Dictionary Definition
sole adj
1 not divided or shared with others; "they have
exclusive use of the machine"; "sole rights of publication" [syn:
exclusive, sole(a)]
2 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" [syn:
lone(a),
lonesome(a),
only(a),
sole(a),
solitary(a)]
Noun
1 the underside of footwear or a golfclub
2 lean flesh of any of several flatfish [syn:
fillet of
sole]
3 the underside of the foot
4 right-eyed flatfish; many are valued as food;
most common in warm seas especially European v : put a new sole on;
"sole the shoes" [syn: resole]
User Contributed Dictionary
English
Etymology 1
From soul, from solus.Translations
Only
- Czech: jediný
- Dutch: enig
- Finnish: ainoa
- French: unique, seul, seule
- German: einzig
- Italian: unico, unica, solo, sola
Unmarried; widowed
- Dutch: alleenstaand, ongetrouwd
- Finnish: (unmarried) naimaton adj; (widowed) leski noun
- German: alleinstehend
Etymology 2
Noun
Synonyms
- (bottom of the foot): planta (medical term)
Derived terms
Translations
bottom of the foot
bottom of a shoe or boot
fish
- Dutch: tong /
- Finnish: meriantura
- French: sole
- German: Seezunge
- Italian: sogliola
- Polish: sola
- Russian: морской язык (morskój jazýk)
- Spanish: lenguado
Verb
- to put a sole on (a shoe or boot)
Derived terms
Translations
put a sole on (a shoe or boot)
- Dutch: zolen
- Finnish: anturoida
- French: chausser
- German: besohlen
Esperanto
Adverb
French
solePronunciation
Noun
sole- sole (fish)
Italian
Pronunciation
- [ˈsole]
Etymology 1
sol, solis, sunNoun
Related terms
See also
Etymology 2
Adjective
sole- feminine plural of solo
Noun
sole- Plural of sola feminine of solo
Extensive Definition
The sole (foot)
is the bottom of the foot.
Sole may also refer to:
- Sole, in shoemaking, is the bottom supporting member of the shoe
- Sole
(fish), several species and groups of flatfishes:
- The family of the "true soles" Soleidae, including the common or Dover sole Solea solea, highly esteemed in European cooking.
- American soles in the family Achiridae, sometimes classified among the Soleidae.
- Tongue soles in the family Cynoglossidae.
- Several species of righteye flounder in the family Pleuronectidae, including the lemon sole and the Pacific Dover sole.
- Sole, the bottom, flat part of plane that slides along the workpiece
- Solé, American female rapper and wife of R&B singer Ginuwine
- Sole (artist), a hip-hop emcee and co-founder of the Anticon record label
- Josh Sole, an Italian rugby union player
- Sole proprietorship, a business which legally has no separate existence from its owner
- Corporation sole, in English law, a legal entity consisting of a single person ("sole")
- Sole Technology, an American footwear company specializing in skateboarding shoes
- The "Sole Creator" is a reference to God.
- Sõle Street, a street in Põhja-Tallinn, Tallinn, Estonia.
- Sole Bank, sand bank in the Atlantic Ocean near Cornwall; the shipping forecast area Sole is named after it.
sole in German: Sohle
sole in Spanish: Suela
sole in Esperanto: Plando
sole in French: Sole (homonymie)
sole in Dutch: Zool
Synonyms, Antonyms and Related Words
a certain, absolute, alone, an, any, any one, arch, atomic, azygous, bachelorlike, base, baseboard, basement, celibate, chassis, clubfoot, dado, digit, dog, either, exclusive, extremity, fetlock, first and last,
foot, footing, forefoot, forepaw, foundation, frame, harefoot, heel, hoof, husbandless, impair, individual, indivisible, instep, integral, irreducible, keel, lone, maiden, maidenly, monadic, monistic, mopboard, nadir, odd, old-maidish, one, one and only, only, only-begotten, pad, particular, pastern, patte, paw, pedal extremity, pedes, personal, pes, pied, pug, separate, shoemold, simple, single, singular, solid, solitary, solo, spinsterish, spinsterlike, spinsterly, splayfoot, spouseless, toe, tootsy, trotter, unanalyzable, underneath, underside, undivided, unexampled, ungula, uniform, unique, unitary, unmarried, unpaired, unrepeatable, unrepeated, unshared, unwed, unwedded, virgin, virginal, wainscot, whole