single
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Tính từ
adjective- 1.
(not comparable)Not accompanied by anything else; one in number.
Can you give me a single reason not to leave right now?
The vase contained a single long-stemmed rose.
Đồng nghĩa: lone, sole, solitary
- 2.
(not comparable)Not divided in parts.
The potatoes left the spoon and landed in a single big lump on the plate.
Đồng nghĩa: unbroken, undivided, uniform
- 3.
(not comparable)Designed for the use of only one.
a single room
- 4.
(not comparable)Performed by one person, or one on each side.
a single combat
- 5.
(not comparable)Not married, and (in modern times) not dating or without a significant other.
Forms often ask if a person is single, married, divorced, or widowed. In this context, a person who is dating someone but who has never married puts "single".
Josh put down that he was a single male on the dating website.
Đồng nghĩa: unmarried, unpartnered, available
- 6.
(not comparable)(botany) Having only one rank or row of petals.
- 7.
(not comparable, obsolete)Simple and honest; sincere, without deceit.
- 8.
(not comparable)Uncompounded; pure; unmixed.
- 9.
(not comparable, obsolete)Simple; foolish; weak; silly.
Danh từ
noun- 1.
(music) A 45 RPM vinyl record with one song on side A and one on side B.
- 2.
(music) A popular song released and sold (on any format) nominally on its own though usually having at least one extra track.
The Offspring released four singles from their most recent album.
- 3.
One who is not married or does not have a romantic partner.
He went to the party, hoping to meet some friendly singles there.
- 4.
(cricket) A score of one run.
He refused to take a single as the ball was dropped by his opponent's best fielder.
- 5.
(baseball) A hit in baseball where the batter advances to first base.
- 6.
(dominoes) A tile that has a different value (i.e. number of pips) at each end.
- 7.
(US, informal)A bill valued at $1.
I don't have any singles, so you'll have to make change.
- 8.
(UK)A one-way ticket.
- 9.
(Canadian)(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.
Đồng nghĩa: rouge
- 10.
(in plural)(tennis, chiefly in the plural) A game with one player on each side, as in tennis.
- 11.
One of the reeled filaments of silk, twisted without doubling to give them firmness.
- 12.
(Scotland, UK, dialectal)(UK, Scotland, dialect) A handful of gleaned grain.
- 13.
(computing, programming) A floating-point number having half the precision of a double-precision value.
- 14.
(film) A shot of only one character.
- 15.
A single cigarette.
- 16.
(obsolete)(rail transport, obsolete) Synonym of single-driver.
Đồng nghĩa: single-driver
Động từ
verb- 1.
(baseball) To get a hit that advances the batter exactly one base.
Pedro singled in the bottom of the eighth inning, which, if converted to a run, would put the team back into contention.
- 2.
(agriculture) To thin out.
- 3.
(of a horse) To take the irregular gait called singlefoot.
- 4.
(archaic, intransitive)To sequester; to withdraw; to retire.
- 5.
(archaic, intransitive)To take alone, or one by one; to single out.
- 6.
(transitive)To reduce (a railway) to single track.
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ine-pro From Middle English single, sengle, from Old French sengle, saingle, sangle, from Latin singulus, a diminutive derived from Proto-Indo-European *sem- (one). Akin to simplex. See simple, and compare singular.