The Collaborative International Dictionary
One \One\, n.
A single unit; as, one is the base of all numbers.
A symbol representing a unit, as 1, or i.
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A single person or thing. ``The shining ones.''
--Bunyan. ``Hence, with your little ones.''
--Shak.He will hate the one, and love the other.
--Matt. vi. 2 -
That we may sit, one on thy right hand, and the other on thy left hand, in thy glory.
--Mark x. 37.After one, after one fashion; alike. [Obs.]
--Chaucer.At one, in agreement or concord. See At one, in the Vocab.
Ever in one, continually; perpetually; always. [Obs.]
--Chaucer.In one, in union; in a single whole.
One and one, One by one, singly; one at a time; one after another. ``Raising one by one the suppliant crew.''
--Dryden.one on one contesting an opponent individually; -- in a contest.
go one on one, to contest one opponent by oneself; -- in a game, esp. basketball.
Usage examples of "in one".
Class Abut when I made three errors in one game they shipped me right on out of there.
Nownow he might as well have been in one of those obsolete rhomboids himself.
A spot of fire appeared in one corner of the land, not far from a clump of big wood buildings.
Then a door opened in one of the houses from which the Lizards had been fighting.
He also wondered what it would be like in one of their spaceships, cruising along far above the surface of the Earth, flying between planets, perhaps even between stars.
But when he noticed her looking at him, he smiled and sat up in one smooth motion.
Of course, he had the green arm stripes to show what he thought of regulations be found inconvenient in one way or another.
He held calfskin gloves casually in one hand, and at his waist rode a sword in a richly tooled sheath bearing the mark of the silver tree.
The hot smell of intestines, finally freed by a deeper incision, cut through the chill night air and the scent of rain as they captured them in one of the baskets.
Breschius entered, carrying a tray in one hand which he balanced adroitly with his stump.
Anna had a clean bucket in one hand as she reached the head of the steps that cut down into the gloom.
It had a stone floor, and a tile roof that had collapsed in one corner.
Then he swallowed the whiskey in one gulp and moved to pour another, but a knock on his door stopped him short.
He had gone bald on top, which made his forehead seem ridiculously high, and he had developed a laziness in one eye that made it droop a bit.
King Aydrian sat between the brothers, a hematite in one hand and a graphite in the other.