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Single

adjective

Being or characteristic of a single thing or person. Synonym: individual. "Please mark the individual pages" , "They went their individual ways"

Used of flowers having usually only one row or whorl of petals.

Existing alone or consisting of one entity or part or aspect or individual. "Had but a single thought which was to escape" , "A single survivor" , "A single serving" , "A single lens" , "A single thickness"

Not married or related to the unmarried state. Synonym: unmarried. "Unmarried life" , "Sex and the single girl" , "Single parenthood" , "Are you married or single?"

Characteristic of or meant for a single person or thing. Synonym: individual. "Single occupancy" , "A single bed"

Having uniform application.

Not divided among or brought to bear on more than one object or objective. Synonyms: exclusive, undivided. "A single devotion to duty" , "Undivided affection" , "Gained their exclusive attention"

noun

A base hit on which the batter stops safely at first base. Synonym: bingle.

The smallest whole number or a numeral representing this number. Synonyms: 1, ace, I, one, unity. "They had lunch at one"

verb

(past & past part. singled; pres. part. singling)

Hit a single.

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"Single" Quotes from Famous Books

... cow is frequently seen here driven double or single by means of a small rope line attached to a tall, emaciated gentleman, who is generally clothed with the divine right of suffrage, to which he adds a small pair of ear-bobbs ...

— Nye and Riley's Wit and Humor (Poems and Yarns) • Bill Nye

... information concerning the worth of advertising. I forget the fabulous figure at which "The Gold Dust Twins" trade-mark is valued, but I know that it easily puts them into Charley Chaplin's class. I am sure that "Sunkist" cannot be far behind the "Twins," for no single word could possibly suggest a more luscious, delectable, and desirable fruit than that. It would even take the curse off being a lemon to be a "Sunkist" lemon. It contains no hint of the perilous early life of an orange. ...

— The Smiling Hill-Top - And Other California Sketches • Julia M. Sloane

... night, in the dark, after a round had passed by, and in the open middle of the shed under which we slept. The question of arms was more obscure. We had a good many tools, indeed, which we employed in the manufacture of our toys; but they were none of them suited for a single combat between civilised men, and, being nondescript, it was found extremely hard to equalise the chances of the combatants. At length a pair of scissors was unscrewed; and a couple of tough wands being found in a corner of the courtyard, ...

— The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 20 (of 25) • Robert Louis Stevenson

... fields fertile, awoke men from sleep and filled them with courage and hope, was the centre of mythology, and appears and reappears in a thousand stories in many parts of the world, and in all kinds of disguises. Now he is the most beautiful and noble of the Greek gods, Apollo; now he is Odin, with a single eye; now he is Hercules, the hero, with his twelve great labours for the good of men; now he is Oedipus, who met the Sphinx and solved her riddle. In the early times men saw how everything in the world about them drew its strength and beauty ...

— Myths That Every Child Should Know - A Selection Of The Classic Myths Of All Times For Young People • Various

... describe," replied Musard, seating himself on the edge of the bed. "It consisted of a single row of pink pearls, none of them very large. The biggest is about forty grains, and the others between twenty and thirty. It has a diamond clasp, set in antique gold, which is the most valuable part of the necklace. Do you ...

— The Hand in the Dark • Arthur J. Rees

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