| 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" |
| bachelor | | |
| n. (person) | 1. bachelor, unmarried man | a man who has never been married. |
| ~ adult male, man | an adult person who is male (as opposed to a woman).; "there were two women and six men on the bus" |
| n. (person) | 2. bachelor, bachelor-at-arms, knight bachelor | a knight of the lowest order; could display only a pennon. |
| ~ knight | originally a person of noble birth trained to arms and chivalry; today in Great Britain a person honored by the sovereign for personal merit. |
| v. (stative) | 3. bach, bachelor | lead a bachelor's existence. |
| ~ live | lead a certain kind of life; live in a certain style.; "we had to live frugally after the war" |
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