different between heart vs sole

English

Alternative forms

• hart, harte, hearte (all obsolete)

Etymology

From Middle English herte, from Old English heorte (“heart”), from Proto-West Germanic *hert?, from Proto-Germanic *hertô (“heart”), from Proto-Indo-European *??r (“heart”). Doublet of cardia.

Most of the modern figurative senses (such as passion or compassion, spirit, inmost feelings, especially love, affection, and courage) were present in Old English. However, the meaning “center” dates from the early 14th century.

The verb sense “to love” is from the 1977 I ? NY advertising campaign.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /h??t/
• (General American) enPR: härt, IPA^(key): /h??t/
• Rhymes: -??(?)t
• Homophone: hart

Noun

heart (countable and uncountable, plural hearts)

1. (anatomy) A muscular organ that pumps blood through the body, traditionally thought to be the seat of emotion.
2. (uncountable) Emotions, kindness, moral effort, or spirit in general.
   • 2008, "Rights trampled in rush to deport immigrant workers," Quaker Action (magazine), vol. 89, no. 3, page 8:

     "We provided a lot of brains and a lot of heart to the response when it was needed," says Sandra Sanchez, director of AFSC's Immigrants' Voice Program in Des Moines.

   • Here is my secret. It is very simple: It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye. (Antoine de Saint Exupéry, The Little Prince, 1943)
3. The seat of the affections or sensibilities, collectively or separately, as love, hate, joy, grief, courage, etc.; rarely, the seat of the understanding or will; usually in a good sense; personality.

4. Courage; courageous purpose; spirit.

   Synonyms: bravery, nerve; see also Thesaurus:courage

   • c. 1679, William Temple, Essay

     The expelled nations take heart, and when they fled from one country, invaded another.

5. Vigorous and efficient activity; power of fertile production; condition of the soil, whether good or bad.
6. (archaic) A term of affectionate or kindly and familiar address.

   Synonyms: honey, sugar; see also Thesaurus:sweetheart

   • c. 1596-99, William Shakespeare, Henry IV, Part 2, Act V scene v^[4]:

     My King, my Jove, I speak to thee, my heart!

   • c. 1610-11, William Shakespeare, The Tempest, Act I scene ii^[5]:

     Awake, dear heart, awake. Thou hast slept well.
     Awake.

   • 1991, Stephen Fry, The Liar, pp. 9–10:

     Certain unscrupulous men may call upon you here in your dressing-room. They will lavish you with flowers, with compliments, with phials of Hungary water and methuselahs of the costliest champagne. You must be wary of such men, my hearts, they are not to be trusted.

7. Personality, disposition.

8. (figuratively) A wight or being.
   • c. 1596-97, William Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice, Act II scene i^[6]:

     […] I would outstare the sternest eyes that look, / Outbrave the heart most daring on earth, / Pluck the young sucking cubs from the she-bear, / Yea, mock the lion when he roars for prey, […]

9. A conventional shape or symbol used to represent the heart, love, or emotion: ? or sometimes <3.
10. A playing card of the suit hearts featuring one or more heart-shaped symbols.
11. (cartomancy) The twenty-fourth Lenormand card.
12. (figuratively) The centre, essence, or core.

    Synonyms: crux, gist; see also Thesaurus:gist

Derived terms

Descendants

Translations

See heart/translations § Noun.

Verb

heart (third-person singular simple present hearts, present participle hearting, simple past and past participle hearted)

1. (transitive, humorous, informal) To be fond of. Often bracketed or abbreviated with a heart symbol. [from late 20th c.]

   Synonyms: love, less than three

   • 2001 April 6, Michael Baldwin, "The Heart Has Its Reasons", Commonweal

     We're but the sum of all our terrors until we heart the dove.

   • 2006, Susan Reinhardt, Bulldog doesn't have to rely on the kindness of strangers to draw attention, Citizen-Times.com

     I guess at this point we were supposed to feel elated she'd come to her senses and decided she hearts dogs after all.

   • 2008 January 30, "Cheese in our time: Blur and Oasis to end feud with a Stilton", The Guardian (London)

     The further we delve into this "story", the more convinced we become of one thing: We heart the Goss.

   • 2008 July 25, "The Media Hearts Obama?", On The Media, National Public Radio
2. (transitive, obsolete) To give heart to; to hearten; to encourage.
3. (transitive, masonry) To fill an interior with rubble, as a wall or a breakwater.
4. (intransitive, agriculture, botany) To form a dense cluster of leaves, a heart, especially of lettuce or cabbage.

References

Further reading

• heart on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• Earth, Erath, Harte, Herat, Herta, Taher, Terah, Thera, earth, hater, rathe, rehat, th'are, thare

English

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /s??l/
• (General American) enPR: s?l, IPA^(key): /so?l/
• Rhymes: -??l
• Homophones: Seoul, soul, sowl

Etymology 1

From Middle English sole, soole, from Old English s?l (“a rope, cord, line, bond, rein, door-hinge, necklace, collar”), from Proto-Germanic *sail?, *sailaz (“rope, cable”), *sail? (“noose, rein, bondage”), from Proto-Indo-European *sey- (“to tie to, tie together”). Cognate with Scots sale, saile (“halter, collar”), Dutch zeel (“rope, cord, strap”), German Seil (“rope, cable, wire”), Icelandic seil (“a string, line”). Non-Germanic cognates include Albanian dell (“sinew, vein”).

Noun

sole (plural soles)

1. (dialectal or obsolete) A wooden band or yoke put around the neck of an ox or cow in the stall.

Etymology 2

From Middle English sol, from Old English sol (“mire, miry place”), from Proto-Germanic *sul? (“mire, wallow, mud”), from Proto-Indo-European *s?l- (“thick liquid”). Cognate with Saterland Frisian soal (“ditch”), Dutch sol (“water and mud filled pit”), German Suhle (“mire, wallow”), Norwegian saula, søyla (“mud puddle”). More at soil.

Alternative forms

• soal

Noun

sole (plural soles)

1. (dialectal, Northern England) A pond or pool; a dirty pond of standing water.

Etymology 3

From earlier sowle (“to pull by the ear”). Origin unknown. Perhaps from sow (“female pig”) +? -le, as in the phrase "take a sow by the wrong ear", or from Middle English sole (“rope”). See above.

Alternative forms

• soal, sowl

Verb

sole (third-person singular simple present soles, present participle soling, simple past and past participle soled)

1. (transitive, Britain dialectal) To pull by the ears; to pull about; haul; lug.

Etymology 4

From Middle English sole, soule, from Old French sol, soul (“alone”), from Latin s?lus (“alone, single, solitary, lonely”). Ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *swé (reflexive pronoun). Perhaps related to Old Latin sollus (“whole, complete”), from Proto-Indo-European *solw-, *salw-, *sl?w- (“safe, healthy”). More at save.

Adjective

sole (not comparable)

1. only
2. (law) unmarried (especially of a woman); widowed.
3. unique; unsurpassed;

4. with independent power; unfettered.

Synonyms

• (only): See also Thesaurus:sole
• (unmarried): lone

Derived terms

• sole right

Translations

Etymology 5

From Middle English sole, soole, from Old English sole, solu. Reinforced by Anglo-Norman sole, Old French sole, from Vulgar Latin *sola (“bottom of the shoe”, also “flatfish”), from Latin solea (“sandal, bottom of the shoe”), from Proto-Indo-European *swol- (“sole”). Cognate with Dutch zool (“sole, tread”), German Sohle (“sole, insole, bottom, floor”), Danish sål (“sole”), Icelandic sóli (“sole, outsole”), Gothic ???????????????????? (sulja, “sandal”). Related to Latin solum (“bottom, ground, soil”). More at soil.

Noun

sole (plural soles)

1. (anatomy) The bottom or plantar surface of the foot.

   Synonym: (medical term) planta

2. (clothing) The bottom of a shoe or boot.
3. (obsolete) The foot itself.

   • The dove found no rest for the sole of her foot.
4. Solea solea, a flatfish of the family Soleidae.
5. The bottom or lower part of anything, or that on which anything rests in standing.
   1. The bottom of the body of a plough; the slade.
   2. The bottom of a furrow.
   3. The end section of the chanter of a set of bagpipes.
   4. The horny substance under a horse's foot, which protects the more tender parts.
   5. (military) The bottom of an embrasure.
   6. (nautical) A piece of timber attached to the lower part of the rudder, to make it even with the false keel.

      (Can we find and add a quotation of Totten to this entry?)

   7. (nautical) The floor inside the cabin of a yacht or boat
6. (mining) The seat or bottom of a mine; applied to horizontal veins or lodes.

Derived terms

• insole
• midsole
• outsole

Descendants

• ? Hebrew: ????? (sol)

Translations

Verb

sole (third-person singular simple present soles, present participle soling, simple past and past participle soled)

1. (transitive) to put a sole on (a shoe or boot)

Derived terms

• resole

Translations

Anagrams

• EOLs, ESOL, Elos, LEOs, Leos, Lose, OELs, elos, leos, lose, selo, sloe

Czech

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?sol?]

Verb

sole

1. masculine singular present transgressive of solit

Danish

Noun

sole c

1. indefinite plural of sol

Esperanto

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?sole/
• Hyphenation: so?le
• Rhymes: -ole
• Audio:

Adverb

sole

1. solely

Related terms

• sola

French

Etymology

From Vulgar Latin *sola, from Latin solea.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /s?l/

Noun

sole f (plural soles)

1. sole (fish)
2. sole, the bottom of a hoof
3. sole, a piece of timber, a joist
4. a piece of land devoted to crop rotation

Further reading

• “sole” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Italian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?so.le/
• Hyphenation: só?le

Etymology 1

From Sole, from Latin s?lem, accusative case of s?l, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *sóh?wl?.
Cognates include Greek ????? (ílios), Icelandic sól, Hindi ????? (s?rya), and Russian ??????? (sólnce).

Noun

sole m (plural soli)

1. (colloquial, astronomy) star (for extension of Sole)

   Synonym: stella

2. (heraldry) sun (a star in heraldry)
3. (alchemy) gold

   Synonym: oro

4. sunlight
5. (poetic) daytime, day (the interval between sunrise and sunset)
6. (poetic) year
7. (poetic, in the plural) eyes

Related terms

See also

References

• sole in Dizionario Italiano Olivetti
• sole in Collins Italian-English Dictionary

Further reading

• sole on the Italian Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^it

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the main entry.

Adjective

sole

1. feminine plural of solo

Noun

sole f

1. plural of sola

Anagrams

• leso

Latin

Etymology 1

See s?l.

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /?so?.le/, [?s?o????]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /?so.le/, [?s??l?]

Noun

s?le

1. ablative singular of s?l

Etymology 2

See s?lus.

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /?so?.le/, [?s?o????]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /?so.le/, [?s??l?]

Adjective

s?le

1. vocative masculine singular of s?lus

Neapolitan

Etymology

From Latin s?l.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?sol?/

Noun

sole m

1. Sun

Norman

Etymology

From Vulgar Latin *sola, from Latin solea.

Noun

sole f (plural soles)

1. sole (fish)

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

Probably from the noun sol

Verb

sole (imperative sol, present tense soler, passive -, simple past sola or solet or solte, past participle sola or solet or solt, present participle solende)

1. (reflexive, sole seg) to sunbathe, sun oneself, bask (also figurative)

References

• “sole” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sku?l?/ (example of pronunciation)

Etymology 1

From Old Norse sóli m, from Latin solum (“bottom, ground”).

Noun

sole m (definite singular solen, indefinite plural solar, definite plural solane)

1. (anatomy) a sole (bottom or plantar surface of the foot)
2. (clothing) a sole (bottom of a shoe or boot)

Derived terms

Verb

sole (present tense solar, past tense sola, past participle sola, passive infinitive solast, present participle solande, imperative sol)

1. to apply a sole to footwear

Alternative forms

• sola (a-infinitive)

Derived terms

• soling f

See also

• såle (Bokmål)

Etymology 2

From the noun sol f (“sun”).

Alternative forms

• sola (a-infinitive)

Verb

sole (present tense solar, past tense sola, past participle sola, passive infinitive solast, present participle solande, imperative sol)

1. (reflexive) to sunbathe
2. (reflexive, figuratively) to bask
3. (transitive) to expose to the sun

Derived terms

• soling f

References

• “sole” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Anagrams

• lose, Sola, sloe

Old English

Alternative forms

• solu

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin solea, from solum (“bottom, base”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *swol-.

Noun

sole f

1. sole
2. shoe, sandal

Declension

Descendants

• Middle English: sole, soole
  • English: sole
  • Scots: sole

References

• Joseph Bosworth and T. Northcote Toller (1898) , “sole”, in An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary, 2nd edition, Oxford: Oxford University Press.
• John R. Clark Hall (1916) , “sole”, in A Concise Anglo-Saxon Dictionary, 2nd edition, New York: Macmillan.

Old French

Adjective

sole f

1. oblique/nominative feminine singular of sol

Polish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?s?.l?/
• Homophone: sol?

Noun 1

sole

1. nominative/accusative/vocative plural of sól

Noun 2

sole

1. nominative/accusative/vocative plural of sola

Noun 3

sole

1. nominative/accusative/vocative plural of sol

Portuguese

Verb

sole

1. first-person singular (eu) present subjunctive of solar
2. third-person singular (ele and ela, also used with você and others) present subjunctive of solar
3. third-person singular (você) affirmative imperative of solar
4. third-person singular (você) negative imperative of solar

Serbo-Croatian

Verb

sole (Cyrillic spelling ????)

1. third-person plural present of soliti