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single

UK /ˈsɪŋɡl̩/US /ˈsɪŋɡəl/

adjective 9
noun 16
verb 6
forms 3
phrases 3

adjective9

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only one, with no others of the same kind
- Can you give me a single reason not to leave right now?
- The vase contained a single long-stemmed rose.
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Not married, and (in modern times) not dating or without a significant other.
- Forms often ask if a person is single, married, divorced, or widowed. In this context, a person who is dating someone but who has never married puts "single".
- Josh put down that he was a single male on the dating website.
Designed for the use of only one.
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Not divided in parts.
- The potatoes left the spoon and landed in a single big lump on the plate.
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Performed by one person, or one on each side.
- These shifts refuted, answer thy appellant, […] / Who now defies thee thrice to single fight. — 1649
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Uncompounded; pure; unmixed.
- simple ideas are opposed to complex , and single ideas to compound. — 1725
Having only one rank or row of petals.
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(no longer used) Simple and honest; sincere, without deceit.
- Therefore, when thyne eye is single: then is all thy boddy full off light. Butt if thyne eye be evyll: then shall all thy body be full of darknes? — 1526
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(no longer used) Simple; foolish; weak; silly.
- He utters such single matter in so infantly a voice. — 1616

noun16

A vinyl record with one song on side A and one on side B, usually 7 inches in diameter and played at 45 RPM.
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A popular song released and sold (on any format) nominally on its own though usually having at least one extra track.
- The Offspring released four singles from their most recent album.
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One who is not married or does not have a romantic partner.
- He went to the party, hoping to meet some friendly singles there.
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(US, informal) A bill valued at $1.
- I don't have any singles, so you'll have to make change.
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[in the plural] A game with one player on each side, as in tennis.
- After tea, Mrs. Inglethorp went to lie down to rest before her efforts in the evening and I challenged Mary Cavendish to a single at tennis. — 1920
A hit in baseball where the batter advances to first base.
(UK) A one-way ticket.
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A score of one run.
- He refused to take a single as the ball was dropped by his opponent's best fielder.
A score of one point, awarded when a kicked ball is dead within the non-kicking team's end zone or has exited that end zone.
A single cigarette.
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A floating-point number having half the precision of a double-precision value.
- If you want to be a scientist or an engineer, learn to say “no” to singles and floats. — 2011
A shot of only one character.
A tile that has a different value (i.e. number of pips) at each end.
One of the reeled filaments of silk, twisted without doubling to give them firmness.
(dialect, UK) A handful of gleaned grain.
(no longer used) Synonym of single-driver.

verb6

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To get a hit that advances the batter exactly one base.
- Pedro singled in the bottom of the eighth inning, which, if converted to a run, would put the team back into contention.
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To reduce (a railway) to single track.
- The Henley branch, recently singled and fully track-circuited, is worked by acceptance lever between Twyford and Shiplake cabins. — 1962
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To thin out.
- Paul went joyfully, and spent the afternoon helping to hoe or to single turnips with his friend. — 1913
To take the irregular gait called singlefoot.
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(no longer used) To take alone, or one by one; to single out.
- men […] commendable when they are singled — 1594
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(no longer used) To sequester; to withdraw; to retire.
- an agent singling itself from consorts — 1594

forms

singled · singling · singles

Phrases with single

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