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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