| lone | | |
| adj. | 1. alone, lone, lonely, solitary | lacking companions or companionship.; "he was alone when we met him"; "she is alone much of the time"; "the lone skier on the mountain"; "a lonely fisherman stood on a tuft of gravel"; "a lonely soul"; "a solitary traveler" |
| ~ unaccompanied | being without an escort. |
| adj. | 2. lone, lonely, solitary | characterized by or preferring solitude.; "a lone wolf"; "a lonely existence"; "a man of a solitary disposition"; "a solitary walk" |
| ~ unsocial | not seeking or given to association; being or living without companions.; "the unsocial disposition to neglect one's neighbors" |
| adj. | 3. lone, lonesome, only, sole, solitary | being the only one; single and isolated from others.; "the lone doctor in the entire county"; "a lonesome pine"; "an only child"; "the sole heir"; "the sole example"; "a solitary instance of cowardice"; "a solitary speck in the sky" |
| ~ single | existing alone or consisting of one entity or part or aspect or individual.; "upon the hill stood a single tower"; "had but a single thought which was to escape"; "a single survivor"; "a single serving"; "a single lens"; "a single thickness" |
| single | | |
| n. (act) | 1. bingle, single | a base hit on which the batter stops safely at first base. |
| ~ base hit, safety | (baseball) the successful act of striking a baseball in such a way that the batter reaches base safely. |
| ~ line-drive single, line single | a single resulting from a line drive. |
| n. (quantity) | 2. 1, ace, i, one, single, unity | the smallest whole number or a numeral representing this number.; "he has the one but will need a two and three to go with it"; "they had lunch at one" |
| ~ digit, figure | one of the elements that collectively form a system of numeration.; "0 and 1 are digits" |
| ~ monas, monad | a singular metaphysical entity from which material properties are said to derive. |
| ~ singleton | a single object (as distinguished from a pair). |
| v. (contact) | 3. single | hit a single.; "the batter singled to left field" |
| ~ baseball, baseball game | a ball game played with a bat and ball between two teams of nine players; teams take turns at bat trying to score runs.; "he played baseball in high school"; "there was a baseball game on every empty lot"; "there was a desire for National League ball in the area"; "play ball!" |
| ~ hit | cause to move by striking.; "hit a ball" |
| adj. | 4. individual, single | being or characteristic of a single thing or person.; "individual drops of rain"; "please mark the individual pages"; "they went their individual ways" |
| ~ idiosyncratic | peculiar to the individual.; "we all have our own idiosyncratic gestures"; "Michelangelo's highly idiosyncratic style of painting" |
| ~ individualist, individualistic | marked by or expressing individuality.; "an individualistic way of dressing" |
| ~ man-to-man, one-on-one | being a system of play in which an individual defensive player guards an individual offensive player.; "one-on-one defense" |
| ~ respective, several, various | considered individually.; "the respective club members"; "specialists in their several fields"; "the various reports all agreed" |
| ~ singular | being a single and separate person or thing.; "can the singular person be understood apart from his culture?"; "every fact in the world might be singular...unlike any other fact and sole of its kind" |
| ~ separate | independent; not united or joint.; "a problem consisting of two separate issues"; "they went their separate ways"; "formed a separate church" |
| adj. | 5. single | used of flowers having usually only one row or whorl of petals.; "single chrysanthemums resemble daisies and may have more than one row of petals" |
| ~ phytology, botany | the branch of biology that studies plants. |
| adj. | 6. single | existing alone or consisting of one entity or part or aspect or individual.; "upon the hill stood a single tower"; "had but a single thought which was to escape"; "a single survivor"; "a single serving"; "a single lens"; "a single thickness" |
| ~ azygos, azygous | occurring singly; not one of a pair.; "the azygous muscle of the uvula" |
| ~ one-man, one-person, one-woman | designed for or restricted to a single person.; "a one-man show"; "a one-person tent"; "Sarah Silverman's hilarious one-woman show" |
| ~ lonesome, only, sole, lone, solitary | being the only one; single and isolated from others.; "the lone doctor in the entire county"; "a lonesome pine"; "an only child"; "the sole heir"; "the sole example"; "a solitary instance of cowardice"; "a solitary speck in the sky" |
| ~ unique, singular | the single one of its kind.; "a singular example"; "the unique existing example of Donne's handwriting"; "a unique copy of an ancient manuscript"; "certain types of problems have unique solutions" |
| ~ sui generis | constituting a class of its own; unique.; "a history book sui generis"; "sui generis works like Mary Chestnut's Civil War diary" |
| ~ unary | consisting of or involving a single element or component.; "in a unary operation in a mathematical system one element is used to yield a single result" |
| ~ one-member, uninominal | based on the system of having only one member from each district (as of a legislature).; "a uninominal electoral system" |
| adj. | 7. single, unmarried | not married or related to the unmarried state.; "unmarried men and women"; "unmarried life"; "sex and the single girl"; "single parenthood"; "are you married or single?" |
| ~ divorced | of someone whose marriage has been legally dissolved. |
| ~ mateless | of someone who has no marriage partner. |
| ~ unwed, unwedded | of someone who has not been married.; "unwed mother" |
| ~ widowed | single because of death of the spouse. |
| ~ unmated | not mated sexually. |
| adj. | 8. individual, single | characteristic of or meant for a single person or thing.; "an individual serving"; "single occupancy"; "a single bed" |
| ~ unshared | not shared. |
| adj. | 9. single | having uniform application.; "a single legal code for all" |
| ~ uniform, unvarying | always the same; showing a single form or character in all occurrences.; "a street of uniform tall white buildings" |
| adj. | 10. exclusive, single, undivided | not divided among or brought to bear on more than one object or objective.; "judging a contest with a single eye"; "a single devotion to duty"; "undivided affection"; "gained their exclusive attention" |
| ~ concentrated | gathered together or made less diffuse.; "their concentrated efforts"; "his concentrated attention"; "concentrated study"; "a narrow thread of concentrated ore" |
| sole | | |
| n. (artifact) | 1. sole | the underside of footwear or a golf club. |
| ~ footgear, footwear | covering for a person's feet. |
| ~ club-head, club head, clubhead, golf-club head | (golf) the head of the club which strikes the ball. |
| ~ half sole | shoe sole extending from the shank to the toe. |
| ~ innersole, insole | the inner sole of a shoe or boot where the foot rests. |
| ~ outsole | the outer sole of a shoe or boot that is the bottom of the shoe and makes contact with the ground. |
| ~ waist, shank | the narrow part of the shoe connecting the heel and the wide part of the sole. |
| ~ bottom, underside, undersurface | the lower side of anything. |
| n. (food) | 2. fillet of sole, sole | lean flesh of any of several flatfish. |
| ~ sole | right-eyed flatfish; many are valued as food; most common in warm seas especially European. |
| ~ flatfish | sweet lean whitish flesh of any of numerous thin-bodied fish; usually served as thin fillets. |
| ~ gray sole, grey sole | greyish-white flesh of a flatfish. |
| ~ english sole, lemon sole | highly valued almost pure white flesh. |
| n. (body) | 3. sole | the underside of the foot. |
| ~ region, area | a part of an animal that has a special function or is supplied by a given artery or nerve.; "in the abdominal region" |
| ~ foot, human foot, pes | the part of the leg of a human being below the ankle joint.; "his bare feet projected from his trousers"; "armored from head to foot" |
| ~ ball | a more or less rounded anatomical body or mass.; "the ball at the base of the thumb"; "he stood on the balls of his feet" |
| n. (animal) | 4. sole | right-eyed flatfish; many are valued as food; most common in warm seas especially European. |
| ~ food fish | any fish used for food by human beings. |
| ~ flatfish | any of several families of fishes having flattened bodies that swim along the sea floor on one side of the body with both eyes on the upper side. |
| ~ family soleidae, soleidae | soles. |
| ~ european sole, solea solea | highly valued as food. |
| ~ solea lascaris, lemon sole | small European sole. |
| ~ parophrys vitulus, english sole, lemon sole | popular pale brown food flatfish of the Pacific coast of North America. |
| ~ psettichthys melanostichus, sand sole | a common flatfish of the Pacific coast of North America. |
| ~ hogchoker, trinectes maculatus | useless as food; in coastal streams from Maine to Texas and Panama. |
| ~ fillet of sole, sole | lean flesh of any of several flatfish. |
| v. (change) | 5. resole, sole | put a new sole on.; "sole the shoes" |
| ~ bushel, fix, furbish up, mend, repair, doctor, touch on, restore | restore by replacing a part or putting together what is torn or broken.; "She repaired her TV set"; "Repair my shoes please" |
| adj. | 6. exclusive, sole | not divided or shared with others.; "they have exclusive use of the machine"; "sole rights of publication" |
| ~ unshared | not shared. |
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