Meaning of single | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Not accompanied by anything else; one in number.
   not-comparable
2. plain
3. Not divided in parts.
   not-comparable
4. simple, straightforward
5. Designed for the use of only one.
   not-comparable
6. Performed by one person, or one on each side.
   not-comparable
7. Not married, and (in modern times) not dating or without a significant other.
   not-comparable
8. small change
9. Having only one rank or row of petals.
   not-comparable
10. Simple and honest; sincere, without deceit.
    not-comparable, obsolete
11. Uncompounded; pure; unmixed.
    not-comparable
12. Simple; foolish; weak; silly.
    not-comparable, obsolete

Equivalents

Examples

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

“The vase contained a single long-stemmed rose.”

“The single-imaging optic of the mammalian eye offers some distinct visual advantages. Such lenses can take⟳ in photons from a wide range of angles, increasing light⟳ sensitivity. They also have⟳ high spatial resolution, resolving incoming images in minute detail. It’s therefore not surprising that most cameras mimic this arrangement.”

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

“a single room”

“a single combat”

“These shifts refuted, answer⟳ thy appellant, […] / Who now defies thee thrice to single fight⟳.”

“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".”

“Josh put⟳ down that he was a single male on the dating website.”

“To undergo⟳ such maiden pilgrimage. But earthlier happy is the rose distilled Than that which, withering on the virgin thorn, Grows, lives, and dies in single blessedness.”

“Single chose to live⟳, and shunned to wed.”

“Therefore, when thyne eye is single: then is all thy boddy full off light⟳. Butt if thyne eye be evyll: then shall all thy body be full of darknes?”

“I speak⟳ it with a single heart.”

“simple ideas are opposed to complex , and single ideas to compound.”

“The most that is required is, that the passage of Scripture, selected as the foundation of the sacred oration, should, like⟳ the oration itself, be single, full, and unsuperfluous in its character.”

“He utters such single matter⟳ in so infantly a voice.”

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