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Cardinal: one Ordinal: first Adverbial: once Multiplier: single Distributive: singly |
Etymology
From Middle English single, sengle, from Old French sengle, saingle, sangle, from Latinski singulus, a diminutive derived from Proto-Indo-European *sem- (“one”). Akin to Latinski simplex (“simple”). See simple, and compare singular.
Pronunciation
Adjective
single (not comparable)
- Not accompanied by anything else; one in number.
- 2013 July-August, Fenella Saunders, “Tiny Lenses See the Big Picture”, in American Scientist:
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- Can you give me a single reason not to leave right now?
- The vase contained a single long-stemmed rose.
- Not divided in parts.
- Designed for the use of only one.
- a single room
- Performed by one person, or one on each side.
- a single combat
- Not married or (in modern times) not involved in a romantic relationship without being married or not dating anyone.
- Sinonims: unmarried, unpartnered, available
- Forms often ask if a person is single, married, divorced, or widowed. In this context, a person who is dating someone but who has never married puts "single".
- Josh put down that he was a single male on the dating website.
- (botany) Having only one rank or row of petals.
- (obsolete) Simple and honest; sincere, without deceit.
- 1526, William Tyndale, trans. Bible, Luke 11:
- Therefore, when thyne eye is single: then is all thy boddy full off light. Butt if thyne eye be evyll: then shall all thy body be full of darknes?
- Šablon:RQ:Shakespeare Henry 8
- 1526, William Tyndale, trans. Bible, Luke 11:
- Uncompounded; pure; unmixed.
- Šablon:RQ:Watts Logick
- simple ideas are opposed to complex , and single ideas to compound.
- 1867, William Greenough Thayer Shedd, Homiletics, and Pastoral Theology (page 166)
- The most that is required is, that the passage of Scripture, selected as the foundation of the sacred oration, should, like the oration itself, be single, full, and unsuperfluous in its character.
- Šablon:RQ:Watts Logick
- (obsolete) Simple; foolish; weak; silly.
Derived terms
- single-acting
- single as a dollar bill
- single as a Pringle
- single bed
- single-blind
- single bond
- single-cell
- single-celled
- single-click
- single combat
- single cream
- single crochet
- single cross
- single crystal
- single currency
- single data rate
- single-decker
- singledom
- single-elimination
- single entry
- single-eyed
- single-figure
- single file
- single flower
- single-fold
- single-foot
- single grave
- single-handed
- single-handedly
- single-hearted
- singlehood
- single-horse
- single-issue
- single knot
- single leaf
- single-line
- single malt
- single-manned
- single-manning
- single market
- single-minded
- single money
- single mother
- singleness
- single-o
- single option
- single parent
- single-phase
- single-phasing
- singleplayer
- single-ply roof
- single pneumonia
- single-point
- single point of failure
- single-point urban interchange
- single precision
- single prop
- single quote
- singler
- single scull
- single-sex
- single shell
- single-shot
- single shot
- single-sided
- single sourcing
- single-space
- single-spaced
- single-spacing
- single standard
- single star system
- singlestick
- single stitch
- single supplement
- singlet
- single tax
- singleton
- single track
- single union agreement
- single-valued
- single-wheeler
- single-wide
- single-word
- singly
Related terms
Translations
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Noun
single (plural singles)
- (music) A 45 RPM vinyl record with one song on side A and one on side B.
- Antonim: album
- (music) A popular song released and sold (on any format) nominally on its own though usually having at least one extra track.
- The Offspring released four singles from their most recent album.
- One who is not married or does not have a romantic partner.
- Antonim: married
- He went to the party, hoping to meet some friendly singles there.
- (cricket) A score of one run.
- (baseball) A hit in baseball where the batter advances to first base.
- (dominoes) A tile that has a different value (i.e. number of pips) at each end.
- (US, informal) A bill valued at $1.
- I don't have any singles, so you'll have to make change.
- (UK) A one-way ticket.
- (Canadian football) A score of one point, awarded when a kicked ball is dead within the non-kicking team's end zone or has exited that end zone. Officially known in the rules as a rouge.
- (tennis, chiefly in the plural) A game with one player on each side, as in tennis.
- One of the reeled filaments of silk, twisted without doubling to give them firmness.
- (UK, Scotland, dialect) A handful of gleaned grain.
- (computing, programming) A floating-point number having half the precision of a double-precision value.
- Coordinate term: double
- 2011, Rubin H. Landau, A First Course in Scientific Computing (page 214)
- If you want to be a scientist or an engineer, learn to say “no” to singles and floats.
- (film) A shot of only one character.
- 1990, Jon Boorstin, The Hollywood Eye: What Makes Movies Work (page 94)
- But if the same scene is shot in singles (or “over-the-shoulder” shots where one of the actors is only a lumpy shoulder in the foreground), the editor and the director can almost redirect the scene on film.
- 1990, Jon Boorstin, The Hollywood Eye: What Makes Movies Work (page 94)
Derived terms
Descendants
Translations
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Verb
single
- To identify or select one member of a group from the others; generally used with out, either to single out or to single (something) out.
- Eddie singled out his favorite marble from the bag.
- Yvonne always wondered why Ernest had singled her out of the group of giggling girls she hung around with.
- 1915, Austen Chamberlain, speech on April 16, 1915
- Sir John French says that if he is to single out one regiment in the fighting at Ypres it is the Worcesters he would name? I do plead that some person should record these events, so that our history, national and local, may be the richer for them, that the children may be stimulated to do their duty by the knowledge of the way in which our soldiers are doing theirs to-day.
- (baseball) To get a hit that advances the batter exactly one base.
- Pedro singled in the bottom of the eighth inning, which, if converted to a run, would put the team back into contention.
- (agriculture) To thin out.
- 1913, D.H. Lawrence, Sons and Lovers, chapter 7
- Paul went joyfully, and spent the afternoon helping to hoe or to single turnips with his friend.
- 1913, D.H. Lawrence, Sons and Lovers, chapter 7
- (of a horse) To take the irregular gait called singlefoot.
- 1860, William S. Clark, Massachusetts Agricultural College Annual Report
- 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.
- 1860, William S. Clark, Massachusetts Agricultural College Annual Report
- To sequester; to withdraw; to retire.
- Šablon:RQ:Hooker Laws
- an agent singling itself from consorts
- Šablon:RQ:Hooker Laws
- To take alone, or one by one.
- Šablon:RQ:Hooker Laws
- men […] commendable when they are singled
- Šablon:RQ:Hooker Laws
- To reduce a railway to single track.
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Derived terms
Translations
See also
Coefficient | Noun | Result |
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1 | single | singlet |
2 | double | doublet twin |
3 | triple | triplet |
4 | quadruple | quadruplet |
5 | quintuple pentuple |
quintuplet pentuplet |
6 | sextuple hextuple |
sextuplet hextuplet |
7 | septuple heptuple |
septuplet heptuplet |
8 | octuple | octuplet |
9 | nonuple | nonuplet |
10 | decuple | decuplet |
11 | undecuple hendecuple |
undecuplet hendecuplet |
12 | duodecuple | duodecuplet |
13 | tredecuple | tredecuplet |
100 | centuple | centuplet |
many | multiple | multiplet |
References
- single in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
- “single” in Douglas Harper, Online Etymology Dictionary, 2001–2024.
Anagrams
[[Kategorija:en:Jedan
Alemannic German
Etymology
Unadapted borrowing od Engleski single.
Adjective
single (indeclinable)
Catalan
Etymology
Borrowed from Engleski single.
Pronunciation
Noun
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Further reading
- “single” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
- “single” in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana.
- “single” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
Dutch
Etymology
Borrowed from Engleski single.
Pronunciation
- (music record or track): MFA(ključ): /ˈsɪŋ.əl/, /ˈsɪŋ.ɡəl/
- ((person) without romantic partner): MFA(ključ): /ˈsɪŋ.ɡəl/
Audio (file) - Hyphenation: sin‧gle
Noun
single m (plural singles, diminutive singletje n)
- A single (short music record, e.g. 45 RPM vinyl with an A side and a B side; main track of such a record).
- A single (person without a romantic partner).
Derived terms
Adjective
single (not comparable)
- single (without a romantic partner)
Inflection
Inflection of single | ||||
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uninflected | single | |||
inflected | single | |||
comparative | — | |||
positive | ||||
predicative/adverbial | single | |||
indefinite | m./f. sing. | single | ||
n. sing. | single | |||
plural | single | |||
definite | single | |||
partitive | singles |
Finnish
Etymology
Borrowed from Engleski single.
Pronunciation
Noun
single
- single (45 rpm record; track nominally released on its own)
Declension
Inflection of single (Kotus type 8/nalle, no gradation) | |||
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nominative | single | singlet | |
genitive | singlen | singlejen | |
partitive | singleä | singlejä | |
illative | singleen | singleihin | |
singular | plural | ||
nominative | single | singlet | |
accusative | nom. | single | singlet |
gen. | singlen | ||
genitive | singlen | singlejen singleinrare | |
partitive | singleä | singlejä | |
inessive | singlessä | singleissä | |
elative | singlestä | singleistä | |
illative | singleen | singleihin | |
adessive | singlellä | singleillä | |
ablative | singleltä | singleiltä | |
allative | singlelle | singleille | |
essive | singlenä | singleinä | |
translative | singleksi | singleiksi | |
instructive | — | singlein | |
abessive | singlettä | singleittä | |
comitative | — | singleineen |
Possessive forms of single (type nalle) | ||
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possessor | singular | plural |
1st person | singleni | singlemme |
2nd person | singlesi | singlenne |
3rd person | singlensä |
See also
French
Noun
single m (plural singles)
Etymology
Borrowed from Engleski single.
Pronunciation
Noun
single m or f by sense (plural #)
Adjective
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References
Norwegian Bokmål
Alternative forms
Etymology
Borrowed from Engleski single and singles.
Noun
single m (definite singular singlen, indefinite plural singler, definite plural singlene)
Synonyms
- singelplate (record)
References
- “single” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
Norwegian Nynorsk
Alternative forms
Etymology
Borrowed from Engleski single and singles.
Noun
single m (definite singular singlen, indefinite plural singlar, definite plural singlane)
Synonyms
- singelplate (record)
References
- “single” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
Etymology
Unadapted borrowing od Engleski single.
Pronunciation
Noun
single m (plural singles)
Romanian
Etymology
Unadapted borrowing od Engleski single. Dubleti of singur.
Noun
single n (plural single-uri)
- single Galicijski
Declension
singular | plural | |||
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indefinite articulation | definite articulation | indefinite articulation | definite articulation | |
nominative/accusative | (un) single | singleul | (niște) single-uri | single-urile |
genitive/dative | (unui) single | singleului | (unor) single-uri | single-urilor |
vocative | singleule | single-urilor |
Etymology
Unadapted borrowing od Engleski single. Dubleti of sendos.
Noun
single m (plural singles)
- single (song released)
Noun
single m or f (plural singles)
- single, single person
Verb
single
- Formal second-person singular (usted) imperative form of singlar.
- First-person singular (yo) present subjunctive form of singlar.
- Formal second-person singular (usted) present subjunctive form of singlar.
- Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted?) present subjunctive form of singlar.
Further reading
- “single” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.
Turkish
Etymology
Unadapted borrowing od Engleski single.
Pronunciation
Noun
single (definite accusative singleı, plural singlelar)
Declension
- Engleski govor
- Engleski pojmovi izvedeni iz Proto-Indo-European
- Engleski pojmovi izvedeni iz Proto-Indo-European root *sem-
- Engleski izrazi nasleđeni od Middle English
- Engleski pojmovi izvedeni iz Middle English
- Engleski pojmovi izvedeni iz Old French
- Engleski pojmovi izvedeni iz Latinski
- Engleski 2-syllable words
- Engleski terms with IPA pronunciation
- Engleski pojmovi sa audio vezama
- Rime:Engleski/ɪŋɡəl
- Rime:Engleski/ɪŋɡəl/2 slogova
- Engleski terms with homophones
- Engleski pridevi
- Engleski uncomparable adjectives
- Engleski termini sa navodima
- Engleski terms with usage examples
- en:Botany
- Engleski terms with obsolete senses
- Mandarin redlinks
- Mandarin redlinks/t+
- Finski redlinks
- Finski redlinks/t+
- Italijanski redlinks
- Italijanski redlinks/t+
- Portugalski redlinks
- Portugalski redlinks/t+
- Ruski redlinks
- Ruski redlinks/t+
- Španski redlinks
- Španski redlinks/t+
- Engleski imenice
- Engleski countable nouns
- en:Music
- en:Cricket
- en:Baseball
- en:Dominoes
- Engleski informal terms
- en:Canadian football
- en:Tennis
- Engleski dialectal terms
- en:Computing
- en:Programming
- en:Film
- Engleski glagoli
- en:Agriculture
- en:Ljudi
- Alemannic German termini pozajmljeni od Engleski
- Alemannic German unadapted pozajmice od Engleski
- Alemannic German pojmovi izvedeni iz Engleski
- Alemannic German lemmas
- Alemannic German adjectives
- gsw:Love
- Catalan termini pozajmljeni od Engleski
- Catalan pojmovi izvedeni iz Engleski
- Catalan 2-syllable words
- Catalan terms with IPA pronunciation
- Holandski termini pozajmljeni od Engleski
- Holandski pojmovi izvedeni iz Engleski
- Holandski terms with IPA pronunciation
- Holandski pojmovi sa audio vezama
- Holandski imenice
- Dutch nouns with plural in -s
- Holandski lemmas
- Holandski adjectives
- Finski termini pozajmljeni od Engleski
- Finski pojmovi izvedeni iz Engleski
- Finski imenices
- Finski terms with redundant head parameter
- Finnish nalle-type nominals
- Francuski imenice
- Francuski countable imenice
- Francuski imenice with red links in their headword lines
- Francuski terms with redundant head parameter
- fr:Music
- Italijanski govor
- Italijanski termini pozajmljeni od Engleski
- Italijanski pojmovi izvedeni iz Engleski
- Italijanski 2-syllable words
- Italijanski terms with IPA pronunciation
- Rime:Italijanski/inɡol
- Rime:Italijanski/inɡol/2 slogova
- Italijanski imenice
- Italijanski brojevne imenice
- Norwegian Bokmål termini pozajmljeni od Engleski
- Norwegian Bokmål pojmovi izvedeni iz Engleski
- Norwegian Bokmål lemmas
- Norwegian Bokmål nouns
- Norwegian Bokmål masculine nouns
- nb:Music
- nb:Sports
- Norwegian Nynorsk termini pozajmljeni od Engleski
- Norwegian Nynorsk pojmovi izvedeni iz Engleski
- Norwegian Nynorsk lemmas
- Norwegian Nynorsk nouns
- Norwegian Nynorsk masculine nouns
- nn:Music
- nn:Sports
- Portugalski govor
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- Portugalski 2-syllable words
- Portugalski terms with IPA pronunciation
- Portugalski imenice
- Portugalski terms with redundant head parameter
- pt:Music
- Rumunski termini pozajmljeni od Engleski
- Rumunski unadapted pozajmice od Engleski
- Rumunski pojmovi izvedeni iz Engleski
- Rumunski dubleti
- Rumunski imenice
- Romanian nouns with missing plurals
- Romanian countable nouns
- Španski govor
- Španski termini pozajmljeni od Engleski
- Španski unadapted pozajmice od Engleski
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- Španski dubleti
- Španski imenice
- Missing Spanish noun forms
- Španski non-lemma forms
- Španski verb forms
- Spanish forms of verbs ending in -ar
- Turski termini pozajmljeni od Engleski
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- Turski terms with IPA pronunciation
- Turski imenices
- tr:Music