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Cardinal: one Ordinal: first Adverbial: once Multiplier: single Distributive: singly |
Etymology
From Srednji Engleski single, sengle, from Stari Francuski 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:
- The single-imaging optic of the mammalian eye offers some distinct visual advantages. Such lenses can take in photons from a wide range of angles, increasing light sensitivity. They also have high spatial resolution, resolving incoming images in minute detail. It’s therefore not surprising that most cameras mimic this arrangement.
- 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.
- Sinonimi: 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.
- Koordinatni termin: 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
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Verb
single (third-person singular simple present singles, present participle singling, simple past and past participle singled)
- 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.
- 1959 June, “Talking of Trains: North Eastern report”, in Trains Illustrated, page 293:
- In the east of Yorkshire, Mr. A. M. Ross reports the belief of local railwaymen that the N.E.R. plans to single the York-Beverley line, leaving an adequate provision of passing loops, and to operate it by C.T.C. from York; [...].
- 1962 October, “Talking of Trains: New signalbox at Twyford”, in Modern Railways, page 226:
- The Henley branch, recently singled and fully track-circuited, is worked by acceptance lever between Twyford and Shiplake cabins.
- 2020 novembar 18, Paul Bigland, “New infrastructure and new rolling stock”, in RAIL, number 918, page 48:
- Sadly, it's not the quickest route as much of it has been singled, but it still boasts some attractive stations as well as an active Community Rail Partnership, one of the first in the country.
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
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Alemannic German
Etymology
Unadapted borrowing iz Engleski single.
Adjective
single (indeclinable)
Catalan
Etymology
Borrowed from Engleski single.
Pronunciation
Noun
single m (plural singles)
- (music) single
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) - Hifenacija: 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 singlein rare | |
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 | |
abessive | singlettä | singleittä | |
instructive | — | singlein | |
comitative | See the possessive forms below. |
See also
French
Noun
single m (plural singles)
- single room
- (music) single
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 iz Engleski single.
Pronunciation
Noun
single m (plural singles)
- (music) single (song released on its own or with an extra track)
Romanian
Etymology
Unadapted borrowing iz 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 iz 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 iz Engleski single.
Pronunciation
Noun
single (definite accusative singleı, plural singlelar)
- (music) single