single meaning
- Being or characteristic of a single thing or person
- individual - Not married or related to the unmarried state
"sex and the single girl"; "single parenthood"; "are you married or single?"
- unmarried - Used of flowers having usually only one row or whorl of petals
"single chrysanthemums resemble daisies and may have more than one row of petals" - Existing alone or consisting of one entity or part or aspect or individual
"upon the hill stood a single tower"; "had but a single thought which was to escape"; "a single survivor"; "a single serving"; "a single lens"; "a single thickness" - Characteristic of or meant for a single person or thing
"single occupancy"; "a single bed"
- individual - Having uniform application
"a single legal code for all" - Not divided among or brought to bear on more than one object or objective
"judging a contest with a single eye"; "a single devotion to duty"
- undivided, exclusive
- A base hit on which the batter stops safely at first base
- bingle - The smallest whole number or a numeral representing this number
- one, 1, I, ace, unity
- Hit a single
"the batter singled to left field"
Derived forms: singled, singles, singling
See also: azygos, azygous, concentrated, divorced, idiosyncratic, individualism, individualist, individualistic, individuality, individuation, lone, lonesome, man-to-man, mateless, one-man, one-member, one-on-one, one-person, one-woman, only, respective, separate, several, singleness, singly, singular, sole, solitary, sui generis, unary, uniform, uninominal, unique, unmated, unshared, unvarying, unwed, unwedded, various, widowed
Type of: base hit, digit, figure, hit, safety
Encyclopedia: Single
[American slang]
n. an unmarried person. (Usually plural.)
• I'm holding a little party for singles.
• Todd's a single—just recently.
[Business]
adjective, noun
■ adjective
1
only one:
the European single currency, the euro
All these jobs can be done by one single machine.
2 [only before noun] (BrE) (also one-way, AmE, BrE)
a single ticket, etc. can be used for travelling to a place but not back again:
How much is the single fare to New York?
⇨ RETURN adj
■ noun [C]
1 (BrE)
a ticket that allows you to travel to a place but not back again:
How much is a single to Paris?
⇨ RETURN noun
2 (AmE)
a note/bill that is worth one dollar ⇨ DOUBLE noun
■ verb
PHRASAL VERBS
single sb/sth out
to choose sb/sth from a group for special attention:
I'm not going to single any department out for criticism-we all need to do better.
The firm was singled out as an example of a company that cares for its workforce.
[Finance]
The filing status used by a taxpayer who is unmarried and does not qualify for any other filing status.
Examples
More: Next- we have a single room available.
- he wished he were young again, single.
- he wanted to concentrate on a single issue.
- the female pore, are most commonly a single pair.
- a single branch may bear several catkins.