Word Finder - ones

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The digit or figure 1.

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The neutral element with respect to multiplication in a ring.

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A one-dollar bill.

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One run scored by hitting the ball and running between the wickets; a single.

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A joke or amusing anecdote.

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A particularly special or compatible person or thing.

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I knew as soon I met him that John was the one for me and we were married within a month.

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(leet) Used instead of ! to amplify an exclamation, parodying unskilled typists who forget to press the shift key while typing exclamation points, thus typing "1".

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2003 September 26, "DEAL WITH IT!!!!11one!!", in alt.games.video.nintendo.gamecube, Usenet

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(impersonal pronoun, indefinite) One thing (among a group of others); one member of a group.

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Any one of the boys.  The big one looks good.  I want the green one.  A good driver is one who drives carefully.

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(impersonal pronoun, sometimes with "the") The first mentioned of two things or people, as opposed to the other.

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She offered him an apple and an orange; he took one and left the other.

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(indefinite personal pronoun) Any person (applying to people in general).

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One’s guilt may trouble one, but it is best not to let oneself be troubled by things which cannot be changed.  One shouldn’t be too quick to judge.

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(pronoun) Any person, entity or thing.

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"driver", noun: one who drives.

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Belonging to one.

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A senior or first team (as opposed to a reserves team).

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The cells located on the ground floor.

The ones left over.

He and I are the only ones left, I lied.

The children; they're the important ones.

The ones I had weren't enough to drive you away?

The two younger ones had both married.

If there was a way to make him see what was in her head … to make him remember … she focused on Damian's memories, the ones before the dark age, when he and his brother were happy.

They're not the ones Martha found.

I can't really blame the ones that step over the line once in a while.

Since it was Friday and all the fun ones would be out drinking after work, he decided to take another walk, then maybe a nap.

We're the only ones who can influence the outcome of this.

You could see which restaurants were rated the highest on Yelp, which ones certain reviewers liked, and so on.

Gabriel stripped out of his pants and pulled on the new ones before striding back to the pile of the rest of his things.

Molly dug through her purse to retrieved a familiar brownish cube, like the ones Katie'd eaten to stay alive in Hell.

The smart ones were much too serious and the fun ones, well, they were just too stupid.

The fun ones seemed so stupid, they were pitiful and the smart ones were so tedious, he wanted to scream.

Other thoughts collided with her emotions, ones that reminded her that she was forever trapped with some otherworldly creature that viewed her as a food supply and nothing more.

A true introduction to Colorado mountain winters, the ones you read about in the books and think are the exaggeration of some faulty memory.

He was sparring with another warrior, his fluid, destructive movements far from the gentle ones he used with her.

The ones he had run into over the years smelled awful, like a wet dog.

I figured you and Sarah would be the only ones to notice.

The storm has blown two of the little ones out of the nest.

In the affairs of nations, large and powerful ones long have imposed their wills on the small and weak ones.

They weren't good dreams, and the ones she showed him weren't the only ones in his head.

She was quick to deny that they were the ones she'd found, but they continued with the story without asking her the details of her initial discovery.

Sometimes, the souls they sought were a few feet from the ones they claimed.

Even so, four of the Horsemen—the ones based here—were missing.

The ones they went loony over last time?

She needed new ones, or the cool night would do her in.

We're the first ones here tonight.

Masked and hooded to hide his deformity, Xander relied on his special senses, the ones that no one else possessed.

She said life was about choices, the ones we make as well as the ones we don't.

They're the ones who want the necklace you're wearing.

Structural complexity is brought about by the superposition of new variations on preceding ones.

By a re-elevation of a peneplain the rivers of an old land surface may be restored to youthful activity, and resume their shaping action, deepening the old valleys and initiating new ones, starting afresh the whole course of the geographical cycle.

He got down from his horse and very gently took the little ones up in his big warm hands.

Those are the ones we call antiques today.

Of course the little ones cannot spell on their fingers; but I manage to read their lips.

Do you ever have dreams about him - I mean torrid ones?

I'll try my luck closer to the seashore where the scenery is as fair as the little ones I seek.

Now there is one less hunter to compete with me for the precious little ones.

I choose the graves of my little ones far more carefully.

Howie is a very good guy who helps catch the bad ones.

My eyes are tired from all this reading and culling, discarding the inappropriate ones.

He takes the best ones.

She waited thousands of years and worked with both Dark Ones to make it happen.

While the Deans discussed contacting the state once more, both agreed another phone call would be as fruitless as earlier ones.

I've been losing some good ones.

Only the Ancient Ones and Death may pass with their powers intact.

We normally expel the Ancient Ones.

Randolph was the smallest of them, so she'd picked this town to cross the River rather than the larger ones south along the Mississippi.