noun
- The underside of footwear or a golf club.
- Lean flesh of any of several flatfish.
- synonyms: fillet of sole
- The underside of the foot.
- Right-eyed flatfish; many are valued as food; most common in warm seas especially European.
verb
- Put a new sole on.
- usage: "sole the shoes"
- synonyms: resole
adjective
- Not divided or shared with others.
- usage: "they have exclusive use of the machine"; "sole rights of publication"
- synonyms: exclusive
- Being the only one; single and isolated from others.
- usage: "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"
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