Difference between socket and port

Explain difference between socket & port?

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Port : a specific port number on a host

Socket: a host and a port

Such as

-> http port = 80

-> While you fire up google.com the socket on the server side is google.com:80 it is the server side socket on your local system where you are browsing the socket is your ip: port above 1024

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