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shoe

  [shoo] noun, plural shoes, (especially British Dialect) shoon; verb, shod or shoed, shod or shoed or shod⋅den, shoe⋅ing.
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–noun
1. an external covering for the human foot, usually of leather and consisting of a more or less stiff or heavy sole and a lighter upper part ending a short distance above, at, or below the ankle.
2. an object or part resembling a shoe in form, position, or use.
3. a horseshoe or a similar plate for the hoof of some other animal.
4. a ferrule or the like, as of iron, for protecting the end of a staff, pole, etc.
5. brake shoe.
6. the outer casing of a pneumatic automobile tire.
7. a drag or skid for a wheel of a vehicle.
8. a part having a larger area than the end of an object on which it fits, serving to disperse or apply its weight or thrust.
9. the sliding contact by which an electric car or locomotive takes its current from the third rail.
10. Civil Engineering.
a. a member supporting one end of a truss or girder in a bridge.
b. a hard and sharp foot of a pile or caisson for piercing underlying soil.
11. a small molding, as a quarter round, closing the angle between a baseboard and a floor.
12. the outwardly curved portion at the base of a downspout.
13. a piece of iron or stone, sunk into the ground, against which the leaves of a gateway are shut.
14. a device on a camera that permits an accessory, as a flashgun, to be attached.
15. a band of iron on the bottom of the runner of a sleigh.
16. Cards. dealing box.
17. Furniture.
a. a cuplike metal piece for protecting the bottom of a leg.
b. a fillet beneath an ornamental foot, as a pad or scroll foot.
18. Printing. a box into which unusable type is thrown.
19. a chute conveying grain to be ground into flour.
20. Carpentry. soleplate.
21. Nautical. a thickness of planking covering the bottom of the keel of a wooden vessel to protect it against rubbing.
–verb (used with object)
22. to provide or fit with a shoe or shoes.
23. to protect or arm at the point, edge, or face with a ferrule, metal plate, or the like.
—Idioms
24. drop the other shoe, to complete an action or enterprise already begun.
25. fill someone's shoes, to take the place and assume the obligations of another person: She felt that no stepmother could ever hope to fill her late mother's shoes.
26. in someone's shoes, in a position or situation similar to that of another: I wouldn't like to be in his shoes.
27. the shoe is on the other foot, the circumstances are reversed; a change of places has occurred: Now that we are rich and they are poor the shoe is on the other foot.
28. where the shoe pinches, the true cause of the trouble or worry.
Origin:
bef. 900; (n.) ME scho(o), OE sceō(h), c. G Schuh, ON skōr, Goth skōhs; (v.) ME schon, OE scōg(e)an, c. MLG schoi(g)en, ON skūa

Related forms:
shoeless, adjective
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brake shoe

 
–noun
1. a rigid plate, usually of steel in the shape of an arc of a cylinder, coated on the outside of its curved surface with a friction-producing material and tightened against the inside of a brake drum to produce a braking action.
2. (on a bicycle) one of two metal blocks holding rubber pads that, when the hand brake is activated, press against the rotating wheel to produce a braking action. Compare caliper (def. 6).
Also called shoe.

Origin:
1870–75, Americanism

dealing box

 
–noun
a box that holds a deck or decks of cards, allowing them to be dealt only one at a time, often used in casino games such as blackjack or chemin de fer.
Also called shoe.

Origin:
1925–30

sole⋅plate

  [sohl-pleyt]
–noun Carpentry.
a plate upon which studding is erected.
Also called shoe, sole, sole⋅piece  [sohl-pees] .

Origin:
1835–45; sole 2 + plate 1
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shoe   (shōō)   
n.  

  1. A durable covering for the human foot, made of leather or similar material with a rigid sole and heel, usually extending no higher than the ankle.

  2. A horseshoe.

  3. A part or device that is located at the base of something or that functions as a protective covering, as:

    1. A strip of metal fitted onto the bottom of a sled runner.

    2. The base for the supports of the superstructure of a bridge.

    3. The ferrule on the end of a cane.

    4. The casing of a pneumatic tire.

    5. Position; status: You would understand my decision if you put yourself in my shoes.

    6. Plight: I wouldn't want to be in her shoes.

  4. A device that retards or stops the motion of an object, as the part of a brake that presses against the wheel or drum.

  5. The sliding contact plate on an electric train or streetcar that conducts electricity from the third rail.

  6. A chute, as for conveying grain from a hopper.

  7. Games A case from which playing cards are dealt one at a time.

  8. shoes Informal

    1. Position; status: You would understand my decision if you put yourself in my shoes.

    2. Plight: I wouldn't want to be in her shoes.

tr.v.   shod (shŏd), shod or shod·den (shŏd'n), shoe·ing, shoes

  1. To furnish or fit with a shoe or shoes.

  2. To cover with a wooden or metal guard to protect against wear.


[Middle English, from Old English scōh.]
The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
Copyright © 2009 by Houghton Mifflin Company.
Published by Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved.
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Medical Dictionary

Main Entry: sole·plate
Pronunciation: 'sOl-"plAt
Function: noun
: a flattened nucleated mass of soft granular protoplasm surrounding the end of amotor nerve in a striated muscle fiber
Merriam-Webster's Medical Dictionary, © 2002 Merriam-Webster, Inc.
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Bible Dictionary

Shoe

Of various forms, from the mere sandal (q.v.) to the complete covering of the foot. The word so rendered (A.V.) in Deut. 33:25, _min'al_, "a bar," is derived from a root meaning "to bolt" or "shut fast," and hence a fastness or fortress. The verse has accordingly been rendered "iron and brass shall be thy fortress," or, as in the Revised Version, "thy bars [marg., "shoes"] shall be iron and brass."

Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary
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Idioms & Phrases

shoe

In addition to the idiom beginning with shoe, also see comfortable as an old shoe; fill someone's shoes; goody-two-shoes; if the shoe fits; in someone's shoes; step into someone's shoes; wait for the other shoe to drop.

The American Heritage® Dictionary of Idioms by Christine Ammer.
Copyright © 1997. Published by Houghton Mifflin.
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