limit vs sole

limit

adj
  • Being a fixed limit game. 

verb
  • To restrict; not to allow to go beyond a certain bound, to set boundaries. 

  • To have a limit in a particular set. 

noun
  • A restriction; a bound beyond which one may not go. 

  • The cone of a diagram through which any other cone of that same diagram can factor uniquely. 

  • A determining feature; a distinguishing characteristic. 

  • Fixed limit. 

  • The final, utmost, or furthest point; the border or edge. 

  • The first group of riders to depart in a handicap race. 

  • A person who is exasperating, intolerable, astounding, etc. 

  • A value to which a sequence converges. Equivalently, the common value of the upper limit and the lower limit of a sequence: if the upper and lower limits are different, then the sequence has no limit (i.e., does not converge). 

  • Any of several abstractions of this concept of limit. 

sole

adj
  • With independent power; unfettered. 

  • Unique; unsurpassed. 

  • Unmarried (especially of a woman); widowed. 

  • Only. 

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

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

noun
  • The bottom or plantar surface of the foot. 

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

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

  • The bottom of a furrow. 

  • The bottom of a shoe or boot. 

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

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

  • The floor inside the cabin of a yacht or boat 

  • Solea solea, a flatfish of the family Soleidae. 

  • The bottom of an embrasure. 

  • The seat or bottom of a mine; applied to horizontal veins or lodes. 

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

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