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single🔊

Not accompanied by anything else; one in number.

📑 Synonyms: lone sole solitary

Not divided in parts.

📑 Synonyms: unbroken undivided uniform

Designed for the use of only one.

Performed by one person, or one on each side.

Not married, and (in modern times) not dating or without a significant other.

(botany) Having only one rank or row of petals.

(obsolete) Simple and honest; sincere, without deceit.

Uncompounded; pure; unmixed.

(obsolete) Simple; foolish; weak; silly.

(music) A 45 RPM vinyl record with one song on side A and one on side B.

(Q134556)(music) A popular song released and sold (on any format) nominally on its own though usually having at least one extra track.

One who is not married or does not have a romantic partner.

(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.

(informal) A bill valued at $1.

(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.

(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.

(dialect) A handful of gleaned grain.

(programming) A floating-point number having half the precision of a double-precision value.

(film) A shot of only one character.

A single cigarette.

(obsolete) (single-driver).

(baseball) To get a hit that advances the batter exactly one base.

(agriculture) To thin out.

(of a horse) To take the irregular gait called singlefoot.

(archaic) To sequester; to withdraw; to retire.

(archaic) To take alone, or one by one; to single out.

To reduce (a railway) to single track.