What's the difference between shoes and shoeshine?

Shoes


Definition:

  • (pl. ) of Shoe

Example Sentences:

  • (1) In platform shoes to emulate Johnson's height, and with the aid of prosthetic earlobes, Cranston becomes the 36th president: he bullies and cajoles, flatters and snarls and barks, tells dirty jokes or glows with idealism as required, and delivers the famous "Johnson treatment" to everyone from Martin Luther King to the racist Alabama governor George Wallace.
  • (2) 39.5 per cent of children have had suitable foot for weight-bearing, with normal shoes, and 23, 25 per cent have had prosthesis for discrepancy.
  • (3) You could easily replicate the biggest threat he faces in the film by slipping off your shoes and taking a broom handle to a greenhouse.
  • (4) Less than 50% gained complete relief, however, and 58% experienced persistent discomfort in certain types of shoes.
  • (5) But this is how we live even before we are forced, through penury to claim: fine dining on stewed leftovers, nursing our one drink on those rare social events, cutting our own hair, patchwork-darned clothes and leaky shoes.
  • (6) And I have come to tell you this: the trends for this coming season will be extremely expensive furs, very high-heeled shoes and full-length ballgowns.
  • (7) A 5-year-old boy had accessory calcaneus (os trochleare) with pain, shoe pressure, and a varus position of the foot not reported previously.
  • (8) Across a dusty lot sits a heap of scrap metal, patrolled by a couple of emaciated dogs, while a toddler squats in the street, examining the sole of a discarded shoe.
  • (9) These include disease activity, presence or absence of symptoms, degree of deformity and resultant potential for complications, shoe intolerance, and level of activity.
  • (10) Founded in Belgium in 1953 it expanded into the UK by buying 47 Shoe City shops in 1998.
  • (11) It is concluded that the coefficient of limiting friction obtained during full-sole contact with the floor is a suitable means of distinguishing between tractional qualities of shoes.
  • (12) 50 runners with exertion induced injuries of the lower extremity were provided with appropriate running shoe insoles.
  • (13) In follow-up examination of 71 cases for periods longer than one year, 79 per cent of the patients showed that the UCBL shoe insert and the Helfet heel seat improved the clinical and roentgenographic appearance of the foot.
  • (14) Conservative treatment consists of exercises and shoe appliances.
  • (15) You will leave your house without your watch or wristband, but you will never leave your house without your shoes.” Blending in with existing apparel The challenge faced by Google Glass and other wearable technologies is that they rely on the user being prepared to wear an extra item of apparel.
  • (16) The Guardian witnessed one desperate vignette in Gevgeliya on Saturday: a Syrian woman in her 40s asking a fellow traveller for money to buy shoes as hers were in tatters.
  • (17) Having a British shoe designer to work with "felt like a really nice connection because we are opening in London," said Tom Mora, head of women's design, as a scrum of guests jostled for a better Instagram shot of the models behind him.
  • (18) There has been a marked decline in the purchase of formal shoes over the past decade.
  • (19) The only people we saw was a small party on snow shoes.
  • (20) I'm glad I didn't say I'd eat my shoe if one of Carragher and Terry didn't give away a penalty.

Shoeshine


Definition:

Example Sentences:

  • (1) They’re from the Munecas region and they’ve come to La Paz to work as shoeshiners.
  • (2) KS Shoeshiners are one of the most stigmatised groups in society in La Paz.
  • (3) In return, the shoeshiners take part in weekly workshops on subjects ranging from human rights and education to first aid.
  • (4) As one of very few young girls working as a shoeshiner, she disguised herself as a boy.
  • (5) KS It was this stigma around shoeshiners that prompted Jaime Villalobos to start Hormigón Armado.
  • (6) JV And what became very important and very clear for me was that support that society gives these kids and that is very representative in the masks that the shoeshiners wear.
  • (7) All have realised the importance of school and are keen to attend, so why is there such a negative profiling of shoeshiners?
  • (8) She’s taking me to meet some of the children who work as shoeshiners in the city centre.
  • (9) Recent events in Shanghai’s stock markets have been all too reminiscent of the tales that have entered American folk memory from the days of the Wall Street crash in 1929: of stock-tipping shoeshine boys, exhausted traders, and ticker-tape machines spooling late into the night.
  • (10) Wearing balaclavas and carrying wooden boxes filled with polish and brushes, shoeshiners are reviled by many as drug addicts and criminals, but their story is more often one of poverty, child labour, violence and homelessness.
  • (11) Every two months, 5,000 newspapers funded by advertising are printed and given free to shoeshiners, who sell them to the public for four Bolivianos (about 35p).
  • (12) Walking the cobbled streets of Bolivia 's capital with scuffed or dirty shoes attracts a lot of attention from the hundreds of shoeshiners who work along the city's streets and plazas.
  • (13) KS In fact all the shoeshiners I spoke to attend school almost on a daily basis.
  • (14) But alcoholism isn’t only a problem with shoeshiners, across all types of jobs that problem exists.
  • (15) Mohammed and Mohammed, 12 and 16, are working as shoeshine boys.
  • (16) shoeshiner Juan José Poma, 33, says in an interview published in a recent issue.
  • (17) As a child she worked doing various jobs and eventually she became a shoeshiner in La Paz.
  • (18) Eighty-four-year-old Blatt, one of two plaintiffs who survived the camp, managed to stay alive by working as a shoeshine boy to the camp commandant before escaping in October 1943.
  • (19) Bolivia's informal economy includes everyone from bricklayers to farmers to shoeshiners, who work without contracts and set schedules.
  • (20) It is also a story you can read in the newspaper sold by a small group of shoeshiners to supplement their income.

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