| 单词 | sole |
| 释义 | sole (once / 151 pages) 1nv 2adj 3n Sole means not shared with others. If it's your sole responsibility to make the chocolate cake for a party, it's all on you. Sole comes from the Latin solus, meaning "alone," and it can describe being the only person involved in something, like being the sole member of the Special People Club. As a noun, your sole is the bottom of your foot. If you order sole in a restaurant, you'll get a flat fish that looks like the bottom of your shoe. Although they sound alike, if you order the soul, the waitperson might send you to a church down the street. WORD FAMILYsole: resole, soled, soleless, solely, soling+/resole: resoled, resoles, resoling USAGE EXAMPLESBeing the sole breadwinner is bad for men's health but good for women's. BBC(Dec 30, 2016) There are no hard-and-fast rules to this process, but Jacomo is the sole arbiter. Washington Post(Dec 27, 2016) Kashiba’s Crispy Rex Sole not only includes dainty fried fillets of fish but also the deep-fried skeleton, a crisp, salty, delicious bonus. Seattle Times(Dec 29, 2016) 1 1n the underside of the foot Hyper area, region a part of an animal that has a special function or is supplied by a given artery or nerve 2n the underside of footwear or a golf club Hypo|Hyper half sole shoe sole extending from the shank to the toe innersole, insolethe inner sole of a shoe or boot where the foot rests outsolethe outer sole of a shoe or boot that is the bottom of the shoe and makes contact with the ground bottom, underside, undersurface the lower side of anything 3v put a new sole on 2sole the shoes Syn|Hyper resole bushel, doctor, fix, furbish up, mend, repair, restore, touch on restore by replacing a part or putting together what is torn or broken 1adj not divided or shared with others sole rights of publication Syn exclusive unshared not shared 2adj being the only one; single and isolated from others 3the sole heir the sole example Syn lone, lonesome, only, solitary single existing alone or consisting of one entity or part or aspect or individual 1n lean flesh of any of several flatfish Syn|Hypo|Hyper fillet of sole gray sole, grey sole greyish-white flesh of a flatfish English sole, lemon solehighly valued almost pure white flesh flatfish sweet lean whitish flesh of any of numerous thin-bodied fish; usually served as thin fillets 2n right-eyed flatfish; many are valued as food; most common in warm seas especially European Hypo|Hyper European sole, Solea solea highly valued as food Solea lascaris, lemon solesmall European sole English sole, Parophrys vitulus, lemon solepopular pale brown food flatfish of the Pacific coast of North America Psettichthys melanostichus, sand solea common flatfish of the Pacific coast of North America Trinectes maculatus, hogchokeruseless as food; in coastal streams from Maine to Texas and Panama food fish any fish used for food by human beings flatfishany of several families of fishes having flattened bodies that swim along the sea floor on one side of the body with both eyes on the upper side |
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