sole

IPA: sˈoʊɫ

noun

  • (anatomy) The bottom or plantar surface of the foot.
  • (footwear) The bottom of a shoe or boot.
  • (obsolete) The foot itself.
  • (zoology) Solea solea, a flatfish of the family Soleidae.
  • The bottom or lower part of anything, or that on which anything rests in standing.
  • The bottom of the body of a plough; the slade.
  • The bottom of a furrow.
  • The end section of the chanter of a set of bagpipes.
  • The horny substance under a horse's foot, which protects the more tender parts.
  • (military) The bottom of an embrasure.
  • (nautical) A piece of timber attached to the lower part of the rudder, to make it even with the false keel.
  • (nautical) The floor inside the cabin of a yacht or boat
  • (mining) The seat or bottom of a mine; applied to horizontal veins or lodes.
  • (dialectal or obsolete) A wooden band or yoke put around the neck of an ox or cow in the stall.
  • (dialectal, Northern England) A pond or pool; a dirty pond of standing water.
  • A sea area, corresponding to the Sole Bank, to the north of FitzRoy

verb

  • (transitive) to put a sole on (a shoe or boot)
  • (transitive, UK dialectal) To pull by the ears; to pull about; haul; lug.

adjective

  • Only.
  • (law) Unmarried (especially of a woman); widowed.
  • Unique; unsurpassed.
  • With independent power; unfettered.
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Examples of "sole" in Sentences

  • His dog was the sole witness.
  • The Bengals are the sole tenant.
  • The Karmapa was the sole trustee.
  • This ring is the sole in the world.
  • Argue solely on the merits of the case.
  • This is the sole shareholder of the fund.
  • Disembodied heads are the sole exception.
  • Is it solely because of the caffeine content
  • It is sometimes the sole symtpom of migraine.
  • Brassey was the sole contractor for the line of.

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