shoe
IPA: ʃˈu
noun
- A protective covering for the foot, with a bottom part composed of thick leather or plastic sole and often a thicker heel, and a softer upper part made of leather or synthetic material. Shoes generally do not extend above the ankle, as opposed to boots, which do.
- A piece of metal designed to be attached to a horse's foot as a means of protection; a horseshoe.
- (card games) A device for holding multiple decks of playing cards, allowing more games to be played by reducing the time between shuffles.
- Something resembling a shoe in form, position, or function, such as a brake shoe.
- A band of iron or steel, or a ship of wood, fastened to the bottom of the runner of a sleigh, or any vehicle which slides on the snow.
- A drag, or sliding piece of wood or iron, placed under the wheel of a loaded vehicle, to retard its motion in going down a hill.
- The part of a railroad car brake which presses upon the wheel to retard its motion.
- (architecture) A trough-shaped or spout-shaped member, put at the bottom of the water leader coming from the eaves gutter, so as to throw the water off from the building.
- A trough or spout for conveying grain from the hopper to the eye of the millstone.
- An inclined trough in an ore-crushing mill.
- An iron socket or plate to take the thrust of a strut or rafter.
- An iron socket to protect the point of a wooden pile.
- (engineering) A plate, or notched piece, interposed between a moving part and the stationary part on which it bears, to take the wear and afford means of adjustment; called also slipper and gib.
- Part of a current collector on electric trains which provides contact either with a live rail or an overhead wire (fitted to a pantograph in the latter case).
- (historical) An ingot of gold or silver shaped somewhat like a traditional Chinese shoe, formerly used in trade in the Far East.
- The outer cover or tread of a pneumatic tire, especially for an automobile.
- (by extension, slang) A pneumatic tire, especially for an automobile.
- A surname.
verb
- (intransitive) To put shoes on one's own feet.
- (transitive) To put shoes on someone or something else's feet, especially to put horseshoes on a horse.
- (intransitive, chiefly as past participle) To cover an object with a protective layer of material.
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Examples of "shoe" in Sentences
- My new shoes are glossy.
- The new shoes were shiny.
- He used to be a shoe polisher.
- Footwear was dress shoes and brogues.
- I've removed the picture of the shoes.
- At the time, the shoes appeared silver.
- Change shoes in the entrance to the gym.
- The clog is transformed into a glittering shoe.
- Absorbent shoe insoles decrease the sweat in shoes.
- _want of a nail the shoe was lost; for want of a shoe_
- In Arab culture, the sole of the shoe is a huge insult.
- The red shoe and the black shoes are almost the same style.
- Mr Sanford, I guess you don't like it much now that the shoe is on the other foot.
- The toe box of the shoe is also separate on each toe to protect the front of your foot.
- I was wondering if you could possibly find out the origin of the term shoe in, meaning someone will win for sure.
- "Brogue" the shoe comes from the Irish word "bróg," which probably derives from an Old Norse term meaning "leg covering."
- Failing to make that distinction, Fox blathered on about the European Defence Agency, Nato co-operation and sundry other matters, but what he really did not address was that the shoe is already pinching badly.
- The 11-plug system is finished with a stitch all around the exterior to create what he calls a shoe that is secure all around. url = _footwear_news_the_north_face_looks_ahead_2109652_src_rss_recentstories_20090420;
- And then he lists a number, about 20 different things that he says he's responsible for, including what he calls the shoe bomber operation and the Fica (ph) Island operation in Kuwait that killed two American soldiers.