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      single
      noun
      (music) A 45 RPM vinyl record with one song on side A and one on side B.
      (music) A popular song released and sold (on any format) nominally on its own though usually having at least one extra track.
      One who is not married or does not have a romantic partner.
      (cricket) A score of one run.
      (baseball) A hit in baseball where the batter advances to first base.
      (dominoes) A tile that has a different value (i.e. number of pips) at each end.
      (US, informal) A bill valued at $1.
      (UK) A one-way ticket.
      (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.
      (tennis, chiefly in the plural) A game with one player on each side, as in tennis.
      One of the reeled filaments of silk, twisted without doubling to give them firmness.
      (UK, Scotland, dialect) A handful of gleaned grain.
      (computing, programming) A floating-point number having half the precision of a double-precision value.
      (film) A shot of only one character.
      A single cigarette.
      A surname from Old English.
      (rail transport, obsolete) Synonym of single-driver.
      verb
      (baseball) To get a hit that advances the batter exactly one base.
      (agriculture) To thin out.
      (of a horse) To take the irregular gait called singlefoot.
      (transitive) To reduce (a railway) to single track.
      (intransitive, archaic) To sequester; to withdraw; to retire.
      (intransitive, archaic) To take alone, or one by one; to single out.
      adjective
      Not accompanied by anything else; one in number.
      Not divided in parts.
      Designed for the use of only one.
      Performed by one person, or one on each side.
      Not married, and (in modern times) not dating or without a significant other.
      (botany) Having only one rank or row of petals.
      Uncompounded; pure; unmixed.
      (obsolete) Simple and honest; sincere, without deceit.
      (obsolete) Simple; foolish; weak; silly.
      Roots
      singulussingl- · Latin · single, individual
      Synonyms for single
      onenunmarriedadjindividualadjloneadjundividedadjsolitaryadjonlyadvunwedadjsingletonnunsharedadj
      Words related to single
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