From en.wiktionary.org:
[Single]
** English
[wikipedia] [en]
*** Etymology
[en] From [en], [enm], from [en], [fro], [fro], from [en], a diminutive
derived from [en]. Akin to [la]. See [en], and compare [en].
*** Pronunciation
- [en]
- [en]
- [en]
- [en]
- [en]
- [en]
*** Adjective
[-]
1. Not accompanied by anything else; one in number.
2. * [en]
3. Not divide d in parts.
4. Designed for the use of only one.
5. Performed by one person, or one on each side.
6. * [passage=These shifts refuted, answer thy appellant, [...] / Who now defies thee thrice to SINGLE fight.]
7. Not married , and (in modern times) not dating or without a significant other .
8. * [act=I]
9. * [passage= SINGLE chose to live, and shunned to wed.]
10. [en] Having only one rank or row of petal s.
11. [en] Simple and honest ; sincere , without deceit.
12. * [Luke]
13. * [act=V]
14. Uncompounded; pure; unmixed.
15. * [text=simple ideas are opposed to complex , and single ideas to compound.]
16. * {{ quote-text | en | year=1867 | author=William Greenough Thayer Shedd | title=Homiletics, and Pastoral Theology | page=166
|passage=The most that is required is, that the passage of Scripture, selected
as the foundation of the sacred oration, should, like the oration itself, be
SINGLE, full, and unsuperfluous in its character.}}
1. [en] Simple; foolish; weak; silly.
2. * [The Queen of Corinth]
**** Derived terms
{{col3|en |single-acting|every single time|single-edged |single as a dollar
bill|single-step |single as a Pringle |single bed|single wicket|single wicket
cricket |single-blind |single bond |single-cell |single-celled
|single-click|cheese single|every single|semi-single|single angle quote|single
justice procedure|single lens reflex|single
tree|single-course|single-crop|single-stream|single-tracking|single-tree
|single combat |single cream |single crochet |single cross |single
crystal|single action |single currency |single data rate |single-decker
|singledom |single-driver|single time|single up |single-elimination |single
entry |single-eyed |single-figure |single file |single
flower|single-celling|single-taxism |single-fold |single-foot |single grave
|single-handed |single-handedly |single-heading |single-hearted |singlehood
|single-horse |single-issue |single leaf |single-line |single knot |single
malt |single-manned |single-manning |single market |single-minded |single
money |single mother |singleness |single-o |single option |single parent
|single-phase |single-phasing |singleplayer |single-ply roof |single pneumonia
|single-point |single-point urban interchange |single point of failure |single
precision |single prop |single quote |singler |single scull |single-sex
|single shell |single shot |single-shot |single-sided |single sourcing
|single-space |single-spaced |single-spacing |single standard |single star
system |singlestick |single stitch |single supplement |singlet |single tax
|singleton |single track |single union agreement |single-valued
|single-wheeler |single-wide |single-word |singly |a journey of a thousand
miles begins with a single step|are you single|at a single stroke|better to
light a single candle than to curse the darkness|I'm single|single and ready
to mingle|single annulus|single child|single curve|single dispatch|single
entendre|single eyelid|single father|single Gloucester|single jack|single
life|single malt scotch|single malt whisky|single pane of glass|single
parenting|single procession|single reed|single responsibility principle|single
story|single ticket|single transferable vote|single yellow
line|single-breasted|single-chain|single-digit salute|single-elimination
tournament|single-entry|single-first
cousin|single-hand|single-handedness|single-heartedly|single-heartedness|single-incision
laparoscopic surgery|single-lens reflex|single-line
whip|single-masted|single-mindedly|single-mindedness|single-molecule
magnet|single-O|single-organismic|single-page application|single-parent
family|single-payer|single-platform|single-player|single-ply
membrane|single-reed|single-serve|single-serving site|single-sideband
modulation|single-speed bicycle|single-strand binding
protein|single-stranded|single-tasking|single-track|single-use|single-user|single-valued
function}}
**** Related terms
- [en]
- [en]
- [en]
**** Translations
[not accompanied by anything else]
- Albanian: [sq]
- Arabic: [ar]
- Bulgarian: [bg]
- Catalan: [ca] , [ca]
- Chinese:
- Corsican: [co] , [co]
- Czech: [cs] , [cs]
- Dutch: [nl]
- Esperanto: [eo] , [eo]
- Finnish: [fi] , [fi]
- French: [fr]
- Friulian: [fur]
- Galician: [gl] , [gl]
- German: [de] , [de] , [de]
- Greek:
- Hebrew: [he]
- Hindi: [hi]
- Irish: [ga] , [ga] , [ga]
- Italian: [it] , [it]
- Japanese: [ja] , [ja]
- Latin: [la]
- Malay: [ms]
- Old English: [ang]
- Old Prussian: [prg]
- Ottoman Turkish: [ota]
- Persian: [fa] , [fa] [colloquial] , [fa]
- Polish: [pl] , [pl]
- Portuguese: [pt] , [pt] , [pt]
- Romanian: [ro]
- Russian: [ru] , [ru] , [ru]
- Santali: [sat]
- Serbo-Croatian: [sh]
- Spanish: [es] , [es]
- Swedish: [sv] , [sv]
- Thai: [th]
- Tocharian B: [txb] , [txb]
- Tok Pisin: [tpi] , [tpi]
- Turkish: [tr] , [tr]
[trans-bottom]
[not divided in parts]
- Arabic: [ar]
- Bulgarian: [bg]
- Catalan: [ca]
- Finnish: [fi] , [fi]
- Galician: [gl]
- German: [de] , [de] , [de] , [de]
- Greek:
- Hindi: [hi]
- Italian: [it] , [it]
- Japanese: [ja]
- Maori: [mi] [of a structure especially a boat]
- Persian: [fa] [rare] , [fa] , [fa]
- Polish: [pl] , [pl] , [pl]
- Portuguese: [pt] , [pt]
- Romanian: [ro] , [ro] , [ro] , [ro] , [ro]
- Russian: [ru] , [ru]
- Spanish: [es] , [es]
- Swedish: [sv] , [sv]
- Tok Pisin: [tpi]
- Turkish: [tr] , [tr]
[trans-bottom]
[designed for the use of only one]
- Bulgarian: [bg]
- Finnish: [fi]
- German: [de]
- Greek: [el]
- Irish: [ga]
- Italian: [it]
- Malay: [ms]
- Persian: [fa] , [fa]
- Polish: [pl] , [pl]
- Portuguese: [pt]
- Romanian: [ro] , [ro] , [ro] , [ro]
- Russian: [ru] , [ru]
- Swedish: [sv]
- Turkish: [tr]
[trans-bottom]
[not married nor dating]
- Arabic: [ar] , [ar]
- Armenian: [hy] , [hy]
- Bulgarian: [bg]
- Catalan: [Algherese] [ca] , [ca] , [ca]
- Chinese:
- Czech: [cs]
- Dutch: [nl]
- Finnish: [fi] , [colloquial] [fi]
- French: [fr]
- Galician: [gl]
- German: [de] , [de] , [de] , [de] , [de]
- Greek: [el]
- Hebrew: [he] , [he]
- Hindi: [hi]
- Irish: [ga] , [ga]
- Italian: [it] , [donna] [it] , [uomo] [it] , [it] , [it]
- Japanese: [ja] , [ja] , [ja]
- Khmer: [km] , [km]
- Latin: [la]
- Low German: [nds] , [nds]
- Luxembourgish: [lb]
- Malay: [ms]
- Maori: [mi]
- Ottoman Turkish: [ota] , [ota] [of a man]
- Persian: [fa]
- Plautdietsch: [pdt]
- Polish: [pl] , [pl] , [pl]
- Portuguese: [pt]
- Romanian: [ro] , [ro] , [ro] [of men]
- Russian: [of men] [ru] , [of men] [ru] [colloquial] , [of women] [ru] , [both sexes] [ru]
- Sardinian:
- Sassarese: [sdc]
- Serbo-Croatian: [sh] , [sh]
- Spanish: [es]
- Swedish: [sv] , [sv]
- Thai: [th]
- Turkish: [tr] , [tr]
- Vietnamese: [vi]
- Volapük: [vo]
- Welsh: [cy]
- Yiddish: [yi]
[trans-bottom]
[botany: having only one rank or row of petal]
- Bulgarian: [bg]
- Swedish: [sv]
[trans-bottom]
*** Noun
[en-noun]
1. [en] A 45 RPM vinyl record with one song on side A and one on side B.
2. [en] [en] A popular song release d and sold (on any format ) nominal ly on its own though usually having at least one extra track .
3. One who is not married or does not have a romantic partner .
4. [en] A score of one run .
5. [en] A hit in baseball where the batter advances to first base .
6. [en] A tile that has a different value (i.e. number of pip s) at each end.
7. [en] A bill valued at $1.
8. * [year=1976]
9. [en] A one-way ticket .
10. * {{ quote-text | en | year=1897 | author=Richard Marsh | title=The Beetle
|passage=‘I want to know, Mr Stone, if, in the course of the day, you have
issued any tickets to a person dressed in Arab costume?’<br>His reply was
prompt.<br>‘I have — by the last train, the 7.25, — three SINGLES..’}}
1. [en] 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.
2. [en] A game with one player on each side, as in tennis .
3. * [1=en]
4. One of the reeled filament s of silk , twisted without doubling to give them firmness.
5. [en] A handful of glean ed grain .
6. [en] A floating-point number having half the precision of a double-precision value.
7. * {{ quote-text | en | year=2011 | author=Rubin H. Landau | title=A First Course in Scientific Computing | page=214
|passage=If you want to be a scientist or an engineer, learn to say “no” to
SINGLES and floats.}}
1. [en] A shot of only one character .
2. * {{ quote-text | en | year=1990 | author=Jon Boorstin | title=The Hollywood Eye: What Makes Movies Work | page=94
|passage=But if the same scene is shot in SINGLES (or “over-the-shoulder”
shots where one of the actors is only a lumpy shoulder in the foreground), the
editor and the director can almost redirect the scene on film.}}
1. A single cigarette.
2. [en] [en] .
3. * [en]
**** Derived terms
[en]
**** Descendants
- [nl]
- [fi]
- [de]
- [id]
- [ja]
- [ko]
- [pl]
**** Translations
[45 RPM vinyl record]
- Bulgarian: [bg]
- Catalan: [ca]
- Chinese:
- Dutch: [nl]
- Esperanto: [eo]
- Finnish: [fi] , [fi]
- German: [de]
- Hungarian: [hu]
- Indonesian: [id] , [id]
- Irish: [ga]
- Japanese: [ja]
- Korean: [ko]
- Maori: [mi]
- Norwegian:
- Portuguese: [pt]
- Russian: [ru]
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Spanish: [es]
- Swedish: [sv]
[trans-bottom]
[popular song]
- Arabic: [ar] , [ar] , [ar]
- Bulgarian: [bg]
- Chinese:
- Corsican: [co]
- Esperanto: [eo]
- Finnish: [fi] , [fi]
- French: [fr] , [fr] [Canada]
- German: [de] , [de]
- Hungarian: [hu]
- Irish: [ga]
- Italian: [it]
- Japanese: [ja]
- Korean: [ko]
- Persian: [fa]
- Polish: [pl] , [pl] , [pl]
- Portuguese: [pt]
- Russian: [ru]
- Scots: [sco]
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Sicilian: [scn]
- Spanish: [es]
- Swedish: [sv]
- Vietnamese: [vi]
[trans-bottom]
[one who is not married]
- Arabic: [ar]
- Bulgarian: [bg] [man] , [bg] [woman]
- Chinese:
- Czech: [cs]
- Dutch: [nl]
- Finnish: [fi] , [fi]
- French: [fr]
- Galician: [gl] , [gl]
- Gallurese: [sdn]
- German: [de] , [de] , [dating jargon] [de] , [dating jargon] [de] , [de] , [de] , [obsolete] [de] , [obsolete] [de] , [de]
- Hindi: [hi] , [hi]
- Italian: [it] , [it]
- Japanese: [ja]
- Korean: [ko] , [ko]
- Persian: [fa]
- Polish: [pl] , [pl] , [pl] , [pl]
- Portuguese: [pt] , [pt]
- Russian: [of men] [ru] , [of women] [ru] , [colloquial, both sexes] [ru]
- Sardinian:
- Sassarese: [sdc]
- Serbo-Croatian: [sh]
- Spanish: [es] , [es]
- Swedish: [sv] , [sv] , [sv]
[trans-bottom]
[cricket: score of one run]
- Bulgarian: [bg]
[trans-bottom]
[baseball: hit]
- Bulgarian: [bg]
- Catalan: [ca]
- Chinese:
- French: [fr]
- Japanese: [ja]
- Korean: [ko] , [ko]
[trans-bottom]
[bill valued at $1]
- Bulgarian: [bg]
- German: [de]
- Kurdish:
[trans-bottom]
[one-way ticket]
**** See also
- [en]
- [en]
*** Verb
[en-verb]
1. [en] To get a hit that advances the batter exactly one base .
2. [en] To thin out .
3. * [passage=Paul went joyfully, and spent the afternoon helping to hoe or to SINGLE turnips with his friend.]
4. * {{ quote-text | en | year=1916 | title=Transactions of the Highland and Agricultural Society of Scotland | page=241
|passage=The seeds did not germinate in many parts of a row until rains in end
of June and thunderplumps in first week of July brought them up later in
patches, so that no second sowing was necessary, but SINGLING was done by
stages.}}
1. [en] To take the irregular gait called singlefoot .
2. * {{ quote-text | en | year=1860 | author=William S. Clark | title=Massachusetts Agricultural College Annual Report
|passage=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.}}
1. [en] To sequester ; to withdraw ; to retire .
2. * [passage=an agent SINGLING itself from consorts]
3. [en] To take alone, or one by one; to single out .
4. * {{ RQ:Hooker Laws
|passage=men [...] commendable when they are SINGLED}}
1. [en] To reduce (a railway) to single track.
2. * [en]
3. * [en]
4. * [en]
**** Derived terms
- [en]
**** Translations
[to identify or select one member of a group]
- Bulgarian: [bg] , [bg] , [bg] , [bg]
- Finnish: [fi] , [fi]
[trans-bottom]
[baseball: to get a hit that advances the batter exactly one base]
- Bulgarian: [bg]
[trans-bottom]
[farming: to thin out]
[of a horse: to take the singlefoot gait]
- Bulgarian: [bg]
[trans-bottom]
**** See also
[coefficient]
*** References
- [R:Webster 1913]
- [R:Online Etymology Dictionary]
*** Anagrams
- [en]
[en]
** Alemannic German
*** Etymology
[gsw].
*** Adjective
[gsw]
1. [en] [not in a relationship]
[gsw]
** Catalan
*** Etymology
[ca].
*** Pronunciation
- [sínguel]
*** Noun
[m]
1. [ca] [en]
*** Further reading
- [R:ca:IEC2]
- [R:ca:GDLC]
- [R:ca:DNV]
** Dutch
*** Etymology
Borrowed from [nl].
*** Pronunciation
- [music record or track] [nl]
- [(person) without romantic partner] [nl]
- [nl]
- [nl]
*** Noun
[m]
1. a [en] [short music record, e.g. 45 RPM vinyl with an A side and a B side; main track of such a record]
2. a [en] [person without a romantic partner]
**** Derived terms
{{col|nl |debuutsingle |hitsingle }}
*** Adjective
[-]
1. [en] [without a romantic partner]
**** Declension
[-]
** Finnish
*** Etymology
Borrowed from [fi].
*** Pronunciation
[fi-p]
*** Noun
[fi-noun]
1. single [45 rpm record; track nominally released on its own]
**** Declension
[singl]
**** Derived terms
{{col|fi|title=compounds |singlekeskiö |singlelevy |vinyylisingle }}
**** See also
- [fi]
*** Further reading
- [accessdate=2023-07-03]
** French
*** Noun
[m]
1. single room
2. [fr] [en]
*** Further reading
- [R:fr:TLFi]
** Italian
*** Etymology
[it].
*** Pronunciation
[sìngol < r:DiPI> < hyph:sìn.gle>]
*** Noun
[mfbysense]
1. [en] , loner (person who lives alone and has no emotional ties)
*** Adjective
[inv=1]
1. [en] (unmarried, not in a relationship)
*** References
References:
** Kapampangan
*** Alternative forms
- [pam]
*** Etymology
From [pam].
*** Pronunciation
- [singlé]
- [pam]
*** Noun
[singlé]
1. fried rice
*** Verb
[singlé]
1. [pam]
** Norwegian Bokmål
[lang=no]
*** Alternative forms
- [nb]
*** Etymology 1
Borrowed from [nb] and [en].
**** Adjective
[nb]
1. [nb]
**** Noun
[nb-noun-m1]
1. [nb] a [en] [record or CD]
2. [nb] singles [e.g. in tennis]
*** Etymology 2
From [nb].
**** Verb
[nb]
1. to sprinkle or scatter shingle
*** References
- [R:The Bokmål Dictionary]
- [R:NAOB]
** Norwegian Nynorsk
[lang=nn]
*** Alternative forms
- [nn]
*** Etymology
Borrowed from [nn] and [en].
*** Noun
[nn-noun-m1]
1. [nn] a [en] [record or CD]
2. [nn] singles [e.g. in tennis]
**** Synonyms
- [nn] [record]
*** References
- [R:The Nynorsk Dictionary]
** Portuguese
*** Etymology
[pt].
*** Pronunciation
- [pt]
*** Noun
[m]
1. [pt] [en] [song released on its own or with an extra track]
** Romanian
*** Etymology
[ro]. [ro].
*** Noun
[n]
1. [en] [album]
**** Declension
[pl=single-uri]
** Spanish
*** Pronunciation
[es-pr]
*** Etymology 1
[es]. [es].
**** Noun
[m]
1. [en] [song released]
**** Noun
[mfbysense]
1. [en] , single person
*** Etymology 2
**** Verb
[es]
1. [singlar]
*** Further reading
- [R:es:DRAE]
** Turkish
*** Etymology
[tr].
*** Pronunciation
- [tr]
*** Noun
[ı]
1. [tr] [en]
**** Declension
[ı]