Definition of --single in English English dictionary
- I'm single
- Indicates that the speaker doesn't have a spouse
- a journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step
- even the longest and most difficult ventures have a starting point
- better to light a single candle than to curse the darkness
- In the face of bad times or hopelessness, it is more worthwhile to do some good, however small, in response than to complain about the situation
- single
- Not accompanied by anything else
Can you give me a single reason not to leave right now?.
- single
- A popular song released and sold (on any format) nominally on its own though usually has at least one extra track
- single
- A hit in baseball where the batter advances to first base
- single
- One who is not married
He went to the party, hoping to meet some friendly singles there.
- single
- Designed for the use of only one
a single room.
- single
- Not divided in parts
The potatoes left the spoon and landed in a single big lump on the plate.
- single
- Having only one rank or row of petals
- single
- A bill valued at $1
I don't have any singles, so you'll have to make change.
- single
- Designed for a single use; not reusable
the anti-aircraft rocket is fired from a single use launch platform.
- single
- A 45rpm vinyl record with one song on side A and one on side B
- single
- A one-way ticket
- single
- A score of one run
- single
- Not married nor dating
Josh put down that he was a single male on the dating website.
- single
- Simple and honest; sincere, without deceit
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?.
- single
- 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.
- single
- 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
- 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
Evonne always wondered why Ernest had singled her out of the group of giggling girls she hung around with.
- single annulus
- Describes an annulus with just one layer of tissue
- single bed
- A standard-sized bed, usually for the use of only one person
- single beds
- plural form of single bed
- single bond
- a covalent bond in which one electron pair is shared between two atoms
- single celled
- Consisting of one cell; unicellular
- single crystal
- A material formed from by the growth of a crystal nucleus without secondary nucleation or impingement on other crystals; a regular three-dimensional structure extends throughout the material
- single crystals
- plural form of single crystal
- single currency
- The unified currency proposed for all EU states; it became the Euro
- single entendre
- A phrase that has a single, often bawdy, meaning and is lacking in subtlety or cleverness
She is the best kisser I've ever had in my life and I've had plenty, if ya know what I mean....Scooby had definitely mastered the single entendre.
- single entendres
- plural form of single entendre
- single file
- A line or queue one person wide
- single malt
- Single malt whisky
- single malt whisky
- Whisky made only from the malted barley of a single distillery, unblended with other whiskies
- single mother
- A woman raising a child on her own without a husband or partner
- single mothers
- plural form of single mother
- single out
- To select one from a group and treat differently
- single parent
- A parent who is the only guardian of an offspring
- single pneumonia
- Pneumonia affecting one lung
- single point of failure
- a component in a device, or a point in a network, that, if it were to fail would cause the entire device or network to fail; normally eliminated by adding redundancy
- single quote
- A quotation mark, as in She said, 'Go ahead'
- single quote
- An apostrophe, as in Let's do it
- single scull
- A light, narrow rowing boat, especially one used in competitive rowing, in which a single rower has two oars
- single scull
- A race in which such craft participate
- single star system
- A star system consisting of a solitary star not gravitationally bound to other stars
- single star systems
- plural form of single star system
- single supplement
- A charge added to a per-person occupancy rate that is based on an assumption of double occupancy, as on a cruise ship
- single supplements
- plural form of single supplement
- single ticket
- A ticket entitling the holder to travel in one direction to a destination
- single transferable vote
- A voting system where each voter lists the candidates in order of preference and there is provision to transfer the votes of the less popular candidates and a proportion of the votes of candidates who are elected with more than a certain quota
- single union agreement
- An agreement between an employer and a union such that the union will represent all the workers at a particular workplace
- single yellow line
- A single yellow line painted at the side of a road to show that parking is permitted only at specified times
The postman in question was parked on a single yellow line with parking-time restrictions.
- single-blind
- Describing an experiment (usually medical) in which the identity of those repeating different treatments is kept secret from the subjects, but not the administrators, until the outcome of the experiment is known
- single-breasted
- Closing with a single row of buttons that form a narrow overlap
- single-click
- The action of pushing the button on a mouse once in order to perform a different task that would be performed from a double-click or triple-click
- single-click
- To push the button on a mouse once in order to perform different task that would be performed from a double-click or triple-click
- single-elimination tournament
- A tournament where the loser of a game or match is either eliminated from further competition
- single-handed
- using only one hand
- single-handed
- designed for only one hand
- single-handed
- without help from others; unassisted
- single-handed
- in a single-handed manner
- single-handedly
- Alone; without assistance; by oneself
She single-handedly organized the whole event, and even set up all the chairs herself.
- single-minded
- Intensely focused and concentrated on purpose, thinking of only one goal, undistractable
- single-minded branding moment
- a peak moment in a commercial that features only the identity of the brand with no other distracting visuals and has high recall ratings, as seen in the Flow of Attention
Our computer ad had a poor brand linkage score because it did not offer a single-minded branding moment. Our logo always appeared in the background, competing for attention with the action in the foreground.
- single-minded branding moments
- plural form of single-minded branding moment
- single-molecule magnet
- A complex compound, typically containing clusters of transition elements, each molecule of which acts as a small magnet
- single-parent families
- plural form of single-parent family
- single-parent family
- A nuclear family with only one parent
- single-phasing
- The abnormal operation of a three phase machine when its supply is changed by accidental opening of one conductor
That drill-press sounds like it is single-phasing - and look at the smoke coming from the motor!.
- single-ply membrane
- Roofing membranes that are field applied using just one layer of membrane material either homogeneous or composite rather than multiple layers
- single-ply roof
- A roof system in which the principal roof covering is a single layer of flexible membrane often thermoset or thermoplastic
- single-point urban interchange
- An interchange between a highway (free-flowing) and a street (with traffic signals) which allows traffic to proceed from either direction on each road to either direction on the other, and which is governed by only one set of traffic signals
- single-sex
- Suitable, or used, by only one gender
Single-sex toilets.
- single-sideband modulation
- A modification of amplitude modulation that modulates the output signal on a single sideband only, as opposed to both sidebands
- single-space
- To type (or format) text without leaving a blank line between each line of text
- single-track
- Having only a single track so that trains may only run in one direction at a time
- single-valued
- Of a function, associating a unique value of its range with each value of its domain
- single-valued function
- Any function in which each point in the domain maps to just one point in the range
- single-wide
- A trailer measuring eighteen feet or less in width and ninety feet or less in length, able to be towed as a single unit
- single-word
- Consisting of single word
- split single
- A music single featuring songs by more than one artist
- single-spaced
- (of type or print) not having a blank space between lines; "business letters are usually single-spaced
- single pringle
- A person who is single and the best in original flavour, i.e. on their own
- single
- {v} to separate, select, take from others
- single
- {a} alone, unmarried, simple, uncorrupt
- single ring
- ring for singles
- single-space
- Type or print with no blank lines between lines of text