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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