Maybe this is an American English thing, because to me the plug is the socket. The two words are synonyms. Like I'd talk about the electricity plug in the wall.

[–] nudnyekscentryk@szmer.info 2 points 5 months ago

I'm European but I'm an English second language speaker, so that may be the reason I use this words that way. However wikipedia for example calls the male part the plug and the female the receptacle as well

[–] EtherWhack@lemmy.world 2 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Could be, though I've heard people use plug interchangeably.

Connections for data, the female side is usually called a port; for electrical, it's officially called a receptacle, though more commonly called an outlet or sometimes a socket. The male side is always the plug.

[–] onion@feddit.de 1 points 5 months ago

USB has the female side on the cable :)

[–] BCsven@lemmy.ca 1 points 5 months ago

Americans often call the wall plate the plugs, but technically in electeical hardware ordering catalogs the wall end is a female receptacle, and the cord end is a male plug