single

名词 n. 动词 v. 形容词 adj.
中文释义
英 /ˈsɪŋɡl̩/    美 /ˈsɪŋɡəl/

英文释义

名词 n.
  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.
    — The Offspring released four singles from their most recent album.
  3. One who is not married or does not have a romantic partner.
    — He went to the party, hoping to meet some friendly singles there.
  4. A score of one run.
    — He refused to take a single as the ball was dropped by his opponent's best fielder.
  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. A bill valued at $1. US,informal
    — I don't have any singles, so you'll have to make change.
  8. A one-way ticket. UK
    — ‘I want to know, Mr Stone, if, in the course of the day, you have issued any tickets to a person dressed in Arab costume?’ His reply was prompt. ‘I have — by the last train, the 7.25, — three singles.’
  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. Canadian
  10. A game with one player on each side, as in tennis. in-plural
    — After tea, Mrs. Inglethorp went to lie down to rest before her efforts in the evening and I challenged Mary Cavendish to a single at tennis.
  11. One of the reeled filaments of silk, twisted without doubling to give them firmness.
  12. A handful of gleaned grain. Scotland,UK,dialectal
  13. A floating-point number having half the precision of a double-precision value.
    — If you want to be a scientist or an engineer, learn to say “no” to singles and floats.
  14. A shot of only one character.
    — 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.
  15. A single cigarette.
  16. Synonym of single-driver. obsolete
    — A few such examples have been preserved, as is well known, such as one of the Stirling 8-ft. singles of the late Great Northern Railway, the Great Western 4-4-0 City of Truro, ex-Caledonian single-driver No. 123, the Brighton 0-4-2 Gladstone, and others.
动词 v.
  1. To get a hit that advances the batter exactly one base.
    — Pedro singled in the bottom of the eighth inning, which, if converted to a run, would put the team back into contention.
  2. To thin out.
    — Paul went joyfully, and spent the afternoon helping to hoe or to single turnips with his friend.
  3. To take the irregular gait called singlefoot.
    — 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.
  4. To sequester; to withdraw; to retire. archaic,intransitive
    — an agent singling itself from consorts
  5. To take alone, or one by one; to single out. archaic,intransitive
    — men […] commendable when they are singled
  6. To reduce (a railway) to single track. transitive
    — In the east of Yorkshire, Mr. A. M. Ross reports the belief of local railwaymen that the N.E.R. plans to single the York-Beverley line, leaving an adequate provision of passing loops, and to operate it by C.T.C. from York; […]
形容词 adj.
  1. Not accompanied by anything else; one in number. not-comparable
    — Can you give me a single reason not to leave right now?
  2. Not divided in parts. not-comparable
    — The potatoes left the spoon and landed in a single big lump on the plate.
  3. Designed for the use of only one. not-comparable
    — a single room
  4. Performed by one person, or one on each side. not-comparable
    — a single combat
  5. Not married, and (in modern times) not dating or without a significant other. not-comparable
    — Forms often ask if a person is single, married, divorced, or widowed. In this context, a person who is dating someone but who has never married puts "single".
  6. Having only one rank or row of petals. not-comparable
  7. Simple and honest; sincere, without deceit. not-comparable,obsolete
    — 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?
  8. Uncompounded; pure; unmixed. not-comparable
    — simple ideas are opposed to complex , and single ideas to compound.
  9. Simple; foolish; weak; silly. not-comparable,obsolete
    — He utters such single matter in so infantly a voice.

词形变化

singles plural singles present,singular,third-person singling participle,present singled participle,past singled past

词汇关系

衍生词
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词源

词源 1
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.
词源 2
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.
词源 3
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.
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