Dictionary Entry
single
single is a 6-letter English word with 27 senses as adjective, transitive verb, intransitive verb, noun, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: One only, as distinguished from more than one; consisting of one alone; individual; separate; as, a single star. Face value is 7 in Scrabble and 10 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
6 letters · Scrabble 7 · Words With Friends 10 · 27 senses
Definitions
- 1adjective
One only, as distinguished from more than one; consisting of one alone; individual; separate; as, a single star.
- 2adjective
Alone; having no companion.
- 3adjective
Hence, unmarried; as, a single man or woman.
- 4adjective
Not doubled, twisted together, or combined with others; as, a single thread; a single strand of a rope.
- 5adjective
Performed by one person, or one on each side; as, a single combat.
- 6adjective
Uncompounded; pure; unmixed.
- 7adjective
Not deceitful or artful; honest; sincere.
- 8adjective
Simple; not wise; weak; silly.
- 9transitive verb
To select, as an individual person or thing, from among a number; to choose out from others; to separate.
- 10transitive verb
To sequester; to withdraw; to retire.
- 11transitive verb
To take alone, or one by one.
- 12intransitive verb
To take the irrregular gait called single-foot;- said of a horse. See Single-foot.
- 13noun
A unit; one; as, to score a single.
- 14noun
The reeled filaments of silk, twisted without doubling to give them firmness.
- 15noun
A handful of gleaned grain.
- 16noun
A game with but one player on each side; -- usually in the plural.
- 17noun
A hit by a batter which enables him to reach first base only.
- 18noun
a base hit on which the batter stops safely at first base
Synonyms
- 19noun
the smallest whole number or a numeral representing this number
"he has the one but will need a two and three to go with it"
"they had lunch at one"
- 20verb
hit a single
"the batter singled to left field"
- 21adjective
being or characteristic of a single thing or person
"individual drops of rain"
"please mark the individual pages"
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- 22adjective
not divided among or brought to bear on more than one object or objective
"judging a contest with a single eye"
"a single devotion to duty"
- 23adjective
not married or related to the unmarried state
"unmarried men and women"
"unmarried life"
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- 24adjective
having uniform application
"a single legal code for all"
- 25adjective
characteristic of or meant for a single person or thing
"an individual serving"
"single occupancy"
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- 26adjective
existing alone or consisting of one entity or part or aspect or individual
"upon the hill stood a single tower"
"had but a single thought which was to escape"
- 27adjective
used of flowers having usually only one row or whorl of petals
"single chrysanthemums resemble daisies and may have more than one row of petals"
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