Single

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. sıfat Not accompanied by anything else; one in number.

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

2. sıfat Not divided in parts.

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

3. sıfat Designed for the use of only one.

   “a single room”

4. sıfat Performed by one person, or one on each side.

   “a single combat”

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

   “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. sıfat Having only one rank or row of petals.
7. sıfat Simple and honest; sincere, without deceit.

   “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. sıfat Uncompounded; pure; unmixed.

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

9. sıfat Simple; foolish; weak; silly.

   “He utters such single matter in so infantly a voice.”

10. isim A 45 RPM vinyl record with one song on side A and one on side B.
11. isim 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.”

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

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

13. isim A score of one run.

    “He refused to take a single as the ball was dropped by his opponent's best fielder.”

14. isim A hit in baseball where the batter advances to first base.
15. isim A tile that has a different value (i.e. number of pips) at each end.
16. isim A bill valued at $1.

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

17. isim A one-way ticket.

    “‘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.’”

18. isim 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.
19. isim A game with one player on each side, as in tennis.

    “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.”

20. isim One of the reeled filaments of silk, twisted without doubling to give them firmness.
21. isim A handful of gleaned grain.
22. isim 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.”

23. isim 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.”

24. isim A single cigarette.
25. isim Synonym of single-driver.

    “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.”

26. fiil 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.”

27. fiil To thin out.

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

28. fiil 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.”

29. fiil To sequester; to withdraw; to retire.

    “an agent singling itself from consorts”

30. fiil To take alone, or one by one; to single out.

    “men […] commendable when they are singled”