Single
One only, as distinguished from more than one; consisting of one alone; individual; separate; as, a single star.
Alone; having no companion.
Hence, unmarried; as, a single man or woman.
Not doubled, twisted together, or combined with others; as, a single thread; a single strand of a rope.
Performed by one person, or one on each side; as, a single combat.
Uncompounded; pure; unmixed.
Not deceitful or artful; honest; sincere.
Simple; not wise; weak; silly.
To select, as an individual person or thing, from among a number; to choose out from others; to separate.
To sequester; to withdraw; to retire.
To take alone, or one by one.
To take the irrregular gait called single-foot;- said of a horse. See Single-foot.
A unit; one; as, to score a single.
The reeled filaments of silk, twisted without doubling to give them firmness.
A handful of gleaned grain.
A game with but one player on each side; -- usually in the plural.
A hit by a batter which enables him to reach first base only.
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Single Quotations
No amount of experimentation can ever prove me right; a single experiment can prove me wrong.
Albert Einstein
Thousands of candles can be lighted from a single candle, and the life of the candle will not be shortened. Happiness never decreases by being shared.
Buddha
All the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word: freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope.
Winston Churchill
To build may have to be the slow and laborious task of years. To destroy can be the thoughtless act of a single day.
Winston Churchill
Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.
Aristotle
Some single mind must be master, else there will be no agreement in anything.
Abraham Lincoln
I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying.
Oscar Wilde
When sorrows come, they come not single spies, but in battalions.
William Shakespeare
I do not take a single newspaper, nor read one a month, and I feel myself infinitely the happier for it.
Thomas Jefferson
I just received the following wire from my generous Daddy; Dear Jack, Don't buy a single vote more than is necessary. I'll be damned if I'm going to pay for a landslide.
John F. Kennedy
Single Translations
single in Afrikaans is ongetroud
single in Dutch is ongehuwd, ongetrouwd
single in German is einzeln/ledig, Einzel.., Alleinstehend
single in Italian is nubile, singolo
single in Latin is singulus, singuli
single in Swedish is enda, enkel, ogift
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