Some 16th-century Italian clergymen tried to ban coffee because they believed it to be “satanic.” However, Pope Clement VII loved coffee so much that he lifted the ban and had coffee baptized in 1600.
SINGLES
singles
(noun) tennis played with one person on each side
singles
(noun) badminton played with one person on each side
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Adjective
singles (not comparable)
Of or pertaining to unmarried people.
Noun
singles
plural of single
Noun
singles
(sports, plurale tantum) a game between individual players
(cycling, AU) synonym of tubulars
Coordinate terms
• doubles
• mixed doubles
Verb
singles
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of single
Anagrams
• ginless, lessing
Source: Wiktionary
Sin"gles, n. pl.
Definition: See Single, n., 2.
SINGLE
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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