single

Signification

Adj

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

Noun

1. A 45 RPM vinyl record with one song on side A and one on side B.
2. A popular song released and sold (on any format) nominally on its own though usually having at least one extra track.
3. One who is not married or does not have a romantic partner.
4. A score of one run.
5. A hit in baseball where the batter advances to first base.
6. A tile that has a different value (i.e. number of pips) at each end.
7. (informal) A bill valued at $1.
8. A one-way ticket.
9. 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.
10. A game with one player on each side, as in tennis.
11. One of the reeled filaments of silk, twisted without doubling to give them firmness.
12. A handful of gleaned grain.
13. A floating-point number having half the precision of a double-precision value.
14. A shot of only one character.
15. A single cigarette.
16. (obsolete) Synonym of single-driver.

Verb

1. To get a hit that advances the batter exactly one base.
2. To thin out.
3. To take the irregular gait called singlefoot.
4. To sequester; to withdraw; to retire.
5. To take alone, or one by one; to single out.
6. To reduce (a railway) to single track.

Prononcé comme (IPA)

/ˈsɪŋɡl̩/

Étymologie

From Middle English single, sengle, from Old French sengle, saingle, sangle, from Latin singulus, a diminutive derived from Proto-Indo-European *sem- (“one”). Akin to Latin simplex (“simple”). See simple, and compare singular.

Phrases

It was due to be released as a single , but this never happened .

Cela devait être libéré en single, mais cela ne s'est jamais produit.

Almost every single concert was sold out at the time .

Presque tous les concerts étaient vendus à l'époque.

The single " Bystander " was released with the announcement of the album .

Le single "Bystander" est sorti avec l'annonce de l'album.

McCreary County is the only Kentucky county to not have a single incorporated city .

Le comté de McCreary est le seul comté du Kentucky à ne pas avoir une seule ville incorporée.