Sole vs Tread - What's the difference?
sole | tread |
(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)
To step or walk (on or over something); to trample.
* Alexander Pope
* Milton
To step or walk upon.
To beat or press with the feet.
To go through or accomplish by walking, dancing, etc.
* Beaumont and Fletcher
* Shakespeare
To crush under the foot; to trample in contempt or hatred; to subdue.
* Bible, Psalms xliv. 5
To copulate; said of (especially male) birds.
(of a male bird) To copulate with.
(tread)
A step.
A manner of stepping.
* Tennyson
(obsolete) A way; a track or path.
The grooves carved into the face of a tire, used to give the tire traction.
The grooves on the bottom of a shoe or other footwear, used to give grip or traction.
The horizontal part of a step in a flight of stairs.
The sound made when someone or something is walking.
* 1886 , (Robert Louis Stevenson), (Strange Case Of Dr Jekyll And Mr Hyde)
* 1896 , (Bret Harte), Barker's Luck and Other Stories
(biology) The chalaza of a bird's egg; the treadle.
The act of copulation in birds.
(fortification) The top of the banquette, on which soldiers stand to fire over the parapet.
A bruise or abrasion produced on the foot or ankle of a horse that interferes, or strikes its feet together.
In obsolete terms the difference between sole and tread
is that sole is the foot itself while tread is a way; a track or path.In transitive terms the difference between sole and tread
is that sole is to put a sole on (a shoe or boot while tread is to step or walk upon.As nouns the difference between sole and tread
is that sole is a wooden band or yoke put around the neck of an ox or cow in the stall while tread is a step.As verbs the difference between sole and tread
is that sole is to pull by the ears; to pull about; haul; lug while tread is to step or walk (on or over something); to trample.As an adjective sole
is only.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
* * * * ----tread
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) treden, from (etyl) {{term, tredan, , to tread, step on, trample, traverse, pass over, enter upon, roam through , lang=ang}}, from (etyl) , Norwegian treda.Verb
- He trod back and forth wearily.
- Don't tread on the lawn.
- Fools rush in where angels fear to tread .
- ye that stately tread , or lowly creep
- Actors tread the boards.
- to tread''' a path; to '''tread''' land when too light; a well-'''trodden path
- I am resolved to forsake Malta, tread a pilgrimage to fair Jerusalem.
- They have measured many a mile, / To tread a measure with you on this grass.
- Through thy name will we tread them under that rise up against us.
- (Shakespeare)
- (Chaucer)
Usage notes
* "(term)" is not commonly used in the UK and is less common in the US as well. It is apparently used more often in (tread water). * (term) is sometimes used as a past and past participle, especially in the US.Derived terms
* betread * * tread water * untrod * treading on eggshellsUse of expression in delicate situations; be nice
Etymology 2
From the above verb.Noun
(en noun)- She is coming, my own, my sweet; / Were it ever so airy a tread , / My heart would hear her and beat.
- (Shakespeare)
- The steps fell lightly and oddly, with a certain swing, for all they went so slowly; it was different indeed from the heavy creaking tread of Henry Jekyll. Utterson sighed. "Is there never anything else?" he asked.
- But when, after a singularly heavy tread and the jingle of spurs on the platform, the door flew open to the newcomer, he seemed a realization of our worst expectations.