Definitions for shoe

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IPA: /ʃu/

Shoe is a 4 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 7 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 6 points.

You can make 24 anagrams from letters in shoe (ehos).

Definitions for shoe

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 member supporting one end of a truss or girder in a bridge. 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 cuplike metal piece for protecting the bottom of a leg. 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.

Idioms

1. drop the other shoe, to complete an action or enterprise already begun.
2. fill someone's shoes, to take the place and assume the obligations of another person:
3. in someone's shoes, in a position or situation similar to that of another:
4. the shoe is on the other foot, the circumstances are reversed; a change of places has occurred:
5. where the shoe pinches, the true cause of the trouble or worry.

verb (used with object)

1. to provide or fit with a shoe or shoes.
2. to protect or arm at the point, edge, or face with a ferrule, metal plate, or the like.

Origin of shoe

before 900; (noun) Middle English scho(o), Old English sceō(h), cognate with German Schuh, Old Norse skōr, Gothic skōhs; (v.) Middle English schon, Old English scōg(e)an, cognate with Middle

Examples for shoe

Chip emptied his lungs of smoke, and turned the shoe in his hands.

If we begin to see the other as our possession and commodity, our shoe, the shadow of our shadow, is there ever a happy outcome?

They seem to belong to us, and then they freely go—behavior very uncharacteristic of a shadow or a shoe.

If I say “my shoe,” do I mean it in the same way as “my life,” or “my sister” or “my husband”?

Where it had pleased his pride to think that he had given her up, he found that the shoe was on the other foot.

If poor Troubadour had not cast a shoe, we should not have had this trouble.

Peter set his jaws and continued his meditations on shoe leather.

The everyday stress, wondering if the other shoe was going to drop and I was going to be outed, is what led to me outing myself.

"I see," said Peter, deeply interested in the toe of his shoe.

In the shoe store, they help the white man who walks in after me.