Sole vs Pole - What's the difference?

sole | pole |

As a verb sole

is .

As a noun pole is

pole.

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

Anagrams

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pole

English

Etymology 1

From (etyl) pole, pal, from (etyl) .

Noun

(en noun)

Originally, a stick; now specifically, a long and slender piece of metal or (especially) wood, used for various construction or support purposes.

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(angling) A type of basic fishing rod.

A long fiberglass sports implement used for pole-vaulting.

(slang, spotting) A telescope used to identify birds, aeroplanes or wildlife.

(historical) A unit of length, equal to a perch (¼ chain or 5½ yards).

(auto racing) Pole position.

(analysis) a singularity that behaves like

\frac{1}{z^n}

z = 0

Synonyms

* See also

Antonyms

* (analysis) root, zero

Derived terms

(terms derived from pole) * flagpole * maypole * poleaxe * pole vault

Verb

(pol)

To propel by pushing with poles, to push with a pole.

Huck Finn poled that raft southward down the Mississippi because going northward against the current was too much work.

To identify something quite precisely using a telescope.

He poled off the serial of the Gulfstream to confirm its identity.

To furnish with poles for support.

to pole beans or hops

To convey on poles.

to pole hay into a barn

To stir, as molten glass, with a pole.

Etymology 2

From (etyl) pole, .

Noun

(en noun)

Either of the two points on the earth's surface around which it rotates; also, similar points on any other rotating object.

A point of magnetic focus, especially each of the two opposing such points of a magnet (designated north and south).

(geometry) A fixed point relative to other points or lines.

(electricity) A contact on an electrical device (such as a battery) at which electric current enters or leaves.

(complex analysis) For a meromorphic function

f(z)

: a point

a

for which

f(z) \rightarrow \infty

z \rightarrow a

The function $f(z) = \frac{1}{z-3}$ has a single pole at $z = 3$ .

(obsolete) The firmament; the sky.

* Milton

shoots against the dusky pole

Antonyms

* (complex analysis) zero

Derived terms

* polar * polarity * dipole * monopole * north pole * south pole * poles apart * polestar, pole star * pole vault

Verb

(pol)

To induce piezoelectricity in (a substance) by aligning the dipoles.

Anagrams

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