been approved by a technical person.
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