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Singleton

Noun CEFR C2 Specialized
ˈsɪŋ.ɡ(ə)l.tən

Definitions

  1. A playing card that is the only one of its suit in a hand, especially at bridge.
  2. A placename:
  3. A village and civil parish in Fylde borough, Lancashire, England (OS grid ref SD3838).
  4. A hand containing only one card of a certain suit.
  5. A suburb in Great Chart with Singleton parish, Ashford borough, Kent, England (OS grid ref TQ9841).
  6. A single object, especially one of a group.
  7. A village and civil parish in Chichester district, West Sussex, England (OS grid ref SU8713).
  8. A class that may not be instantiated more than once, i.e. that implements the singleton design pattern.
  9. A town and local government area (Singleton Council) north-west of Newcastle, New South Wales, Australia.
  10. A set with exactly one element.
  11. An outer southern suburb of Perth, Western Australia.
  12. A child or animal that is born singly, not as a twin or other multiple birth.
  13. A habitational surname from Old English.
  14. A person without a romantic partner.
  15. A person without a dissociative identity.
  16. A single consonant, as opposed to a geminated consonant.
  17. Synonym of blot.
  18. A class offered only once within a school year.

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Examples

“singleton preterm birth”
“Viable non-malformed singleton pregnancies were selected for cerebellar measurements; transcerebellar diameter, (TCD), left and right cerebellar diameters (LCD, RCD).”
“The time draws near when pink and red creep⟳ insidiously into the periphery, jewelry retailers go into overdrive and drugstore aisles burst⟳ with cherubs for the one holiday of the year that separates the singletons from the significant-othered.”
“Millennials and Gen Zedders’ approach⟳ to romance can teach⟳ later-life singletons a thing or two about new relationships, according to dating agent Anna Williamson.”
“singleton sonorants”
“[…] she busied herself in the front room, rustling about in Anne Kellaway’s box of buttony materials filled with rings of various sizes, chips of sheep horn for the Singletons, a ball of flax for shaping round buttons, bits of linen for covering them, both sharp and blunt needles, and several different colors and thicknesses of thread.”
“Graphs with diameter d and girth 2d#43;1 are known as Moore graphs. They were introduced by Hoffman and Singleton in a paper that can be viewed as one of the prime sources of algebraic graph theory.”

CEFR level

C2
Mastery
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