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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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duplex
English
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin duplex (“double, two-fold”), from duo (“two”) + plico (“fold together”); compare ????? (plék?, “twist, braid”).
Pronunciation
- (US) enPR: do?o'pl?ks, IPA(key): /?dupl?ks/
Adjective
duplex (not comparable)
- Double, made up of two parts.
- (telecommunications) Bidirectional (in two directions).
- duplex telegraphy
- (soil science) Having horizons with contrasting textures.
- 1977, Australian Journal of Botany (volume 25, page 462)
- Soils are duplex, sandy and solodic. The dominant trees are the stringybark eucalypts […]
- 1977, Australian Journal of Botany (volume 25, page 462)
Antonyms
- (bidirectional): simplex (unidirectional)
Hyponyms
(bidirectional):
- full duplex
- half-duplex
- semiduplex
Derived terms
Related terms
Translations
Noun
duplex (plural duplexes)
- (US) A house made up of two dwelling units.
- (philately) A cancellation combining a numerical cancellation with a second mark showing time, date, and place of posting.
- (juggling) A throwing motion where two balls are thrown with one hand at the same time.
- (biochemistry) A double-stranded polynucleotide.
- (geology) A system of multiple thrust faults bounded above and below by a roof thrust and floor thrust.
- 1993, David J. Lidke, Jack Burton Epstein, Chester A. Wallace, U.S. Geological Survey Bulletin (page 16)
- In contrast, the folds in the overlying lithotectonic unit 4 are larger and are cut by a series of faults in a duplex.
- 1995, Robert D. Hatcher, Structural Geology: Principles, Concepts, and Problems (page 211)
- It has been noted, using a combination of surface geologic and seismic reflection data, that a duplex, although formed in response to movement of a thrust sheet, frequently arches the thrust sheet as the duplex is built by duplication of rocks beneath it […]
- 1993, David J. Lidke, Jack Burton Epstein, Chester A. Wallace, U.S. Geological Survey Bulletin (page 16)
Related terms
Translations
See also
Verb
duplex (third-person singular simple present duplexes, present participle duplexing, simple past and past participle duplexed)
- To make duplex.
- To make into a duplex.
- (juggling) To make a series of duplex throws.
Related terms
French
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin duplex, see above.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /dy.pl?ks/
Noun
duplex m (plural duplex)
- a link between two points, such as a cable or a wire
- duplex, maisonette (dwelling)
Derived terms
- duplexer
Further reading
- “duplex” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
Italian
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin duplex.
Noun
duplex m (invariable)
- party line
Latin
Etymology
From Proto-Italic *dwipleks, formed from duo (“two”) and plec-, from the root of plic? (“fold”); cf. also plect?, plexum.
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /?du.pleks/, [?d??p???ks?] or IPA(key): /?dup.leks/, [?d??p???ks?]
- (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /?du.pleks/, [?d?u?pl?ks] or IPA(key): /?dup.leks/, [?d?upl?ks]
Adjective
duplex (genitive duplicis, adverb dupliciter); third-declension one-termination adjective
- twofold, double
- bipartite, cloven
- ambiguous
Declension
Third-declension one-termination adjective.
- Sg.Abl. sometimes duplice.
Descendants
- English: duplex
- French: duplex
- Galician: dobre (possibly)
- Italian: duplice, duplex
- Spanish: doble (possibly), dúplex
References
- duplex in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- duplex in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- duplex in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
- duplex in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
- Carl Meissner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book?[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
Romanian
Etymology
From French duplex
Noun
duplex n (plural duplexuri)
- duplex
Declension
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