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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.

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   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

English

Etymology

From Middle English compleet (“full, complete”), borrowed from Old French complet or Latin completus, past participle of comple? (“I fill up, I complete”) (whence also complement, compliment), from com- + ple? (“I fill, I fulfill”) (whence also deplete, replete, plenty), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *pleh?- (“to fill”) (English full).

Alternative forms

• compleat (archaic)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /k?m?pli?t/
• Rhymes: -i?t
• Hyphenation: com?plete

Verb

complete (third-person singular simple present completes, present participle completing, simple past and past participle completed)

1. (transitive, intransitive) To finish; to make done; to reach the end.

   Synonyms: accomplish, finish; see also Thesaurus:end

2. (transitive) To make whole or entire.

   Synonyms: consummate, perfect, top off

3. (poker) To call from the small blind in an unraised pot.

Usage notes

• This is a catenative verb that takes the gerund (-ing). See Appendix:English catenative verbs

Related terms

Translations

Adjective

complete (comparative completer or more complete, superlative completest or most complete)

1. With all parts included; with nothing missing; full.

   Synonyms: entire, total; see also Thesaurus:entire

2. Finished; ended; concluded; completed.

   Synonyms: concluded, done; see also Thesaurus:finished

3. Generic intensifier.

   Synonyms: downright, utter; see also Thesaurus:total

4. (mathematical analysis, of a metric space) In which every Cauchy sequence converges to a point within the space.
5. (algebra, of a lattice) In which every set with a lower bound has a greatest lower bound.
6. (mathematics, of a category) In which all small limits exist.
7. (logic, of a proof system of a formal system with respect to a given semantics) In which every semantically valid well-formed formula is provable.
   • Gödel's first incompleteness theorem showed that Principia could not be both consistent and complete. According to the theorem, for every sufficiently powerful logical system (such as Principia), there exists a statement G that essentially reads, "The statement G cannot be proved." Such a statement is a sort of Catch-22: if G is provable, then it is false, and the system is therefore inconsistent; and if G is not provable, then it is true, and the system is therefore incomplete.^WP
8. (computing theory, of a problem) That is in a given complexity class and is such that every other problem in the class can be reduced to it (usually in polynomial time or logarithmic space).

Antonyms

• incomplete

Hyponyms

Derived terms

Translations

Noun

complete (plural completes)

1. A completed survey.
   • 1994, industry research published in Quirk's Marketing Research Review, Volume 8, p. 125; Research Services Directory Blue Book, published by the Marketing Research Association, p 552; and Green Book, Volume 32, published by the New York Chapter, American Marketing Association, p. 451

     “If SSI says we're going to get two completes an hour, the sample will yield two Qualifieds to do the survey with us.”

   • 2013, Residential Rates OIR webinar published by PG&E, January 31, 2013

     “…our market research professionals continue to advise us that providing the level of detail necessary to customize to each typical customer type would require the survey to be too lengthy and it would be difficult to get enough completes.”

   • 2016, "Perceptions of Oral Cancer Screenings Compared to Other Cancer Screenings: A Pilot Study", thesis for Idaho State University by M. Colleen Stephenson.

     “Don’t get discouraged if you’re on a job that is difficult to get completes on! Everyone else on the job is most likely struggling, and there will be easier surveys that you will dial on.”

Further reading

• complete in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• complete in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.

References

Anagrams

• Lecompte

Interlingua

Adjective

complete (comparative plus complete, superlative le plus complete)

1. complete

Italian

Adjective

complete

1. feminine plural of completo

Latin

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /kom?ple?.te/, [k?m?p??e?t??]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /kom?ple.te/, [k?m?pl??t??]

Verb

compl?te

1. second-person plural present active imperative of comple?

Portuguese

Verb

complete

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

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kom?plete/, [kõm?ple.t?e]

Verb

complete

1. Formal second-person singular (usted) imperative form of completar.
2. First-person singular (yo) present subjunctive form of completar.
3. Formal second-person singular (usted) present subjunctive form of completar.
4. Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted^?) present subjunctive form of completar.