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Common
noun
•
In Music:
A 45
RPM
vinyl record
with one
song
on side
A and one
on side
B
.
•
In 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
.
•
In Cricket:
A
score
of one
run
.
•
In Baseball:
A
hit
in
baseball
where the
batter
advances
to
first base
.
•
In Dominoes:
A
tile
that has a different value (i.e. number of
pips
) at each
end
.
•
A
bill
valued
at $1.
•
In British English:
A
one-way ticket
.
•
In 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
.
Officially
known in the
rules
as a
rouge
.
•
In Tennis:
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
.
•
In British English & Scottish English:
A
handful
of
gleaned
grain
.
•
In Computing & Programming:
A
floating-point number
having
half
the
precision
of a double-precision value.
•
In Film:
A
shot
of only one
character
.
adj
•
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
or (in
modern
times
) not
involved
in a
romantic
relationship
without being
married
or not
dating
anyone
exclusively
.
•
In Botany:
Having
only one
rank
or
row
of
petals
.
•
Simple
and
honest
;
sincere
, without
deceit
.
•
Uncompounded
;
pure
;
unmixed
.
•
Simple
;
foolish
;
weak
;
silly
.
verb
•
To
identify
or
select
one
member
of a group from the others;
generally
used with out, either to
single out
or to
single
(something) out.
•
In Baseball:
To get a
hit
that
advances
the
batter
exactly
one
base
.
•
In Agriculture:
To
thin out
.
•
To take the
irregular
gait
called
singlefoot
.
•
To
sequester
; to
withdraw
; to
retire
.
•
To take alone, or
one by one
.
•
To
reduce
a
railway
to
single
track
.
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Similar
sole
individual
unique
sundry
lone
buck
one
Related
second
song
third
childless
female
album
penny
spell
figure
track
point
black
hit
male
bail
small
pick
find
remix
hollow
new
tease
debut
separate
multi
banger
mixtape
knock
unmarried
carry
solo
max
beat
multiple
triple
select
lonely
freak
fourth
double
standard
movie
voice
star
musician
full
cd
rapper
married
ferret
seek
pull
ep
lash
weed
dole
music video
studio album
home run
solo album
More
Opposite
LAT
married
living apart together
Rhymes
ingle
tingle
single
mingle
jingle
kringle
shingle
atingle
commingle
intermingle
Lineage
single
English
sengle
Middle English (1100-1500)
sengle
Old French (842-ca. 1400)
singulus
Latin
simplex
Latin
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