Sole vs Mere - What's the difference?
sole | mere |
(dialectal, or, obsolete) A wooden band or yoke put around the neck of an ox or cow in the stall.
To pull by the ears; to pull about; haul; lug.
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(legal) unmarried (especially of a woman); widowed.
The bottom or plantar surface of the foot.
The bottom of a shoe or boot.
* Arbuthnot
(obsolete) The foot itself.
* Bible, Genesis viii. 9
* Spenser
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.
(mining) The seat or bottom of a mine; applied to horizontal veins or lodes.
to put a sole on (a shoe or boot)
(obsolete) the sea
(dialectal, or, literary) a pool; a small lake or pond; marsh
* 1955 , William Golding, The Inheritors , Faber & Faber 2005, p. 194:
boundary, limit; a boundary-marker; boundary-line
* 1590 , Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene , III.ix:
(obsolete) To limit; bound; divide or cause division in.
(obsolete) To set divisions and bounds.
(label) Pure, unalloyed .
* 1590 , (Edmund Spenser), The Faerie Queene , III.8:
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(label) Nothing less than; complete, downright .
* , II.3.7:
Just, only; no more than , pure and simple, neither more nor better than might be expected.
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In obsolete terms the difference between sole and mere
is that sole is the foot itself while mere is nothing less than; complete, downright .As nouns the difference between sole and mere
is that sole is a wooden band or yoke put around the neck of an ox or cow in the stall while mere is the sea.As verbs the difference between sole and mere
is that sole is to pull by the ears; to pull about; haul; lug while mere is to limit; bound; divide or cause division in.As adjectives the difference between sole and mere
is that sole is only while mere is famous.sole
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) (m), (m), from (etyl) .Noun
(en noun)Etymology 2
From (etyl), from (etyl) . More at (l).Alternative forms
* (l)Etymology 3
From earlier . See above.Alternative forms
* (l), (l)Verb
(sol)Etymology 4
From (etyl) (m), (m), from (etyl) (m), . More at (l).Adjective
(-)Etymology 5
From (etyl) (m), (m), from Old English. Reinforced by (etyl), (etyl) sole, from . More at (l).Noun
(en noun)- The caliga was a military shoe, with a very thick sole , tied above the instep.
- The dove found no rest for the sole of her foot.
- Hast wandered through the world now long a day, / Yet ceasest not thy weary soles to lead.
- (Totten)
Synonyms
* (bottom of the foot''): planta (''medical term )Derived terms
* insole * midsole *Verb
(sol)Derived terms
* resoleAnagrams
* * * * ----mere
English
(wikipedia mere)Etymology 1
From (etyl) mere, from (etyl) .Alternative forms
* (l), (l), (l)Noun
(en noun)- (Drayton)
- (Tennyson)
- Lok got to his feet and wandered along by the marshes towards the mere where Fa had disappeared.
Derived terms
* mereswine * mermaid * merman * merfolkEtymology 2
From (etyl), from (etyl) .Alternative forms
* (l), (l), (l), (l)Noun
(en noun)- The Troian Brute'' did first that Citie found, / And ''Hygate'' made the meare thereof by West, / And ''Ouert gate by North: that is the bound / Toward the land; two riuers bound the rest.
Verb
(mer)Etymology 3
From (etyl), from (etyl) .Alternative forms
* (l), (l)Etymology 4
From (etyl) meer, from (etyl) mier, from (etyl) merus. Perhaps influenced by (etyl) , or conflated with Etymology 3.Adjective
(er)- So oft as I this history record, / My heart doth melt with meere compassion.
- Meere .
- If every man might have what he wouldwe should have another chaos in an instant, a meer confusion.
- Thus the red damask curtains which now shut out the fog-laden, drizzling atmosphere of the Marylebone Road, had cost a mere song, and yet they might have been warranted to last another thirty years. A great bargain also had been the excellent Axminster carpet which covered the floor;.
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