single
/ˈsɪŋɡəl/ noun B1- A vinyl record with one song on side A and one on side B, usually 7 inches in diameter and played at 45 RPM.
- A popular song released and sold (on any format) nominally on its own though usually having at least one extra track. · The Offspring released four singles from their most recent album.
- One who is not married or does not have a romantic partner. · He went to the party, hoping to meet some friendly singles there.
- A score of one run. · He refused to take a single as the ball was dropped by his opponent's best fielder.
- A hit in baseball where the batter advances to first base.
- A tile that has a different value (i.e. number of pips) at each end.
- A bill valued at $1. · I don't have any singles, so you'll have to make change.
- A score of one point, awarded when a kicked ball is dead within the non-kicking team's end zone or has exited that end zone.
Plural singles
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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