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.