soles

Noun

sole (plural soles)

1. The bottom or plantar surface of the foot.

   Synonyms:

   planta

2. (footwear) The bottom of a shoe or boot.
   • The Caliga was a military Shoe, with a very thick Sole, tied above the instep with leather Thongs.1727, John Arbuthnot, Tables of Ancient Coins, Weights and Measures. Explain'd and exemplify'd in several dissertations, page 147
3. (obsolete) The foot itself.
   • Hast wandred through the world now long a day;Yet ceasest not thy wearie soles to lead1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book I, Canto X”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, stanza 9
4. Solea solea, a flatfish of the family Soleidae; a true sole.
   • The fishermen crowding in the cafés were also waiting for the end of the storm, when the fish, reassured, would rise to the surface after the bait. Soles, hog fish and skate were returning from their nocturnal expeditions. Day was now breaking.1952, Nikos Kazantzakis, chapter 1, in Carl Wildman, transl., Zorba the Greek, New York, N.Y.: Simon & Schuster, translation of Βίος και πολιτεία του Αλέξη Ζορμπά [Víos kai politeía tou Aléxi...
5. (broadly) A flatfish resembling those of the family Soleidae.
6. The bottom of the body of a plough; the slade.

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Noun (1)

sol (countable and uncountable, plural sols)

1. In a movable-do or tonic sol-fa system: the fifth step in a scale, preceded by fa and followed by la.
   • D ſol re, one Cliffe, two notes haue I, / Ela mi, ſhow pitty or I die.c. 1590–1592 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Taming of the Shrew”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward]...
2. In a fixed-do system: the musical note G.

Noun (2)

sol (plural sols)

1. (historical) An old coin from France and some other countries worth 12 deniers.
   • This fellow, For ſix ſols more, would pleade againſt his Maker.1605 (first performance), Beniamin Ionson [i.e., Ben Jonson], “Volpone, or The Foxe. A Comœdie. […]”, in The Workes of Beniamin Ionson (First Folio), London: […] Will[iam] Stansby, published 1616...

Noun (3)

sol (plural sols or soles)

1. (historical) A former Spanish-American silver coin.
   • The Tobacco of this colony is ſo excellent, that if the commerce thereof was free, it would ſell for one hundred ſols and ſix livres the pound, ſo fine and delicate is its juice and flavour.1763, [Antoine-Simon] Le Page du Pratz, “Of the Commerce that Is, and May Be, Carried Out in Louisiana. […]”, in [anonymous], transl., The History of Louisiana, or of the Western Parts of Virginia...
2. In full nuevo sol or new sol: the main currency unit of Peru which replaced the inti in 1991; also, a coin of this value.

Noun (4)

sol (plural sols)

1. A solar day on the planet Mars (equivalent to 24 hours, 39 minutes, 35 seconds).
   • I need to create calories. And I need enough to last the 1387 sols until Ares 4 arrives. If I don't get rescued by Ares 4, I'm dead anyway. A sol is 39 minutes longer than a day, so it works out to be 1425 days. That's my target: 1425 days of food.2011, Andy Weir, chapter 3, in The Martian, New York, N.Y.: Broadway Books, published 2014, →ISBN, page 18

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