"plimsoll" meaning in All languages combined

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Noun [English]

IPA: /ˈplɪmsoʊl/ Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-plimsoll.wav [Southern-England] Forms: plimsolls [plural]
Etymology: From Samuel Plimsoll, a Bristol merchant. Head templates: {{en-noun}} plimsoll (plural plimsolls)
  1. (British) A rubber-soled lace-up canvas shoe for sports or onboard ships; a precursor of trainers. Tags: British Categories (topical): Footwear Translations (early sports shoes): гуменки (gumenki) [feminine, plural] (Bulgarian), teniska [feminine] (Czech), tennari (english: low cut) (Finnish), koripallokenkä (english: over ankle) (Finnish), πάνινα παπούτσια (pánina papoútsia) [neuter, plural] (Greek), trampek [masculine] (Polish)
    Sense id: en-plimsoll-en-noun-WZtuGv7T Disambiguation of Footwear: 97 3 Categories (other): British English Disambiguation of 'early sports shoes': 91 9
  2. The plimsoll symbol ⦵ (or o) that is used as a superscript in the notation of thermodynamics to indicate an arbitrarily chosen non-zero reference point.
    Sense id: en-plimsoll-en-noun-8qTPk~uB Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English entries with language name categories using raw markup, English entries with topic categories using raw markup Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 39 61 Disambiguation of English entries with language name categories using raw markup: 34 66 Disambiguation of English entries with topic categories using raw markup: 36 64
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Synonyms: dap [Britain, regional], pump [Britain, regional], sandshoe [Australia], plimsol, plimsole Related terms: Plimsoll line, Plimsoll mark

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