SOLE


Meaning of SOLE in English

adj single; unmarried; as, a feme sole.

2. sole ·vt to furnish with a sole; as, to sole a shoe.

3. sole ·noun the bottom of an embrasure.

4. sole ·adj being or acting without another; single; individual; only.

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

6. sole ·noun the seat or bottom of a mine;

— applied to horizontal veins or lodes.

7. sole ·noun the horny substance under a horse's foot, which protects the more tender parts.

8. sole ·noun the bottom or lower part of anything, or that on which anything rests in standing.

9. sole ·noun the bottom of a shoe or boot, or the piece of leather which constitutes the bottom.

10. sole ·noun the bottom of the body of a plow;

— called also slade; also, the bottom of a furrow.

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

12. sole ·add. ·noun a fluid mixture of a colloid and a liquid; a liquid colloidal solution or suspension.

13. sole ·noun 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.

14. sole ·noun 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.

Webster English vocab.      Английский словарь Webster.