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Oneness vs Sole - What's the difference?

oneness | sole |

As a noun oneness

is (uncountable) state of being one or undivided; unity.

As a verb sole is

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oneness

English

Noun

  • (uncountable) State of being one or undivided; unity.
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  • (countable) The product of being one or undivided.

    • Related terms

    * one * only

    See also

    * twoness * undivided * unity

    sole

    English

    Etymology 1

    From (etyl) (m), (m), from (etyl) .

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (dialectal, or, obsolete) A wooden band or yoke put around the neck of an ox or cow in the stall.

    • Etymology 2

    From (etyl), from (etyl) . More at (l).

    Alternative forms

    * (l)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (dialectal, Northern England) A pond or pool; a dirty pond of standing water.

    • Etymology 3

    From earlier . See above.

    Alternative forms

    * (l), (l)

    Verb

    (sol)
  • To pull by the ears; to pull about; haul; lug.

    • Etymology 4

    From (etyl) (m), (m), from (etyl) (m), . More at (l).

    Adjective

    (-)
  • only
  • (legal) unmarried (especially of a woman); widowed.

    • Etymology 5

    From (etyl) (m), (m), from Old English. Reinforced by (etyl), (etyl) sole, from . More at (l).

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • The bottom or plantar surface of the foot.
  • The bottom of a shoe or boot.
  • * Arbuthnot
    • The caliga was a military shoe, with a very thick sole , tied above the instep.
  • (obsolete) The foot itself.
  • * Bible, Genesis viii. 9
    • The dove found no rest for the sole of her foot.
  • * Spenser
    • Hast wandered through the world now long a day, / Yet ceasest not thy weary soles to lead.
  • Solea solea, a flatfish of the family Soleidae .
  • The bottom or lower part of anything, or that on which anything rests in standing.
  • # The bottom of the body of a plough; the slade.
  • # The bottom of a furrow.
  • # The horny substance under a horse's foot, which protects the more tender parts.
  • # (military) The bottom of an embrasure.
  • # (nautical) A piece of timber attached to the lower part of the rudder, to make it even with the false keel.
  • (Totten)
  • (mining) The seat or bottom of a mine; applied to horizontal veins or lodes.
    • Synonyms
    * (bottom of the foot''): planta (''medical term )
    Derived terms
    * insole * midsole *

    Verb

    (sol)
  • to put a sole on (a shoe or boot)
    • Derived terms
    * resole

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