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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

... ascending,—when, glancing down on the track, instead of solid earth, I saw the ground, through the open timbers of the trestle-bridge, at least sixty feet below me! The timber road was only the width of the single iron track; so that any one looking out of the side carriage-windows would see sixty feet down into space. The beams on which the trestle-bridge is supported, are, in some cases, rested on stone; but oftener they are not. It is not easy to describe the sensation first ...

— A Boy's Voyage Round the World • The Son of Samuel Smiles

... your lives!" shouted Tad, bolting from the tent in a single leap, followed almost instantly by Ned Rector ...

— The Pony Rider Boys in Montana • Frank Gee Patchin

... game night awaits all, and the road of death must once be travelled. The Furies give up some to the sport of horrible Mars: the greedy ocean is destructive to sailors: the mingled funerals of young and old are crowded together: not a single person does the cruel Proserpine pass by. The south wind, the tempestuous attendant on the setting Orion, has sunk me also in the Illyrian waves. But do not thou, O sailor, malignantly grudge to give a portion of loose sand to my bones and unburied head. So, whatever the east wind shall ...

— The Works of Horace • Horace

... three champions stand at their post. With their feet firmly set, and their shields before them, they met the onrush of their foes, wielding their long swords with such precision and strength that Justin and five of his fellows fell dead without striking a single blow. Onward the vikings pressed, leaping over the bodies of their fallen companions, but only to be themselves driven back again under the terrible blows that met them. Very soon the roadway of the bridge was so ...

— Olaf the Glorious - A Story of the Viking Age • Robert Leighton

... that is naturally evil in respect of its genus can by no means be good and lawful, since in order for an action to be good it must be right in every respect: because good results from a complete cause, while evil results from any single defect, as Dionysius asserts (Div. Nom. iv). Now a lie is evil in respect of its genus, since it is an action bearing on undue matter. For as words are naturally signs of intellectual acts, it is unnatural ...

— Summa Theologica, Part II-II (Secunda Secundae) • Thomas Aquinas

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