single

Unadapted borrowing from English single.


single

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)

nl-noun

single m (plural singles, diminutive singletje n)

singles (plural)
singletje (diminutive neuter)


single

single (adverbial positive predicative)
single (feminine indefinite masculine positive singular)
single (indefinite neuter positive singular)
single (indefinite plural positive)
single (definite positive)
singles (partitive positive)


single

Can you give me a single reason not to leave right now?

The vase contained a single long-stemmed rose.

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.

2013 July-August, Fenella Saunders, “Tiny Lenses See the Big Picture”, in American Scientist:

Not accompanied by anything else; one in number.

The potatoes left the spoon and landed in a single big lump on the plate.

a single room

a single combat

These shifts refuted, answer thy appellant, […] / Who now defies thee thrice to single fight.

1649, J[ohn] Milton, ΕΙΚΟΝΟΚΛΆΣΤΗΣ [Eikonoklástēs] […], London: […] Matthew Simmons, […], →OCLC:

Performed by one person, or one on each side.

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".

Josh put down that he was a single male on the dating website.

To undergo such maiden pilgrimage.
But earthlier happy is the rose distilled
Than that which, withering on the virgin thorn,
Grows, lives, and dies in single blessedness.

c. 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[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene i]:

Single chose to live, and shunned to wed.

1717, John Dryden [et al.], “(please specify |book=I to XV)”, in Ovid’s Metamorphoses in Fifteen Books. […], London: […] Jacob Tonson, […], →OCLC:

Not married, and (in modern times) not dating or without a significant other.

(botany) Having only one rank or row of petals.

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, transl.], The Newe Testamẽt […] (Tyndale Bible), [Worms, Germany: Peter Schöffer], →OCLC, Luke xj:

I speak it with a single heart.

1613 (date written), William Shakespeare, [John Fletcher], “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[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act V, scene iii]:

(obsolete) Simple and honest; sincere, without deceit.

simple ideas are opposed to complex , and single ideas to compound.

1725, 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:

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.

1867, William Greenough Thayer Shedd, Homiletics, and Pastoral Theology, page 166:

He utters such single matter in so infantly a voice.

1616–1618, 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:

(obsolete) Simple; foolish; weak; silly.

a journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step

better to light a single candle than to curse the darkness

enkel

botany: having only one rank or row of petal

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.


single

(music) A 45 RPM vinyl record with one song on side A and one on side B.

The Offspring released four singles from their most recent album.

(music) A popular song released and sold (on any format) nominally on its own though usually having at least one extra track.

He went to the party, hoping to meet some friendly singles there.

One who is not married or does not have a romantic partner.

(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.

I don't have any singles, so you'll have to make change.

She looked in her purse, found a ten and a single, gave him the ten. ‘I'll spend it on booze,’ he said.

1966 March, Thomas Pynchon, chapter 5, in The Crying of Lot 49, New York, N.Y.: Bantam Books, published November 1976, →ISBN, page 94:

‘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.’

(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.

(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.

(UK, Scotland, dialect) A handful of gleaned grain.

Coordinate term: double

If you want to be a scientist or an engineer, learn to say “no” to singles and floats.

2011, Rubin H. Landau, A First Course in Scientific Computing, page 214:

(computing, programming) A floating-point number having half the precision of a double-precision value.

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:

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.

1945 March and April, “Preserving Historic Locomotives”, in Railway Magazine, page 64:

(rail transport, obsolete) Synonym of single-driver.

→ Dutch: single

→ Finnish: sinkku

→ German: Single

→ Indonesian: singel

→ Japanese: シングル (shinguru)

→ Polish: singiel


single

Pedro singled in the bottom of the eighth inning, which, if converted to a run, would put the team back into contention.

(baseball) To get a hit that advances the batter exactly one base.

Paul went joyfully, and spent the afternoon helping to hoe or to single turnips with his friend.

1913, D[avid] H[erbert] Lawrence, chapter 7, in Sons and Lovers, London: Duckworth & Co. […], →OCLC:

The 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.

1916, Transactions of the Highland and Agricultural Society of Scotland, page 241:

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:

(of a horse) To take the irregular gait called singlefoot.

an agent singling itself from consorts

1594–1597, Richard Hooker, edited by J[ohn] S[penser], Of the Lawes of Ecclesiastical Politie, […], London: […] Will[iam] Stansby [for Matthew Lownes], published 1611, →OCLC, (please specify the page):

(intransitive, archaic) To sequester; to withdraw; to retire.

men […] commendable when they are singled

(intransitive, archaic) To take alone, or one by one; to single out.

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; […]

1959 June, “Talking of Trains: North Eastern report”, in Trains Illustrated, page 293:

The Henley branch, recently singled and fully track-circuited, is worked by acceptance lever between Twyford and Shiplake cabins.

1962 October, “Talking of Trains: New signalbox at Twyford”, in Modern Railways, page 226:

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.

2020 November 18, Paul Bigland, “New infrastructure and new rolling stock”, in RAIL, number 918, page 48:

(transitive) To reduce (a railway) to single track.

en-verb

single (third-person singular simple present singles, present participle singling, simple past and past participle singled)

singles (present singular third-person)
singling (participle present)
singled (participle past)
singled (past)

избирам

to identify or select one member of a group


single

single (45 rpm record; track nominally released on its own)

single (nominative singular)
singlet (nominative plural)
single (accusative nominative singular)
singlet (accusative nominative plural)
singlen (accusative genitive singular)
singlet (accusative genitive plural)
singlen (genitive singular)
singlejen (genitive plural)
singlein (genitive plural rare)
singleä (partitive singular)
singlejä (partitive plural)
singlessä (inessive singular)
singleissä (inessive plural)
singlestä (elative singular)
singleistä (elative plural)
singleen (illative singular)
singleihin (illative plural)
singlellä (adessive singular)
singleillä (adessive plural)
singleltä (ablative singular)
singleiltä (ablative plural)
singlelle (allative singular)
singleille (allative plural)
singlenä (essive singular)
singleinä (essive plural)
singleksi (singular translative)
singleiksi (plural translative)
singlettä (abessive singular)
singleittä (abessive plural)
singlein (instructive plural)
See the possessive forms below. (comitative)
singleni (nominative singular)
singleni (nominative plural)
singleni (accusative nominative singular)
singleni (accusative nominative plural)
singleni (accusative genitive singular)
singleni (accusative genitive plural)
singleni (genitive singular)
singlejeni (genitive plural)
singleini (genitive plural rare)
singleäni (partitive singular)
singlejäni (partitive plural)
singlessäni (inessive singular)
singleissäni (inessive plural)
singlestäni (elative singular)
singleistäni (elative plural)
singleeni (illative singular)
singleihini (illative plural)
singlelläni (adessive singular)
singleilläni (adessive plural)
singleltäni (ablative singular)
singleiltäni (ablative plural)
singlelleni (allative singular)
singleilleni (allative plural)
singlenäni (essive singular)
singleinäni (essive plural)
singlekseni (singular translative)
singleikseni (plural translative)
singlettäni (abessive singular)
singleittäni (abessive plural)
singleineni (comitative plural)
singlesi (nominative singular)
singlesi (nominative plural)
singlesi (accusative nominative singular)
singlesi (accusative nominative plural)
singlesi (accusative genitive singular)
singlesi (accusative genitive plural)
singlesi (genitive singular)
singlejesi (genitive plural)
singleisi (genitive plural rare)
singleäsi (partitive singular)
singlejäsi (partitive plural)
singlessäsi (inessive singular)
singleissäsi (inessive plural)
singlestäsi (elative singular)
singleistäsi (elative plural)
singleesi (illative singular)
singleihisi (illative plural)
singlelläsi (adessive singular)
singleilläsi (adessive plural)
singleltäsi (ablative singular)
singleiltäsi (ablative plural)
singlellesi (allative singular)
singleillesi (allative plural)
singlenäsi (essive singular)
singleinäsi (essive plural)
singleksesi (singular translative)
singleiksesi (plural translative)
singlettäsi (abessive singular)
singleittäsi (abessive plural)
singleinesi (comitative plural)
singlemme (nominative singular)
singlemme (nominative plural)
singlemme (accusative nominative singular)
singlemme (accusative nominative plural)
singlemme (accusative genitive singular)
singlemme (accusative genitive plural)
singlemme (genitive singular)
singlejemme (genitive plural)
singleimme (genitive plural rare)
singleämme (partitive singular)
singlejämme (partitive plural)
singlessämme (inessive singular)
singleissämme (inessive plural)
singlestämme (elative singular)
singleistämme (elative plural)
singleemme (illative singular)
singleihimme (illative plural)
singlellämme (adessive singular)
singleillämme (adessive plural)
singleltämme (ablative singular)
singleiltämme (ablative plural)
singlellemme (allative singular)
singleillemme (allative plural)
singlenämme (essive singular)
singleinämme (essive plural)
singleksemme (singular translative)
singleiksemme (plural translative)
singlettämme (abessive singular)
singleittämme (abessive plural)
singleinemme (comitative plural)
singlenne (nominative singular)
singlenne (nominative plural)
singlenne (accusative nominative singular)
singlenne (accusative nominative plural)
singlenne (accusative genitive singular)
singlenne (accusative genitive plural)
singlenne (genitive singular)
singlejenne (genitive plural)
singleinne (genitive plural rare)
singleänne (partitive singular)
singlejänne (partitive plural)
singlessänne (inessive singular)
singleissänne (inessive plural)
singlestänne (elative singular)
singleistänne (elative plural)
singleenne (illative singular)
singleihinne (illative plural)
singlellänne (adessive singular)
singleillänne (adessive plural)
singleltänne (ablative singular)
singleiltänne (ablative plural)
singlellenne (allative singular)
singleillenne (allative plural)
singlenänne (essive singular)
singleinänne (essive plural)
singleksenne (singular translative)
singleiksenne (plural translative)
singlettänne (abessive singular)
singleittänne (abessive plural)
singleinenne (comitative plural)
singlensä (nominative singular)
singlensä (nominative plural)
singlensä (accusative nominative singular)
singlensä (accusative nominative plural)
singlensä (accusative genitive singular)
singlensä (accusative genitive plural)
singlensä (genitive singular)
singlejensä (genitive plural)
singleinsä (genitive plural rare)
singleään (partitive singular)
singleänsä (partitive singular)
singlejään (partitive plural)
singlejänsä (partitive plural)
singlessään (inessive singular)
singlessänsä (inessive singular)
singleissään (inessive plural)
singleissänsä (inessive plural)
singlestään (elative singular)
singlestänsä (elative singular)
singleistään (elative plural)
singleistänsä (elative plural)
singleensä (illative singular)
singleihinsä (illative plural)
singlellään (adessive singular)
singlellänsä (adessive singular)
singleillään (adessive plural)
singleillänsä (adessive plural)
singleltään (ablative singular)
singleltänsä (ablative singular)
singleiltään (ablative plural)
singleiltänsä (ablative plural)
singlelleen (allative singular)
singlellensä (allative singular)
singleilleen (allative plural)
singleillensä (allative plural)
singlenään (essive singular)
singlenänsä (essive singular)
singleinään (essive plural)
singleinänsä (essive plural)
singlekseen (singular translative)
singleksensä (singular translative)
singleikseen (plural translative)
singleiksensä (plural translative)
singlettään (abessive singular)
singlettänsä (abessive singular)
singleittään (abessive plural)
singleittänsä (abessive plural)
singleineen (comitative plural)
singleinensä (comitative plural)


single

single, loner (person who lives alone and has no emotional ties)


single

single (unmarried, not in a relationship)


single

Borrowed from English single and singles.


single

singlen (definite singular)
singler (indefinite plural)
singlene (definite plural)


single

head

single (imperative single, present tense singler, simple past and past participle singla or singlet)

single (imperative)
singler (present)
singla (participle past)
singla (past)
singlet (participle past)
singlet (past)


single

singlen (definite singular)
singlar (indefinite plural)
singlane (definite plural)


single

(music) single (song released on its own or with an extra track)


single

single-uri (plural)
single (accusative indefinite nominative singular)
singleul (accusative definite nominative singular)
single-uri (accusative indefinite nominative plural)
single-urile (accusative definite nominative plural)
single (indefinite singular)
singleului (definite singular)
single-uri (indefinite plural)
single-urilor (definite plural)
singleule (singular vocative)
single-urilor (plural vocative)

Unadapted borrowing from English single. Doublet of singur.


single

Unadapted borrowing from English single. Doublet of sendos.


single

first/third-person singular present subjunctive

inflection of singlar:
third-person singular imperative


single

single (definite accusative singleı, plural singlelar)

singleı (accusative definite)
singlelar (plural)
single (nominative singular)
singlelar (nominative plural)
singleı (accusative definite singular)
singleları (accusative definite plural)
singlea (dative singular)
singlelara (dative plural)
singleda (locative singular)
singlelarda (locative plural)
singledan (ablative singular)
singlelardan (ablative plural)
singleın (genitive singular)
singleların (genitive plural)