sole
Part of speech: adj
noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: anatomy
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business
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law
medicine
military
mining
natural-sciences
nautical
politics
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transport
war
zoology
Etymology: From Middle English sole, soule, from Old French sol, soul (“alone”), from Latin sōlus (“alone, single, solitary, lonely”). Ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *swé (reflexive pronoun). Perhaps related to Old Latin sollus (“whole, complete”), from Proto-Indo-European *solh₂- (“safe, healthy”). More at save.
Inflected forms:
form: soles
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: soal
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: soles
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: soling
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: soled
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: soled
pos: verb
tags: past
form: soal
pos: verb
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Only.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: He saw now clearly that the sole crew of the vessel was these two dead men, and though he could not see their faces, he saw by their outstretched hands, which were all of ragged flesh, that they had been subjected to some strange exceptional process of decay.
gloss: Unmarried (especially of a woman); widowed.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: Unique; unsurpassed.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: The sole brilliance of this gem.
gloss: With independent power; unfettered.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: A sole authority.
gloss: The bottom or plantar surface of the foot.
pos: noun
gloss: The bottom of a shoe or boot.
pos: noun
examples: The Caliga was a military Shoe, with a very thick Sole, tied above the instep with leather Thongs.
gloss: The foot itself.
pos: noun
tags: obsolete
examples: Hast wandred through the world now long a day;Yet ceasest not thy wearie soles to lead
But the doue found no rest for the sole of her foote, and she returned vnto him into the Arke: […]
gloss: Solea solea, a flatfish of the family Soleidae; a true sole.
pos: noun
examples: The fishermen crowding in the cafés were also waiting for the end of the storm, when the fish, reassured, would rise to the surface after the bait. Soles, hog fish and skate were returning from their nocturnal expeditions. Day was now breaking.
gloss: A flatfish resembling those of the family Soleidae.
pos: noun
tags: broadly
gloss: The bottom or lower part of anything, or that on which anything rests in standing.
pos: noun
gloss: The bottom or lower part of anything, or that on which anything rests in standing.
pos: noun
gloss: The bottom or lower part of anything, or that on which anything rests in standing.
pos: noun
gloss: The bottom or lower part of anything, or that on which anything rests in standing.
pos: noun
gloss: The bottom or lower part of anything, or that on which anything rests in standing.
pos: noun
gloss: The bottom or lower part of anything, or that on which anything rests in standing.
pos: noun
examples: The rudder remains to be repaired, and is unshipped for the purpose; the sole of it is entirely gone
gloss: The bottom or lower part of anything, or that on which anything rests in standing.
pos: noun
gloss: The seat or bottom of a mine; applied to horizontal veins or lodes.
pos: noun
gloss: To put a sole on a shoe or a boot.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
Synonyms: individual
first and last
lone
one
one and only
only
single
singular
sole
solitary
unitary
Antonyms: accompanying
collective
fellow
many
one of many
Related words: alone
isolated
unique
solely
Derived words: corporation sole
feme sole
sole chamber
sole corporation
sole custody
sole house
sole mark
soleness
sole proprietor
sole provider
sole right
soleship
sole trader
unsole
American sole
black sole
bootsole
brown sole
common sole
Cornish sole
Dover sole
drab sole
finless sole
French sole
fringed sole
gray sole
grey sole
half sole
innersole
insole
Jumpsole
lemon sole
lined sole
Marysole
Mazatlan sole
midsole
Moses sole Pardachirus marmoratus
network sole
outsole
Panama sole
petrale sole
shoesole
slipsole
smooth sole
solebar
soleless
sole-like
solepiece
soleplate
tongue sole
Torbay sole
true sole
undersole
white sole
yellowfin sole
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