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Sole vs Total - What's the difference?

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Sole is a related term of total.


As verbs the difference between sole and total

is that sole is while total is to add up; to calculate the sum of.

As a noun total is

an amount obtained by the addition of smaller amounts.

As an adjective total is

entire; relating to the whole of something.

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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    total

    English

    Alternative forms

    * totall (obsolete)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • An amount obtained by the addition of smaller amounts.
  • A total of £145 was raised by the bring-and-buy stall.
  • (informal, mathematics) Sum.
  • The total of 4, 5 and 6 is 15.

    See also

    * addition, summation: (augend) + (addend) = (summand) + (summand) = (sum, total) * subtraction: (minuend) ? (subtrahend) = (difference) * multiplication: (multiplier) × (multiplicand) = (factor) × (factor) = (product) * division: (dividend) ÷ (divisor) = (quotient), remainder left over if divisor does not divide dividend

    Synonyms

    * (sum) sum

    Derived terms

    * subtotal

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Entire; relating to the whole of something.
  • :
  • *
  • *:Carried somehow, somewhither, for some reason, on these surging floods, were these travelers,. Even such a boat as the Mount Vernon offered a total deck space so cramped as to leave secrecy or privacy well out of the question, even had the motley and democratic assemblage of passengers been disposed to accord either.
  • *{{quote-magazine, date=2013-08-03, volume=408, issue=8847, magazine=(The Economist)
  • , title= Boundary problems , passage=Economics is a messy discipline: too fluid to be a science, too rigorous to be an art. Perhaps it is fitting that economists’ most-used metric, gross domestic product (GDP), is a tangle too. GDP measures the total value of output in an economic territory. Its apparent simplicity explains why it is scrutinised down to tenths of a percentage point every month.}}
  • ((used as an intensifier)) Complete; absolute.
  • :
  • Synonyms

    * (entire) entire, full, whole * (complete) absolute, complete, utter; see also

    Derived terms

    * total war

    Verb

  • To add up; to calculate the sum of.
  • When we totalled the takings, we always got a different figure.
  • To equal a total of; to amount to.
  • That totals seven times so far.
  • (transitive, US, slang) to demolish; to wreck completely. (from total loss)
  • Honey, I’m OK, but I’ve totaled the car.
  • To amount to; to add up to.
  • It totals nearly a pound.

    Synonyms

    * (add up) add up, sum * (demolish) demolish, trash, wreck

    Anagrams

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