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Definition of 'sole' Random House Webster's College Dictionary 

1. (adj.) sole
being the only one; only:
the sole living relative.

2.  sole
belonging or pertaining to one individual or group to the exclusion of all others; exclusive:
the sole right to the estate.

3.  sole
functioning automatically or with independent power:
the sole authority.

4.  sole
Law. (of a woman) unmarried.

5.  sole
Archaic. having no companions; alone.

6. (n.) sole
the undersurface of a foot.

7.  sole
the corresponding under part of a shoe or other footwear.

8.  sole
the bottom or undersurface of anything.

9.  sole
the part of the head of a golf club that touches the ground.

10. (v.t.) sole
to furnish with a sole.

11.  sole
to place the sole of (a golf club) on the ground.

12. (n.) sole
any flatfish of the families Soleidae and Cynoglossidae, having a hooklike snout, esp.
Solea solea.

13.  sole
the market name of any of various other flatfishes resembling the sole.

Etymology:  (1300–50; ME < MF < OPr < VL *sola (for L solea; see sole2), so called from its flat shape)

Definition of 'sole' Princeton's WordNet 

1. (noun) sole
the underside of footwear or a golf club

2. (noun) sole, fillet of sole
lean flesh of any of several flatfish

3. (noun) sole
the underside of the foot

4. (adj) sole
right-eyed flatfish; many are valued as food; most common in warm seas especially European

5. (adj) exclusive, sole(a)
not divided or shared with others
"they have exclusive use of the machine"; "sole rights of publication"

6. (verb) lone(a), lonesome(a), only(a), sole(a), solitary(a)
being the only one; single and isolated from others
"the lone doctor in the entire county"; "a lonesome pine"; "an only child"; "the sole heir"; "the sole example"; "a solitary instance of cowardice"; "a solitary speck in the sky"

7. (verb) sole, resole
put a new sole on
"sole the shoes"


Definition of 'sole' Kernerman English Learner’s Dictionary 

1. (adjective) sole
only
She was his sole reason for living.

2.  sole
private, not available to the public
The pool is for the sole use of hotel residents.

3. (noun) sole
the bottom of your foot
blisters on the soles of both feet

4.  sole
the bottom of a shoe
leather soles

5.  sole
a flat ocean fish
***filet of sole


Definition of 'sole' Webster Dictionary 

1. (adj) sole
being or acting without another; single; individual; only

2. (adj) sole
single; unmarried; as, a feme sole

3. (noun) sole
any one of several species of flatfishes of the genus Solea and allied genera of the family Soleidae, especially the common European species (Solea vulgaris), which is a valuable food fish

4. (noun) sole
any one of several American flounders somewhat resembling the true sole in form or quality, as the California sole (Lepidopsetta bilineata), the long-finned sole (Glyptocephalus zachirus), and other species

5. (noun) sole
the bottom of the foot; hence, also, rarely, the foot itself

6. (noun) sole
the bottom of a shoe or boot, or the piece of leather which constitutes the bottom

7. (noun) sole
the bottom or lower part of anything, or that on which anything rests in standing

8. (noun) sole
the bottom of the body of a plow; -- called also slade; also, the bottom of a furrow

9. (noun) sole
the horny substance under a horse's foot, which protects the more tender parts

10. (noun) sole
the bottom of an embrasure

11. (noun) sole
a piece of timber attached to the lower part of the rudder, to make it even with the false keel

12. (noun) sole
the seat or bottom of a mine; -- applied to horizontal veins or lodes

13. (verb) sole
to furnish with a sole; as, to sole a shoe


Translation of 'sole' Kernerman English Multilingual Dictionary 

Sense: the underside of the foot, the part on which one stands and walks.

Afrikaans flag Afrikaans: sool Arabic flag Arabic: أخْمَص القَدَم Bulgarian flag Bulgarian: табан
Brazilian flag Brazilian: sola do pé Czech flag Czech: chodidlo German flag German: die Sohle
Danish flag Danish: fodsål Greek flag Greek: πατούσα, πέλμα Spanish flag Spanish: planta
Estonian flag Estonian: (jala)tald Farsi flag Farsi: كف پا Finnish flag Finnish: jalkapohja
French flag French: plante (du pied) Hebrew flag Hebrew: כף רֶגֶל Hindi flag Hindi: तलवा, तली
Croatian flag Croatian: taban Hungarian flag Hungarian: talp Indonesian flag Indonesian: telapak kaki
Icelandic flag Icelandic: il Italian flag Italian: (pianta del piede) Japanese flag Japanese: 足の裏
Korean flag Korean: 발바닥 Lithuanian flag Lithuanian: padas Latvian flag Latvian: pēdas apakša
Malay flag Malay: tapak kaki Dutch flag Dutch: zool Norwegian flag Norwegian: fotsåle
Polish flag Polish: podeszwa Persian flag Persian: كف پا Pashto flag Pashto: تله ( دپښى) ، تلى،(دبو ټ)
Portuguese flag Portuguese: planta Romanian flag Romanian: talpă (a piciorului) Russian flag Russian: ступня; подошва
Slovak flag Slovak: chodidlo Slovenian flag Slovenian: podplat Serbian flag Serbian: taban
Swedish flag Swedish: fotsula Thai flag Thai: หลังเท้า Turkish flag Turkish: taban
Taiwanese flag Taiwanese: 腳底板 Ukrainian flag Ukrainian: підошва Urdu flag Urdu: پیر کا تلا
Vietnamese flag Vietnamese: lòng bàn chân Chinese flag Chinese: 脚底板

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