The difference between Single and Sole
When used as nouns, single means (music) a 45 rpm vinyl record with one song on side a and one on side b, whereas sole means a wooden band or yoke put around the neck of an ox or cow in the stall.
When used as verbs, single means to identify or select one member of a group from the others, whereas sole means to pull by the ears.
When used as adjectives, single means not accompanied by anything else, whereas sole means only.
check bellow for the other definitions of Single and Sole
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Single as an adjective:
Not accompanied by anything else; one in number.
Examples:
"Can you give me a single reason not to leave right now?"
"The vase contained a single long-stemmed rose."
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Single as an adjective:
Not divided in parts.
Examples:
"The potatoes left the spoon and landed in a single big lump on the plate."
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Single as an adjective:
Designed for the use of only one.
Examples:
"a single room"
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Single as an adjective:
Performed by one person, or one on each side.
Examples:
"a single combat"
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Single as an adjective:
Not married or (in modern times) not involved in a romantic relationship without being married or not dating anyone exclusively.
Examples:
"Forms often ask if a person is single, married, divorced, or widowed. In this context, a person who is dating someone but who has never married puts "single"."
"Josh put down that he was a single male on the dating website."
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Single as an adjective (botany):
Having only one rank or row of petals.
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Single as an adjective (obsolete):
Simple and honest; sincere, without deceit.
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Single as an adjective:
Uncompounded; pure; unmixed.
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Single as an adjective (obsolete):
Simple; foolish; weak; silly.
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Single as a noun:
(music) A 45 RPM vinyl record with one song on side A and one on side B.
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Single as a noun:
(music) A popular song released and sold (on any format) nominally on its own though usually having at least one extra track.
Examples:
"The Offspring released four singles from their most recent album."
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Single as a noun:
One who is not married.
Examples:
"He went to the party, hoping to meet some friendly singles there."
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Single as a noun (cricket):
A score of one run.
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Single as a noun (baseball):
A hit in baseball where the batter advances to first base.
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Single as a noun (dominoes):
A tile that has a different value (i.e. number of pips) at each end.
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Single as a noun:
A bill valued at $1.
Examples:
"I don't have any singles, so you'll have to make change."
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Single as a noun (UK):
A one-way ticket.
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Single as a noun (Canadian football):
A score of one point, awarded when a kicked ball is dead within the non-kicking team's end zone or has exited that end zone. Officially known in the rules as a rouge.
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Single as a noun (tennis, chiefly, in the plural):
A game with one player on each side, as in tennis.
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Single as a noun:
One of the reeled filaments of silk, twisted without doubling to give them firmness.
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Single as a noun (UK, Scotland, dialect):
A handful of gleaned grain.
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Single as a verb:
To identify or select one member of a group from the others; generally used with out, either to single out or to single (something) out.
Examples:
"Eddie singled out his favorite marble from the bag."
"Yvonne always wondered why Ernest had singled her out of the group of giggling girls she hung around with."
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Single as a verb (baseball):
To get a hit that advances the batter exactly one base.
Examples:
"Pedro singled in the bottom of the eighth inning, which, if converted to a run, would put the team back into contention."
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Single as a verb (agriculture):
To thin out.
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Single as a verb (of a horse):
To take the irregular gait called singlefoot.
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Single as a verb:
To sequester; to withdraw; to retire.
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Single as a verb:
To take alone, or one by one.
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Sole as a noun (dialectal, or, obsolete):
A wooden band or yoke put around the neck of an ox or cow in the stall.
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Sole as a noun (dialectal, Northern England):
A pond or pool; a dirty pond of standing water.
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Sole as a verb (transitive, UK, _, dialectal):
To pull by the ears; to pull about; haul; lug.
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Sole as an adjective:
only
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Sole as an adjective (legal):
unmarried (especially of a woman); widowed.
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Sole as a noun (anatomy):
The bottom or plantar surface of the foot.
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Sole as a noun (footwear):
The bottom of a shoe or boot.
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Sole as a noun (obsolete):
The foot itself.
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Sole as a noun:
Solea solea, a flatfish of the family Soleidae.
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Sole as a noun (military):
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. The bottom of an embrasure. A piece of timber attached to the lower part of the rudder, to make it even with the false keel.
Examples:
"rfquotek Totten"
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Sole as a noun (mining):
The seat or bottom of a mine; applied to horizontal veins or lodes.
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Sole as a verb (transitive):
to put a sole on (a shoe or boot)