SINGLE

individual, single

(adjective) being or characteristic of a single thing or person; “individual drops of rain”; “please mark the individual pages”; “they went their individual ways”

unmarried, single

(adjective) not married or related to the unmarried state; “unmarried men and women”; “unmarried life”; “sex and the single girl”; “single parenthood”; “are you married or single?”

single

(adjective) having uniform application; “a single legal code for all”

individual, single

(adjective) characteristic of or meant for a single person or thing; “an individual serving”; “single occupancy”; “a single bed”

single

(adjective) existing alone or consisting of one entity or part or aspect or individual; “upon the hill stood a single tower”; “had but a single thought which was to escape”; “a single survivor”; “a single serving”; “a single lens”; “a single thickness”

single

(adjective) used of flowers having usually only one row or whorl of petals; “single chrysanthemums resemble daisies and may have more than one row of petals”

single, bingle

(noun) a base hit on which the batter stops safely at first base

one, ace, single, unity

(noun) the smallest whole number or a numeral representing this number; “he has the one but will need a two and three to go with it”; “they had lunch at one”

single

(verb) hit a single; “the batter singled to left field”

Source: WordNet® 3.1

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Etymology

Adjective

single (not comparable)

Not accompanied by anything else; one in number.

Not divided in parts.

Designed for the use of only one.

Performed by one person, or one on each side.

Not married or (in modern times) not involved in a romantic relationship without being married or not dating anyone exclusively.

(botany) Having only one rank or row of petals.

(obsolete) Simple and honest; sincere, without deceit.

Uncompounded; pure; unmixed.

(obsolete) Simple; foolish; weak; silly.

Synonyms

• (not accompanied by anything else): lone, sole

• (not divided in parts): unbroken, undivided, uniform

• (not married): unmarried, available

Antonyms

• (not married): divorced, married, widowed, taken

• (not single, in a relationship, but with separate households): living apart together, LAT

Noun

single (plural singles)

(music) A 45 RPM vinyl record with one song on side A and one on side B.

Antonym: album

(music) A popular song released and sold (on any format) nominally on its own though usually having at least one extra track.

One who is not married or does not have a romantic partner.

Antonym: married

(cricket) A score of one run.

(baseball) A hit in baseball where the batter advances to first base.

(dominoes) A tile that has a different value (i.e. number of pips) at each end.

A bill valued at $1.

(UK) A one-way ticket.

(Canadian football) 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. Officially known in the rules as a rouge.

(tennis, chiefly, in the plural) A game with one player on each side, as in tennis.

One of the reeled filaments of silk, twisted without doubling to give them firmness.

(UK, Scotland, dialect) A handful of gleaned grain.

(computing, programming) A floating-point number having half the precision of a double-precision value.

Coordinate term: double

Verb

single (third-person singular simple present singles, present participle singling, simple past and past participle singled)

To identify or select one member of a group from the others; generally used with out, either to single out or to single (something) out.

(baseball) To get a hit that advances the batter exactly one base.

(agriculture) To thin out.

(of a horse) To take the irregular gait called singlefoot.

To sequester; to withdraw; to retire.

To take alone, or one by one.

Anagrams

• Nigels, glinse, ingles

Source: Wiktionary

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Sin"gle, a. Etym: [L. singulus, a dim. from the root in simplex simple; cf. OE. & OF. sengle, fr. L. singulus. See Simple, and cf. Singular.]

1. One only, as distinguished from more than one; consisting of one alone; individual; separate; as, a single star. No single man is born with a right of controlling the opinions of all the rest. Pope.

2. Alone; having no companion. Who single hast maintained, Against revolted multitudes, the cause Of truth. Milton.

3. Hence, unmarried; as, a single man or woman. Grows, lives, and dies in single blessedness. Shak. Single chose to live, and shunned to wed. Dryden.

4. Not doubled, twisted together, or combined with others; as, a single thread; a single strand of a rope.

5. Performed by one person, or one on each side; as, a single combat. These shifts refuted, answer thy appellant, . . . Who now defles thee thrice ti single fight. Milton.

6. Uncompounded; pure; unmixed. Simple ideas are opposed to complex, and single to compound. I. Watts.

7. Not deceitful or artful; honest; sincere. I speak it with a single heart. Shak.

8. Simple; not wise; weak; silly. [Obs.] He utters such single matter in so infantly a voice. Beau & Fl. Single ale, beer, or drink, small ale, etc., as contrasted with double ale, etc., which is stronger. [Obs.] Nares.

– Single bill (Law), a written engagement, generally under seal, for the payment of money, without a penalty. Burril.

– Single court (Lawn Tennis), a court laid out for only two players.

– Single-cut file. See the Note under 4th File.

– Single entry. See under Bookkeeping.

– Single file. See under 1st File.

– Single flower (Bot.), a flower with but one set of petals, as a wild rose.

– Single knot. See Illust. under Knot.

– Single whip (Naut.), a single rope running through a fixed block.

Sin"gle, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Singled; p. pr. & vb. n. Singling.]

1. To select, as an individual person or thing, from among a number; to choose out from others; to separate. Dogs who hereby can single out their master in the dark. Bacon. His blood! she faintly screamed her mind Still singling one from all mankind. More.

2. To sequester; to withdraw; to retire. [Obs.] An agent singling itself from consorts. Hooker.

3. To take alone, or one by one. Men . . . commendable when they are singled. Hooker.

Sin"gle, v. i.

Definition: To take the irrregular gait called single-foot;- said of a horse. See Single-foot. Many very fleet horses, when overdriven, adopt a disagreeable gait, which seems to be a cross between a pace and a trot, in which the two legs of one side are raised almost but not quite, simultaneously. Such horses are said to single, or to be single-footed. W. S. Clark.

Sin"gle, n.

1. A unit; one; as, to score a single.

2. pl.

Definition: The reeled filaments of silk, twisted without doubling to give them firmness.

3. A handful of gleaned grain. [Prov. Eng. & Scot.]

4. (Law Tennis)

Definition: A game with but one player on each side; -- usually in the plural.

5. (Baseball)

Definition: A hit by a batter which enables him to reach first base only.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition

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