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What (who) is single - definition
WIKIMEDIA DISAMBIGUATION PAGE
Single (disambiguation)
single
(singles, singling, singled)
Frequency: The word is one of the 700 most common words in English.
1.
You use single to emphasize that you are referring to one thing, and no more than one thing.
A single shot rang out...
Over six hundred people were wounded in a single day...
She hadn't uttered a single word.
ADJ: ADJ n [emphasis]
2.
You use single to indicate that you are considering something on its own and separately from other things like it.
Every single house in town had been damaged...
The Middle East is the world's single most important source of oil.
ADJ: det ADJ [emphasis]
3.
Someone who is single is not married. You can also use single to describe someone who does not have a girlfriend or boyfriend.
Is it difficult being a single mother?...
Gay men are now eligible to become foster parents whether they are single or have partners.
ADJ
4.
A single room is a room intended for one person to stay or live in.
A single room at the Astir Hotel costs ?56 a night.
ADJ: usu ADJ n
•
Single is also a noun.
It's ?65 for a single, ?98 for a double and ?120 for an entire suite.
N-COUNT
5.
A single bed is wide enough for one person to sleep in.
ADJ: ADJ n
6.
A single ticket is a ticket for a journey from one place to another but not back again. (BRIT)
The price of a single ticket is thirty-nine pounds.
? return
ADJ: usu ADJ n
•
...a Club Class single to Los Angeles.
N-COUNT
7.
A single or a CD single is a CD which has a few short songs on it. You can also refer to the main song on a CD as a single.
The winners will get a chance to release their own single.
N-COUNT
8.
Singles is a game of tennis or badminton in which one player plays another. The plural singles can be used to refer to one or more of these matches.
Boris Becker of Germany won the men's singles...
N-UNCOUNT
9.
see also single-
Single
·adj Alone; having no companion.
II. Single ·noun A handful of gleaned grain.
III. Single ·adj Uncompounded; pure; unmixed.
IV. Single ·adj Simple; not wise; weak; silly.
V. Single ·vt To take alone, or one by one.
VI. Single ·noun A unit; one; as, to score a single.
VII. Single ·adj Not deceitful or artful; honest; sincere.
VIII. Single ·adj Hence, unmarried; as, a single man or woman.
IX. Single ·noun A hit by a batter which enables him to reach first base only.
X. Single ·noun A game with but one player on each side;
- usually in the plural.
XI. Single ·adj Performed by one person, or one on each side; as, a single combat.
XII. Single ·noun The reeled filaments of silk, twisted without doubling to give them firmness.
XIII. Single ·adj Not doubled, twisted together, or combined with others; as, a single thread; a single strand of a rope.
XV. Single ·vi To take the irrregular gait called single-foot;- said of a horse. ·see Single-foot.
XVI. Single ·adj One only, as distinguished from more than one; consisting of one alone; individual; separate; as, a single star.
XVII. Single ·vt To select, as an individual person or thing, from among a number; to choose out from others; to Separate.
single
¦ adjective
1. only one; not one of several.
regarded as distinct from others in a group.
[with negative] even one (used for emphasis): they didn't receive a single reply.
designed or suitable for one person.
2. not involved in a stable romantic or sexual relationship.
3. consisting of one participle
(of a flower) having only one whorl of petals.
4. Brit. (of a ticket) valid for an outward journey only.
5. archaic free from duplicity or deceit: a pure and single heart.
¦ noun
1. a single person or thing.
2. a short record with one song on each side.
3. US informal a one-dollar note.
4. Cricket a hit for one run.
Baseball a hit which allows the batter to proceed safely to first base.
5. (singles) (especially in tennis and badminton) a game or competition for individual players.
6. Bell-ringing a system of change-ringing in which one pair of bells changes places at each round.
¦ verb
1. (single someone/thing out) choose someone or something from a group for special treatment.
2. thin out (seedlings or saplings).
3. reduce (a railway track) to a single line.
4. Baseball hit a single.
cause (a run) to be scored by hitting a single.
advance (a runner) by hitting a single.
Derivatives
singleness noun
singly adverb
Origin
ME: via OFr. from L. singulus, related to simplus 'simple'.
Examples of use of single
1. So there is no single explanation and no single answer.
2. This may mean single rooms or single–sex bays within a mixed ward as well as single–sex wards.
3. Nationwide, at least 253 public schools offer single–sex classes and 51 schools are entirely single sex, according to the National Association for Single Sex Public Education.
4. "No, we are setting up in every single district, and we have security plans for every single polling station in every single district," she said.
5. A limited number of standard single rooms are available Thursday–Sunday with no single supplement charges.