{ "dictype": "WikiDicScrap", "error": false, "code": 200, "json": { "type": "wiki", "pronunciations": { "phonetic": [ "ˈsɪŋgəl" ], "listenurl": [ { "lang": "Audio (US)", "url": "/var/www/html/blab/dic/audio/us/single.ogg" }, { "lang": "Audio (US)", "url": "/var/www/html/blab/dic/audio/us/single.mp3" }, { "lang": "Audio (AU)", "url": "" } ] }, "meansorg": { "etymologies": [ "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." ], "typelist": [ { "name": "Adjective", "meanlist": [ { "mean": "Not accompanied by anything else; one in number.\nSynonyms: lone, sole\n2013 July-August, Fenella Saunders, “Tiny Lenses See the Big Picture”, in American Scientist:The single-imaging optic of the mammalian eye offers some distinct visual advantages. Such lenses can take in photons from a wide range of angles, increasing light sensitivity. They also have high spatial resolution, resolving incoming images in minute detail. It’s therefore not surprising that most cameras mimic this arrangement.\nCan you give me a single reason not to leave right now?\nThe vase contained a single long-stemmed rose." }, { "mean": "Not divided in parts.\nSynonyms: unbroken, undivided, uniform\nThe potatoes left the spoon and landed in a single big lump on the plate." }, { "mean": "Designed for the use of only one.\na single room" }, { "mean": "Performed by one person, or one on each side.\na single combat\n1649, J Milton, ΕΙΚΟΝΟΚΛΆΣΤΗΣ  , London: Matthew Simmons, , →OCLC:These shifts refuted, answer thy appellant, / Who now defies thee thrice to single fight." }, { "mean": "Not married, and (in modern times) not dating or without a significant other.\nSynonyms: unmarried, unpartnered, available\nForms 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\".\nJosh put down that he was a single male on the dating website.\nc. 1595–1596 (date written), William Shakespeare, “A Midsommer Nights Dreame”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First Folio), London: Isaac Iaggard, and Ed Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, :To undergo such maiden pilgrimage.But earthlier happy is the rose distilledThan that which, withering on the virgin thorn,Grows, lives, and dies in single blessedness.\n1717, John Dryden , “(please specify |book=I to XV)”, in Ovid’s Metamorphoses in Fifteen Books. , London: Jacob Tonson, , →OCLC:Single chose to live, and shunned to wed." }, { "mean": "(botany) Having only one rank or row of petals." }, { "mean": "(obsolete) Simple and honest; sincere, without deceit.\n1526, , The Newe Testamẽt  (Tyndale Bible), , →OCLC, Luke xj]: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?\n1613 (date written), William Shakespeare; , “The Famous History of the Life of King Henry the Eight”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies  (First Folio), London: Isaac Iaggard, and Ed Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, :I speak it with a single heart." }, { "mean": "Uncompounded; pure; unmixed.\n1725, Isaac Watts, Logick: Or, The Right Use of Reason in the Enquiry after Truth, , 2nd edition, London: John Clark and Richard Hett, , Emanuel Matthews, , and Richard Ford, , published 1726, →OCLC:simple ideas are opposed to complex , and single ideas to compound.\n1867, William Greenough Thayer Shedd, Homiletics, and Pastoral Theology (page 166)\nThe 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." }, { "mean": "(obsolete) Simple; foolish; weak; silly.\n1616–1618, John Fletcher; Philip Massinger; Nathan Field, “The Queene of Corinth”, in Comedies and Tragedies , London: Humphrey Robinson, , and for Humphrey Moseley , published 1647, →OCLC, Act III, scene i:He utters such single matter in so infantly a voice." } ] }, { "name": "Noun", "meanlist": [ { "mean": "(music) A 45 RPM vinyl record with one song on side A and one on side B.\nAntonym: album" }, { "mean": "(music) A popular song released and sold (on any format) nominally on its own though usually having at least one extra track.\nThe Offspring released four singles from their most recent album." }, { "mean": "One who is not married or does not have a romantic partner.\nAntonym: married\nHe went to the party, hoping to meet some friendly singles there." }, { "mean": "(cricket) A score of one run." }, { "mean": "(baseball) A hit in baseball where the batter advances to first base." }, { "mean": "(dominoes) A tile that has a different value (i.e. number of pips) at each end." }, { "mean": "(US, informal) A bill valued at $1.\nI don't have any singles, so you'll have to make change.\n1966, Thomas Pynchon, chapter 5, in The Crying of Lot 49, New York: Bantam Books, published 1976, →ISBN, page 94:She looked in her purse, found a ten and a single, gave him the ten. ‘I'll spend it on booze,’ he said." }, { "mean": "(UK) A one-way ticket." }, { "mean": "(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.\nSynonym: (official name in the rules) rouge" }, { "mean": "(tennis, chiefly in the plural) A game with one player on each side, as in tennis." }, { "mean": "One of the reeled filaments of silk, twisted without doubling to give them firmness." }, { "mean": "(UK, Scotland, dialect) A handful of gleaned grain." }, { "mean": "(computing, programming) A floating-point number having half the precision of a double-precision value.\nCoordinate term: double\n2011, Rubin H. Landau, A First Course in Scientific Computing (page 214)\nIf you want to be a scientist or an engineer, learn to say “no” to singles and floats." }, { "mean": "(film) A shot of only one character.\n1990, Jon Boorstin, The Hollywood Eye: What Makes Movies Work (page 94)\nBut 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." }, { "mean": "A single cigarette." }, { "mean": "(rail transport, obsolete) Synonym of single-driver.\n1945 March and April, “Preserving Historic Locomotives”, in Railway Magazine, page 64: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." } ] }, { "name": "Verb", "meanlist": [ { "mean": "(Can we verify(+) this sense?) 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.\nEddie singled out his favorite marble from the bag.\nYvonne always wondered why Ernest had singled her out of the group of giggling girls she hung around with.\n1915, Austen Chamberlain, speech on April 16, 1915\nSir 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." }, { "mean": "(baseball) To get a hit that advances the batter exactly one base.\nPedro singled in the bottom of the eighth inning, which, if converted to a run, would put the team back into contention." }, { "mean": "(agriculture) To thin out.\n1913, D H Lawrence, chapter 7, in Sons and Lovers, London: Duckworth & Co. , →OCLC:Paul went joyfully, and spent the afternoon helping to hoe or to single turnips with his friend.\n1916, Transactions of the Highland and Agricultural Society of Scotland (page 241)\nThe seeds did not germinate in many parts of a row until rains in end of June and thunderplumps in first week of July brought them up later in patches, so that no second sowing was necessary, but singling was done by stages." }, { "mean": "(of a horse) To take the irregular gait called singlefoot.\n1860, William S. Clark, Massachusetts Agricultural College Annual Report\nMany 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." }, { "mean": "(intransitive, archaic) To sequester; to withdraw; to retire.\n1594–1597, Richard Hooker, J S, editor, Of the Lawes of Ecclesiastical Politie, , London: Will Stansby , published 1611, →OCLC, (please specify the page):\nan agent singling itself from consorts" }, { "mean": "(intransitive, archaic) To take alone, or one by one; to single out.\n1594–1597, Richard Hooker, J S, editor, Of the Lawes of Ecclesiastical Politie, , London: Will Stansby , published 1611, →OCLC, (please specify the page):\nmen commendable when they are singled" }, { "mean": "(transitive) To reduce (a railway) to single track.\n1959 June, “Talking of Trains: North Eastern report”, in Trains Illustrated, page 293: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; \n1962 October, “Talking of Trains: New signalbox at Twyford”, in Modern Railways, page 226:The Henley branch, recently singled and fully track-circuited, is worked by acceptance lever between Twyford and Shiplake cabins.\n2020 November 18, Paul Bigland, “New infrastructure and new rolling stock”, in RAIL, number 918, page 48:Sadly, it's not the quickest route as much of it has been singled, but it still boasts some attractive stations as well as an active Community Rail Partnership, one of the first in the country." } ] } ] }, "meanskor": { "etymologies": [ "" ], "typelist": [ { "name": "형용사", "meanlist": [ { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" } ] }, { "name": "명사", "meanlist": [ { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" } ] }, { "name": "동사.", "meanlist": [ { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" } ] } ] } } }