'Single' definitions:

Definition of 'single'

(from WordNet)
adjective
Being or characteristic of a single thing or person; "individual drops of rain"; "please mark the individual pages"; "they went their individual ways" [syn: individual, single] [ant: common]
adjective
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" [ant: double]
adjective
Existing alone or consisting of one entity or part or aspect or individual; "upon the hill stood a single tower"; "had but a single thought which was to escape"; "a single survivor"; "a single serving"; "a single lens"; "a single thickness" [ant: multiple]
adjective
Not married or related to the unmarried state; "unmarried men and women"; "unmarried life"; "sex and the single girl"; "single parenthood"; "are you married or single?" [syn: unmarried, single] [ant: married]
adjective
Characteristic of or meant for a single person or thing; "an individual serving"; "single occupancy"; "a single bed" [syn: individual, single(a)]
adjective
Having uniform application; "a single legal code for all"
adjective
Not divided among or brought to bear on more than one object or objective; "judging a contest with a single eye"; "a single devotion to duty"; "undivided affection"; "gained their exclusive attention" [syn: single(a), undivided, exclusive]
noun
A base hit on which the batter stops safely at first base [syn: single, bingle]
noun
The smallest whole number or a numeral representing this number; "he has the one but will need a two and three to go with it"; "they had lunch at one" [syn: one, 1, I, ace, single, unity]
verb
Hit a single; "the batter singled to left field"

Definition of 'Single'

From: GCIDE
  • Single \Sin"gle\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Singled; p. pr. & vb. n. Singling.]
  • 1. To select, as an individual person or thing, from among a number; to choose out from others; to separate. [1913 Webster]
  • Dogs who hereby can single out their master in the dark. --Bacon. [1913 Webster]
  • His blood! she faintly screamed her mind Still singling one from all mankind. --More. [1913 Webster]
  • 2. To sequester; to withdraw; to retire. [Obs.] [1913 Webster]
  • An agent singling itself from consorts. --Hooker. [1913 Webster]
  • 3. To take alone, or one by one. [1913 Webster]
  • Men . . . commendable when they are singled. --Hooker. [1913 Webster]

Definition of 'Single'

From: GCIDE
  • Single \Sin"gle\, v. i. To take the irrregular gait called single-foot; -- said of a horse. See Single-foot. [1913 Webster]
  • 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. --W. S. Clark. [1913 Webster]

Definition of 'Single'

From: GCIDE
  • Single \Sin"gle\, n.
  • 1. A unit; one; as, to score a single. [1913 Webster]
  • 2. pl. The reeled filaments of silk, twisted without doubling to give them firmness. [1913 Webster]
  • 3. A handful of gleaned grain. [Prov. Eng. & Scot.] [1913 Webster]
  • 4. (Law Tennis) A game with but one player on each side; -- usually in the plural. [1913 Webster]
  • 5. (Baseball) A hit by a batter which enables him to reach first base only. [1913 Webster]

Definition of 'Single'

From: GCIDE
  • Single \Sin"gle\, a. [L. singulus, a dim. from the root in simplex simple; cf. OE. & OF. sengle, fr. L. singulus. See Simple, and cf. Singular.]
  • 1. One only, as distinguished from more than one; consisting of one alone; individual; separate; as, a single star. [1913 Webster]
  • No single man is born with a right of controlling the opinions of all the rest. --Pope. [1913 Webster]
  • 2. Alone; having no companion. [1913 Webster]
  • Who single hast maintained, Against revolted multitudes, the cause Of truth. --Milton. [1913 Webster]
  • 3. Hence, unmarried; as, a single man or woman. [1913 Webster]
  • Grows, lives, and dies in single blessedness. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
  • Single chose to live, and shunned to wed. --Dryden. [1913 Webster]
  • 4. Not doubled, twisted together, or combined with others; as, a single thread; a single strand of a rope. [1913 Webster]
  • 5. Performed by one person, or one on each side; as, a single combat. [1913 Webster]
  • These shifts refuted, answer thy appellant, . . . Who now defles thee thrice ti single fight. --Milton. [1913 Webster]
  • 6. Uncompounded; pure; unmixed. [1913 Webster]
  • Simple ideas are opposed to complex, and single to compound. --I. Watts. [1913 Webster]
  • 7. Not deceitful or artful; honest; sincere. [1913 Webster]
  • I speak it with a single heart. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
  • 8. Simple; not wise; weak; silly. [Obs.] [1913 Webster]
  • He utters such single matter in so infantly a voice. --Beau. & Fl. [1913 Webster]
  • Single ale, Single beer, or Single drink, small ale, etc., as contrasted with double ale, etc., which is stronger. [Obs.] --Nares.
  • Single bill (Law), a written engagement, generally under seal, for the payment of money, without a penalty. --Burril.
  • Single court (Lawn Tennis), a court laid out for only two players.
  • Single-cut file. See the Note under 4th File.
  • Single entry. See under Bookkeeping.
  • Single file. See under 1st File.
  • Single flower (Bot.), a flower with but one set of petals, as a wild rose.
  • Single knot. See Illust. under Knot.
  • Single whip (Naut.), a single rope running through a fixed block. [1913 Webster]

Synonyms of 'single'

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