Associations to the word «Sole»

Wiktionary

SOLE, noun. (dialectal or obsolete) A wooden band or yoke put around the neck of an ox or cow in the stall.
SOLE, noun. (dialectal) (Northern England) A pond or pool; a dirty pond of standing water.
SOLE, verb. (transitive) (UK dialectal) To pull by the ears; to pull about; haul; lug.
SOLE, adjective. Only
SOLE, adjective. (legal) unmarried (especially of a woman); widowed.
SOLE, noun. (anatomy) The bottom or plantar surface of the foot.
SOLE, noun. (footwear) The bottom of a shoe or boot.
SOLE, noun. (obsolete) The foot itself.
SOLE, noun. Solea solea, a flatfish of the family Soleidae.
SOLE, noun. The bottom or lower part of anything, or that on which anything rests in standing.
SOLE, noun. The bottom of the body of a plough; the slade.
SOLE, noun. The bottom of a furrow.
SOLE, noun. The horny substance under a horse's foot, which protects the more tender parts.
SOLE, noun. (military) The bottom of an embrasure.
SOLE, noun. (nautical) A piece of timber attached to the lower part of the rudder, to make it even with the false keel.
SOLE, noun. (mining) The seat or bottom of a mine; applied to horizontal veins or lodes.
SOLE, verb. (transitive) to put a sole on (a shoe or boot)
SOLE CUSTODY, noun. An arrangement whereby only one parent has physical and legal custody of a child while the other parent has visitation rights.
SOLE MARK, noun. (geology) A feature, on the undersurface of a sedimentary stratum, that is a cast of a corresponding feature on the upper surface of the lower stratum
SOLE PROPRIETOR, noun. (legal) the person who owns and controls a sole proprietorship
SOLE PROPRIETORS, noun. Plural of sole proprietor
SOLE PROPRIETORSHIP, noun. (legal) A business that is wholly owned by a single person, who has unlimited liability.
SOLE PROPRIETORSHIPS, noun. Plural of sole proprietorship
SOLE PROVIDER, noun. An only guardian of a minor, usually a single parent.
SOLE PROVIDERS, noun. Plural of sole provider
SOLE RIGHT, noun. Synonym of exclusive right.
SOLE SURVIVORS, noun. Plural of sole survivor
SOLE TRADER, noun. A type of business enterprise or proprietorship which is owned by one person who is fully liable for the company's debts and fulfilment of contracts with his/her personal wealth unless incorporated.
SOLE TRADERS, noun. Plural of sole trader

Dictionary definition

SOLE, noun. The underside of footwear or a golf club.
SOLE, noun. Lean flesh of any of several flatfish.
SOLE, noun. The underside of the foot.
SOLE, noun. Right-eyed flatfish; many are valued as food; most common in warm seas especially European.
SOLE, verb. Put a new sole on; "sole the shoes".
SOLE, adjective. Not divided or shared with others; "they have exclusive use of the machine"; "sole rights of publication".
SOLE, adjective. 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".

Wise words

Words are always getting conventionalized to some secondary meaning. It is one of the works of poetry to take the truants in custody and bring them back to their right senses.
William Butler Yeats