'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'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- a certain,
- an,
- any,
- any one,
- appropriate,
- article,
- atomic,
- austere,
- bachelorlike,
- bare,
- basic,
- candid,
- celibataire,
- celibate,
- characteristic,
- chaste,
- choose,
- cull,
- distinct,
- distinctive,
- distinguish,
- distinguished,
- either,
- elementary,
- entity,
- especial,
- essential,
- exclusive,
- fasten on,
- fix on,
- footloose and fancy-free,
- free,
- fundamental,
- homely,
- homespun,
- homogeneous,
- husbandless,
- idiocratic,
- idiosyncratic,
- in character,
- individual,
- indivisible,
- integer,
- integral,
- intrinsic,
- irreducible,
- isolated,
- item,
- lone,
- maiden,
- maidenly,
- marked,
- mere,
- misogamist,
- misogynist,
- module,
- monadic,
- monastic,
- monistic,
- monk,
- monolithic,
- nun,
- of a piece,
- old-maidish,
- one,
- only,
- open,
- particular,
- peculiar,
- person,
- persona,
- pick,
- plain,
- point,
- priest,
- primal,
- primary,
- proper,
- pure,
- pure and simple,
- quintessential,
- segregate,
- select,
- separate,
- severe,
- simon-pure,
- simple,
- single out,
- singleton,
- singular,
- sole,
- solid,
- solitary,
- soul,
- spare,
- special,
- specific,
- spinsterish,
- spinsterlike,
- spinsterly,
- spouseless,
- stark,
- true to form,
- unadorned,
- unanalyzable,
- unattached,
- uncluttered,
- undifferenced,
- undifferentiated,
- undivided,
- unfettered,
- uniform,
- unique,
- unit,
- unitary,
- unmarried,
- unshared,
- unwed,
- unwedded,
- virgin,
- virginal,
- whole
Words containing 'Single'
- Singled,
- Singleness,
- Singling,
- Singly,
- single out,
- singles,
- Single ale,
- Single beer,
- Single bill,
- Single blessedness,
- Single combat,
- Single court,
- Single drink,
- Single entry,
- Single file,
- Single flower,
- Single knot,
- Single microscope,
- Single position,
- Single tax,
- Single whip,
- Thrown singles,
- line single,
- single bed,
- single bond,
- single cream,
- single crochet,
- single dwelling,
- single handed,
- single minded,
- single prop,
- single quote,
- single shell,
- single stitch,
- single supplement,
- single tonguing,
- single transfer,
- Bookkeeping by single entry,
- Single-acting,
- Single-breasted,
- Single-foot,
- Single-footer,
- Single-hearted,
- Single-heartedly,
- Single-surfaced,
- Texas league single,
- single nucleotide polymorphism,
- single-barreled,
- single-barrelled,
- single-bedded,
- single-celled,
- single-channel,
- single-handed,
- single-handedly,
- single-humped,
- single-lane,
- single-leaf,
- single-minded,
- single-mindedly,
- single-mindedness,
- single-seeded,
- single-shelled,
- single-spaced,
- single-spacing,
- single-stranded,
- Single-cut file,
- line-drive single,
- single-breasted jacket,
- single-breasted suit,
- single-entry bookkeeping,
- single-footed pace,
- single-leaf pine,
- single-leaf pinyon,
- single-member system,
- single-propeller plane,
- single-reed instrument,
- single-reed woodwind,
- single-rotor helicopter,
- single-valued function,
- california single-leaf pinyon