What part of speech is one?

One can be categorized as an adjective, a noun and a pronoun.

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Parts of speech

  • 1. one is a pronoun, specifically Indefinite.
  • 2. one is a noun, singular of ones.
  • 3. one is an adjective.

Inflections

Noun

Adjective

What does one mean?

Definitions

Adjective
one - having the indivisible character of a unit; "a unitary action"; "spoke with one voice"
one - indefinite in time or position; "he will come one day"; "one place or another"
one - being a single entity made by combining separate components; "three chemicals combining into one solution"
one - used informally as an intensifier; "that is one fine dog"
one - of the same kind or quality; "two animals of one species"
one - used of a single unit or thing; not two or more; "`ane' is Scottish"

Verb
one - To cause to become one; to gather into a single whole; to unite.

Noun
one - 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 - a single person or thing; "he is the best one"; "this is the one I ordered"
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Examples of one

#   Sentence  
1. noun He has the one but will need a two and three to go with it.
2. noun They had lunch at one.
3. noun He is the best one.
4. noun This is the one I ordered.
5. noun This item is a small one and easily missed.
6. noun There are rumours about preparations by slum dwellers for another looting spree against banks, governmental and public property similar to the one that took place last April, and I have already overheard youngsters in my neighbourhood joking about it and saying things like "This time we will be the first to loot, we didn't get anything the last time".
7. noun A veteran of India's military intervention in the Jaffna peninsula to help implement the 1987 Indo-Sri Lanka Peace Accord - which ambitiously provided for the disarming of the formidable LTTE - Kalkat said the new defense deal would essentially be a reiteration of the older one minus its military commitment.
8. noun Under President Hu Jintao, Beijing has opened out to New Delhi and Prime Minister Wen Jiabao is expected to visit early next year, making friends by formally accepting Sikkim as part of India and backing India as a permanent member of the U.N. Security Council -- thus leaving Washington as the only one of the "permanent five" that has not yet done so.
9. noun Amnesty chief spokesman Mike Blakemore said: "It's unbelievable that no one can account for 200,000 assault rifles.
10. noun no one was charged for forced marriage, only the beating.
11. noun No one can contradict me when I say that heavy metal and satanism are closely linked.
12. noun "No one can contradict me when I say that heavy metal and satanism are closely linked.
13. noun There was certainly more despair in Saddam's Iraq than in Paul Bremmer's Iraq, and no one exploded himself.
14. noun There is a new game in town: The actual murderer is called "the military wing", the one who pays him, equips him and sends him is now called "the political wing" and the head of the operation is called the "spiritual leader".
15. noun After every world war, the rules of international law have changed, and the same will happen after the present one.
16. adj. Spoke with one voice.
17. adj. He will come one day.
18. adj. One place or another.
19. adj. Three chemicals combining into one solution.
20. adj. That is one fine dog.
21. adj. Two animals of one species.
22. pron. The thing to keep in mind is that Sunni Arab nationalists and Baathists and local Sunni radicals are likely to remain far more dangerous to the US in Iraq than al-Qaeda infiltrators, and it would be dangerous to take one's eyes off the former ball.
23. pron. Indeed, given how Bush has rampaged around the world alienating allies and ignoring vital conflicts with the potential to blow back on the US, one might well argue that Edwards knows more now than Bush does.
24. pron. Leaving aside the fact that this views conflicts with other historical examples in the region, Sunnis have never offered an alternative choice, which eventually leads one to guess that the opinion held by the Fallujan taxi driver above is precisely what they are planning to implement.
25. pron. Maybe I'm missing something here, but how, exactly, does one 'Loose' 200,000 AK47's?
26. pron. One has to wonder whether the bright fellows in our government and military who set up the deals with these people don't know what they are, don't care, or know perfectly well.
27. pron. One is a special tool to detect damage to the thermal-protective tile while in orbit - something the Columbia crew would have welcomed.
28. pron. Helps in self-expression and develops one's potentiality.
29. pron. The problem is whether one cares what happens to the polar bears, checkerspot butterflies and other unconsumables.
30. pron. I bet you also did take charcoal as it is used for barbecue which does not get as hot as real coal (e.g. for blacksmithing one needs coal, not barbecue charcoal).
31. pron. There are a couple ways one could spawn lineatus - mop spawning & water incubating them for two weeks, picking eggs from a mop & putting them in a tray of treated, seasoned water or setting up the parents in a planted tank & moving them so the fry can hatch out there.
32. pron. TDS meters (the thrifty aquarist's hardness meter can be used if one has seen one of your municipal water department's annual reports.
33. pron. After a number of people began complaining about "mystery deaths"among incubating eggs, some of the more advanced killie people began suggesting that after 7-8 days of incubation, one should do a 100% water change - as the eggs develop, they do release waste material.
34. pron. Some people put in a very dilute Acriflaven solution to slow down the fungus, so one can take white eggs out with a pipette or eyedropper.
35. pron. There can be many ideas; one can see numerous options passing through their mind.
36. pron. Also one can keep their privacy in the cabins and make the time in seclusion.
Sentence  
noun
He has the one but will need a two and three to go with it.
They had lunch at one.
He is the best one.
This is the one I ordered.
This item is a small one and easily missed.
There are rumours about preparations by slum dwellers for another looting spree against banks, governmental and public property similar to the one that took place last April, and I have already overheard youngsters in my neighbourhood joking about it and saying things like "This time we will be the first to loot, we didn't get anything the last time".
A veteran of India's military intervention in the Jaffna peninsula to help implement the 1987 Indo-Sri Lanka Peace Accord - which ambitiously provided for the disarming of the formidable LTTE - Kalkat said the new defense deal would essentially be a reiteration of the older one minus its military commitment.
Under President Hu Jintao, Beijing has opened out to New Delhi and Prime Minister Wen Jiabao is expected to visit early next year, making friends by formally accepting Sikkim as part of India and backing India as a permanent member of the U.N. Security Council -- thus leaving Washington as the only one of the "permanent five" that has not yet done so.
Amnesty chief spokesman Mike Blakemore said: "It's unbelievable that no one can account for 200,000 assault rifles.
no one was charged for forced marriage, only the beating.
No one can contradict me when I say that heavy metal and satanism are closely linked.
"No one can contradict me when I say that heavy metal and satanism are closely linked.
There was certainly more despair in Saddam's Iraq than in Paul Bremmer's Iraq, and no one exploded himself.
There is a new game in town: The actual murderer is called "the military wing", the one who pays him, equips him and sends him is now called "the political wing" and the head of the operation is called the "spiritual leader".
After every world war, the rules of international law have changed, and the same will happen after the present one.
adj.
Spoke with one voice.
He will come one day.
One place or another.
Three chemicals combining into one solution.
That is one fine dog.
Two animals of one species.
pron.
The thing to keep in mind is that Sunni Arab nationalists and Baathists and local Sunni radicals are likely to remain far more dangerous to the US in Iraq than al-Qaeda infiltrators, and it would be dangerous to take one's eyes off the former ball.
Indeed, given how Bush has rampaged around the world alienating allies and ignoring vital conflicts with the potential to blow back on the US, one might well argue that Edwards knows more now than Bush does.
Leaving aside the fact that this views conflicts with other historical examples in the region, Sunnis have never offered an alternative choice, which eventually leads one to guess that the opinion held by the Fallujan taxi driver above is precisely what they are planning to implement.
Maybe I'm missing something here, but how, exactly, does one 'Loose' 200,000 AK47's?
One has to wonder whether the bright fellows in our government and military who set up the deals with these people don't know what they are, don't care, or know perfectly well.
One is a special tool to detect damage to the thermal-protective tile while in orbit - something the Columbia crew would have welcomed.
Helps in self-expression and develops one's potentiality.
The problem is whether one cares what happens to the polar bears, checkerspot butterflies and other unconsumables.
I bet you also did take charcoal as it is used for barbecue which does not get as hot as real coal (e.g. for blacksmithing one needs coal, not barbecue charcoal).
There are a couple ways one could spawn lineatus - mop spawning & water incubating them for two weeks, picking eggs from a mop & putting them in a tray of treated, seasoned water or setting up the parents in a planted tank & moving them so the fry can hatch out there.
TDS meters (the thrifty aquarist's hardness meter can be used if one has seen one of your municipal water department's annual reports.
After a number of people began complaining about "mystery deaths"among incubating eggs, some of the more advanced killie people began suggesting that after 7-8 days of incubation, one should do a 100% water change - as the eggs develop, they do release waste material.
Some people put in a very dilute Acriflaven solution to slow down the fungus, so one can take white eggs out with a pipette or eyedropper.
There can be many ideas; one can see numerous options passing through their mind.
Also one can keep their privacy in the cabins and make the time in seclusion.
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