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Encyclopedia > Shoe (disambiguation)
Look up shoe in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.

Things known as shoe or shoes include: Wikipedia does not have an article with this exact name. ... Wiktionary is a multilingual, Web-based project to create a free content dictionary, available in over 150 languages. ...

  • Shoe, a piece of outerwear worn on one's foot.
    • 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), used to hold several decks of cards, typically used in games such as blackjack and poker
  • Shoes (video) a short video made by Liam Kyle Sullivan, popular on YouTube.
  • The part in a drum brake that when actuated, rubs on the drum producing friction.
  • Shoe (comic strip), the title of a comic strip about a community of humanized birds
  • "Shoes (song)", a 2005 single by Shania Twain and the lead single from the Desperate Housewives soundtrack.
  • Shoes (band), a power pop band from Zion, Illinois, active in the 1970s and 1980s.
  • In photography and filmmaking, a shoe is also the term for a piece of hardware attached directly to a camera, which allows it to be afixed to a variety of objects or stands using corresponding "recivers". Many standards exist for shoes and recivers to allow qiuck changes and interoperability of many cameras and stands. In this usage, the terms "shoe" and "reciver" are often interchanged. This type of shoe is also called a "cleat".
  • In engineering, a shoe is a component designed to partially enclose another component for the purpose of mounting or protecting.

acronyms: A shoe is an item of footwear often worn on the foot or feet of a human. ... Climbing shoes A climbing shoe is a piece of foot wear that is specifically designed and worn for climbing. ... Modern horseshoes are most commonly made of iron and nailed onto the hoof. ... This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ... Liam Kyle Sullivan (born July 17, 1973 in Boston, Massachusetts) is an American comedian and actor. ... Liam Kyle Sullivan (born July 17, 1973 in Boston, Massachusetts) is an American comedian and actor. ... YouTube is a popular free video sharing website which lets users upload, view, and share video clips. ... A drum brake is a brake in which the friction is caused by a set of shoes or pads that press against the inner surface of a rotating drum. ... Shoe is the name of a comic strip that was written and drawn by its creator Jeff MacNelly until his death in 2000. ... Shoes was the first single released from the Desperate Housewives Soundtrack. ... Shania Twain, OC (born August 28, 1965, Windsor, Ontario) is a very successful singer and songwriter in the country and pop music genres. ... Shoes is an American power pop band, formed in Zion, Illinois in 1975 by the brothers John and Jeff Murphy, along with Gary Klebe and Skip Meyer. ... Zion is a city located in Lake County, Illinois. ... This page is a candidate to be moved to Wiktionary. ...

The Semantic Web is an evolution of the World Wide Web in which information is machine processable (rather than being only human oriented), thus permitting browsers or other software agents to find, share and combine information more easily. ... In the semantic web, Simple HTML Ontology Extensions are a small set of HTML extensions designed to give web pages semantic meaning by allowing information such as class, subclass and property relationships. ...

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  Results from FactBites:
 
Shoe - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (1930 words)
Dressier shoes have leather outsoles; casual or work-oriented shoes have outsoles made of natural rubber or a synthetic imitation.
shoe horn - can be used to insert a foot into a shoe by keeping the shoe open and providing a smooth surface for the foot to slide upon.
Shoes size is often measured using a Brannock Device, which can determine both the width and length of the foot.
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