sole
1. the underside of footwear or a golf club (Freq. 3) • Hypernyms: bottom, underside, undersurface • Hyponyms: half sole, insole, innersole, outsole • Part Holonyms: footwear, footgear, golf-club head, club head, club-head, clubhead • Part Meronyms: shank, waist 2. lean flesh of any of several flatfish • Syn: fillet of sole • Hypernyms: flatfish • Hyponyms: grey sole, gray sole, lemon sole, English sole 3. the underside of the foot • Hypernyms: area, region • Part Holonyms: foot, human foot, pes • Part Meronyms: ball 4. right-eyed flatfish; many are valued as food; most common in warm seas especially European • Hypernyms: flatfish, food fish • Hyponyms: European sole, Solea solea, lemon sole, Solea lascaris, English sole, Parophrys vitulus, sand sole, Psettichthys melanostichus, hogchoker, Trinectes maculatus • Member Holonyms: Soleidae, family Soleidae • Part Meronyms: fillet of sole
put a new sole on - sole the shoes • Syn: resole • Hypernyms: repair, mend, fix, bushel, doctor, furbish up, restore, touch on • Verb Frames: - Somebody ----s something
1. not divided or shared with others (Freq. 2) - they have exclusive use of the machine - sole rights of publication • Syn: exclusive • Similar to: unshared • Derivationally related forms: exclude (for: exclusive) 2. 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 • Syn: lone, lonesome, only, solitary • Similar to: single • Derivationally related forms: lonesomeness (for: lonesome)
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