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Quick take

the underside of footwear or a golf club

Meaning at a glance

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noun

the underside of footwear or a golf club

noun

lean flesh of any of several flatfish

noun

the underside of the foot

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for sole.

noun

the underside of footwear or a golf club

noun

lean flesh of any of several flatfish

noun

the underside of the foot

noun

right-eyed flatfish; many are valued as food; most common in warm seas especially European

verb

put a new sole on; "sole the shoes"

adjective

not divided or shared with others; "they have exclusive use of the machine"; "sole rights of publication"

adjective

being the only one; single and isolated from others; "the lone doctor in the entire county"; "a lonesome pine"; "an only child"; "the sole heir"; "the sole example"; "a solitary instance of cowardice"; "a solitary speck in the sky"

Example sentences

This piece of advice is the sole reason why the back button is confusing to users.

Laughing at noobs and being mean to them is pretty much the sole purpose of IRC, unless I'm mistaken.

A machine who's intentions are totally pure - it's sole purpose is simply to learn.

As popular as Hackety Hack is/was, I have pretty much been the sole maintainer for the past few years.

"Undeniably, Chomsky's was not the sole CIA file destroyed.

I do not, however, share the belief that is the sole, or even primary, determinant of code quality.

Evernote is now the single sole tool keeping me from dumping my Mac and moving to linux... Yup, note-taking is that important to me.

I guess I'll be the lone discenting voice and say I don't think it's that bad. Bob Parsons has always run his company the way he wants, and he has particular freedom to do so since he has zero investors and is the sole owner.

If the executive branch is keeping records on all of this stuff, is it also claiming unique and sole access to it?Because if they are, anybody with a brain can see the problem.

In any deal that really matters, it is usually a mistake to proceed without lawyers and it is an equally big mistake to give the lawyers sole discretion in how to do the project.

So, for instance, an investor would loan $50K at 10% interest at a time when the company had little value but could elect to convert at, say, $.50/sh at any time in the sole discretion of the investor.

The init system runs as PID 1 and strictly speaking, the sole responsibility is to daemonize, reap its children, set the session and process group IDs, and optionally exec the process manager.

With the sole developer, there less communication overhead, less management overhead, and the ratio of productive time to time learning the system and understanding the interlocking parts is higher.

Civil cases?Are we going to have a system of law and order where certain evidence is presented or not solely depending on the decisions of the executive branch?What this shows is that this NSA data thing just isn't bad, it's bad on multiple levels.

While I respect your opinions in support of Parsons, I'm going to have to disagree with you on a lot of your arguments.>Bob Parsons has always run his company the way he wants, and he has particular freedom to do so since he has zero investors and is the sole ownerParsons does have the freedom to do what he likes but there are consequences to those actions.