| single | |
| 1. adj. 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. | |
| 2. adj. Not divided in parts. | |
| The potatoes left the spoon and landed in a single big lump on the plate. | |
| 3. adj. Designed for the use of only one. | |
| a single room | |
| 4. adj. Performed by one person, or one on each side. | |
| a single combat | |
| 5. adj. Not married or (in modern times) not involved in a romantic relationship without being married or not dating anyone exclusively. | |
| 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. | |
| 6. adj. (botany) Having only one rank or row of petals. | |
| 7. adj. (obsolete) Simple and honest; sincere, without deceit. | |
| 8. adj. Uncompounded; pure; unmixed. | |
| 9. adj. (obsolete) Simple; foolish; weak; silly. | |
| 10. n. (music) A 45 RPM vinyl record with one song on side A and one on side B. | |
| 11. n. (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. | |
| 12. n. One who is not married. | |
| He went to the party, hoping to meet some friendly singles there. | |
| 13. n. (cricket) A score of one run. | |
| 14. n. (baseball) A hit in baseball where the batter advances to first base. | |
| 15. n. (dominoes) A tile that has a different value (i.e. number of pips) at each end. | |
| 16. n. A bill valued at $1. | |
| I don't have any singles, so you'll have to make change. | |
| 17. n. (UK) A one-way ticket. | |
| 18. n. (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. | |
| 19. n. (tennis, chiefly in the plural) A game with one player on each side, as in tennis. | |
| 20. n. One of the reeled filaments of silk, twisted without doubling to give them firmness. | |
| 21. n. (Scotland) A handful of gleaned grain. | |
| 22. v. 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. | |
| Eddie singled out his favorite marble from the bag. | |
| Yvonne always wondered why Ernest had singled her out of the group of giggling girls she hung around with. | |
| 23. v. (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. | |
| 24. v. (agriculture) To thin out. | |
| 25. v. (of a horse) To take the irregular gait called singlefoot. | |
| 26. v. To sequester; to withdraw; to retire. | |
| 27. v. To take alone, or one by one. | |
