single

IPA: sˈɪŋgʌɫ

noun

  • (music) A 45 RPM vinyl record with one song on side A and one on side B.
  • (music) A popular song released and sold (on any format) nominally on its own though usually having at least one extra track.
  • One who is not married or does not have a romantic partner.
  • (cricket) A score of one run.
  • (baseball) A hit in baseball where the batter advances to first base.
  • (dominoes) A tile that has a different value (i.e. number of pips) at each end.
  • (US, informal) A bill valued at $1.
  • (UK) A one-way ticket.
  • (Canadian football) 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.
  • (tennis, chiefly in the plural) A game with one player on each side, as in tennis.
  • One of the reeled filaments of silk, twisted without doubling to give them firmness.
  • (UK, Scotland, dialect) A handful of gleaned grain.
  • (computing, programming) A floating-point number having half the precision of a double-precision value.
  • (film) A shot of only one character.
  • A single cigarette.
  • (rail transport, obsolete) Synonym of single-driver.
  • A surname from Old English.

verb

  • (baseball) To get a hit that advances the batter exactly one base.
  • (agriculture) To thin out.
  • (of a horse) To take the irregular gait called singlefoot.
  • (intransitive, archaic) To sequester; to withdraw; to retire.
  • (intransitive, archaic) To take alone, or one by one; to single out.
  • (transitive) To reduce (a railway) to single track.

adjective

  • Not accompanied by anything else; one in number.
  • Not divided in parts.
  • Designed for the use of only one.
  • Performed by one person, or one on each side.
  • Not married, and (in modern times) not dating or without a significant other.
  • (botany) Having only one rank or row of petals.
  • (obsolete) Simple and honest; sincere, without deceit.
  • Uncompounded; pure; unmixed.
  • (obsolete) Simple; foolish; weak; silly.
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Examples of "single" in Sentences

  • One or more applications can run in the single JVM.
  • But not a single one passed the Eidetic memory test.
  • The single album was only physically released in the UK.
  • Of the family manor house, only a single gatepost remains.
  • They released one record and a panoply of singles and EPs.
  • The scandal only helped to increase the sales of the single.
  • The digital download of the single is only available in the UK.
  • Only one was shipped expeditiously, and it was a single item order.
  • Wiki has an odd idiosyncrasy of only creating pages on singles of albums.
  • It was the only new recording on the album barring the lead single Da Grande.

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