Sole vs. Turbot — What's the Difference?

A shipping forecast area in the north-eastern Atlantic, covering the western approaches to the English Channel.

The turbot (Scophthalmus maximus) is a relatively large species of flatfish in the family Scophthalmidae. It is a demersal fish native to marine or brackish waters of the Northeast Atlantic, Baltic Sea and the Mediterranean Sea.

Put a new sole on to (a shoe)

A flatfish, Psetta maxima syn. Scophthalmus maximus, of marine and brackish waters of Europe and North Africa, having a brown knobby upper side and prized as food.

One and only

Any of various flatfishes or other fishes that are similar to this fish.

(especially of a woman) unmarried.

A species of flatfish native to Europe (Scophthalmus maximus, earlier Psetta maxima).

The underside of the foot.

Any of various other flatfishes of family Scophthalmidae that are found in marine or brackish waters.

The underside of a shoe or boot, often excluding the heel.

Triggerfish, Canthidermis sufflamen.

The bottom surface of a plow.

A large European flounder (Rhombus maximus) highly esteemed as a food fish. It often weighs from thirty to forty pounds. Its color on the upper side is brownish with small roundish tubercles scattered over the surface. The lower, or blind, side is white. Called also bannock fluke.

The bottom surface of the head of a golf club.

Flesh of a large European flatfish

Any of various chiefly marine flatfishes of the family Soleidae, having both eyes on the right side of the body, and including food fishes such as the Dover sole of the Atlantic Ocean.

A large brownish European flatfish

Any of various other flatfishes, especially certain flounders.

To furnish (a shoe or boot) with a sole.

To put the sole of (a golf club) on the ground, as in preparing to make a stroke.

Being the only one

Of or relating to only one individual or group; exclusive

Only.

(legal) Unmarried (especially of a woman); widowed.

Unique; unsurpassed.

With independent power; unfettered.

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

(footwear) The bottom of a shoe or boot.

(obsolete) The foot itself.

(fish) Solea solea, a flatfish of the family Soleidae.

The bottom or lower part of anything, or that on which anything rests in standing.

The bottom of the body of a plough; the slade.

The bottom of a furrow.

The end section of the chanter of a set of bagpipes.

The horny substance under a horse's foot, which protects the more tender parts.

(military) The bottom of an embrasure.

(nautical) A piece of timber attached to the lower part of the rudder, to make it even with the false keel.

(nautical) The floor inside the cabin of a yacht or boat

(mining) The seat or bottom of a mine; applied to horizontal veins or lodes.

A wooden band or yoke put around the neck of an ox or cow in the stall.

A pond or pool; a dirty pond of standing water.

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

To pull by the ears; to pull about; haul; lug.

Any one of several species of flatfishes of the genus Solea and allied genera of the family Soleidæ, especially the common European species (Solea vulgaris), which is a valuable food fish.

The bottom of the foot; hence, also, rarely, the foot itself.

The bottom of a shoe or boot, or the piece of leather which constitutes the bottom.

The bottom or lower part of anything, or that on which anything rests in standing.

To furnish with a sole; as, to sole a shoe.

Being or acting without another; single; individual; only.

Single; unmarried; as, a feme sole.

The underside of footwear or a golfclub

Lean flesh of any of several flatfish

The underside of the foot

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

Put a new sole on;

Not divided or shared with others;

Being the only one; single and isolated from others;