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SOLE
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Irregular inflected form: soles
I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Right-eyed flatfish; many are valued as food; most common in warm seas especially European
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("sole" is a kind of...):
food fish (any fish used for food by human beings)
flatfish (any of several families of fishes having flattened bodies that swim along the sea floor on one side of the body with both eyes on the upper side)
Meronyms (parts of "sole"):
fillet of sole; sole (lean flesh of any of several flatfish)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "sole"):
European sole; Solea solea (highly valued as food)
lemon sole; Solea lascaris (small European sole)
English sole; lemon sole; Parophrys vitulus (popular pale brown food flatfish of the Pacific coast of North America)
Psettichthys melanostichus; sand sole (a common flatfish of the Pacific coast of North America)
hogchoker; Trinectes maculatus (useless as food; in coastal streams from Maine to Texas and Panama)
Holonyms ("sole" is a member of...):
family Soleidae; Soleidae (soles)
Sense 2
Meaning:
The underside of footwear or a golf club
Classified under:
Nouns denoting man-made objects
Hypernyms ("sole" is a kind of...):
bottom; underside; undersurface (the lower side of anything)
Meronyms (parts of "sole"):
shank; waist (the narrow part of the shoe connecting the heel and the wide part of the sole)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "sole"):
half sole (shoe sole extending from the shank to the toe)
innersole; insole (the inner sole of a shoe or boot where the foot rests)
outsole (the outer sole of a shoe or boot that is the bottom of the shoe and makes contact with the ground)
Holonyms ("sole" is a part of...):
footgear; footwear (covering for a person's feet)
club-head; club head; clubhead; golf-club head ((golf) the head of the club which strikes the ball)
Derivation:
sole (put a new sole on)
Sense 3
Meaning:
The underside of the foot
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("sole" is a kind of...):
area; region (a part of an animal that has a special function or is supplied by a given artery or nerve)
Meronyms (parts of "sole"):
ball (a more or less rounded anatomical body or mass)
Holonyms ("sole" is a part of...):
foot; human foot; pes (the part of the leg of a human being below the ankle joint)
Sense 4
Meaning:
Lean flesh of any of several flatfish
Synonyms:
fillet of sole; sole
Classified under:
Nouns denoting foods and drinks
Hypernyms ("sole" is a kind of...):
flatfish (sweet lean whitish flesh of any of numerous thin-bodied fish; usually served as thin fillets)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "sole"):
gray sole; grey sole (greyish-white flesh of a flatfish)
English sole; lemon sole (highly valued almost pure white flesh)
Holonyms ("sole" is a part of...):
sole (right-eyed flatfish; many are valued as food; most common in warm seas especially European)
II. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Not divided or shared with others
Example:
sole rights of publication
Synonyms:
exclusive; sole
Classified under:
Similar:
unshared (not shared)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Being the only one; single and isolated from others
Example:
a solitary speck in the sky
Synonyms:
lone; lonesome; only; sole; solitary
Classified under:
Similar:
single (existing alone or consisting of one entity or part or aspect or individual)
III. (verb)
Verb forms
Present simple: I / you / we / they sole ... he / she / it soles
Past simple: soled
Past participle: soled
-ing form: soling
Sense 1
Meaning:
Put a new sole on
Example:
sole the shoes
Synonyms:
resole; sole
Classified under:
Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.
Hypernyms (to "sole" is one way to...):
bushel; doctor; fix; furbish up; mend; repair; restore; touch on (restore by replacing a part or putting together what is torn or broken)
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s something
Derivation:
sole (the underside of footwear or a golf club)
Context examples:
A group of autosomal dominant, autosomal recessive, X-linked inherited or acquired disorders characterized by the thickening of the palms and soles due to hyperkeratosis.
(Palmoplantar Keratoderma, NCI Thesaurus)
The grooves in the outermost layer of skin on the palms of the hands and soles of the feet where sweat glands open.
(Epidermal Ridge, NCI Thesaurus)
It is characterized by hyperkeratosis in the palms and soles resulting in abnormal thickening of the skin in these areas.
(Epidermolytic Palmoplantar Keratoderma, NCI Thesaurus)
His sole motive was to make her happy, to make her proud of him, to justify her long faith in him.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
Hair grows all over your body except on your lips, palms, and the soles of your feet.
(Hair Problems, NIH)
A monounsaturated long-chain fatty acid with a 20-carbon backbone and the sole double bond originating from the 9th position from the methyl end, with the bond in the cis- configuration.
(Gondoic Acid, NCI Thesaurus)
It has round feet with very hard soles.
(German Shepherd Dog, NCI Thesaurus)
This indeed would be too great a mortification, if I wrote for fame: but as my sole intention was the public good, I cannot be altogether disappointed.
(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)
Common latex products include: • Gloves • Condoms • Balloons • Rubber bands • Shoe soles • Pacifiers
(Latex Allergy, NIH)
A monounsaturated long-chain fatty acid with a 20-carbon backbone and the sole double bond originating from the 7th carbon from the methyl end.
(Eicosenoic Acid n-7, NCI Thesaurus)
