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1. WordNet® 3.0 (2006) |
single
adj 1: being or characteristic of a single thing or person;
"individual drops of rain"; "please mark the individual
pages"; "they went their individual ways" [syn:
individual, single] [ant: common]
2: 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" [ant: double]
3: 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"
[ant: multiple]
4: 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?" [syn:
unmarried, single] [ant: married]
5: characteristic of or meant for a single person or thing; "an
individual serving"; "single occupancy"; "a single bed" [syn:
individual, single(a)]
6: having uniform application; "a single legal code for all"
7: not divided among or brought to bear on more than one object
or objective; "judging a contest with a single eye"; "a
single devotion to duty"; "undivided affection"; "gained
their exclusive attention" [syn: single(a), undivided,
exclusive]
n 1: a base hit on which the batter stops safely at first base
[syn: single, bingle]
2: 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" [syn: one, 1, I,
ace, single, unity]
v 1: hit a single; "the batter singled to left field"
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2. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 |
Single \Sin"gle\, a. [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.
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No single man is born with a right of controlling
the opinions of all the rest. --Pope.
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2. Alone; having no companion.
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Who single hast maintained,
Against revolted multitudes, the cause
Of truth. --Milton.
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3. Hence, unmarried; as, a single man or woman.
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Grows, lives, and dies in single blessedness.
--Shak.
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Single chose to live, and shunned to wed. --Dryden.
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4. Not doubled, twisted together, or combined with others;
as, a single thread; a single strand of a rope.
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5. Performed by one person, or one on each side; as, a single
combat.
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These shifts refuted, answer thy appellant, . . .
Who now defles thee thrice ti single fight.
--Milton.
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6. Uncompounded; pure; unmixed.
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Simple ideas are opposed to complex, and single to
compound. --I. Watts.
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7. Not deceitful or artful; honest; sincere.
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I speak it with a single heart. --Shak.
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8. Simple; not wise; weak; silly. [Obs.]
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He utters such single matter in so infantly a voice.
--Beau. & Fl.
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Single ale, Single beer, or Single 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.
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3. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 |
Single \Sin"gle\, n.
1. A unit; one; as, to score a single.
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2. pl. The reeled filaments of silk, twisted without doubling
to give them firmness.
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3. A handful of gleaned grain. [Prov. Eng. & Scot.]
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4. (Law Tennis) A game with but one player on each side; --
usually in the plural.
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5. (Baseball) A hit by a batter which enables him to reach
first base only.
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4. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 |
Single \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.
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Dogs who hereby can single out their master in the
dark. --Bacon.
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His blood! she faintly screamed her mind
Still singling one from all mankind. --More.
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2. To sequester; to withdraw; to retire. [Obs.]
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An agent singling itself from consorts. --Hooker.
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3. To take alone, or one by one.
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Men . . . commendable when they are singled.
--Hooker.
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5. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 |
Single \Sin"gle\, v. i.
To take the irrregular gait called single-foot; -- said of a
horse. See Single-foot.
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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.
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6. Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856) |
SINGLE. By itself, unconnected.
2. A single bill is one without any condition, and does not depend upon
any future event to give it validity. Single is also applied to an unmarried
person; as, A B, single woman. Vide Simplex.
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Thesaurus Results for single:
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1. Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 |
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Common Misspellings > |
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