Word Finder - single

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A 45 RPM vinyl record with one song on side A and one on side B.

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A popular song released and sold (on any format) nominally on its own though usually having at least one extra track.

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The Offspring released four singles from their most recent album.

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One who is not married or does not have a romantic partner.

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He went to the party, hoping to meet some friendly singles there.

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A score of one run.

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A hit in baseball where the batter advances to first base.

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A tile that has a different value (i.e. number of pips) at each end.

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A bill valued at $1.

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I don't have any singles, so you'll have to make change.

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A one-way ticket.

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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.

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(chiefly in the plural) A game with one player on each side, as in tennis.

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One of the reeled filaments of silk, twisted without doubling to give them firmness.

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A handful of gleaned grain.

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A floating-point number having half the precision of a double-precision value.

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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.

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Eddie singled out his favorite marble from the bag.

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To get a hit that advances the batter exactly one base.

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Pedro singled in the bottom of the eighth inning, which, if converted to a run, would put the team back into contention.

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To thin out.

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(of a horse) To take the irregular gait called singlefoot.

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To sequester; to withdraw; to retire.

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To take alone, or one by one.

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Not accompanied by anything else; one in number.

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Can you give me a single reason not to leave right now?

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Not divided in parts.

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The potatoes left the spoon and landed in a single big lump on the plate.

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Designed for the use of only one.

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a single room

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Performed by one person, or one on each side.

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a single combat

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Not married or (in modern times) not involved in a romantic relationship without being married or not dating anyone exclusively.

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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".

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Having only one rank or row of petals.

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Simple and honest; sincere, without deceit.

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Uncompounded; pure; unmixed.

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Simple; foolish; weak; silly.

A single image can end a war.

Could he then merge two souls together into a single body?

But not a single person appeared to be in the room.

A single word comes to mind.

To be intoxicated by a single glass of wine; I have experienced this pleasure when I have drunk the liquor of the esoteric doctrines.

He whipped off his belt and added it to the rest of his belongings, leaving a single knife strapped to his thigh.

What would she not have given to bring back even a single day of that time!

For five weeks after that there was not a single battle.

But there is one point in the human frame - a point midway in the brain, single and free, which may in a special sense be called the seat of the mind.

The coils of the electromagnets are differentially wound with silk-covered wire, 4 mils (= 004 inch) in diameter, to a total resistance of 400 ohms. This differential winding enables the instrument to be used for " duplex " working, but the connexions of the wires to the terminal screws are such that the relay can be used for ordinary single working.

Not a single muscle of his face--which in those days was still thin--moved.

But neither they nor a single commanding officer were there, only disorganized crowds of troops of various kinds.

The sensation of those terrible whistling sounds and of the corpses around him merged in Rostov's mind into a single feeling of terror and pity for himself.

The Emperor, though he met him twice, did not favor him with a single word.

From all these reports it was evident that where they had expected to meet a single division there was now the whole French army marching from Moscow in an unexpected direction--along the Kaluga road.

At Pollina, the ancient Apollonia, are the remnants of a Doric temple, of which a single column is still standing.

The vertical branches descend to the basement and generally merge in a single return pipe which is connected to the lower part of the boiler.

The one-pipe system is similar in principle, the pipe rising to its greatest height above the boiler and being then carried around as a single pipe falling all the while.

Frequently a single pipe is led to the tap, but the water in this branch cools and must therefore be drawn off before hot water can be obtained.

No great mountain chain was ever raised by a single effort, and folding went on to some extent in other periods besides those mentioned.

His English practice had as yet been scanty, but in 1737 a single speech in a jury trial of note placed him at the head of the bar, and from this time he had all he could attend to.

The capitan pasha left his anchorage in the Gulf of Patras with his fleet in a single line, without reserve or advance-guard.

In elevating the marsupials to the rank of a sub-class the name Metatheria has been suggested as the title for the higher grade, with Marsupialia as the designation for the single order by which they are now represented.

In all cases a more or less full series of teeth is developed, these being differentiated into incisors, canines, premolars and molars, when all are present; but only a single pair of teeth in each jaw has deciduous predecessors.

In addition to this replacement of a single pair of functional teeth in each jaw, it has been discovered that marsupials possess rudimentary tooth-germs which never cut the gum.

The single species, which is a native of western and southern Australia, is about the size of an English squirrel, to which its long bushy tail gives it some resemblance; but it lives entirely on the ground, especially in sterile sandy districts, feeding on ants.

The first in the upper jaw is strong, curved and cutting, the other two generally somewhat smaller; the single lower functional incisor large, more or less.

These formed a single building, which was still intact goo years ago, and was used as the mosque of the then existing city of Istakhr.

His most extensive single work is a book on Sound, which, in the second edition, has become a treatise on vibrations in general.

For the soul, by its nature as a single monad indestructible and, therefore, immortal, death meant only the loss of the monads constituting the body and its return to the pre-existent state.

Except the opossums, no single living marsupial is known outside the Australian zoological region.

We pass on to the other curious order of non-placental mammals, that of the Monotremata, so called from the structure of their organs of evacuation with a single orifice, as in birds.

There was an almost entire cessation of building, and a large number of houses in the chief cities remained untenanted, the occupants moving to lodgings and more than one family living in a single house.

This tribunal differs from similar courts in the states inasmuch as it consists of a single member, called the " president," an officer appointed by the governor-general from among the justices of the High Court of Australia.

These rise generally only a few feet above the level of the sea, and are crowned by a single house standing on an artificial mound and protected by a surrounding dike or embankment.

Here we are concerned only with their earlier history, which is put for convenience under this heading in order to separate the account of the period when they formed practically a single area for historical purposes from that of the time when Holland and Belgium became distinct administrative units.

The use of tobacco, coffee, opium and wine were forbidden on pain of death; eighteen persons are said to have been put to death in a single day for infringing this rule.

A married woman may hold her separate property, carry on business, sue and be sued the same as if she were single, except that in conveying or mortgaging her real estate she must be joined by her husband.

Our knowledge of the salinity of waters below the surface is as yet very defective, large areas being still unrepresented by a single observation.

However, someone may come along and edit the material to for example, combine the writings of two or more individuals into a single piece.

In his five-part Masses and single movements we find eight combinations, and his six-part Masses and single movements show eleven.

Although some attain their full development in the body of a single host - in this respect differing from all other Entozoa - the majority do not become sexually mature until after their transference from an "intermediate" to a "definitive" host.

The Nematoda which are parasitic during their whole life may similarly be divided into two classes - those which undergo their development in a single host, and those which undergo their development in the bodies of two distinct hosts.

Though a distinct borough it is united on the west with Rochester and on the east with Gillingham, so that the three boroughs form, in appearance, a single town with a population which in 1901 exceeded 110,000.

From the lower flange of a suspended !; runway, made of a single I section, run wheels, from the axles of which the transporter is suspended.

In order that only one motor may be used, and also that the load may be lifted by a single part of rope, various devices have been invented.

They could not alienate a single utensil.

In 1836 Cooke, to whom the idea appears to have been suggested by Schilling's method, invented a telegraph in which an alphabet was worked out by the single and combined movement of three needles.

At offices where the work is heavier than can be dealt with by the A B C apparatus, the " Single Needle " instrument has been very largely employed; it has the advantage of slight Single liability to derangement, and of requiring very little adjustment.

If long circuits were worked direct with ordinary instruments, high battery power would be required in order to send sufficient Single current to actuate the apparatus.