Definitions for single

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single sin·gle

Spelling: [sing-guh l]

IPA: /ˈsɪŋ gəl/

Single is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 7 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 10 points.

You can make 115 anagrams from letters in single (egilns).

Definitions for single

noun

1. one person or thing; a single one.
2. an accommodation suitable for one person only, as a hotel room or a table at a restaurant:
3. a ticket for a single seat at a theater.
4. British. a one-way ticket. a steam locomotive having one driving wheel on each side.
5. singles, people who are unmarried or not in a romantic relationship, especially if relatively young:
6. Baseball.. Also called one-base hit. a base hit that enables a batter to reach first base safely.
7. singles, (used with a singular verb) a match with one player on each side, as a tennis match.
8. Golf. twosome (def 4).
9. Cricket. a hit for which one run is scored.
10. Informal. a one-dollar bill.
11. Music. a phonograph record, CD, or cassette usually having two songs: one of the songs recorded on a single: a song released or promoted separately from the rest of the album to which it belongs:
12. Often, singles. Textiles. reeled or spun silk that may or may not be thrown. a one-ply yarn of any fiber that has been drawn and twisted.

adjective

1. only one in number; one only; unique; sole:
2. of, relating to, or suitable for one person only:
3. solitary or sole; lone:
4. unmarried or not in a romantic relationship:
5. pertaining to the unmarried state:
6. of or noting a parent who brings up a child or children alone, without a partner.
7. of one against one, as combat or fight.
8. consisting of only one part, element, or member:
9. sincere and undivided:
10. separate, particular, or distinct; individual:
11. uniform; applicable to all:
12. (of a bed or bedclothes) twin-size.
13. (of a flower) having only one set of petals.
14. British. of standard strength or body, as ale, beer, etc. Compare double (def 1).
15. (of the eye) seeing rightly.

verb (used with object)

1. to pick or choose (one) from others (usually followed by out):
2. Baseball. to cause the advance of (a base runner) by a one-base hit. to cause (a run) to be scored by a one-base hit (often followed by in or home).

verb (used without object)

1. Baseball. to hit a single.

Origin of single

1275-1325; late Middle English (adj.), Middle English sengle Old French Latin singulus individual, single (usually in the plural singuli one apiece), derivative of *sem- one (see Examples for single

In a show about single women, Sex and The City was always in a rush to get to the altar—and with a man there waiting.

The bare reference to a single consideration will be conclusive on this point.

He had united them and he had made them the first of all nations to worship a single God.

It is not a decisive war, with a single, signature victory, but a war of attrition.

He was rich and he was willing to take the daughter without a single penny.

They stood in a single row, united by solemn respect as the Liu family remained inside.

Their ignorance, with the single exception of horse-flesh, is appalling.

A single father, he had been living abroad and returned when his mother was diagnosed with cancer.

It is a single round, low tower, shaped like the tomb of Cacilia Metella.

Despite the strong language, however, the neither the JPO nor Lockheed could dispute a single fact in either Daily Beast report.