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single
English
Etymology
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.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?s????l/
- Rhymes: -????l
Adjective
single (not comparable)
- Not accompanied by anything else; one in number.
- Not divided in parts.
- Designed for the use of only one.
- Performed by one person, or one on each side.
- Not married or (in modern times) not involved in a romantic relationship without being married or not dating anyone exclusively.
- (botany) Having only one rank or row of petals.
- (obsolete) Simple and honest; sincere, without deceit.
- 1526, William Tyndale, trans. Bible, Luke 11:
- 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?
- 1526, William Tyndale, trans. Bible, Luke 11:
- Uncompounded; pure; unmixed.
- 1725, Isaac Watts, Logick, or The Right Use of Reason in the Enquiry After Truth With a Variety of Rules to Guard
- simple ideas are opposed to complex , and single ideas to compound.
- 1867, William Greenough Thayer Shedd, Homiletics, and Pastoral Theology (page 166)
- 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.
- 1725, Isaac Watts, Logick, or The Right Use of Reason in the Enquiry After Truth With a Variety of Rules to Guard
- (obsolete) Simple; foolish; weak; silly.
- He utters such single matter in so infantly a voice.
Synonyms
- (not accompanied by anything else): lone, sole
- (not divided in parts): unbroken, undivided, uniform
- (not married): unmarried, available
Antonyms
- (not married): divorced, married, widowed, taken
- (not single, in a relationship, but with separate households): living apart together, LAT
Derived terms
Related terms
- singular
- singularity
- singularly
Translations
Noun
single (plural singles)
- (music) A 45 RPM vinyl record with one song on side A and one on side B.
- Antonym: album
- (music) A popular song released and sold (on any format) nominally on its own though usually having at least one extra track.
- One who is not married or does not have a romantic partner.
- Antonym: married
- (cricket) A score of one run.
- (baseball) A hit in baseball where the batter advances to first base.
- (dominoes) A tile that has a different value (i.e. number of pips) at each end.
- A bill valued at $1.
- (Britain) A one-way ticket.
- (Canadian football) 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. Officially known in the rules as a rouge.
- (tennis, chiefly in the plural) A game with one player on each side, as in tennis.
- One of the reeled filaments of silk, twisted without doubling to give them firmness.
- (Britain, Scotland, dialect) A handful of gleaned grain.
- (computing, programming) A floating-point number having half the precision of a double-precision value.
- Coordinate term: double
- 2011, Rubin H. Landau, A First Course in Scientific Computing (page 214)
- If you want to be a scientist or an engineer, learn to say “no” to singles and floats.
- (film) A shot of only one character.
- 1990, Jon Boorstin, The Hollywood Eye: What Makes Movies Work (page 94)
- But if the same scene is shot in singles (or “over-the-shoulder” shots where one of the actors is only a lumpy shoulder in the foreground), the editor and the director can almost redirect the scene on film.
- 1990, Jon Boorstin, The Hollywood Eye: What Makes Movies Work (page 94)
Derived terms
- cassingle
- lead single
- singles bar
- split single
- CD single
Translations
See also
- baseball
- cricket
Verb
single (third-person singular simple present singles, present participle singling, simple past and past participle singled)
- To identify or select one member of a group from the others; generally used with out, either to single out or to single (something) out.
- 1915, Austen Chamberlain, speech on April 16, 1915
- Sir John French says that if he is to single out one regiment in the fighting at Ypres it is the Worcesters he would name? I do plead that some person should record these events, so that our history, national and local, may be the richer for them, that the children may be stimulated to do their duty by the knowledge of the way in which our soldiers are doing theirs to-day.
- 1915, Austen Chamberlain, speech on April 16, 1915
- (baseball) To get a hit that advances the batter exactly one base.
- (agriculture) To thin out.
- 1913, D.H. Lawrence, Sons and Lovers, chapter 7
- Paul went joyfully, and spent the afternoon helping to hoe or to single turnips with his friend.
- 1913, D.H. Lawrence, Sons and Lovers, chapter 7
- (of a horse) To take the irregular gait called singlefoot.
- 1860, William S. Clark, Massachusetts Agricultural College Annual Report
- Many very fleet horses, when overdriven, adopt a disagreeable gait, which seems to be a cross between a pace and a trot, in which the two legs of one side are raised almost but not quite, simultaneously. Such horses are said to single, or to be single-footed.
- 1860, William S. Clark, Massachusetts Agricultural College Annual Report
- To sequester; to withdraw; to retire.
- 1594, Richard Hooker, Of the Lawes of Ecclesiastical Politie
- an agent singling itself from consorts
- 1594, Richard Hooker, Of the Lawes of Ecclesiastical Politie
- To take alone, or one by one.
- 1594, Richard Hooker, Of the Lawes of Ecclesiastical Politie
- men […] commendable when they are singled
- 1594, Richard Hooker, Of the Lawes of Ecclesiastical Politie
- To reduce a railway to single track.
Derived terms
- single out
Translations
See also
References
- single in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
- Douglas Harper (2001–2021) , “single”, in Online Etymology Dictionary
Anagrams
- Nigels, glinse, ingles
Catalan
Etymology
Borrowed from English single.
Pronunciation
- (Balearic, Central) IPA(key): /?si?.??l/
- (Valencian) IPA(key): /?si?.?el/
Noun
single m (plural singles)
- (music) single
Further reading
- “single” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
- “single” in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana.
- “single” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
Dutch
Etymology
Borrowed from English single.
Pronunciation
- (music record or track): IPA(key): /?s??.?l/, /?s??.??l/
- ((person) without romantic partner): IPA(key): /?s??.??l/
- Hyphenation: sin?gle
Noun
single m (plural singles, diminutive singletje n)
- A single (short music record, e.g. 45 RPM vinyl with an A side and a B side; main track of such a record).
- A single (person without a romantic partner).
Derived terms
- debuutsingle
- hitsingle
Adjective
single (not comparable)
- single (without a romantic partner)
Inflection
Finnish
Etymology
Borrowed from English single.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?si?le/, [?s?i?le?]
- Rhymes: -i?le
- Syllabification: sing?le
Noun
single
- single (45 rpm record; track nominally released on its own)
Declension
See also
- pitkäsoitto
Italian
Etymology
Borrowed from English single.
Noun
single m or f (invariable)
- single, loner (person who lives alone and has no emotional ties)
Adjective
single (invariable)
- single (unmarried, not in a relationship)
- Synonym: (formal) celibe
Norwegian Bokmål
Alternative forms
- singel
Etymology
Borrowed from English single and singles.
Noun
single m (definite singular singlen, indefinite plural singler, definite plural singlene)
- (music) a single (record or CD)
- (sports) singles (e.g. in tennis)
Synonyms
- singelplate (record)
References
- “single” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
Norwegian Nynorsk
Alternative forms
- singel
Etymology
Borrowed from English single and singles.
Noun
single m (definite singular singlen, indefinite plural singlar, definite plural singlane)
- (music) a single (record or CD)
- (sports) singles (e.g. in tennis)
Synonyms
- singelplate (record)
References
- “single” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
Portuguese
Etymology
Borrowed from English single.
Pronunciation
- (Brazil) IPA(key): /?s?.?ow/
Noun
single m (plural singles)
- (music) single (song released on its own or with an extra track)
Spanish
Etymology
Borrowed from English single. Doublet of sendos.
Noun 1
single m (plural singles)
- single (song released)
Noun 2
single m or f (plural singles)
- single, single person
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abstinent
English
Pronunciation
- (US) IPA(key): /?æb.st?.nn?t/
- (US) IPA(key): /?æb.st?.nn?t/
Etymology 1
First attested in the late 14th century as Middle English abstinent, abstynent, from Old French abstinent, from Latin abstin?ns, present participle of abstine?. See abstain.
Adjective
abstinent (comparative more abstinent, superlative most abstinent)
- Refraining from indulgence, especially from the indulgence of appetite. [First attested around 1350 to 1470.]
- Synonyms: abstemious, continent, temperate
- Be abstinent; shew not the corruption of thy generation: he that feeds shall die
Synonyms
- See also Thesaurus:moderate
Translations
Etymology 2
From Middle English abstinent (adjective form).
Noun
abstinent (plural abstinents)
- One who abstains; a faster. [First attested around 1350 to 1470.]
- (usually capitalized, religion, historical) One of a sect who appeared in France and Spain in the 3rd century, and believed in abstinence towards meat and sex.
Derived terms
Related terms
- abstinence
- abstinency
Translations
References
Catalan
Pronunciation
- (Balearic) IPA(key): /?ps.ti?nent/
- (Central) IPA(key): /?ps.ti?nen/
- (Valencian) IPA(key): /aps.ti?nent/
Adjective
abstinent (masculine and feminine plural abstinents)
- abstinent
Czech
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [?apst?n?nt]
Noun
abstinent m
- teetotaler (person who completely abstains from alcohol)
Antonyms
- pijan
Related terms
- See tenor
Further reading
- abstinent in P?íru?ní slovník jazyka ?eského, 1935–1957
- abstinent in Slovník spisovného jazyka ?eského, 1960–1971, 1989
French
Etymology
From Middle French abstinent, from Old French abstinent, borrowed from Latin abstinens, abstinentem.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ap.sti.n??/
Adjective
abstinent (feminine singular abstinente, masculine plural abstinents, feminine plural abstinentes)
- abstinent, teetotal
Synonyms
- abstème
Noun
abstinent m (plural abstinents, feminine abstinente)
- abstinent, teetotaler / teetotaller
Synonyms
- abstème
- néphaliste
Related terms
- abstinence
- abstenir
Further reading
- “abstinent” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
German
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /apsti?n?nt/
Adjective
abstinent (comparative abstinenter, superlative am abstinentesten)
- abstinent, teetotal
Declension
Related terms
- Abstinenz
- Abstinenzler
Further reading
- “abstinent” in Duden online
Latin
Verb
abstinent
- third-person plural present active indicative of abstine?
Middle French
Etymology
From Old French abstinent.
Adjective
abstinent m (feminine singular abstinente, masculine plural abstinents, feminine plural abstinentes)
- abstinent
Descendants
- French: abstinent
Norwegian Bokmål
Etymology
From Latin abstin?ns (“abstaining, abstinent”), present participle of abstine? (“abstain”), from ab- (“away from”) +? tene? (“hold; restrain”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /abst??n?nt/, /apst??n?nt/
- Rhymes: -?nt
- Hyphenation: ab?sti?nent
Adjective
abstinent (neuter singular abstinent, definite singular and plural abstinente, comparative mer abstinent, superlative mest abstinent)
- (literary) abstinent or abstaining (refraining from indulgence)
- en abstinent heroinist
- an abstinent heroin addict
- Synonym: avholdende
- en abstinent heroinist
- describing someone with withdrawal or withdrawal symptoms
Related terms
- abstinens (“abstinence”)
- abstinenssymptom (“withdrawal symptom”)
- abstinere (“abstain”)
References
- “abstinent” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
- “abstinent” in Det Norske Akademis ordbok (NAOB).
- “abstinent” in Store norske leksikon
Old French
Alternative forms
- abstenent
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin abstinens, abstinentem.
Adjective
abstinent m (oblique and nominative feminine singular abstinent or abstinente)
- abstinent
Declension
Descendants
- ? Middle English: abstinent
- English: abstinent
- Middle French: abstinent
- French: abstinent
Romanian
Etymology
From French abstinent
Noun
abstinent m (plural abstinen?i)
- abstinent
Declension
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