Definition of single Single
/sɪˈŋgʌl/ - [singgul] - sin•gle
We found 57 definitions of single from 8 different sources.
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WordNet
NounPlural: singles |
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| single - a base hit on which the batter stops safely at first base | ||
| bingle | ||
| base hit, safety (baseball) the successful act of striking a baseball in such a way that the batter reaches base safely | ||
| single - the smallest whole number or a numeral representing this number; "he has the one but will need a two and three to go with it"; "they had lunch at one" | ||
| one, 1, I, ace, unity | ||
| digit, figure a finger or toe in human beings or corresponding body part in other vertebrates | ||
| monas, monad (biology) a single-celled microorganism (especially a flagellate protozoan) | ||
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| single - hit a single; "the batter singled to left field" | ||
| hit pay unsolicited and usually unwanted sexual attention to; "He tries to hit on women in bars" | ||
| baseball game, baseball a ball game played with a bat and ball between two teams of nine players; teams take turns at bat trying to score runs; "he played baseball in high school"; "there was a baseball game on every empty lot"; "there was a desire for National League ball in the area"; "play ball!" | ||
Adjectivesingle, singler, singlest |
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| single - 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" | ||
| multiple having or involving or consisting of more than one part or entity or individual; "multiple birth"; "multiple ownership"; "made multiple copies of the speech"; "his multiple achievements in public life"; "her multiple personalities"; "a pineapple is a multiple fruit" | ||
| azygos, azygous occurring singly; not one of a pair; "the azygous muscle of the uvula" | ||
| one-man, one-person, one-woman designed for or restricted to a single person; "a one-man show"; "a one-person tent"; "Sarah Silverman's hilarious one-woman show" | ||
| lonesome, only, sole, lone, solitary being the only one; single and isolated from others; "the lone doctor in the entire county"; "a lonesome pine"; "an only child"; "the sole heir"; "the sole example"; "a solitary instance of cowardice"; "a solitary speck in the sky" | ||
| unique, singular highly unusual or rare but not the single instance; "spoke with a unique accent"; "had unique ability in raising funds"; "a frankness unique in literature"; "a unique dining experience" | ||
| sui generis constituting a class of its own; unique; "a history book sui generis"; "sui generis works like Mary Chestnut's Civil War diary" | ||
| unary consisting of or involving a single element or component; "in a unary operation in a mathematical system one element is used to yield a single result" | ||
| single - 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 affection"; "gained their exclusive attention" | ||
| undivided, exclusive | ||
| concentrated gathered together or made less diffuse; "their concentrated efforts"; "his concentrated attention"; "concentrated study"; "a narrow thread of concentrated ore" | ||
| single - 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" | ||
| phytology, botany the branch of biology that studies plants | ||
| single - having uniform application; "a single legal code for all" | ||
| single - being or characteristic of a single thing or person; "individual drops of rain"; "please mark the individual pages"; "they went their individual ways" | ||
| individual | ||
| common having no special distinction or quality; widely known or commonly encountered; average or ordinary or usual; "the common man"; "a common sailor"; "the common cold"; "a common nuisance"; "followed common procedure"; "it is common knowledge that she lives alone"; "the common housefly"; "a common brand of soap" | ||
| separate separated according to race, sex, class, or religion; "separate but equal"; "girls and boys in separate classes" | ||
| individuality, individuation, individualism the quality of being individual; "so absorbed by the movement that she lost all sense of individuality" | ||
| idiosyncratic peculiar to the individual; "we all have our own idiosyncratic gestures"; "Michelangelo's highly idiosyncratic style of painting" | ||
| individualist, individualistic marked by or expressing individuality; "an individualistic way of dressing" | ||
| man-to-man, one-on-one forthright and honest; "had a man-to-man talk about the facts of life" | ||
| respective, several, various considered individually; "the respective club members"; "specialists in their several fields"; "the various reports all agreed" | ||
| single - not married or related to the unmarried state; "unmarried men and women"; "unmarried life"; "sex and the single girl"; "single parenthood"; "are you married or single?" | ||
| unmarried | ||
| married joined in matrimony; "a married man"; "a married couple" | ||
| unmated not mated sexually | ||
| divorced of someone whose marriage has been legally dissolved | ||
| mateless of someone who has no marriage partner | ||
| unwed, unwedded of someone who has not been married; "unwed mother" | ||
| single - characteristic of or meant for a single person or thing; "an individual serving"; "single occupancy"; "a single bed" | ||
| individual | ||
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Wiktionary 
- single (Noun)
A 45 RPM vinyl record with one song on side A and one on side B. - single (Noun)
A popular song released and sold on any format nominally on its own though usually has at least one extra track. - single (Noun)
One who is not married. - single (Noun)
A score of one run. - single (Noun)
A hit in baseball where the batter advances to first base. - single (Noun)
A tile that has different values i. e. , number of pips in each end. - single (Noun)
A bill valued at $1. - single (Noun)
A one-way ticket . - single (Noun)
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. - single (Noun)
A game with one player on each side, as in tennis. - single (Noun)
One of the reeled filaments of silk, twisted without doubling to give them firmness. - single (Noun)
A handful of gleaned grain. - single (Adjective)
Not accompanied by anything else; one in number. - single (Adjective)
Not divided in parts. - single (Adjective)
Designed for the use of only one. - single (Adjective)
Not married, and also not dating. - single (Adjective)
Having only one rank or row of petals. - single (Adjective)
Simple and honest; sincere, without deceit.
Webster DictionaryWebster's Unabridged Dictionary 📘
- single (a.)
One only, as distinguished from more than one; consisting of one alone; individual; separate; as, a single star. - single (a.)
Alone; having no companion. - single (a.)
Hence, unmarried; as, a single man or woman. - single (a.)
Not doubled, twisted together, or combined with others; as, a single thread; a single strand of a rope. - single (a.)
Performed by one person, or one on each side; as, a single combat. - single (a.)
Uncompounded; pure; unmixed. - single (a.)
Not deceitful or artful; honest; sincere. - single (a.)
Simple; not wise; weak; silly. - single (v. t.)
To select, as an individual person or thing, from among a number; to choose out from others; to separate. - single (v. t.)
To sequester; to withdraw; to retire. - single (v. t.)
To take alone, or one by one. - single (v. i.)
To take the irrregular gait called single-foot;- said of a horse. See Single-foot. - single (n.)
A unit; one; as, to score a single. - single (n.)
The reeled filaments of silk, twisted without doubling to give them firmness. - single (n.)
A handful of gleaned grain. - single (n.)
A game with but one player on each side; -- usually in the plural. - single (n.)
A hit by a batter which enables him to reach first base only.
OmegaWiki DictionaryOmegaWiki Dictionary Ω
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Not divided in parts. -
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Not accompanied by anything else. -
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Not married; having no spouse. -
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A popular song released and sold separately from a full album, usually accompanied by a bonus track. -
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A hit in baseball where the batter advances to first base. -
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In cricket, a score of one run. -
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To identify or select one member of a group from the others. -
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To get a single in baseball.
Chambers DictionaryChamber's 20th Century Dictionary 📕
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sing′gl, adj. consisting of one only: individual, unique: separate, private: alone: unmarried: not combined with others: unmixed: having one only on each side: straightforward: sincere: simple, normal: pure.—v.t. to separate: to choose one from others: to select from a number.—adjs. Sing′le-act′ing, acting effectively in one direction only—of any reciprocating machine or implement; Sing′le-breast′ed, with a single row of buttons or loops only, of a coat, corsage, &c.—n. Single-en′try, a system of book-keeping in which each entry appears only once on one side or other of an account.—adj. Sing′le-eyed, having but one eye: devoted, unselfish.—ns. Sing′le-flow′er, a flower containing a single set of petals, as a wild rose; Sing′le-foot, a gait of horses, the amble.—adjs. Sing′le-hand′ed, by one's self: unassisted: having only one workman; Sing′le-heart′ed, having a single or sincere heart: without duplicity.—adv. Sing′le-heart′edly.—adj. Sing′le-mind′ed, having a single or sincere mind: upright.—ns. Sing′le-mind′edness; Sing′leness, state of being single or alone: freedom from deceit: sincerity: simplicity.—adj. Sing′le-soled, having a single sole, as a shoe: poor.—ns. Sing′le-stick, a stick or cudgel for one hand: a fight or game with singlesticks; Sing′let, an undershirt or waistcoat; Sing′leton, in whist, a hand containing one card only of some suit; Sing′letree (the same as Swingletree); Sing′le-wom′an, an unmarried woman: (obs.) a whore.—adv. Sing′ly, one by one: particularly: alone: by one's self: honestly: sincerely. [O. Fr.,—L. sin-gulus, one to each, separate, akin to sem-el, once, Gr. ham-a.]
Sailor's Word-BookThe Sailor's Word-Book ⛵
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To unreeve the running part of top-sail sheets, &c., to let them run freely, or for harbour duty.
Wikipedia 
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In popular music marketing, a single is a record release with only one or two songs. The first song (usually the one given the most promotion, and heard more often in the media) is called an A-side, while any other song on the single is called a B-side.
The pairing of recordings on a single comes from the days of shellac and vinyl records, when discs had two playable sides. Modern compact disc singles may contain more than one version of either the A- or B-side, or sometimes an additional recording by the same performer. B-sides may be selections from an album, or songs not otherwise issued for sale.
Many times the chance to get a new song issued as an A-side creates competition between members of bands, or teams of songwriters. John Lennon and Paul McCartney of the Beatles tried to write better songs than each other, to get more A-sides than the other. George Harrison, also a Beatle, rarely had his songs chosen for singles, but had a hit with "Something" for the band.
In the days of vinyl singles, royalties for both A- and B-sides were paid equally. Many listeners never played B-sides more than once, and radio focused on A-sides. Many people who made recordings knew this, and used it to earn extra money from sales, or to promote other music they made. Phil Spector sometimes used short jam sessions by his studio band as B-sides to singles he produced.
Michael Nesmith of the Monkees wanted his songs to appear on Monkees singles. He would settle for B-sides, if he couldn't get
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