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UK
/sˈɪŋɡəl/
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[ US /ˈsɪŋɡəɫ/ ]
[ US /ˈsɪŋɡəɫ/ ]
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 base hit on which the batter stops safely at first base
ADJECTIVE
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existing alone or consisting of one entity or part or aspect or individual
a single serving
upon the hill stood a single tower
had but a single thought which was to escape
a single thickness
a single lens
a single survivor -
being or characteristic of a single thing or person
individual drops of rain
please mark the individual pages
they went their individual ways -
not divided among or brought to bear on more than one object or objective
undivided affection
judging a contest with a single eye
gained their exclusive attention
a single devotion to duty -
characteristic of or meant for a single person or thing
single occupancy
an individual serving
a single bed -
not married or related to the unmarried state
unmarried men and women
single parenthood
unmarried life
sex and the single girl
are you married or single? -
having uniform application
a single legal code for all -
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
VERB
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hit a single
the batter singled to left field
How To Use single In A Sentence
- A horizontal merger may enable the new entity to set price and output in the same manner as a single-firm monopolist, with the same consequences for consumer welfare.
- My poor Lirriper was a handsome figure of a man, with a beaming eye and a voice as mellow as a musical instrument made of honey and steel, but he had ever been a free liver being in the commercial travelling line and travelling what he called a limekiln road — “a dry road, Emma my dear,” my poor Lirriper says to me, “where I have to lay the dust with one drink or another all day long and half the night, and it wears me Emma” — and this led to his running through a good deal and might have run through the turnpike too when that dreadful horse that never would stand still for a single instant set off, but for its being night and the gate shut and consequently took his wheel, my poor Lirriper and the gig smashed to atoms and never spoke afterwards. Mrs. Lirriper's Lodgings
- Iin this case it uses the atomic unit of digital life - a single screen of data on a Palm, a little brick of reality we spend so much time staring at all day long.
- Men with short back and sides dressed in gleaming white singlets and shorts set off downriver while a little coxswain in a cap urges them on.
- The interesting thing about a supercomputer with a lot of processors in it is that it is, in some ways, no different to a cluster of computers, communicating through a network, and working together on a single application.
- BigshoeBazaar is an online cash and carry wholesaler for hundreds of small shoe stores across the country and is using a single 25,000 square feet warehouse, which will be enhanced to 100,000 square feet in a few months, to service shoe stores as far away as Dimapur in Nagaland and Katihar in Bihar. 'Hyper Growth' Returns To India's E-Commerce Sector
- The welfare state was not set up to support vast families or single mothers in inter-generational welfare dependency. We deserve a fair society, but it won't be created by a vendetta against the poor
- Other products include extended-shelf-life and aseptic products in single-serve containers sold at convenience stores and multipacks at club stores.
- Though stiff-necked and officious, the commanders aren't demonized nor singled out for blame.
- Figure 13.2 shows a single memory core in what would have been a large array.
