What's the difference between insole and sock?

Insole


Definition:

  • (n.) The inside sole of a boot or shoe; also, a loose, thin strip of leather, felt, etc., placed inside the shoe for warmth or ease.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) 50 runners with exertion induced injuries of the lower extremity were provided with appropriate running shoe insoles.
  • (2) And a woman in front of me said: “They are calling for Fox.” I didn’t know which booth to go to, then suddenly there was a man in front of me, heaving with weaponry, standing with his legs apart yelling: “No, not there, here!” I apologised politely and said I’d been buried in my book and he said: “What do you expect me to do, stand here while you finish it?” – very loudly and with shocking insolence.
  • (3) Subjects used these insoles during dance class for 15 weeks.
  • (4) Based on clinical and biomechanical peculiarities of foot, in the institute have been developed insertable orthopaedic devices for mass-produced footwear for mentioned pathology: corrective device with unloading element and curative insole.
  • (5) Young people now may hardly know her, and it is hard today to conjure up the sexiness, the daring, the insolence of some women on screen in the 50s when the Production Code still prevailed.
  • (6) The author discusses the use of accommodative weight-dispersing insoles as an alternative to surgical excision for the treatment of such lesions.
  • (7) Controlled rigidity is provided by the incorporation of a spring steel shank between the sponge insole and the hard wearing plastic sole.
  • (8) I was told it was a contractual requirement, despite there being no mention of either the strike system or the obligation to sell insoles within the contract itself.
  • (9) Therefore running shoe insoles can eliminate peak forces by exactly placing supporting elements.
  • (10) Treat with orthotic insoles or look at upping your shoe size.
  • (11) This paper describes a study of the effectiveness of commercially available shock absorbing insoles when used in four different pairs of shoes during normal walking.
  • (12) Insoles will be available to turn any existing shoes into smartshoes.
  • (13) A new method was developed for the quality testing of shoes, insoles and sport shoes.
  • (14) The purposes of this study were: 1) to compare the impact forces in running using running shoes with conventional insoles to the impact forces using running shoes with four different viscoelastic insoles, 2) to discuss possible effects of the viscoelastic insoles on lower leg kinematics, and 3) to explain the force and kinematic results using a mechanical model.
  • (15) A full account is given of (a) Wilhelm Werneck's therapeutic coagulations (1835): rupturing of cataract by focussed light (sun, phosphorus); (b) Maximilian Adolf Langenbeck's "insolation" of corneal, pupillary and retinal lesions and of traumatic cataract (1859); (c) Vinzenz Czerny's coagulation experiments on the retina of various animals (1867, 1882).
  • (16) Vertical foot bearing pressure was decreased by an average of 18% by wearing shoes padded with a Professional Protective Technology insole and the decrease was greater in patients with higher foot pressure.
  • (17) About a third of dancers fitted with viscoelastic insoles and a tenth of placebo insert wearers found that the insoles made their shoes too tight to be comfortable.
  • (18) Without physical exercise and direct insolation death usually occurred later (on the average of 5-9 days) from acute renal and renal-hepatic failure.
  • (19) The mechanism of the static effects of the wedged insole for the medial osteoarthritic knee was studied in ten women.
  • (20) The most important finding was that an elastic polymer insole with good shock absorbency properties did not prevent stress reactions of bone during a 12-week period of vigorous physical training.

Sock


Definition:

  • (n.) A plowshare.
  • (n.) The shoe worn by actors of comedy in ancient Greece and Rome, -- used as a symbol of comedy, or of the comic drama, as distinguished from tragedy, which is symbolized by the buskin.
  • (n.) A knit or woven covering for the foot and lower leg; a stocking with a short leg.
  • (n.) A warm inner sole for a shoe.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) She's found what is her true vocation and she's working her socks off."
  • (2) City wear their customary home colours of light blue shirts, white shorts and white socks.
  • (3) Later, Dizzee Rascal drew big crowds in Tower Hamlets as he ran through the streets where he grew up, throwing his trainers into the throng and running in his socks.
  • (4) But people who don't, they'll pick that sock up from off the floor.
  • (5) He hasn't nicked stuff from you, been sick in your sock drawer, sworn at your mother or made a pass at your girlfriend.
  • (6) I wanted to do a real knock-your-socks-off interview for the FA, so I put together a PowerPoint which looked at every single detail,” he wrote in his autobiography.
  • (7) A database of fast MP and BP was compiled from intraoperative recordings collected from epicardial sock arrays in man.
  • (8) [Parkinson's] makes me squirm and it makes my pants ride up so my socks are showing and my shoes fall off and I can't get the food up to my mouth when I want to."
  • (9) Cheerful and eager to be helpful, he arrives to collect me the following morning, dressed in sagging brown corduroy jacket, faded blue T-shirt, blue silk cravat and socks beneath his Velcro-strapped sandals.
  • (10) The city of free love has passed laws banning public nudity, which men get around with a carefully hung sock.
  • (11) I followed him to a room on a ßoor which I didn't know existed and he told me to take off my shoes and enter alone in my socks.
  • (12) Doctors are warning that if Congress cuts food stamps, the federal government could be socked with bigger health bills.
  • (13) Her feet, swollen by bad circulation, were clad only in socks as she heard the ruling delivered at the House of Lords.
  • (14) Our brothers, with their cool logic (despite their penchant for mismatched socks), and our ruthlessly honest best mates.
  • (15) After a hard-fought victory one freezing night last November the jubilant forward sprinted off the pitch and hurled his shirt, shorts, socks and boots into the crowd, Sun, the chairman, recalled.
  • (16) In no case did an accessory pathway fail to conduct following sock placement.
  • (17) They are wearing all blue, while the Socceroos are in their gold shirts, white socks and, thank goodness, green shorts.
  • (18) I put on a pair of jogging bottoms, an old fleece hoodie and some flip-flops over my socks.
  • (19) This material support involved allowing an acquaintance to stay in his apartment for two weeks – an acquaintance who later delivered raincoats and waterproof socks to al-Qaida.
  • (20) • 370-372 Morningside Road, 0131-447 3042, loopylornas.com Slow down with a bit of knitting K1 Yarns, Edinburgh Fabulous knitting shop K1 Yarns is running workshops every Thursday, Saturday and Sunday in August, including Fair Isle knitting classes, beginners courses on knitting and crochet and a very handy class on how to knit socks (prices start from £15).

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