single
/ˈsɪŋɡəl/ verb B2- To get a hit that advances the batter exactly one base. · Pedro singled in the bottom of the eighth inning, which, if converted to a run, would put the team back into contention.
- To thin out.
- To take the irregular gait called singlefoot.
- To reduce (a railway) to single track.
He/she/it singles · Past singled · Past participle singled · -ing form singling
Verb forms
- Base form
- single
- He/she/it
- singles
- Past
- singled
- Past participle
- singled
- -ing form
- singling
Phrasal verbs and expressions
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They consisted of a couple of comfortable bed-rooms and a single large airy sitting-room, cheerfully furnished, and illuminated by two broad windows.
So all life is a great chain, the nature of which is known whenever we are shown a single link of it.
All my lines of thought lead me back invariably to the one basic question—why should an athletic man develop his frame upon so unnatural an instrument as a single dumb-bell?”
There was a single lamp over the gateway and a steady globe of light in the fatal study.
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