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UK
/ˌɪndɪvˈɪdʒuːəl/
]
[ US /ˌɪndəˈvɪdʒəwəɫ/ ]
[ US /ˌɪndəˈvɪdʒəwəɫ/ ]
ADJECTIVE
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concerning one person exclusively
we all have individual cars
each room has a private bath -
being or characteristic of a single thing or person
individual drops of rain
please mark the individual pages
they went their individual ways -
characteristic of or meant for a single person or thing
single occupancy
an individual serving
a single bed -
separate and distinct from others of the same kind
on a case-by-case basis
mark the individual pages
NOUN
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a human being
there was too much for one person to do - a single organism
How To Use individual In A Sentence
- Nor do I deny that they sometimes abuse their power and are unfair to individuals.
- The remaining three evolutionary forces are nonadaptive in the sense that they are not a function of the fitness properties of individuals: mutation is the ultimate source of variation on which natural selection acts, recombination assorts variation within and among chromosomes, and genetic drift ensures that gene frequencies will deviate a bit from generation to generation independent of other forces. A Disclaimer for Behe?
- It makes data generators, multimeters and oscilloscopes, as well as semiconductors, optoelectronic components and RF chip sets - all very complex products that require a great deal of customization for individual customers.
- In most island arcs only a relatively small proportion of the individual volcanoes actually rise above sea level.
- Individuals should not be allowed to run amok insulting and using abusive language against one another.
- Individuals are expected to act on behalf of the collective whole, and the corporate body is expected to act in the normative interests of its members.
- He was an exceedingly capable and highly regarded individual. Times, Sunday Times
- In any event, when making a case against the indivisibility of Sinitic, it is not necessary to rebut each of these "common" features individually, since they are largely or wholly extralinguistic. Language Log
- Speaking of pal Dorian, he's mentioned to me a couple times at work that somewhere on the John Byrne Forum, some industrious individual "rewrote" events in Identity Crisis so that You-Know-Who wasn't sexually assaulted and killed. Archive 2004-07-18
- Making a flip book involves using the corner of a sketch pad to illustrate individual still frames of cartoon movement.