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sole

adj
/səʊl/UK/soʊl/CA/səʉl/

Etymology

From Middle English sole, soole, from Old English sole, solu. Reinforced by Anglo-Norman sole, Old French sole, from Vulgar Latin *sola (“bottom of the shoe”, also “flatfish”), from Latin solea (“sandal, bottom of the shoe”), from Proto-Indo-European *swol- (“sole”). Cognate with Dutch zool (“sole, tread”), German Sohle (“sole, insole, bottom, floor”), Danish sål (“sole”), Icelandic sóli (“sole, outsole”), Gothic 𐍃𐌿𐌻𐌾𐌰 (sulja, “sandal”). Related to Latin solum (“bottom, ground, soil”). More at soil. Compare typologically Russian по́чва (póčva) akin to подо́шва (podóšva).

  1. derived from *swol-✻ — “sole”
  2. derived from solea — “sandal, bottom of the shoe”
  3. derived from *sola✻ — “bottom of the shoe”, also “flatfish”
  4. derived from sole
  5. derived from sole
  6. inherited from sole
  7. inherited from sole

Definitions

  1. Only.

  2. Unmarried (especially of a woman)

    Unmarried (especially of a woman); widowed.

  3. Unique

    Unique; unsurpassed.

    • The sole brilliance of this gem.
  4. ›+ 13 more definitions

    1. With independent power

      With independent power; unfettered.

      • A sole authority.

    2. The bottom or plantar surface of the foot.

    3. The bottom of a shoe or boot.

      • The Caliga was a military Shoe, with a very thick Sole, tied above the instep with leather Thongs.

    4. The foot itself.

      • 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: […]

    5. Solea solea, a flatfish of the family Soleidae

      Solea solea, a flatfish of the family Soleidae; a true sole.

    6. A flatfish resembling those of the family Soleidae.

    7. The bottom or lower part of anything, or that on which anything rests in standing.

    8. The seat or bottom of a mine

      The seat or bottom of a mine; applied to horizontal veins or lodes.

    9. To put a sole on a shoe or a boot.

    10. A wooden band or yoke put around the neck of an ox or cow in the stall.

    11. A pond or pool

      A pond or pool; a dirty pond of standing water.

    12. To pull by the ears

      To pull by the ears; to pull about; haul; lug.

    13. A sea area, corresponding to the Sole Bank, to the north of FitzRoy

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Derived

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 · +15 more

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at sole. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

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A definitional loop anchored at sole. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

7 hops · closes at sole

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA