What's the difference between poker and sole?

Poker


Definition:

  • (n.) One who pokes.
  • (n.) That which pokes or is used in poking, especially a metal bar or rod used in stirring a fire of coals.
  • (n.) A poking-stick.
  • (n.) The poachard.
  • (n.) A game at cards derived from brag, and first played about 1835 in the Southwestern United States.
  • (n.) Any imagined frightful object, especially one supposed to haunt the darkness; a bugbear.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) "Our longer-term strategic objective is to become the market leader in online poker, casino, sports and bingo."
  • (2) I supported myself (paying rent and the MA health insurance mandate) by playing online and live poker, and collecting unemployment insurance benefits while sending out 15-20 resumes a week.
  • (3) It is too important to play the cards close-to-your-chest poker games that marked diplomacy of the 20th century."
  • (4) Or reflect on the supposed aces Britain is confidently looking forward to playing in the upcoming game of Brexit poker.
  • (5) "I'm not interested really in that sort of poker game, but, you know, the position hasn't changed.
  • (6) The woman who back in the day managed to win a flame war with Julie Burchill landed the odd decent punch below the belt (Poker Face, she said, perfectly describes Gaga's "frosty mug"), but Gaga remained undemolished as Paglia's critique missed the point by a mile.
  • (7) Political donations were in the spotlight again this week when Fairfax Media reported that the Menzies 200 club, a fundraising organisation for the defence minister, Kevin Andrews, received money from the gambling lobby while he was in charge of formulating the Coalition’s response to poker machines as social services spokesman before the 2013 federal election.
  • (8) There are three simple ways of sorting out the current self-interested poker game between the political parties and the media.
  • (9) "Only two of us are showbiz, only me and Ben Ward [another director], so that's one-third of the board [the writer and the International Federation of Poker president, Anthony Holden, is another patron, as, to declare an interest, is this correspondent].
  • (10) The first evening we find ourselves playing poker with a couple of Aussies, a girl from Leicestershire and a South African.
  • (11) Despite not looking like a typical activist – he is the son of a wealthy shopping magnate – Bendat has waged a lengthy campaign against ALH, a subsidiary of supermarket giant Woolworths, which operates nearly 300 venues across Australia, containing 12,000 poker machines – more than the top five Las Vegas casinos combined.
  • (12) You certainly wouldn't want to play poker against him."
  • (13) Asked if she has four fingers, like her namesake, a poker-faced colleague replied: "We don't know.
  • (14) He said when you give someone the job of manager, you are basically giving them the right to play poker on your behalf.
  • (15) Female solidarity, in which womanhood alone is the high ace in victimhood poker, is often seen as the most important thing.
  • (16) At a sponsor's event for 888 Poker, he was then asked if there was a clause in his contract that allows him to leave for Madrid or Barcelona .
  • (17) The Greek politician’s threat of default now raises the game of poker a notch further.
  • (18) In the weeks leading up to the meeting, even as Yellen has maintained her cautious poker face, a number of other Fed officials have voiced bullish opinions that a second hike might come sooner rather than later.
  • (19) If I could launch just one experiment, it may well be that I temporarily banish all straight men from the planet for six months (don't worry – I would send you to planet Jock where you could drive around on quad bikes or in Porsches, and in the evening there would be poker and beer), and see if this peaceful utopia occurred.
  • (20) The resort features more than 92,000 sq ft (8,500 sq metres) of gaming space including 1,900 slot machines, 64 table games, 14 poker tables and a race and sports book.

Sole


Definition:

  • (n.) Any one of several species of flatfishes of the genus Solea and allied genera of the family Soleidae, especially the common European species (Solea vulgaris), which is a valuable food fish.
  • (n.) Any one of several American flounders somewhat resembling the true sole in form or quality, as the California sole (Lepidopsetta bilineata), the long-finned sole (Glyptocephalus zachirus), and other species.
  • (n.) The bottom of the foot; hence, also, rarely, the foot itself.
  • (n.) The bottom of a shoe or boot, or the piece of leather which constitutes the bottom.
  • (n.) The bottom or lower part of anything, or that on which anything rests in standing.
  • (n.) The bottom of the body of a plow; -- called also slade; also, the bottom of a furrow.
  • (n.) The horny substance under a horse's foot, which protects the more tender parts.
  • (n.) The bottom of an embrasure.
  • (n.) A piece of timber attached to the lower part of the rudder, to make it even with the false keel.
  • (n.) The seat or bottom of a mine; -- applied to horizontal veins or lodes.
  • (v. t.) To furnish with a sole; as, to sole a shoe.
  • (a.) Being or acting without another; single; individual; only.
  • (a.) Single; unmarried; as, a feme sole.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Although solely nociresponsive neurons are clearly likely to fill a role in the processing and signalling of pain in the conscious central nervous system, the way in which such useful specificity could be conveyed by multireceptive neurons is difficult to appreciate.
  • (2) In 2012, 20% of small and medium-sized businesses were either run solely or mostly by women.
  • (3) Mieko Nagaoka took just under an hour and 16 minutes to finish the race as the sole competitor in the 100 to 104-year-old category at a short course pool in Ehime, western Japan , on Saturday.
  • (4) Solely infectious waste become removed hospital-intern and -extern on conditions of hygienic prevention, namely through secure packing during the transport, combustion or desinfection.
  • (5) This suggested that carcinogen-induced error incorporation during DNA synthesis was restricted solely to the treatment of a deoxynucleotide template.
  • (6) Tests in which the size of the landmark was altered from that used in training suggest that distance is not learned solely in terms of the apparent size of the landmark as seen from the goal.
  • (7) Today the physician who treats women with emotional problems during menopause cannot function solely as a psychotherapist; he must deal with both their soma and psyche.
  • (8) Several oilseed and legume protein products were fed to rats as the sole source of dietary protein, and in blends with cereals for the determination of protein efficiency ratio (PER) and biological availability of amino acids.
  • (9) In contrast, newly formed secondary myotubes are short cells which insert solely into the primary myotubes by a series of complex interdigitating folds along which adhering junctions occur.
  • (10) "It's a very open question as to whether this will come," said a diplomat in Brussels, adding that Cameron could find himself in the lonely position of being the sole national leader urging a renegotiation.
  • (11) Considering those portions of the molecule that can be deleted without a loss of catalytic activity, one is left with a catalytic center of approximately 130 nucleotides that is solely responsible for the molecule's activity.
  • (12) A brevibacterium, strain TH-4, previously isolated by aerobic enrichment on the monocyclic monoterpenoid cis-terpin hydrate as a sole carbon and energy source, was found to grow on alpha-terpineol and on a number of common sugars and organic acids.
  • (13) The results showed that patients with and without GOR disease cannot be separated solely on the basis of the standard manometric test, even adopting more parameters besides the traditional DOS pressure measurement.
  • (14) The favorable prognosis is due solely to the fact that women with an IUD have far less negative antecedents and that the EP probably occurred due to impaired ciliary action, reversible when the IUD is removed.
  • (15) Phosphate appears to be incorporated solely into serine residues.
  • (16) In the medium to long term, sole primary treatment by tamoxifen delays more definitive therapy.
  • (17) In the patients with aplastic anaemia the iron flux was diminished, but never eliminated, demonstrating that the exchangeable compartment was not solely erythroblastic, but included non-erythroid transferrin receptors.
  • (18) Suction mammaplasty can be used as a sole technique in congenital asymmetry or in post-reduction enlargement or asymmetry.
  • (19) The presence of grouped microcalcifications as the sole indicator of malignancy was seen in 100% (seven of seven) of the patients in the 30-39-year age group, 64% (18 of 28) in the 40-49-year age group, 37% (11 of 30) in the 50-59-year age group, 30% (seven of 23) in the 60-69-year age group, and 23% (six of 26) in the 70-85-year age group.
  • (20) If you and your mother are joint tenants, when she dies you will become the sole owner of the whole property even if her will says that she is leaving her share to someone else.