单词 | single |
释义 | single (once / 44 pages) 1adjn 2nv WORD FAMILY single: singled, singleness, singles, singling, singly USAGE EXAMPLESNorth Carolina twice cut the deficit back to single digits down the stretch but got no closer than seven. Washington Times(Jan 02, 2017) In December, more than a billion streams were served in a single week for the first time. BBC(Jan 02, 2017) It may be impossible to draw a single thread through every performance to neatly cinch together a great actress’s legacy. New York Times(Jan 02, 2017) 1 1adj 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 Syn|Ant azygos, azygous occurring singly; not one of a pair one-man, one-person, one-womandesigned for or restricted to a single person lone, lonesome, only, sole, solitarybeing the only one; single and isolated from others singular, uniquethe single one of its kind sui generisconstituting a class of its own; unique unaryconsisting of or involving a single element or component one-member, uninominalbased on the system of having only one member from each district (as of a legislature) multiple having or involving or consisting of more than one part or entity or individual aggregatecomposed of a dense cluster of separate units such as carpels or florets or drupelets bigeminaloccurring in pairs binaryconsisting of two (units or components or elements or terms) double, doubled, two-fold, twofoldtwice as great or many double, dual, dupleconsisting of or involving two parts or components usually in pairs double, dual, three-fold, threefold, treble, two-fold, twofoldhaving more than one decidedly dissimilar aspects or qualities duplex(used technically of a device or process) having two parts manifold, multiplexmany and varied; having many features or forms ternary, treble, triple, triplexhaving three units or components or elements three-fold, threefold, treble, triplethree times as great or many triunebeing three in one; used especially of the Christian Trinity four-fold, fourfold, quadruplefour times as great or many four-fold, fourfold, quadruple, quadruplex, quadruplicatehaving four units or components quaternary, quaternateconsisting of or especially arranged in sets of four five-fold, fivefold, quintuplehaving five units or components sextuple, six-fold, sixfoldhaving six units or components septuple, seven-fold, sevenfoldhaving seven units or components eight-fold, eightfold, octuplehaving eight units or components nine-fold, ninefold, nonuplehaving nine units or components denary, ten-fold, tenfoldcontaining ten or ten parts 2adj being or characteristic of a single thing or person Syn|Ant individual idiosyncratic peculiar to the individual individualist, individualisticmarked by or expressing individuality man-to-man, one-on-onebeing a system of play in which an individual defensive player guards an individual offensive player respective, several, variousconsidered individually singularbeing a single and separate person or thing separateindependent; not united or joint common belonging to or participated in by a community as a whole; public communalfor or by a group rather than individuals publicaffecting the people or community as a whole jointunited or combined 3adj characteristic of or meant for a single person or thing single occupancy a single bed Syn individual unshared not shared 4adj having uniform application a single legal code for all Syn uniform, unvarying always the same; showing a single form or character in all occurrences 5adj 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 Syn exclusive, undivided concentrated gathered together or made less diffuse 6adj 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 Ant double used of flowers having more than the usual number of petals in crowded or overlapping arrangements 7adj not married or related to the unmarried state sex and the single girl single parenthood are you married or single? Syn|Ant unmarried divorced of someone whose marriage has been legally dissolved matelessof someone who has no marriage partner unwed, unweddedof someone who has not been married widowedsingle because of death of the spouse unmatednot mated sexually married joined in matrimony joined, unitedof or relating to two people who are married to each other matedof or relating to a marriage partner ringedwearing a wedding ring; lawfully married wed, weddedhaving been taken in marriage matedmated sexually 8n the smallest whole number or a numeral representing this number 2Syn|Hypo|Hyper 1, I, ace, one, unity monad, monas a singular metaphysical entity from which material properties are said to derive singletona single object (as distinguished from a pair) fellow, mateone of a pair digit, figure one of the elements that collectively form a system of numeration 1n a base hit on which the batter stops safely at first base Syn|Hypo|Hyper bingle line single, line-drive single a single resulting from a line drive base hit, safety (baseball) the successful act of striking a baseball in such a way that the batter reaches base safely 2v hit a single the batter singled to left field Hyper hit cause to move by striking |
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