sole

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Pronunciation

• (RP) IPA: /səʊl/
• (GA) enPR: sōl, IPA: /soʊl/

Noun

sole (plural soles)

1. (dialectal or obsolete) A wooden band or yoke put around the neck of an ox or cow in the stall.

Noun

sole (plural soles)

1. (dialectal, Northern England) A pond or pool; a dirty pond of standing water.

Verb

sole (soles, present participle soling; past and past participle soled)

1. (transitive, UK dialectal) To pull by the ears; to pull about; haul; lug.

Adjective

sole (not comparable)

1. only
2. (legal) unmarried (especially of a woman); widowed.

Synonyms

• (only) See also Thesaurus:sole
• (unmarried) lone

Translations

• French: unique, seul
• German: einzig
• Italian: unico, solo
• Portuguese: único
• Russian: еди́нственный
• Spanish: solo, único

Translations

• French: célibataire
• German: ledig, unverheiratet, alleinstehend
• Portuguese: solteiro
• Russian: нежена́тый

Noun

sole (plural soles)

1. (anatomy) The bottom or plantar surface of the foot.
2. (footwear) The bottom of a shoe or boot.
3. (obsolete) The foot itself.
   • Bible, Genesis 8:9

     The dove found no rest for the sole of her foot.

   • Hast wandered through the world now long a day, / Yet ceasest not thy weary soles to lead.

4. Solea solea, a flatfish of the family Soleidae.
5. The bottom or lower part of anything, or that on which anything rests in standing.
   1. The bottom of the body of a plough; the slade.
   2. The bottom of a furrow.
   3. The end section of the chanter of a set of bagpipes.
   4. The horny substance under a horse's foot, which protects the more tender parts.
   5. (military) The bottom of an embrasure.
   6. (nautical) A piece of timber attached to the lower part of the rudder, to make it even with the false keel.
6. (mining) The seat or bottom of a mine; applied to horizontal veins or lodes.

Synonyms

• (bottom of the foot) planta (medical term)

Translations

• French: plante, plante du pied
• German: Fußsohle
• Italian: pianta
• Portuguese: sola, planta do pé
• Russian: подо́шва
• Spanish: planta, planta del pie

Translations

• French: semelle
• German: Sohle
• Italian: suola
• Portuguese: sola
• Russian: подо́шва
• Spanish: suela

Translations

• French: sole
• German: Seezunge
• Italian: sogliola
• Portuguese: solha
• Russian: морско́й язы́к
• Spanish: lenguado

Verb

sole (soles, present participle soling; past and past participle soled)

1. (transitive) to put a sole on (a shoe or boot)

Translations

• French: semeler
• German: besohlen
• Portuguese: solar
• Russian: подбить новые подмётки

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Sole

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Proper noun

1. A sea area, corresponding to the Sole Bank, to the north of FitzRoy

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