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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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private
English
Etymology
From Latin pr?v?tus (“bereaved, deprived, set apart from”), perfect passive participle of pr?v? (“I bereave, deprive”), from pr?vus (“private, one's own, peculiar”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *per; compare prime, prior, pristine.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?p?a?v?t/, /?p?a?v?t/
- Hyphenation: pri?vate
Adjective
private (comparative more private, superlative most private)
- Belonging to, concerning, or accessible only to an individual person or a specific group.
- Not accessible by the public.
- Not in governmental office or employment.
- Not publicly known; not open; secret.
- Protected from view or disturbance by others; secluded.
- Not traded by the public.
- Secretive; reserved.
- (US, of a room in a medical facility) Not shared with another patient.
- (not comparable, object-oriented programming) Accessible only to the class itself or instances of it, and not to other classes or even subclasses.
Synonyms
- (done in the view of others): secluded
- (intended only for one's own use): personal
- (not accessible by the public):
- (not publicly known): secret
Antonyms
- public
Hyponyms
- package-private
Translations
Noun
private (plural privates)
- A soldier of the lowest rank in the army.
- A doctor working in privately rather than publicly funded health care.
- 1973, Health/PAC Bulletin (issues 48-67, page 2)
- In the cities and towns of California, privates are pressuring county governments to close or reduce in size their hospitals and to pay private hospitals for the care of low-income patients. Thus everything is stacked against public hospitals.
- 1993, United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary. Subcommittee on Immigration and Refugee Affairs, The implementation of employer sanctions: Hearings
- Because you are already moving people with the limitations of what we did in 1982 on the capping of Medicare, you are finding out that the privates are picking up that slack, […]
- 1973, Health/PAC Bulletin (issues 48-67, page 2)
- (euphemistic, in the plural) The genitals.
- (obsolete) A secret message; a personal unofficial communication.
- (obsolete) Personal interest; particular business.
- Nor must I be unmindful of my private.
- (obsolete) Privacy; retirement.
- (obsolete) One not invested with a public office.
- (usually in the plural) A private lesson.
Synonyms
- (genitals): bits, private parts
Translations
Derived terms
References
- private at OneLook Dictionary Search
- private in Keywords for Today: A 21st Century Vocabulary, edited by The Keywords Project, Colin MacCabe, Holly Yanacek, 2018.
- "private" in Raymond Williams, Keywords (revised), 1983, Fontana Press, page 242.
- private in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
Esperanto
Etymology
From privata (“private”) +? -e (adverbial ending).
Adverb
private
- privately
German
Pronunciation
- Rhymes: -a?t?
Adjective
private
- inflection of privat:
- strong/mixed nominative/accusative feminine singular
- strong nominative/accusative plural
- weak nominative all-gender singular
- weak accusative feminine/neuter singular
Italian
Adjective
private
- feminine plural of privato
Verb
private
- feminine plural past participle of privare
- second-person plural indicative present of privare
- second-person plural imperative of privare
Anagrams
- prative
Latin
Verb
pr?v?te
- second-person plural present active imperative of pr?v?
Norwegian Bokmål
Adjective
private
- definite singular of privat
- plural of privat
Norwegian Nynorsk
Adjective
private
- definite singular of privat
- plural of privat
Swedish
Adjective
private
- absolute definite natural masculine form of privat.
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