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US
/ˈwən/
]
[ UK /wˈɒn/ ]
[ UK /wˈɒn/ ]
ADJECTIVE
-
indefinite in time or position
he will come one day
one place or another -
being a single entity made by combining separate components
three chemicals combining into one solution -
(informal) very; used informally as an intensifier
a right fine day
that is one fine dog -
eminent beyond or above comparison
the team's nonpareil center fielder
she's one girl in a million
unrivaled mastery of her art
matchless beauty
a peerless scholar
wrote with unmatchable clarity
the one and only Muhammad Ali
infamy unmatched in the Western world -
of the same kind or quality
two animals of one species -
used of a single unit or thing; not two or more
`ane' is Scottish -
having the indivisible character of a unit
spoke with one voice
a unitary action
NOUN
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the smallest whole number or a numeral representing this number
they had lunch at one
he has the one but will need a two and three to go with it -
a single person or thing
he is the best one
this is the one I ordered
How To Use one In A Sentence
- I'm just a little bit caught in the middle. Life is a maze and love is a riddle, I don't know where to go, can't do it alone.
- It's not bad but neither is it brilliant - which won't bother 99 per cent of buyers one jot as they are in it for the image.
- My aunt is very old-fashioned.
- If we have spent several class periods introducing conventions of reasoned evidence in argumentative writing, we usually look for such features in student papers.
- I bought a dozen eggs and every one of them was bad.
- Sewage overflowed into wash basins at West Middlesex Hospital following a blockage in one of the toilets.
- He wrote and tcanslaited many fortunate connexion « Mr. Boweai other works, and among the rest being unable to pay the costs in-* wa»the author of one play, called curred by the suit in the Spiritual Biographia dramatica, or, A companion to the playhouse:
- That gave us the time to move arbalests and mangonels into position along the walls.
- Dom recognized a master tactician when he saw one. SOMEDAY MY PRINCE
- Which is stupid, considering the drivers around here A: Don't normally stop for people and in fact have been caught trying to sneak ~around~ them and B: I've been nicked several times and almost hit three times different instances last summer attempting to obey the biking laws, none of those for mistakes on my part as I've been scared shitless at the lack of aware driving that's crept over my town. The funny thing about Pain..... (Let's talk trauma!)