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Solo vs. Sole — What's the Difference?

Solo vs. Sole — What's the Difference?

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Solo

For or done by one person alone; unaccompanied
She'd spent most of her life flying solo
A solo album

Sole

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

Solo

For or done by one person alone; unaccompanied
A solo album
She'd spent most of her life flying solo

Sole

Put a new sole on to (a shoe)
He wanted several pairs of boots to be soled and heeled

Solo

A piece of vocal or instrumental music or a dance, or a part or passage in one, for one performer
The opening bassoon solo is relatively bland
Petipa often left the danseur to arrange his own brief solo
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Sole

One and only
My sole aim was to contribute to the national team

Solo

An unaccompanied flight by a pilot in an aircraft
His first ride in his aircraft would also be his first solo

Sole

(especially of a woman) unmarried.

Solo

A card game resembling whist in which the players make bids and the highest bidder plays against the others in an attempt to win a specified number of tricks.

Sole

The underside of the foot.

Solo

A motorbike without a sidecar
50 races—solos and sidecars—should make for a thrilling showdown

Sole

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

Solo

Perform an unaccompanied piece of music or a part or passage in one
You're in danger of forgetting that you're accompanying rather than soloing

Sole

The bottom surface of a plow.

Solo

Fly an aircraft unaccompanied
She had been flying for twelve years and had soloed on her seventeenth birthday

Sole

The bottom surface of the head of a golf club.

Solo

(Music) A composition or passage for an individual voice or instrument, with or without accompaniment.

Sole

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.

Solo

A performance by a single singer or instrumentalist.

Sole

Any of various other flatfishes, especially certain flounders.

Solo

(Games) Any of various card games in which one player singly opposes others.

Sole

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

Solo

(Music) Composed, arranged for, or performed by a single voice or instrument.

Sole

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

Solo

Made or done by a single individual.

Sole

Being the only one
The sole survivor of the crash.

Solo

Unaccompanied; alone
Flew solo from Anchorage to Miami.

Sole

Of or relating to only one individual or group; exclusive
She took sole command of the ship.

Solo

To perform a solo.

Sole

Only.

Solo

To fly an airplane without a companion or an instructor, especially for the first time.

Sole

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

Solo

To complete (a challenging endeavor) by oneself rather than with a partner or as part of a team
Soloed the north face of Mt. Everest.

Sole

Unique; unsurpassed.
The sole brilliance of this gem.

Solo

(music) A piece of music for one performer.

Sole

With independent power; unfettered.
A sole authority.

Solo

A job or performance done by one person alone.

Sole

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

Solo

(games) A card game similar to whist in which each player plays against the others in turn without a partner

Sole

(footwear) The bottom of a shoe or boot.

Solo

A single shot of espresso.

Sole

(obsolete) The foot itself.

Solo

(Gaelic football) An instance of soloing the football.

Sole

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

Solo

Without a companion or instructor.

Sole

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

Solo

(music) Of, or relating to, a musical solo.

Sole

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

Solo

Alone, without a companion.

Sole

The bottom of a furrow.

Solo

(music) To perform a solo.

Sole

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

Solo

To perform something in the absence of anyone else.

Sole

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

Solo

(Gaelic football) To drop the ball and then toe-kick it upward into the hands.

Sole

(military) The bottom of an embrasure.

Solo

A tune, air, strain, or a whole piece, played by a single person on an instrument, or sung by a single voice.

Sole

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

Solo

Performing, or performed, alone; uncombined, except with subordinate parts, voices, or instruments; not concerted.

Sole

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

Solo

Any activity that is performed alone without assistance

Sole

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

Solo

A musical composition for one voice or instrument (with or without accompaniment)

Sole

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

Solo

A flight in which the aircraft pilot is unaccompanied

Sole

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

Solo

Fly alone, without a co-pilot or passengers

Sole

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

Solo

Perform a piece written for a single instrument

Sole

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

Solo

Composed or performed by a single voice or instrument;
A passage for solo clarinet

Sole

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.

Solo

Without anybody else;
The child stayed home alone
He flew solo

Sole

The bottom of the foot; hence, also, rarely, the foot itself.
The dove found no rest for the sole of her foot.
Hast wandered through the world now long a day,Yet ceasest not thy weary soles to lead.

Sole

The bottom of a shoe or boot, or the piece of leather which constitutes the bottom.
The "caliga" was a military shoe, with a very thick sole, tied above the instep.

Sole

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

Sole

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

Sole

Being or acting without another; single; individual; only.
He, be sure . . . first and last will reignSole king.

Sole

Single; unmarried; as, a feme sole.

Sole

The underside of footwear or a golfclub

Sole

Lean flesh of any of several flatfish

Sole

The underside of the foot

Sole

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

Sole

Put a new sole on;
Sole the shoes

Sole

Not divided or shared with others;
They have exclusive use of the machine
Sole rights of publication

Sole

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

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