shoe

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.
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.

1. To furnish or fit with a shoe or shoes.
2. To cover with a wooden or metal guard to protect against wear.

the shoe is on the other foot Informal.

1. The circumstances have been reversed; an unequal relationship has been inverted.

1. To defer action or decision until another matter is finished or resolved.

[Middle English, from Old English scōh.]

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Idioms beginning with shoe:
shoestring
shoe is on the other foot, the

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.

1. A piece of timber, stone, or metal, shaped to receive the lower end of any member; also called a soleplate.
2. A metal base plate for an arch or truss which resists lateral thrust.
3. A base shoe molding.
4. A subrail.
5. A metal protective device for the point or foot of a pile, 1.

The shoes worn by dancers have played a crucial role on the development of style and technique. During the 18th century light, heeled shoes showed off the dancers' feet and ankles and focused attention on the brilliant footwork of the period, particularly enhancing stamping steps. They did not, though, have the suppleness necessary for the preparations and landings of very high jumps, nor did they allow the dancers to skim the floor at speed or dance on pointe. By the early 19th century women dancers began to wear the new thin, heelless, satin ballet slipper, tied with ribbons around the ankle and stiffened at the toe by rows of darning. These allowed ballerinas to stand, very briefly, on their toes, which were protected by cotton wadding. This new feat ushered in a new dance vocabulary of hovering balances and quick, light bourrées, as well as a new image of the ballerina as gravity-defying sylph. Low-heeled slippers were also worn by women, and both sexes wore a wide variety of other footwear as determined by the nature of their role; for example, boots, sometimes with spurs, were worn by both sexes in Polish roles, low-heeled shoes with bows were worn by male courtiers, and sandals were sometimes worn by gypsy characters. The boxed-toe shoe (stiffened through layers of shellac and wadding around the toe area and with a strong, springy inner shank to support the arch) began to be developed in the latter half of the 19th century and paved the way for another quantum leap in female technique. It made possible a range of bravura effects which we now regard as standard, including multiple pirouettes and hopping on pointe. It also changed the nature of the pas de deux, since ballerinas could now sustain extended balances during which their partners could angle them through the numerous flattering positions.

When Isadora Duncan and Martha Graham chose to perform barefoot at the end of the 19th century and beginning of the 20th, this not only changed the appearance of dance but was also a powerful statement of their artistic philosophies. Now that they no longer had a thin-soled ballet slipper to create a slippery divide between them and the floor, or pointe shoes on which to perch, Duncan and Graham presented themselves as women of the earth, acknowledging gravity rather than floating away from it. The naked traction of their feet against the floor gave their dancing a more vigorous, sensuous, and emphatic rhythm and provided the leverage necessary for some of Graham's most vertiginous backward falls.

Some later choreographers returned to shoes, but these fulfilled very different functions from the classical ballet slipper. Trainers were favoured by the 1960s' avant-garde who were creating minimalist, anti-virtuoso dance. These shoes were designed by sports manufacturers for speed, comfort, and cushioning, and on the feet of dancers they not only carried no suggestion of art or glamour but also implied that dance was a kind of task to be performed in the most practical and sensible way. By the 1980s a new generation of choreographers had lighted on another item of street fashion, the Doc Marten. These blunt, heavy, rubber-soled shoes were closely linked with the crashing momentum, violence, and risk taking that characterized that decade's New Dance.

Tap shoes have thin metal plates, usually made of aluminium, screwed onto the sole and heel, allowing dancers to create percussive effects as they move.

The application of metal shoes; a universal practice in horses. Hot shoeing with shoes made by the local blacksmith has been superseded by machine made shoes fitted cold—cold shoeing. In draft cattle small shoes are applied to each claw. See also horseshoeing.

To dream of shoes may mirror an old cliché, "if the shoe fits, wear it," and may indicate that the dreamer is coming to grips with accepting who and what they are in their expression in the world.

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A shoe is a piece of outerwear worn on one's foot.

Shoe may also refer to:

• Brake shoe, the restraint provided to the linings the brake moving against the brake drum
• Climbing shoe, a shoe meant to be durable and protective
• Horseshoe, nailed to underside of horse's hoof and serves a similar function as footwear for horses
• Shoe (cards), a gaming device mainly used in casinos to hold multiple decks of playing cards
• Shoes (video) a short video made by Liam Kyle Sullivan, popular on YouTube
• Shoes (album), an album released by Liam Kyle Sullivan.
• Shoe (comic strip), a comic strip created by Jeff MacNelly about a newspaper run by anthropomorphic birds.
• "Shoe" (Robot Chicken episode)
• Shoes (Shania Twain song), a 2005 single by Shania Twain and the lead single from the Desperate Housewives soundtrack
• Shoes (GUI toolkit), a simplified experimental GUI toolkit based on the Ruby Programming Language, developed by Why the lucky stiff and others
• Shoes (Reparata song), a 1975 single by Reparata
• Shoes (band), a power pop band from Zion, Illinois, active in the 1970s and 1980s.
• Dan Hsu, former editor-in-chief of the video game magazine Electronic Gaming Monthly, nicknamed "Shoe"
• The part in a drum brake that when actuated, rubs on the drum producing friction.
• A device used on trains to pick up electricity from a third rail.

SHOE is an acronym for:

• Simple HTML Ontology Extensions, a small set of HTML extensions in the semantic net
• The Simple Harmonic Oscillator Equation, the basic equation with which repetitive motion can be described

See also

• SHU
• The Shoe (disambiguation)

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Dansk (Danish)
n. - sko, lav støvle, hestesko, bremsesko, slæbesko, bøjning nederst på tagnedløb
v. tr. - sko, besko, beslå

idioms:

• be in someone's shoes    være i en andens sko
• fill someone's shoes    udfylde en andens plads
• shoe tree    læst
• the shoe is on the other foot    piben har fået en anden lyd

Nederlands (Dutch)
schoen, hoefijzer, schoenvormig object, beslag

Français (French)
n. - chaussure, fer, sabot
v. tr. - chausser, ferrer

idioms:

• be in someone's shoes    être à la place de qn
• fill someone's shoes    prendre la place de qn
• shoe tree    embauchoir
• the shoe is on the other foot    se tromper de pied

Deutsch (German)
n. - Schuh, Hufeisen
v. - beschlagen, beschuhen

idioms:

• be in someone's shoes    in jmds. Haut stecken
• fill someone's shoes    jmds. Platz einnehmen
• shoe tree    Schuhspanner
• the shoe is on the other foot    es ist genau umgekehrt

Ελληνική (Greek)
n. - παπούτσι, υπόδημα, πέταλο (αλόγου), (μηχαν.) σιαγόνα φρένου, πέδιλο, έδρανο
v. - εφοδιάζω με παπούτσια (κν. παπουτσώνω), πεταλώνω

idioms:

• be in someone's shoes    είμαι/έρχομαι στη θέση κάποιου
• fill someone's shoes    αναπληρώνω
• shoe tree    καλαπόδι
• the shoe is on the other foot    συμβαίνει (ακριβώς) το αντίθετο!

Italiano (Italian)
scarpa, ferro di cavallo

idioms:

• be in someone's shoes    essere nei panni di
• fill someone's shoes    rimpiazzare
• shoe tree    portascarpe

Português (Portuguese)
n. - sapato (m)

idioms:

• be in someone's shoes    estar nos calcanhares de alguém
• fill someone's shoes    substituir bem alguém no seu trabalho
• shoe tree    forma de sapato

Русский (Russian)
башмак, туфля, подкова, железный полоз, трак, обувать, упаковывать, подбивать

idioms:

• be in someone's shoes    быть в таком же положении, как кто-л., быть в чьей-л. шкуре
• fill someone's shoes    заменить кого-л., занять чье-л. место
• shoe tree    колодка

Español (Spanish)
n. - zapato, herradura
v. tr. - calzar, herrar (a un animal), enllantar (una rueda), poner azuche o regatón a

idioms:

• be in someone's shoes    estar en el pellejo o en el lugar de otro
• fill someone's shoes    ocupar el puesto de otro
• shoe tree    horma del zapato
• the shoe is on the other foot    la situación cambió por completo

Svenska (Swedish)
n. - sko, lågsko, känga, skoning, doppsko, beslag, bromsback
v. - sätta skor på, sko

中文（简体）(Chinese (Simplified))
鞋, 鞋状物, 蹄铁, 煞车皮, 给...穿鞋, 为马钉蹄铁

idioms:

• be in someone's shoes    出于某人的地位或境地
• fill someone's shoes    就位, 接替某人
• shoe tree    鞋楦
• the shoe is on the other foot    位置完全颠倒了

中文（繁體）(Chinese (Traditional))
n. - 鞋, 鞋狀物, 蹄鐵, 煞車皮
v. tr. - 給...穿鞋, 為馬釘蹄鐵

idioms:

• be in someone's shoes    出於某人的地位或境地
• fill someone's shoes    就位, 接替某人
• shoe tree    鞋楦
• the shoe is on the other foot    位置完全顛倒了

한국어 (Korean)
n. - 신, 편자, 소켓
v. tr. - ~에 구두를 신기다, ~에 쇠굴레를 끼우다, (말에) 편자를 박다

idioms:

• be in someone's shoes    아무의 입장이 되어, 아무를 대신하여
• the shoe is on the other foot    형세가 역전되다

日本語 (Japanese)
n. - 靴, 蹄鉄, 地位, 見地, 靴状のもの, 輪止め, 偽造パスポート, 私服の警官
v. - 蹄鉄を打つ, 金たがをはめる

idioms:

• be in someone's shoes    立場に立って考える, 代わる
• shoe tree    靴型

العربيه (Arabic)
‏(الاسم) نعل أو كعب ألعصى ألخشبي, حدوة ألفرس, , حذاء (فعل) يكسو على سبيل ألوقايه أو ألتزيين, ينعل‏

עברית (Hebrew)
n. - ‮נעל, פרסה, סנדל-הבלם, קופסה לחלוקת קלפים בקזינו‬
v. tr. - ‮הנעיל, פרזל‬

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