Context decides which word matters. None of these listings knows your context.
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Where it lands
A word only matters somewhere. 5 contexts, each one saying which of the 8 claim words applies, what actually decides the question, and what the context does not fix no matter what you buy.
4 of 8 claim words apply here
This is the context sellers write for. Almost every unmeasured word in this catalog — support, cushioning, comfort, relief — is aimed at the person who will be standing for eight hours. It is also the context where a product page can tell you least, because the variable that matters most is not the shoe.
2 of 8 claim words apply here
The one context where the vocabulary has something behind it, somewhere. A published whole-shoe slip test exists. One listing in this catalog names a standards body and twelve reach for an adjective instead, which makes this the clearest side-by-side comparison the site contains.
3 of 8 claim words apply here
A context defined by what happens after: the shoe gets muddy and then it gets hosed. Molded single-piece construction handles that better than anything with a seam, which is a fact about geometry rather than about any adjective on the listing.
4 of 8 claim words apply here
The context with the clearest missing number. Weight is trivial to measure, universally understood and completely absent from all sixty-six listings, including the ten that use the word lightweight. A kitchen scale settles in ten seconds what no seller here would write down.
2 of 8 claim words apply here
The only context on this site where the reader holds the specification. You know what your workplace accepts; no seller does. Which makes it striking how few of these listings bother to say anything about it, and how much the ones that do actually help.