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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
one
I.number
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a fine one to talk (=you are criticizing someone for something you do yourself)
▪ You’re a fine one to talk.
a million-to-one chance/a one in a million chance (=when something is extremely unlikely)
▪ It must have been a million-to-one chance that we’d meet.
a one in three/four/ten etc chance (=used to say how likely something is)
▪ People in their 30s have a one in 3,000 chance of getting the disease.
a one/two/three etc minute sth
▪ a ten minute bus ride
a two-thirds/2:1/three to one etc majority
▪ A two-thirds majority in both Houses of Congress is needed to overturn a presidential veto.
another one
▪ Oh look, there’s another one of those birds.
a/one quarter (of sth)
▪ a quarter of a mile
▪ roughly one quarter of the city’s population
▪ It’s about a page and a quarter.
at least one occasion (=once, and probably more than once)
▪ On at least one occasion he was arrested for robbery.
at one point (=at a time in the past)
▪ At one point I was thinking of studying physics.
at one pole/at opposite poles
▪ We have enormous wealth at one pole, and poverty and misery at the other.
▪ Washington and Beijing are at opposite poles think in two completely different ways on this issue.
at one stage (=at a time in the past)
▪ At one stage I had to tell him to calm down.
at/in one go
▪ Ruby blew out all her candles at one go.
be a great one for doing sth
▪ She’s a great one for telling stories about her schooldays.
be back to/at square one
▪ The police are now back at square one in their investigation.
be ranked fourth/number one etc
▪ Agassi was at that time ranked sixth in the world.
Day One Christian Ministries
deaf in one ear
▪ The illness left her deaf in one ear.
deep one
▪ Henry has always been a deep one. He keeps his views to himself.
divide one number by another
▪ You can’t divide a prime number by any other number, except 1.
each and every one of
▪ These are issues that affect each and every one of us.
each one
▪ There are 250 blocks of stone, and each one weighs a ton.
fire/bounce ideas off one another (=discuss each other’s ideas and think of good new ones)
▪ Our regular meetings are opportunities to fire ideas off each other.
from one ... to another
▪ She spends the day rushing from one meeting to another.
go back to square one (=used when you start something again because you were not successful the first time)
▪ Okay, let’s go back to square one and try again.
go from one extreme to the other (=change from one extreme thing to something totally opposite)
▪ Advertisements seem to go from one extreme to the other.
good for one month/a year etc
▪ Your passport is good for another three years.
got here in one piece
▪ Ring Mum and let her know we got here in one piece.
I owe you one (=used to thank someone who has helped you, and to say that you are willing to help them in the future)
▪ Thanks a lot for being so understanding about all this – I owe you one!
in one gulp/at a gulp
▪ Charlie drank the whisky in one gulp.
last but one/two etc (=last except for one other, two others etc)
▪ on the last but one day of his trial
look out for yourself/number one (=think only of the advantages you can get for yourself)
loved one
▪ Many people feel guilty after the death of a loved one.
more than one occasion (=more than once)
▪ She stayed out all night on more than one occasion.
multiply one number by another
▪ What happens if you multiply a postive number by a negative number?
neither one
▪ We asked both John and Jerry, but neither one could offer a satisfactory explanation.
never for one moment (=used to emphasize that you never thought something)
▪ She had never for one moment imagined that it could happen to her.
no one
▪ No one likes being criticized.
nothing/no one/nowhere in particular
▪ ‘What did you want?’ ‘Oh, nothing in particular.’
nought point one/two/three etc (=0.1, 0.2 etc)
number one
▪ The University of Maine has the number one hockey team in the country.
number one
▪ Until his marriage, his job was number one in his life.
of one sort or another (=of various different sorts)
▪ Quite a large number of them suffered injuries of one sort or another.
on one condition (=only if one particular thing is agreed to)
▪ You can go, but only on one condition - you have to be back by eleven.
one another
▪ Liz and I have known one another for years.
one bright spot
▪ The computer industry is the one bright spot in the economy at the moment.
One false move
▪ One false move and you’re dead.
one final/last point
▪ There is one final point I would like to make.
one in a million
▪ He’s so generous. He’s one in a million.
one of the boys (=not anyone special, but liked by other men)
▪ He considers himself just one of the boys.
one of the lads (=a member of your group of friends)
One of the nice things about
▪ One of the nice things about Christmas is having all the family together.
one of the perks
▪ I only eat here because it’s free – one of the perks of the job.
One Parent Families/Gingerbread
one sandwich short of a picnic
▪ He’s one sandwich short of a picnic.
one side
▪ A path leads down one side of the garden to a paved area.
one too many (=one more than is acceptable, needed etc)
▪ One job loss is one too many.
one/a few etc extra
▪ I got a few extra in case anyone else decides to come.
▪ I’ll be making $400 extra a month.
one/two etc and a half
▪ ‘How old is she?’ ‘Five and a half.’
part one/two/three etc
▪ The questionnaire is in two parts: part one asks for your personal details and part two asks for your comments on the course.
pass sth from one generation to the next
▪ Traditional customs are passed from one generation to the next.
pop you one
▪ If you say that again, I’ll pop you one.
pull a fast one (=deceive you)
▪ He was trying to pull a fast one when he told you he’d paid.
sb will never know/no one will ever know
▪ Just take it. No one will ever know.
sb's only/one hope
▪ My only hope is that someone may have handed in the keys to the police.
sb’s number one fan
▪ She told Dave that she was his number one fan.
sth is one of life’s (little) mysteries (=it is something that you will never understand – used humorously)
▪ Where socks disappear to after they’ve been washed is one of life’s little mysteries.
still in one piece
▪ Cheer up. At least you’re still in one piece.
subtract one number from another
▪ Subtract this number from the total.
ten to five/twenty to one etc (=ten minutes, twenty minutes etc before a particular hour)
that’s a new one on mespoken (= used to say that you have never heard something before)
▪ ‘The office is going to be closed for six weeks this summer.’ ‘Really? That’s a new one on me.’
the lucky ones (=lucky people, especially when compared to others who suffered)
▪ They considered themselves the lucky ones because they escaped with only minor injuries.
the number one suspect (=the main suspect)
▪ I was the one who found her. And that makes me the number one suspect for her murder.
the only one
▪ I was the only one who disagreed.
the other one
▪ One man was arrested, but the other one got away.
the other ones
▪ I chose this coat in the end because the other ones were all too expensive.
the top/main/number one priority
▪ Controlling spending is his top priority.
took one look
▪ I took one look at the coat and decided it wasn’t worth £50.
whichever one
▪ ‘Do you want tea or coffee?’ ‘I don’t mind – whichever one you’re making.’
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
(all) rolled into one
▪ The band's sound was metal and punk and rap all rolled into one.
▪ For many, this outsized jamboree became both a new Pentecost and a New Jerusalem rolled into one.
▪ In practice, stages 2 and 3 are often rolled into one.
▪ It had all the elements one finds in several different testimonies all artfully rolled into one.
▪ Lloyd Kaufman is also a writer, director, producer, actor and studio mogul, all rolled into one.
▪ Lovable Manuel is quite the tyrant, a mini Papi and Mami rolled into one.
▪ She was a fallen Magdalene and a lamenting dolorosa rolled into one.
▪ So the service offers a payment system and a management information system rolled into one.
▪ They represent a kind of hybrid architect, designer, engineer, set builder and scenario maker, all rolled into one.
(in) one way or another/one way or the other
▪ One way or another, Roberts will pay for what he's done.
▪ As you grow older, some of those uncertainties - such as whether or not you are lovable - are settled one way or another.
▪ But the fact is that the way we live our lives often assumes a belief about them, one way or another.
▪ In one way or another, all these therapies seem to have an effect on the electrical balances of the body.
▪ In one way or another, the representatives will be compared with the total client system.
▪ In one way or another, whatever happened, instinct told him that they would both survive.
▪ Many others were involved in small business issues one way or another.
▪ My gut feeling is that one way or another Congress will pull through.
▪ Then one way or another he would have to deal with Capshaw.
(one) for luck
▪ You get three kisses for your birthday, and one for luck.
▪ An extra teaspoonful for luck could well be disaster.
▪ By now the only part of Mr. Rainsford's brewery left standing was the taproom kept for luck like an old horseshoe.
▪ Certainly there may be the odd chart or graph thrown in for luck but the basic requirement is for high quality text.
▪ I gave him one for luck on the back of his neck.
▪ Is he the kind of man to lend you the rings for luck for a short time?
▪ Now he gave it one last violent shake for luck.
▪ One for luck, and farewell.
Formula One/Two/Three etc
▪ And I don't think many people appreciate the physical demands of actually driving a Formula One car, especially through corners.
▪ If the Formula One circus is so bothered about avoiding accidents, why not run the entire race behind the safety car?
▪ It's almost embarrassing the way his Oxfordshire-based team have dominated Formula One this season.
▪ Like its Formula Two counterpart it was removed from the international calendar at the end of 1984.
▪ She knew that in between Formula One obligations he had, amazingly, managed to keep his construction interests afloat.
▪ Villeneuve, who had collided with Ralf Schumacher, gets paid £10MILLION for risking life and limb in Formula One.
I'll tell you something/one thing/another thing
▪ Let me tell you something - if I catch you kids smoking, you'll be grounded for a whole year at least.
I've heard that one before
I've only got one pair of hands
I/you can count sb/sth on (the fingers of) one hand
a/one bit at a time
▪ The text can be put on an overhead and revealed a bit at a time.
a/one hell of a sth
▪ It was one hell of a party.
▪ Ray's a hell of a salesman.
▪ She's drinking a hell of a lot these days.
▪ But that's probably because the firm was in a hell of a mess when he took over.
▪ DEVIL-MAY-CARE actress Liz Hurley made a hell of a Beelzeboob at a charity fashion bash.
▪ It's a hell of a game.
▪ It had one hell of a noise, too, if you were close to it.
▪ It would do everyone a hell of a lot of good to hear you.
▪ That's a hell of a way to go, I say.
▪ They had a hell of a time finding adequate housing.
▪ We rode on to Safford, hit a bar and had a hell of a good time.
a/one hundred percent
▪ I'm not a hundred percent sure where she lives.
▪ I agree with you a hundred percent.
▪ Absolutely I agree one hundred percent.
▪ All of our history, we stayed just about one hundred percent occupancy.
▪ It is, of course, a hundred percent certain that this triggering device is battery-powered.
▪ She hoped so, but she wasn't a hundred percent certain.
▪ The unit included a spinning mill within its plant, producing one hundred percent wool yarn.
▪ There was no doubt that Kirsty was one hundred percent MacKay.
▪ Therefore, even firms that are a hundred percent domestic get an extra lift from lower interest rates.
a/one hundred percent
▪ Absolutely I agree one hundred percent.
▪ All of our history, we stayed just about one hundred percent occupancy.
▪ It is, of course, a hundred percent certain that this triggering device is battery-powered.
▪ No wonder the others felt he was not one hundred percent reliable anymore.
▪ She hoped so, but she wasn't a hundred percent certain.
▪ The unit included a spinning mill within its plant, producing one hundred percent wool yarn.
▪ There was no doubt that Kirsty was one hundred percent MacKay.
▪ Therefore, even firms that are a hundred percent domestic get an extra lift from lower interest rates.
anywhere between one and ten/anywhere from one to ten etc
as one man
▪ The crowd rise to their feet as one man.
▪ The... whole North arose as one man....
▪ Undaunted, Athletico played as one man.
at a/one stroke
▪ Brian saw a chance of solving all his problems at one stroke.
▪ But as the 1980s began it seemed as if all the uncertainty had been resolved at a stroke.
▪ Gardening in tomorrow's world Future pest control at a stroke?
▪ His reputation would be lost at a stroke.
▪ No one could therefore call for the closure of incineration plants at a stroke, because noxious chemicals have to go somewhere.
▪ People pretty much looked at a stroke as a permanent condition: Once you had it, it was there.
▪ Routes may be closed, reducing accessibility, or subsidies may be removed, increasing fares for users at a stroke.
▪ The lek paradox is thus solved at a stroke.
▪ Then, at a stroke, something happened that gave him a powerful sense of purpose.
at one time
▪ At one time forests covered about 20% of Lebanon.
▪ See, I can lock the doors all at one time.
▪ There aren't many places around here where you can cater for fifty or so people at one time.
▪ This word processor allows you to work with two documents at one time.
▪ You feel like you are going in twelve different directions at one time.
▪ Although you can see only 80 characters on the screen at one time.
▪ It has been established that at one time or another during her life she had been wounded by all three arrows.
▪ The city at one time had talked to Edwards Theaters about building a multiplex theater there, but those talks faltered.
▪ The curriculum, which at one time had seemed novel, barely changed from decade to decade.
▪ The somewhat better-known Sigmund Freud at one time worked with Janet.
▪ Up to 24 packages can be accessed at one time.
▪ We cured all our bloaters and our kippers, at one time.
at/in one sitting
▪ Jeff ate a whole bag of potato chips in one sitting.
▪ As in my landscapes, I work quickly and the portrait has to be completed in one sitting.
▪ At other times the sessions are intended to serve the need of teachers of five of six languages at one sitting.
▪ But if you get a copy, save it for when you can read it at one sitting.
▪ I devoured it all almost at one sitting, reading it until my eyes closed.
▪ I read it in one sitting and lay awake that night disturbed by its power and frightened by its implication.
▪ It is an interesting book to dip into, but it can not be read at one sitting.
be in a minority of one
be neither one thing nor the other
be of one mind/of the same mind/of like mind
be one ... short of a ...
be/keep/stay one step ahead (of sb)
▪ It was a constant struggle to stay one step ahead of thrift regulators in Washington.
▪ Money With better management of resources you will be able to stay one step ahead.
▪ The reason Chappy is moving around so much is to keep one step ahead I suppose.
▪ We don't want to sell him but we have to keep one step ahead.
can do sth with one hand (tied) behind your back
criticize/nag/hassle sb up one side and down the other
do one
for one thing
▪ A higher body count score, for one thing.
▪ He was responsible for Loredana's death, for one thing.
▪ The ex-steelworkers, for one thing, have not gone away.
▪ Their love of wine leads to raised levels of alcoholism, for one thing, which balances out the supposed benefits.
▪ Well, for one thing she takes her readers and our intellect seriously.
▪ Well, for one thing, women have a different experience in life.
go in (at) one ear and out (at) the other
▪ It goes in one ear and out the other.
go one better (than sb)
▪ Beth Wolff, president of her own residential real estate company, likes to go one better.
▪ But even if Forbes loses his quest for the Republican presidential nomination, he may still go one better than his father.
▪ Ford went one better and put 60 two-stroke Fiestas on the roads.
▪ Laker's return of 9 for 37 was outstanding, but he was to go one better when the Aussies followed on.
▪ Like an aphid, then, the caterpillar employs ants as bodyguards, but it goes one better.
▪ She goes one better than last year.
▪ The Bristol & West have now gone one better than the standard endowment mortgage.
▪ They have followed each other up the ladder, but whenever he has reached the same rung she has gone one better.
half past one/two/three etc
▪ At half past one the men got up and checked their equipment, gathering several sticks as well.
▪ At half past three he wanted to die, or to kill somebody.
▪ At half past two this morning my wife died.
▪ It was half past three in the morning.
▪ She arrived at the Herald building at half past three, and walked past the uniformed commissionaire to the lift.
▪ The return journey was supposed to start at half past three but there would always be a few people missing.
▪ They'd all been given leaflets about it at half past three.
have a good one
▪ "I'm off to work." Alright, have a good one."
▪ And you have a good one.
have a one-track mind
▪ That guy has a one-track mind.
have had one too many
▪ Ron looked like he'd had one too many.
have more than one string to your bow
have one foot in the grave
▪ She sounded like she had one foot in the grave.
have you heard the one about ...
hole in one
▪ Even that record has now gone, Sluman holing in one.
if ever there was one
▪ A crazy notion if ever there was one.
▪ An obstinate fellow, if ever there was one, and a very elusive one too.
▪ Exercise is the original fountain of youth if ever there was one.
▪ He is a product of the system if ever there was one.
▪ Here is a time warp if ever there was one.
▪ My favourite Caithness loch is Heilen, near Castletown; an expert's loch if ever there was one.
▪ My son, however, is a sports fanatic if ever there was one.
in one fell swoop
▪ A single company can eliminate 74,000 jobs in one fell swoop.
▪ Can you imagine it, to have grown up insane and then in one fell swoop to achieve sanity?
▪ Compton had not been laid out, like Lakewood, in one fell swoop.
▪ Despite the drop-off, analysts said they were encouraged by the elimination of the securities in one fell swoop.
▪ I think it might solve the whole problem in one fell swoop.
▪ The most difficult thing afoot is to keep our problem child from blowing it in one fell swoop.
in one piece
▪ I don't know how we got the piano down in one piece!
▪ I was extremely relieved when my son came back from the warzone all in one piece.
▪ The china arrived all in one piece, thank God.
▪ Unlike Ed, Josh returned from the war in one piece.
▪ All she wanted was for me to come back in one piece.
▪ All you wanted to do was get out of it in one piece, go home, and get a job.
▪ At one point, maybe, it was when they arrived home in one piece from school.
▪ It should fall out in one piece.
▪ It would explain how Greg manages to be in one piece while the Lorelei is nothing but a few planks of driftwood.
▪ Lowering the tender took care and patience if they wanted to keep it in one piece.
▪ The fatty skin covering should easily lift off in one piece.
▪ When they get there the china cabinet is still in one piece but the budgie is dead.
in one respect/in some respects etc
in one whack
▪ Steve lost $500 in one whack.
in words of one syllable
▪ Cotey -- real slow and in words of one syllable -- and then diagram them in stick figures with Crayolas.
it's (just) one of those days
▪ "Everything okay?" "Oh, it's just been one of those days."
it's one thing to ..., (it's) another thing to ...,
it's six of one and half a dozen of the other
keep/have one eye/half an eye on sb/sth
kill two birds with one stone
▪ Deedee killed two birds with one stone, both shopping and looking for a shop of her own to rent.
▪ Adding five examples to the chapters that at present lack them would kill two birds with one stone.
▪ By promoting these new investors, Mr Alphandéry could kill two birds with one stone.
▪ In trying to play matchmaker and kill two birds with one stone, I nearly annihilated three.
▪ Lleland was obviously out to kill two birds with one stone.
▪ Thorpey said it'd kill two birds with one stone.
▪ Well, now we can kill two birds with one stone.
leave sth aside/to one side
look out for number one
▪ We manoeuvre in the world constantly looking out for Number One.
lurch from one crisis/extreme etc to another
nice one!
no one in their right mind ...
not a bit/not one bit
not a/not one
▪ But not a one of them was able to stay awake through the night, so they all were beheaded.
▪ This change is not a one way process.
not believe/think/do sth for a/one moment
▪ His hand had not wavered for a moment.
▪ His leader did not believe for one moment the protestations of innocence.
▪ I do not concede for a moment that this is a devolution measure.
▪ I would not suggest for one moment that they existed here.
▪ Neither team will half-step, not even for a moment.
not one red cent
▪ Carter said she wouldn't pay one red cent of her rent until the landlord fixed her roof.
not one/an iota
▪ It was none of her business and it mattered to her not one iota.
▪ There is not an iota of evidence that such standardised testing has improved education anywhere in the world.
▪ We have heard not one iota of evidence or heard any defense the suspect may have in this case.
not think/believe etc for one minute
nothing/no one can touch sb/sth
number one/two/three etc seed
one (damn/damned) thing after another
▪ Just one damn thing after another.
▪ She was merely coping with one thing after another, not achieving.
▪ Then it was one thing after another, his obese stage, his alcoholic stage.
one ... or another
▪ At least 50 percent of the Soviet budget in one form or another goes to the military defense complex.
▪ Besides, he got his point across, one way or another, and usually in Chicago style.
▪ It featured more than five locos in steam at one time or another.
▪ Other speakers adapt to far more, perhaps to most of them, at one time or another.
▪ Some twenty percent of all Oscar-winning actors, actresses and directors have been married to each other at one time or another.
▪ The plates slide toward one direction or another and, inevitably, their ridges move off the hot spots that found them.
▪ Three, in one form or another, are still in the budget bill passed by Congress and vetoed by President Clinton.
▪ To enhance our chances of making such discoveries many of us use maps of one kind or another.
one after another
▪ Ever since we moved into this house, it's been one problem after another.
▪ He's had one problem after another this year.
▪ As they came ashore herrings fell off, one after another.
▪ Autumn drew on in Mitford, and one after another, the golden days were illumined with changing light.
▪ Deliberate and unhurried, he tried them one after another in the lock under the white, nineteenth-century china handle.
▪ Just moments, one after another, instead of living so many years ahead of each day.
▪ Just one after another on the streets.
▪ On Saturday evenings everybody in the family had a bath one after another in an old tin bath in front of the fire.
▪ The hummingbird which feeds on it must therefore visit many plants, one after another.
▪ This central area was the scene of three great changes, one after another.
one after another/one after the other
one another
▪ We always call one another during the holidays.
▪ Geschke and Warnock are mirror images of one another, right down to the silver beards.
▪ His mum and I held one another up.
▪ I want them to treat one another with courtesy and respect.
▪ Prisoners tried to sell saucepans to one another.
▪ They had barely greeted one another when Pam demanded to know what Margaret thought she was doing.
▪ This makes the wings very soft to the touch and probably cuts down noise from feathers moving against one another during flight.
▪ Women ran screaming with children in their arms, and old folk tripped over one another trying to escape the slaughter.
one for the road
▪ And one for the road, the last word in car hi-fi.
one good turn deserves another
one in every three/two in every hundred etc
one in the eye for sb
▪ It was one in the eye for the old order.
one man's meat is another man's poison
one minute ... the next (minute) ...
one moment ... the next/from one moment to the next
one o'clock/two o'clock etc
one of a kind
▪ This Persian carpet is one of a kind.
▪ Another comment was that the distinction: inside/outside reminded one of a kind of depersonalised network analysis.
▪ Each Keymer clay tile is a work of art, guaranteed one of a kind by the handprint of its maker.
▪ Since his patterns were often one of a kind, he relied little on machinery.
one on top of the other
▪ Banana trees dropped their rotting fruit, which lay one on top of the other, dying in layers.
▪ He taught Callie that when she added, she should stack the numbers one on top of the other.
▪ Soon our hands are together, perhaps one on top of the other, pointing to the words.
▪ The flour-dusted man with the two coats, one on top of the other, ran a grocery store.
▪ There were books piled on three shelves, one on top of the other.
one thing leads to another
▪ But one thing leads to another, and Sister Helen finds herself challenged to put her beliefs on the line.
▪ I know that and I do understand why, but one thing leads to another, you know how it is.
▪ You can be sure one thing leads to another.
one to watch
▪ Her association with Feist has moved sales of her own books up several notches, and this will one to watch.
▪ Rab figured him the one to watch.
▪ Shiatsu massage is the current one to watch for.
▪ The one to watch would be tomorrow morning's debate on the Government's immigration policy.
one-all/two-all etc
one-minute/two-minute etc silence
public enemy number one
▪ Rats have been branded public enemy No. 1 in Bangladesh.
▪ She had done nothing wrong, yet between them Rourke and Rebecca were making her feel like public enemy number one.
▪ Taylor has turned into public enemy number one.
public enemy number one
▪ She had done nothing wrong, yet between them Rourke and Rebecca were making her feel like public enemy number one.
▪ Taylor has turned into public enemy number one.
pull the other one (it's got bells on)
put all your eggs in one basket
put one/sth over on sb
▪ They think they've found a way to put one over on the welfare office.
▪ Cantor was pleased to have put one over on their first violinist, Sol Minskoff.
▪ Just put him over on the couch.
▪ They were trying to put one over on us and would no longer get away with it.
put/leave/set sth to one side
▪ Graham has no plans to fly this aircraft at present and will put it to one side as soon as assembly and testing is complete.
▪ She put it to one side, and opened the folder of photographs.
sb puts his pants on one leg at a time
seen one ... seen them all
shoot to number one/to the top of the charts etc
slip one over on sb
▪ How often have they bribed city workers to slip one over on an ignorant city council?
speak with one voice
▪ It became extraordinarily difficult for them to speak with one voice on critical issues.
▪ Salomon Brothers was speaking with one voice, and it was loud.
▪ This has already raised fears among foreign governments that the administration is not speaking with one voice on vital international issues.
▪ Where Clinton speaks with one voice, they speak with several, weakening their philosophical case.
speak with one voice
▪ It became extraordinarily difficult for them to speak with one voice on critical issues.
▪ Salomon Brothers was speaking with one voice, and it was loud.
▪ This has already raised fears among foreign governments that the administration is not speaking with one voice on vital international issues.
▪ Where Clinton speaks with one voice, they speak with several, weakening their philosophical case.
square one
▪ After the next break Sally is moved to go back to square one.
▪ Arms races sometimes culminate in extinction, and then a new arms race may begin back at square one.
▪ He was back to pounding nails again, back to square one for the eighth or tenth time.
▪ If something didn't break, and soon, they would be back to square one.
▪ Never shut the filter down, or the beneficial bacteria will die and you will be back to square one.
▪ Richard told me he felt like he was back to square one.
▪ We are back to square one.
sth is just one of those things
take/draw sb to one side
▪ Eventually Johnny drew him to one side with a shock-haired young reporter who sported horn-rimmed glasses and a velvet bow-tie.
▪ He was always taking me to one side, telling me what I should and shouldn't do.
taking one thing with another
tell me another (one)
ten to one
▪ Ten to one Marsha will be late.
▪ It's ten to one you'll get the job - you're perfect for it.
▪ Stop worrying, Mum. Ten to one Liz has just gone round to a friend's house.
▪ All you've done is hold out the whole day against odds of ten to one.
▪ He honed his pilots' aerial skills to so fine a point that their kill ratio reached ten to one.
▪ I could have got odds of ten to one and made a fortune.
▪ She reached the restaurant at ten to one, precisely on time.
▪ The first time you sleep with some one ten to one they're going to be a stranger.
▪ They go using mallets and chisels, and ten to one they'd extend the fracture line.
that's a good one
▪ My car's on fire? Boy, that's a good one!
▪ The idea of John getting sick, the idea of John coming down with something: that's a good one.
the last but one/the next but two etc
the odd man/one out
▪ I was always the odd man out in my class at school.
▪ And Joe Bowie remains the odd man out, uncoupled at the end.
▪ At each stage of the story, Britain has been the odd man out.
▪ He was the odd one out in a gifted family.
▪ Others are widowed or divorced, and hate being the odd one out among friends who are all couples.
▪ Unless Spencer is traded, the latter seems to be the odd man out despite showing improvement in the preseason.
▪ Which of the following grape varieties is the odd one out? 4.
▪ Why is it always the odd man out?
the one that got away
▪ Saucy Cecil Parkinson lets his fingers do the talking about the one that got away.
there is only one thing for it
there's more than one way to skin a cat
there's one born every minute
tie one on
▪ Sunday, June 1: Boy did I tie one on last night.
two heads are better than one
under the same roof/under one roof
what with one thing and another
with one accord
▪ Mahmoud and Owen looked at each other, then with one accord started walking.
II.pronoun
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ "Do you know where those bowls are?" "Which ones?"
▪ The houses are all pretty similar, but one is a little bigger than the others.
▪ They're closing this factory but building two new ones in Atlanta.
▪ We've been looking at houses but haven't found one we like yet.
III.determiner
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ One reason I like the house is because of the big kitchen.
▪ My one regret is that I never told Brad how I felt.
▪ My one worry is that she'll decide to leave college.
▪ She's one crazy lady!
▪ She was the one friend that I could trust.
▪ That's one fancy car you've got there.
▪ That is one cute kid!
▪ The one thing I don't like about my car is the colour.
▪ The one time I forgot my umbrella was the day it rained.
▪ The car belongs to one Joseph Nelson.
▪ Why does my card work in one cash machine and not in another?
▪ You're the one person I can trust.
IV.adjective
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
(all) rolled into one
▪ The band's sound was metal and punk and rap all rolled into one.
▪ For many, this outsized jamboree became both a new Pentecost and a New Jerusalem rolled into one.
▪ In practice, stages 2 and 3 are often rolled into one.
▪ It had all the elements one finds in several different testimonies all artfully rolled into one.
▪ Lloyd Kaufman is also a writer, director, producer, actor and studio mogul, all rolled into one.
▪ Lovable Manuel is quite the tyrant, a mini Papi and Mami rolled into one.
▪ She was a fallen Magdalene and a lamenting dolorosa rolled into one.
▪ So the service offers a payment system and a management information system rolled into one.
▪ They represent a kind of hybrid architect, designer, engineer, set builder and scenario maker, all rolled into one.
(in) one way or another/one way or the other
▪ One way or another, Roberts will pay for what he's done.
▪ As you grow older, some of those uncertainties - such as whether or not you are lovable - are settled one way or another.
▪ But the fact is that the way we live our lives often assumes a belief about them, one way or another.
▪ In one way or another, all these therapies seem to have an effect on the electrical balances of the body.
▪ In one way or another, the representatives will be compared with the total client system.
▪ In one way or another, whatever happened, instinct told him that they would both survive.
▪ Many others were involved in small business issues one way or another.
▪ My gut feeling is that one way or another Congress will pull through.
▪ Then one way or another he would have to deal with Capshaw.
(one) for luck
▪ You get three kisses for your birthday, and one for luck.
▪ An extra teaspoonful for luck could well be disaster.
▪ By now the only part of Mr. Rainsford's brewery left standing was the taproom kept for luck like an old horseshoe.
▪ Certainly there may be the odd chart or graph thrown in for luck but the basic requirement is for high quality text.
▪ I gave him one for luck on the back of his neck.
▪ Is he the kind of man to lend you the rings for luck for a short time?
▪ Now he gave it one last violent shake for luck.
▪ One for luck, and farewell.
Formula One/Two/Three etc
▪ And I don't think many people appreciate the physical demands of actually driving a Formula One car, especially through corners.
▪ If the Formula One circus is so bothered about avoiding accidents, why not run the entire race behind the safety car?
▪ It's almost embarrassing the way his Oxfordshire-based team have dominated Formula One this season.
▪ Like its Formula Two counterpart it was removed from the international calendar at the end of 1984.
▪ She knew that in between Formula One obligations he had, amazingly, managed to keep his construction interests afloat.
▪ Villeneuve, who had collided with Ralf Schumacher, gets paid £10MILLION for risking life and limb in Formula One.
I'll tell you something/one thing/another thing
▪ Let me tell you something - if I catch you kids smoking, you'll be grounded for a whole year at least.
I've heard that one before
I've only got one pair of hands
I/you can count sb/sth on (the fingers of) one hand
a/one bit at a time
▪ The text can be put on an overhead and revealed a bit at a time.
a/one hell of a sth
▪ It was one hell of a party.
▪ Ray's a hell of a salesman.
▪ She's drinking a hell of a lot these days.
▪ But that's probably because the firm was in a hell of a mess when he took over.
▪ DEVIL-MAY-CARE actress Liz Hurley made a hell of a Beelzeboob at a charity fashion bash.
▪ It's a hell of a game.
▪ It had one hell of a noise, too, if you were close to it.
▪ It would do everyone a hell of a lot of good to hear you.
▪ That's a hell of a way to go, I say.
▪ They had a hell of a time finding adequate housing.
▪ We rode on to Safford, hit a bar and had a hell of a good time.
a/one hundred percent
▪ I'm not a hundred percent sure where she lives.
▪ I agree with you a hundred percent.
▪ Absolutely I agree one hundred percent.
▪ All of our history, we stayed just about one hundred percent occupancy.
▪ It is, of course, a hundred percent certain that this triggering device is battery-powered.
▪ She hoped so, but she wasn't a hundred percent certain.
▪ The unit included a spinning mill within its plant, producing one hundred percent wool yarn.
▪ There was no doubt that Kirsty was one hundred percent MacKay.
▪ Therefore, even firms that are a hundred percent domestic get an extra lift from lower interest rates.
anywhere between one and ten/anywhere from one to ten etc
as one man
▪ The crowd rise to their feet as one man.
▪ The... whole North arose as one man....
▪ Undaunted, Athletico played as one man.
at a/one stroke
▪ Brian saw a chance of solving all his problems at one stroke.
▪ But as the 1980s began it seemed as if all the uncertainty had been resolved at a stroke.
▪ Gardening in tomorrow's world Future pest control at a stroke?
▪ His reputation would be lost at a stroke.
▪ No one could therefore call for the closure of incineration plants at a stroke, because noxious chemicals have to go somewhere.
▪ People pretty much looked at a stroke as a permanent condition: Once you had it, it was there.
▪ Routes may be closed, reducing accessibility, or subsidies may be removed, increasing fares for users at a stroke.
▪ The lek paradox is thus solved at a stroke.
▪ Then, at a stroke, something happened that gave him a powerful sense of purpose.
at one time
▪ At one time forests covered about 20% of Lebanon.
▪ See, I can lock the doors all at one time.
▪ There aren't many places around here where you can cater for fifty or so people at one time.
▪ This word processor allows you to work with two documents at one time.
▪ You feel like you are going in twelve different directions at one time.
▪ Although you can see only 80 characters on the screen at one time.
▪ It has been established that at one time or another during her life she had been wounded by all three arrows.
▪ The city at one time had talked to Edwards Theaters about building a multiplex theater there, but those talks faltered.
▪ The curriculum, which at one time had seemed novel, barely changed from decade to decade.
▪ The somewhat better-known Sigmund Freud at one time worked with Janet.
▪ Up to 24 packages can be accessed at one time.
▪ We cured all our bloaters and our kippers, at one time.
at/in one sitting
▪ Jeff ate a whole bag of potato chips in one sitting.
▪ As in my landscapes, I work quickly and the portrait has to be completed in one sitting.
▪ At other times the sessions are intended to serve the need of teachers of five of six languages at one sitting.
▪ But if you get a copy, save it for when you can read it at one sitting.
▪ I devoured it all almost at one sitting, reading it until my eyes closed.
▪ I read it in one sitting and lay awake that night disturbed by its power and frightened by its implication.
▪ It is an interesting book to dip into, but it can not be read at one sitting.
be in a minority of one
be neither one thing nor the other
be of one mind/of the same mind/of like mind
be/keep/stay one step ahead (of sb)
▪ It was a constant struggle to stay one step ahead of thrift regulators in Washington.
▪ Money With better management of resources you will be able to stay one step ahead.
▪ The reason Chappy is moving around so much is to keep one step ahead I suppose.
▪ We don't want to sell him but we have to keep one step ahead.
can do sth with one hand (tied) behind your back
criticize/nag/hassle sb up one side and down the other
do one
for one thing
▪ A higher body count score, for one thing.
▪ He was responsible for Loredana's death, for one thing.
▪ The ex-steelworkers, for one thing, have not gone away.
▪ Their love of wine leads to raised levels of alcoholism, for one thing, which balances out the supposed benefits.
▪ Well, for one thing she takes her readers and our intellect seriously.
▪ Well, for one thing, women have a different experience in life.
go in (at) one ear and out (at) the other
▪ It goes in one ear and out the other.
go one better (than sb)
▪ Beth Wolff, president of her own residential real estate company, likes to go one better.
▪ But even if Forbes loses his quest for the Republican presidential nomination, he may still go one better than his father.
▪ Ford went one better and put 60 two-stroke Fiestas on the roads.
▪ Laker's return of 9 for 37 was outstanding, but he was to go one better when the Aussies followed on.
▪ Like an aphid, then, the caterpillar employs ants as bodyguards, but it goes one better.
▪ She goes one better than last year.
▪ The Bristol & West have now gone one better than the standard endowment mortgage.
▪ They have followed each other up the ladder, but whenever he has reached the same rung she has gone one better.
half past one/two/three etc
▪ At half past one the men got up and checked their equipment, gathering several sticks as well.
▪ At half past three he wanted to die, or to kill somebody.
▪ At half past two this morning my wife died.
▪ It was half past three in the morning.
▪ She arrived at the Herald building at half past three, and walked past the uniformed commissionaire to the lift.
▪ The return journey was supposed to start at half past three but there would always be a few people missing.
▪ They'd all been given leaflets about it at half past three.
have a one-track mind
▪ That guy has a one-track mind.
have had one too many
▪ Ron looked like he'd had one too many.
have more than one string to your bow
have one foot in the grave
▪ She sounded like she had one foot in the grave.
have you heard the one about ...
hole in one
▪ Even that record has now gone, Sluman holing in one.
if ever there was one
▪ A crazy notion if ever there was one.
▪ An obstinate fellow, if ever there was one, and a very elusive one too.
▪ Exercise is the original fountain of youth if ever there was one.
▪ He is a product of the system if ever there was one.
▪ Here is a time warp if ever there was one.
▪ My favourite Caithness loch is Heilen, near Castletown; an expert's loch if ever there was one.
▪ My son, however, is a sports fanatic if ever there was one.
in one piece
▪ I don't know how we got the piano down in one piece!
▪ I was extremely relieved when my son came back from the warzone all in one piece.
▪ The china arrived all in one piece, thank God.
▪ Unlike Ed, Josh returned from the war in one piece.
▪ All she wanted was for me to come back in one piece.
▪ All you wanted to do was get out of it in one piece, go home, and get a job.
▪ At one point, maybe, it was when they arrived home in one piece from school.
▪ It should fall out in one piece.
▪ It would explain how Greg manages to be in one piece while the Lorelei is nothing but a few planks of driftwood.
▪ Lowering the tender took care and patience if they wanted to keep it in one piece.
▪ The fatty skin covering should easily lift off in one piece.
▪ When they get there the china cabinet is still in one piece but the budgie is dead.
in one respect/in some respects etc
in one whack
▪ Steve lost $500 in one whack.
in words of one syllable
▪ Cotey -- real slow and in words of one syllable -- and then diagram them in stick figures with Crayolas.
it's (just) one of those days
▪ "Everything okay?" "Oh, it's just been one of those days."
it's one thing to ..., (it's) another thing to ...,
it's six of one and half a dozen of the other
keep/have one eye/half an eye on sb/sth
kill two birds with one stone
▪ Deedee killed two birds with one stone, both shopping and looking for a shop of her own to rent.
▪ Adding five examples to the chapters that at present lack them would kill two birds with one stone.
▪ By promoting these new investors, Mr Alphandéry could kill two birds with one stone.
▪ In trying to play matchmaker and kill two birds with one stone, I nearly annihilated three.
▪ Lleland was obviously out to kill two birds with one stone.
▪ Thorpey said it'd kill two birds with one stone.
▪ Well, now we can kill two birds with one stone.
leave sth aside/to one side
look out for number one
▪ We manoeuvre in the world constantly looking out for Number One.
lurch from one crisis/extreme etc to another
no one in their right mind ...
not a bit/not one bit
not a/not one
▪ But not a one of them was able to stay awake through the night, so they all were beheaded.
▪ This change is not a one way process.
not believe/think/do sth for a/one moment
▪ His hand had not wavered for a moment.
▪ His leader did not believe for one moment the protestations of innocence.
▪ I do not concede for a moment that this is a devolution measure.
▪ I would not suggest for one moment that they existed here.
▪ Neither team will half-step, not even for a moment.
not one/an iota
▪ It was none of her business and it mattered to her not one iota.
▪ There is not an iota of evidence that such standardised testing has improved education anywhere in the world.
▪ We have heard not one iota of evidence or heard any defense the suspect may have in this case.
not think/believe etc for one minute
nothing/no one can touch sb/sth
number one/two/three etc seed
one (damn/damned) thing after another
▪ Just one damn thing after another.
▪ She was merely coping with one thing after another, not achieving.
▪ Then it was one thing after another, his obese stage, his alcoholic stage.
one ... or another
▪ At least 50 percent of the Soviet budget in one form or another goes to the military defense complex.
▪ Besides, he got his point across, one way or another, and usually in Chicago style.
▪ It featured more than five locos in steam at one time or another.
▪ Other speakers adapt to far more, perhaps to most of them, at one time or another.
▪ Some twenty percent of all Oscar-winning actors, actresses and directors have been married to each other at one time or another.
▪ The plates slide toward one direction or another and, inevitably, their ridges move off the hot spots that found them.
▪ Three, in one form or another, are still in the budget bill passed by Congress and vetoed by President Clinton.
▪ To enhance our chances of making such discoveries many of us use maps of one kind or another.
one after another
▪ Ever since we moved into this house, it's been one problem after another.
▪ He's had one problem after another this year.
▪ As they came ashore herrings fell off, one after another.
▪ Autumn drew on in Mitford, and one after another, the golden days were illumined with changing light.
▪ Deliberate and unhurried, he tried them one after another in the lock under the white, nineteenth-century china handle.
▪ Just moments, one after another, instead of living so many years ahead of each day.
▪ Just one after another on the streets.
▪ On Saturday evenings everybody in the family had a bath one after another in an old tin bath in front of the fire.
▪ The hummingbird which feeds on it must therefore visit many plants, one after another.
▪ This central area was the scene of three great changes, one after another.
one after another/one after the other
one another
▪ We always call one another during the holidays.
▪ Geschke and Warnock are mirror images of one another, right down to the silver beards.
▪ His mum and I held one another up.
▪ I want them to treat one another with courtesy and respect.
▪ Prisoners tried to sell saucepans to one another.
▪ They had barely greeted one another when Pam demanded to know what Margaret thought she was doing.
▪ This makes the wings very soft to the touch and probably cuts down noise from feathers moving against one another during flight.
▪ Women ran screaming with children in their arms, and old folk tripped over one another trying to escape the slaughter.
one for the road
▪ And one for the road, the last word in car hi-fi.
one good turn deserves another
one in every three/two in every hundred etc
one in the eye for sb
▪ It was one in the eye for the old order.
one man's meat is another man's poison
one minute ... the next (minute) ...
one moment ... the next/from one moment to the next
one o'clock/two o'clock etc
one of a kind
▪ This Persian carpet is one of a kind.
▪ Another comment was that the distinction: inside/outside reminded one of a kind of depersonalised network analysis.
▪ Each Keymer clay tile is a work of art, guaranteed one of a kind by the handprint of its maker.
▪ Since his patterns were often one of a kind, he relied little on machinery.
one on top of the other
▪ Banana trees dropped their rotting fruit, which lay one on top of the other, dying in layers.
▪ He taught Callie that when she added, she should stack the numbers one on top of the other.
▪ Soon our hands are together, perhaps one on top of the other, pointing to the words.
▪ The flour-dusted man with the two coats, one on top of the other, ran a grocery store.
▪ There were books piled on three shelves, one on top of the other.
one thing leads to another
▪ But one thing leads to another, and Sister Helen finds herself challenged to put her beliefs on the line.
▪ I know that and I do understand why, but one thing leads to another, you know how it is.
▪ You can be sure one thing leads to another.
one to watch
▪ Her association with Feist has moved sales of her own books up several notches, and this will one to watch.
▪ Rab figured him the one to watch.
▪ Shiatsu massage is the current one to watch for.
▪ The one to watch would be tomorrow morning's debate on the Government's immigration policy.
one-all/two-all etc
one-minute/two-minute etc silence
public enemy number one
▪ Rats have been branded public enemy No. 1 in Bangladesh.
▪ She had done nothing wrong, yet between them Rourke and Rebecca were making her feel like public enemy number one.
▪ Taylor has turned into public enemy number one.
pull the other one (it's got bells on)
put all your eggs in one basket
put one/sth over on sb
▪ They think they've found a way to put one over on the welfare office.
▪ Cantor was pleased to have put one over on their first violinist, Sol Minskoff.
▪ Just put him over on the couch.
▪ They were trying to put one over on us and would no longer get away with it.
put/leave/set sth to one side
▪ Graham has no plans to fly this aircraft at present and will put it to one side as soon as assembly and testing is complete.
▪ She put it to one side, and opened the folder of photographs.
sb puts his pants on one leg at a time
seen one ... seen them all
shoot to number one/to the top of the charts etc
slip one over on sb
▪ How often have they bribed city workers to slip one over on an ignorant city council?
speak with one voice
▪ It became extraordinarily difficult for them to speak with one voice on critical issues.
▪ Salomon Brothers was speaking with one voice, and it was loud.
▪ This has already raised fears among foreign governments that the administration is not speaking with one voice on vital international issues.
▪ Where Clinton speaks with one voice, they speak with several, weakening their philosophical case.
speak with one voice
▪ It became extraordinarily difficult for them to speak with one voice on critical issues.
▪ Salomon Brothers was speaking with one voice, and it was loud.
▪ This has already raised fears among foreign governments that the administration is not speaking with one voice on vital international issues.
▪ Where Clinton speaks with one voice, they speak with several, weakening their philosophical case.
square one
▪ After the next break Sally is moved to go back to square one.
▪ Arms races sometimes culminate in extinction, and then a new arms race may begin back at square one.
▪ He was back to pounding nails again, back to square one for the eighth or tenth time.
▪ If something didn't break, and soon, they would be back to square one.
▪ Never shut the filter down, or the beneficial bacteria will die and you will be back to square one.
▪ Richard told me he felt like he was back to square one.
▪ We are back to square one.
sth is just one of those things
take/draw sb to one side
▪ Eventually Johnny drew him to one side with a shock-haired young reporter who sported horn-rimmed glasses and a velvet bow-tie.
▪ He was always taking me to one side, telling me what I should and shouldn't do.
taking one thing with another
tell me another (one)
ten to one
▪ Ten to one Marsha will be late.
▪ It's ten to one you'll get the job - you're perfect for it.
▪ Stop worrying, Mum. Ten to one Liz has just gone round to a friend's house.
▪ All you've done is hold out the whole day against odds of ten to one.
▪ He honed his pilots' aerial skills to so fine a point that their kill ratio reached ten to one.
▪ I could have got odds of ten to one and made a fortune.
▪ She reached the restaurant at ten to one, precisely on time.
▪ The first time you sleep with some one ten to one they're going to be a stranger.
▪ They go using mallets and chisels, and ten to one they'd extend the fracture line.
the last but one/the next but two etc
the one that got away
▪ Saucy Cecil Parkinson lets his fingers do the talking about the one that got away.
there is only one thing for it
there's more than one way to skin a cat
there's one born every minute
tie one on
▪ Sunday, June 1: Boy did I tie one on last night.
two heads are better than one
under the same roof/under one roof
what with one thing and another
with one accord
▪ Mahmoud and Owen looked at each other, then with one accord started walking.
V.noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
good
▪ There are some very good ones around.
▪ With primary pupils you get a lot of really complicated questions, and sometimes really good ones too.
▪ The best known ones are the Kuder Preference test and the Strong-Campbell interest inventory.
▪ Bad policies in the past may continue to cause problems, long after they have been replaced by good ones.
▪ Some good ones to try are suggested in the table.
large
▪ Since then virtually every small printer, and most large ones, have changed from metal to film.
▪ A Small Hermit Crabs will not damage inverts, but larger ones will.
▪ Smaller weekly or fortnightly water changes of 10-20% are preferable to large monthly ones.
little
▪ The little ones were farmed out.
new
▪ Ironically, while they erected 660 churches, they closed thirty-three for every twenty-one new ones they built.
▪ Jaq now surmised that Googol was reciting his own verses under his breath, polishing old ones, composing new ones.
▪ They cultivate many types of fungus and are always searching for new ones to experiment with.
▪ As far as methods go, we may learn as much from their old techniques as from their new ones.
▪ It has saved some breweries from takeover, and encouraged new ones to open.
▪ During the three winter months, almost the entire squadron changed - well-known faces gradually disappearing and being replaced by new ones.
▪ Presumably your clothes will need to be altered or some new ones purchased.
▪ My first thought was to rush to the nearest d-i-y superstore to buy new ones.
old
▪ Jaq now surmised that Googol was reciting his own verses under his breath, polishing old ones, composing new ones.
▪ How do I remove the old ones without damaging the wall?
▪ Face despised face, the older ones moving in front of the younger ones, the weaker ones giving way to the stronger ones.
only
▪ It turned out she was just as fed up as me, and we were not the only ones.
▪ Just for those few minutes we were the only ones in the audience who knew what was to come.
▪ There were five of them at one table and they were the only ones still outside.
▪ But the only ones who should be scared, outraged or psychotic are the governments and corporations, and perhaps the journalists.
▪ I used to think that we Met girls were the only ones awake and having to brave the elements.
▪ And you and I might be the only ones between your friend and the bullet.
small
▪ But while it happens, the big banks will be taking the strain of the smaller ones.
▪ I had six dozen smaller ones for the tape recorder and my torch.
▪ So far most of the business successes are small family-owned ones: groceries, restaurants, garages.
▪ This is another reason to avoid small units - far better to have a single big unit than two small ones.
▪ To minimise the chances of failure, make sure you have a few big Mobs rather than lots of small ones.
▪ Oh, and skips: two big and two small ones.
young
▪ The older age-groups were somewhat less likely than the younger ones to have an occupational pension.
▪ Face despised face, the older ones moving in front of the younger ones, the weaker ones giving way to the stronger ones.
▪ Mostly they died of shock, particularly the younger ones, so it was a bonus when one recovered.
▪ So I try to put the younger ones off acquiring one until they're older.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ Do you have any ones?
Related phrases:
The Collaborative International Dictionary
One

One \One\ (w[u^]n), a. [OE. one, on, an, AS. [=a]n; akin to D. een, OS. [=e]n, OFries. [=e]n, [=a]n, G. ein, Dan. een, Sw. en, Icel. einn, Goth. ains, W. un, Ir. & Gael. aon, L. unus, earlier oinos, oenos, Gr. o'i`nh the ace on dice; cf. Skr. 299. Cf. 2d A, 1st An, Alone, Anon, Any, None, Nonce, Only, Onion, Unit.]

  1. Being a single unit, or entire being or thing, and no more; not multifold; single; individual.

    The dream of Pharaoh is one.
    --Gen. xli. 25.

    O that we now had here But one ten thousand of those men in England.
    --Shak.

  2. Denoting a person or thing conceived or spoken of indefinitely; a certain. ``I am the sister of one Claudio'' [
    --Shak.], that is, of a certain man named Claudio.

  3. Pointing out a contrast, or denoting a particular thing or person different from some other specified; -- used as a correlative adjective, with or without the.

    From the one side of heaven unto the other.
    --Deut. iv. 32.

  4. Closely bound together; undivided; united; constituting a whole.

    The church is therefore one, though the members may be many.
    --Bp. Pearson

  5. Single in kind; the same; a common.

    One plague was on you all, and on your lords.
    --1 Sam. vi. 4.

  6. Single; unmarried. [Obs.] Men may counsel a woman to be one. --Chaucer. Note: One is often used in forming compound words, the meaning of which is obvious; as, one-armed, one-celled, one-eyed, one-handed, one-hearted, one-horned, one-idead, one-leaved, one-masted, one-ribbed, one-story, one-syllable, one-stringed, one-winged, etc. All one, of the same or equal nature, or consequence; all the same; as, he says that it is all one what course you take. --Shak. One day.

    1. On a certain day, not definitely specified, referring to time past.

      One day when Phoebe fair, With all her band, was following the chase.
      --Spenser.

    2. Referring to future time: At some uncertain day or period in the future; some day.

      Well, I will marry one day.
      --Shak.

One

One \One\ (w[u^]n), indef. pron. Any person, indefinitely; a person or body; as, what one would have well done, one should do one's self.

It was well worth one's while.
--Hawthorne.

Against this sort of condemnation one must steel one's self as one best can.
--G. Eliot.

Note: One is often used with some, any, no, each, every, such, a, many a, another, the other, etc. It is sometimes joined with another, to denote a reciprocal relation.

When any one heareth the word.
--Matt. xiii. 19.

She knew every one who was any one in the land of Bohemia.
--Compton Reade.

The Peloponnesians and the Athenians fought against one another.
--Jowett (Thucyd. ).

The gentry received one another.
--Thackeray.

One

One \One\, n.

  1. A single unit; as, one is the base of all numbers.

  2. A symbol representing a unit, as 1, or i.

  3. 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

  4. 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.

One

One \One\, v. t. To cause to become one; to gather into a single whole; to unite; to assimilite. [Obs.]

The rich folk that embraced and oned all their heart to treasure of the world.
--Chaucer.

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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
one

c.1200, from Old English an (adjective, pronoun, noun) "one," from Proto-Germanic *ainaz (cognates: Old Norse einn, Danish een, Old Frisian an, Dutch een, German ein, Gothic ains), from PIE *oi-no- "one, unique" (cognates: Greek oinos "ace (on dice);" Latin unus "one;" Old Persian aivam; Old Church Slavonic -inu, ino-; Lithuanian vienas; Old Irish oin; Breton un "one").\n

\nOriginally pronounced as it still is in only, and in dialectal good 'un, young 'un, etc.; the now-standard pronunciation "wun" began c.14c. in southwest and west England (Tyndale, a Gloucester man, spells it won in his Bible translation), and it began to be general 18c. Use as indefinite pronoun influenced by unrelated French on and Latin homo.\n

\nOne and only "sweetheart" is from 1906. One of those things "unpredictable occurrence" is from 1934. Slang one-arm bandit "a type of slot machine" is recorded by 1938. One-night stand is 1880 in performance sense; 1963 in sexual sense. One of the boys "ordinary amiable fellow" is from 1893. One-track mind is from 1927. Drinking expression one for the road is from 1950 (as a song title).

Wiktionary
one

  1. Of a period of time, being particular; as, one morning, one year. n. 1 (context mathematics English) The neutral element with respect to multiplication in a ring#Etymology_3. 2 The digit or figure 1. 3 (context US English) A one-dollar bill. 4 (context cricket English) One run scored by hitting the ball and running between the wickets; a single. 5 A joke or amusing anecdote. 6 (context colloquial English) A particularly special or compatible person or thing. 7 (context Internet slang leet sarcastic English) Used instead of ! to amplify an exclamation, parodying unskilled users who forget to press the shift key while typing exclamation points. num. 1 (context cardinal English) A numerical value equal to 1; the first number in the set of natural numbers (especially in number theory); the cardinality of the smallest nonempty set. Ordinal: first. 2 The ordinality of an element which has no predecessor, usually called ''first'' or ''number one''. pron. 1 (lb en impersonal pronoun) One thing (among a group of others); one member of a group. 2 (lb en impersonal pronoun sometimes with "the") The first mentioned of two things or people, as opposed to the other. 3 (lb en indefinite personal pronoun) Any person (applying to people in general). v

  2. (context obsolete transitive English) To cause to become one; to gather into a single whole; to unite.

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one

  1. n. the smallest whole number or a numeral representing this number; "he has the one but will need a two and three to go with it"; "they had lunch at one" [syn: 1, I, ace, single, unity]

  2. a single person or thing; "he is the best one"; "this is the one I ordered"

one

  1. adj. used of a single unit or thing; not two or more; "`ane' is Scottish" [syn: 1, i, ane]

  2. particular but unspecified; "early one evening" [syn: one(a)]

  3. having the indivisible character of a unit; "a unitary action"; "spoke with one voice" [syn: one(a), unitary]

  4. of the same kind or quality; "two animals of one species" [syn: one(a)]

  5. used informally as an intensifier; "that is one fine dog" [syn: one(a)]

  6. indefinite in time or position; "he will come one day"; "one place or another" [syn: one(a)]

  7. being the single appropriate individual of a kind; only; "the one horse that could win this race"; "the one person I could marry" [syn: one(a)]

  8. being one in number--a single unit or thing; "one person is going"; "her one thought was to win"; "I'm just one player on the team"; "one day is just like the next"; "seen one horse and you've seen them all" [syn: one(a)]

  9. being a single entity made by combining separate components; "three chemicals combining into one solution"

  10. eminent beyond or above comparison; "matchless beauty"; "the team's nonpareil center fielder"; "she's one girl in a million"; "the one and only Muhammad Ali"; "a peerless scholar"; "infamy unmatched in the Western world"; "wrote with unmatchable clarity"; "unrivaled mastery of her art" [syn: matchless, nonpareil, one(a), one and only(a), peerless, unmatched, unmatchable, unrivaled, unrivalled]

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One (disambiguation)

1 A.D. is a year.

1, one, or ONE may also refer to:

  • 1 (number)
    • 0.999..., a mathematical equivalent of 1
  • One (pronoun), a pronoun in the English language
  • 1 BC, the year before 1 AD
  • Hydrogen, with an atomic number of 1
  • The month of January
One (Star Trek: Voyager)

__NOTOC__ "One" is the 93rd episode of Star Trek: Voyager, the 25th and penultimate episode of the fourth season.

This episode's plot was later re-used in Star Trek: Enterprise for the episode "Doctor's Orders" with Dr. Phlox playing the role of Seven, and T'Pol playing the role of the Doctor. The episode was based on a premise by James Swallow, based on an invitation to pitch after he submitted a spec script.

One (Maltese TV channel)

One (stylized as ONE and previously known as Super One Television) is a television station in Malta owned by One Productions, the Labour Party's media arm. Broadcasts commenced in March 1994.

One (band)

ONE was a boy band that first appeared in 1999, recognized as both Greece and Cyprus's very first boy band. The band was formed by leading Cypriot- Greek composer Giorgos Theofanous and Minos EMI A&R Manager Vangelis Yannopoulos. Constantinos Christoforou, Savvas Constantinides and Phiippos Constantinos were on board quite early, chosen by Giorgos Theofanous. The next three members were picked up after a selective audition that took place in legendary Athenian Sierra Studio. The selecting committee consisted of Natalia Germanou, Posidonas Yannopoulos, Andreas Kouris, Themis Georgandas, Theofanous and Yannopoulos. Demetres Koutsavlakis, Argyris Nastopoulos and Panos Tserpes were retained among 179 candidates. Christoforou followed a solo career in 2003, and was replaced by another Cypriot singer, Demos Beke. In 2005 the band formally disbanded. In their 6-year existence they enjoyed much commercial success and earned platinum certifications, as well as having staged memorable performances with successful Greek singers at music halls and in concerts.

In July 1999 they released their first single, with their debut album following in October. In 1999 Savvas Constantinides left the group shortly before the release of their debut single to pursue solo projects in the UK. All music and lyrics were written by Giorgos Theofanous (as was all the rest of the musical recorded material of the band) while Vangelis Yannopoulos was producing.

One (Dirty Vegas album)

One is the second album by British house music trio Dirty Vegas, released 18 October 2004 in the UK (see 2004 in British music).

One (Neal Morse album)

One is a Christian progressive rock concept album by multi-instrumentalist Neal Morse and his fourth studio album. Released in 2004, this was released as both a single-CD album and a special edition double-CD with deleted tracks and cover songs.

The band is Neal, Mike Portnoy (ex- Dream Theater), and Randy George ( Ajalon) with guest Phil Keaggy.

One (Canadian TV channel)

One is a Canadian English language Category A cable and satellite specialty channel that is owned by ZoomerMedia. It offers lifestyle and entertainment programming devoted to programming on yoga and meditation, weight loss and fitness, sex and relationships, natural health and nutrition, and alternative medicine.

One (Metallica song)

"One" is an anti-war song by the American heavy metal band Metallica. It was released as the third and final single from their fourth studio album, ...And Justice for All (1988). "One" was also the band's first Top 40 hit single, reaching number 35 on the Billboard Hot 100. The song hit number one in Finland.

Metallica performed "One" for the 1989 Grammy Awards show broadcast from Los Angeles. The next year the song won a Grammy Award in the first Best Metal Performance category. The song is one of the band's most popular pieces and has remained a live staple since the release of the album, making this the most played song from the album ...And Justice for All.

A video for the song was introduced in January 1989 on MTV. It portrays a World War I soldier who is severely wounded—blind and unable to speak nor move—returned home as a supposed vegetable case to wait helplessly for death. His only hope is to devise a way to communicate with the hospital staff. Shot in black and white by director Michael Salomon, the video's story is intercut with scenes taken from the 1971 anti-war film Johnny Got His Gun. Due to routinely being required to pay royalty fees to continue showing the music video, Metallica bought the rights to the film. The video was ranked No. 1 on MTV soon after its introduction.

One (U2 song)

"One" is a song by the Irish rock band U2. It is the third track from their 1991 album Achtung Baby, and it was released as the record's third single in March 1992. During the album's recording sessions at Hansa Studios in Berlin, conflict arose between the band members over the direction of U2's sound and the quality of their material. Tensions almost prompted the band to break up until they achieved a breakthrough with the improvisation of "One"; the song was written after the band members were inspired by a chord progression that guitarist the Edge was playing in the studio. The lyrics, written by lead singer Bono, were inspired by the band members' fractured relationships and the German reunification. Although the lyrics ostensibly describe "disunity", they have been interpreted in other ways.

"One" was released as a benefit single, with proceeds going towards AIDS research. The song topped the Irish Singles Charts and US Billboard Album Rock Tracks and Modern Rock Tracks charts, and it peaked at number seven on the UK Singles Chart and number ten on the Billboard Hot 100. In promotion of the song, the band filmed several music videos, although they were not pleased until a third was created.

The song was acclaimed by critics upon its release, and it has since been featured in polls of the greatest songs of all time. U2 has performed "One" at most of their tour concerts since the song's live debut in 1992, and it has appeared in many of the band's concert films. In a live setting, "One" is often used by the group to promote human rights or social justice causes, and the song lends its namesake to Bono's charitable organisation, the ONE Campaign. In 2005, U2 re-recorded the song as part of a duet with R&B recording artist Mary J. Blige on her album The Breakthrough.

One (Law & Order: Criminal Intent)

"One" is the pilot episode of the NBC legal drama Law & Order: Criminal Intent, the second created spinoff of the original Law & Order series, created by Dick Wolf and developed and co-created veteran Law & Order writer René Balcer. It originally aired on NBC in the United States on Sunday, September 30, 2001; the series premiere date was pushed back due to the September 11th attacks. The episode follows Detectives Robert Goren ( Vincent D'Onofrio) and Alexandra Eames ( Kathryn Erbe) solving the murder of two young college students and a Canadian ex-con, which has a $300 million motive.

One (Angela Aki EP)

One is an Angela Aki's first mini-album. It was her debut Japanese language release, under the independent Virgo Music Entertainment label. The album features three original compositions and three cover songs (with the cover songs' lyrics being rewritten into Japanese by Aki herself). The entire album is in Japanese except for the song "Warning". It debuted at #2 in the HMV's indies charts and by the end of the year it had reached #1. The song "Aisuru Mono" was used as the Hitachi DVD Cam CM song.

One (Bee Gees album)

One is the Bee Gees' eighteenth studio album (sixteenth worldwide), released in April 1989 (August 1989 in the United States).

One (Hellbound)

One (Hellbound) is the debut release from Indianapolis thrash band Demiricous. It was released through Metal Blade Records in 2006. The band's debut garnered them a loyal following in the metal scene.

One (The Panic Channel album)

One, often stylized (ONe), was the debut and sole album released by the supergroup The Panic Channel, who formed in 2004, released via Capitol Records on August 15, 2006. There were two singles released: "Why Cry" and "Teahouse of the Spirits."

One (George Jones and Tammy Wynette album)

One is an album by American country music artists George Jones and Tammy Wynette. This album was released on June 20, 1995 on the MCA Nashville Records label. It was Jones and Wynette's first album together in 15 years; it would also turn out to be their last album together. The album was Wynette's last studio album she would record before her death in 1998.

One (Yuval Ron album)

One is a project by Israeli composer Yuval Ron, who teams together with Turkish virtuoso Omar Faruk Tekbilek, Yair Dalal, singer Azam Ali (of the group Vas) and many others. Together they are essentially a Middle-Eastern super group.

One (Creed song)

"One" is a song composed by the rock band Creed. It is the 10th and final track on their 1997 album My Own Prison, it describes the lack of unity in modern society and includes a criticism of affirmative action. It was the band's fourth single. It was also included as a B-Side on the maxi single for their song " With Arms Wide Open".

"One" was released as the last single from the band's debut album My Own Prison in early 1999, and was arguably the most successful single from the album, peaking at #49 on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 Airplay chart. "One" was also the only song off Creed's first album that charted on the Billboard Hot 100, charting at number 70. It is one of Creed's highest charting rock singles as well, peaking at number two on both the Mainstream Rock Tracks and the Modern Rock Tracks. On the former chart, it was ranked the number one track of 1999, despite its #2 peak position. This song was used as WWE Hall of Famer Ricky Steamboat's entrance theme in 2006 and 2007 Raw Live Events.

One (pronoun)

One is a pronoun in the English language. It is a gender-neutral, indefinite pronoun, meaning roughly "a person". For purposes of verb agreement it is a third-person singular pronoun, although it is sometimes used with first- or second-person reference. It is sometimes called an impersonal pronoun. It is more or less equivalent to the French pronoun on, the German man, and the Spanish uno. It has the possessive form one's and the reflexive form oneself.

The pronoun one has quite formal connotations (particularly in American English), and is often avoided in favor of more colloquial alternatives such as generic you.

The word one as a numeral can also be put to use as a pronoun, as in one was clean and the other was dirty, and it can also be used as a prop-word, forming pronominal phrases with other determiners, as in the one, this one, my one, etc. This article, however, concerns the use of one as an indefinite pronoun as described in the preceding paragraphs.

One (Crown City Rockers album)

One is the debut album by the American hip hop band, Crown City Rockers.

One (Me Phi Me album)

ONE is the debut album by American alternative hip hop group Me Phi Me, released on February 18, 1992 (see 1992 in music) by RCA Records. Generally considered the first folk-rap album, ONE was a critics darling in the United States, United Kingdom, Europe and Scandinavia, though sales were limited. A fusion of acoustic guitars, spacey synthesizers, and live funk beats, the album established the Me Phi Me Fraternity as one of the more progressive hip-hop artists of all time.

The song "Keep It Goin'" was chosen as the opening and closing theme for Fox's short-lived anthology drama Tribeca.

One (Alli Rogers EP)

One is a limited edition EP. It was the 2nd release by Alli Rogers and was only available online or at her shows but is out of print and no longer available.

One (Bee Gees song)

"One" is the second international single (and lead single in the U.S.) from the Bee Gees' album, One. This was the song that returned the Bee Gees to American radio and would turn out to be their biggest US hit in the 1980s, and their last hit single to reach the US top ten. It peaked at number seven on the Billboard Hot 100 chart in September 1989, and it stayed in the Top 40 for ten weeks. It also topped the American adult contemporary chart that same month, remaining at number one for two weeks.

The track reached No. 71 in the UK Singles Chart.

One (Arashi album)

One is the fifth studio album of the Japanese boy band Arashi. The album was released on August 3, 2005 in Japan in two editions: a limited CD+DVD version and a regular CD version.

One (Bob James album)


One is the first solo album by jazz musician Bob James released in 1974. It followed "Bold Conceptions (1963 on Mercury) and "Explosions (1965 on ESP-Disk). It was an important album in the early smooth jazz genre and is famous for its end track, " Nautilus", which became culturally important to hip hop as one of the most sampled tracks in American music.

One (opera)

One is a chamber opera for soprano, video and soundtrack composed in 2002 by Michel van der Aa who also wrote the English-language libretto. It premiered on 12 January 2003 with Barbara Hannigan in the Frascati Theatre, Amsterdam. In 2004 Michel van der Aa received the Matthijs Vermeulen Award for this work.

ONE (N-Gage game)

ONE (the N-Gage 2.0 version was previously known under the title ONE - Who's Next?) is a fighting game for the N-Gage and N-Gage 2.0. It was developed by Digital Legends and published by Nokia.

One (NoMeansNo album)

One is the ninth full-length album released by Nomeansno. " Beat on the Brat" is a Ramones cover while "Bitch's Brew" is a Miles Davis cover with additional vocals written by the band.

One (video game)

One is a video game released for the Sony PlayStation in 1997. The game was released as a PSone Classic for download on the PlayStation Network on March 18, 2010.

One (Ami Suzuki song)

"One" (capitalized as "ONE") is a song recorded by Japanese recording artist Ami Suzuki for her seventh studio album, Supreme Show (2008). It was written and produced by Japanese producer and Capsule member Yasutaka Nakata. The track is Suzuki's third single with Nakata after her August 2007 single's " Free Free" and " Super Music Maker". "One" premiered on June 18, 2008 as the lead single from the album.

Musically, "One" was described as a dance and club song. The lyrics describes Suzuki's celebration of her career and music; it also emphasizes minor themes of love, happiness, partying, and relationships. Upon its release, the track garnered positive reviews from music critics and was praised for its composition and commercial appeal. It also achieved lukewarm success in Japan, peaking at number 17 on the Japanese Oricon Singles Chart and 47 on the Billboard Japan Hot 100 chart. As of March 2016, "One" has sold over eight thousand units in Japan alone.

The accompanying music video for "One" was shot in Tokyo; it features Suzuki inside of a club, surrounded by LED lamps and several club poles. The music video became notable for displaying another change in Suzuki's persona and is cited as an example of her numerous "reinventions". For additional promotion, the song was featured on Suzuki's One Promotional Tour, and at her 29th birthday event.

One (David Karp novel)

One is a dystopian novel by David Karp first published in 1953. It was also published under the title, Escape to Nowhere.

Set in an unspecified time in the future in an unspecified Americanized country, One depicts a society on its way to a self-proclaimed perfection which consists in dissension having been rooted out and every citizen identifying his or her own interests with those of the "benevolent State". In order to achieve this aim, an enormous state apparatus has devised a sophisticated system of surveillance, subtle forms of re-education and, if necessary, brainwashing. The novel describes one such instance, where a man who believes himself to be an active supporter of the system is found guilty of " heresy" by the authorities and accordingly is held captive and receives the State's routine treatment for his allegedly deviant behaviour. The major part of One details the various stages and methods of his re-education process, while the book's focus lies not only on the reactions of the tortured but also on the thoughts and considerations of his torturers.

One (Ida Corr album)

One is the international debut album by Danish singer Ida Corr and a compilation of songs from her previously released studio albums Streetdiva and Robosoul. Ida wrote or co-wrote almost all songs on the album, she also co-produced some of the songs.

The album has been released in Scandinavia on March 17, 2008 as a two-disc version, which includes the album itself and a CD with remixes of her biggest hit " Let Me Think About It". On August 26, 2008 it was released in the United States (the main album only, with a slightly altered track list). On January 13, 2009 a release in Russia through the label Soyuz followed. The album was released in Germany on October 30, 2009 through Ministry of Sound, little over a month after the release of the single "I Want You". Ida Corr plans to release One in more countries, before she releases a new album in late 2009.

One (Australian TV channel)

One (stylised as ONE) is an Australian free-to-air digital television multichannel, which was launched by Network Ten on 26 March 2009. The channel initially focused on broadcasting sports-based programming and events, but changed in April 2011 to more reality, scripted and adventure-based programming aimed at males between the ages of 25 to 54. Due to the rebroadcast of Ten HD on 2 March 2016, One was reduced to a standard definition broadcast.

One (Sister2Sister album)

One is the debut and only album released by Australian pop music duo Sister2Sister.

One (Blake's Got a New Face)
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One (Fat Joe song)

"One" is the first single from rapper Fat Joe's album Jealous Ones Still Envy 2 (J.O.S.E. 2). The song features Akon.

One (Bonnie Pink album)

One is Bonnie Pink's tenth studio album released under the Warner Music Japan label on May 13, 2009. This album was recorded in London, Stockholm, Los Angeles, Malmö, and Tokyo.

One (Crystal Kay song)

"One" is Crystal Kay's 24th single, it was released on July 16, 2008. On March 3, 2008, it was revealed that Kay was chosen to sing the theme song to the eleventh Pokémon film Giratina to Sora no Hanataba: Sheimi. Kay also played the voice of Lucky, Nurse Joy's Chansey, in the film. The film's producers had apparently been considering the singer since 2001, when she sang "Lost Child" with Shinichi Osawa and Hiroshi Fujiwara for the soundtrack of the drama Satorare. Giratina to Sora no Hanataba: Sheimi was released in Japan on July 19, three days after the release of the single.

One (Always Hardcore)

"One (Always Hardcore)" is a song by German musical group Scooter. It was released in December 2004 as the third single from their 2004 album Mind The Gap. The Radio Edit is a slight remix of the song's album version, featuring more elaborate instrumental bridges.

One (Telekom Slovenija Group)

ONE is a Macedonian GSM/ UMTS mobile operator. The company is under a 100-per-cent ownership of Telekom Slovenije. The network of ONE covers 99,9% of the population and 98,17% of the territory of Macedonia with quality signal.

One operates the first DVB-T in Macedonia, BoomTV.

In 2015, ONE merged with Vip operator into one mobile network operator - one.Vip.

One (Harry Nilsson song)

"One" is a song written by Harry Nilsson and made famous by Three Dog Night whose cover in 1969 reached #5 on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 and #4 in Canada. The song is known for its opening line "One is the loneliest number that you'll ever do". Nilsson wrote the song after calling someone and getting a busy signal. He stayed on the line listening to the "beep, beep, beep, beep..." tone, writing the song. The busy signal became the opening notes of the song.

In 1968, Al Kooper released the song on his debut album I Stand Alone. In 1969, the song was covered by Australian pop singer Johnny Farnham, reaching #4 on the Go-Set National Top 40 Chart.

One (Ra EP)

One is Ra's debut EP and was released in 2000. The songs "End of Days" and "What I Am" were not included on their debut album From One. However, "What I Am" is included in their album Black Sheep.

One was only sold (for $10) during Ra's concerts, and soon went out of circulation when Ra's debut album From One hit stores. The EP is still available through Ra's online merch store, but is otherwise a rare collector's item.

In an interview with SoundCheck Magazine, Sahaj Ticotin (the lead singer) talked about One:

"It just says Ra One since it’s the first CD. The theme is kind of a double meaning. The record is primarily about loneliness…different variations of loneliness. So I named it One also because of that."

One (JayKo song)

One is an electr ohouse song by Romanian female recording artist Anya, written and remixed by JayKo. The song was physically released in November, 2009 and reached the number-one in Romanian Singles Chart on March 20, 2010, after over 10 weeks in top 10.

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One (Swedish House Mafia song)

"One" is the first single by Swedish house music group Swedish House Mafia. A vocal version titled "One (Your Name)", featuring American singer Pharrell Williams, was released in July 2010. The song also appears on the group's mix album Until One, and the studio album Until Now.

The song debuted on BBC Radio 1 with Zane Lowe and was chosen as the hottest record in April 2010. "One" peaked at number two in Belgium (Flanders) and on the UK Dance Chart. It reached number one in the Netherlands, number seven in Ireland and in the United Kingdom on the UK Singles Chart. It also charted in Sweden, Switzerland, Denmark, Austria and Germany. A video directed by the Swedish directors Henrik Hanson and Christian Larson supported the release.

One (Sky Ferreira song)

"One" is a song by American recording artist Sky Ferreira. The song was written by Ferreira, Christian Karlsson, Pontus Winnberg, Magnus Lidehäll, Marit Bergman, and Pontus Winnberg, and produced by Bloodshy & Avant. It was released as a single on August 20, 2010.

One (Edita Abdieski album)

One is the debut album of German singer Edita Abdieski. Abdieski rose to fame after winning the first season of the TV show X Factor in Germany. One was released on March 18, 2011. It includes her top ten hit I've Come to Life and her second single The Key which was written by Jörgen Elofsson who has also written songs for Celine Dion and Britney Spears. Another highlight is the feature with Latin star Ricky Martin. The track is called "The Best Thing About Me Is You" and features writing from another Swedish heavyweight, Andreas Carlsson. Keeping up the Scandinavian presence are Norwegian production/songwriting teams Dsign Music and Tracksville ("When The Music Is Over"), as well as writers Mads Hauge ("Another Universe"), Torgeir Bjordal ("I Don't Know") and Alx Reuterskiöld and Kim Wennerström (Untouchable).

One (sixth form college)

One (formerly Suffolk One) is a sixth form college in Ipswich in the English county of Suffolk. Opened in 2010, and a member of the South West Ipswich and South Suffolk (SWISS) Partnership, it provides further education in South Suffolk. The College was assessed as 'Outstanding' by Ofsted in May 2015.

One (Tying Tiffany EP)

One is an EP by Italian electronic musician Tying Tiffany. It was released on 12 March 2013 on ZerOKilled Music and on a 10" Picture Disc vinyl on 1 August 2013 on Mecanica. The EP consists of four songs, linked by "one" theme and having almost the same length each.

The single "One Second" was available as free download. Tiffany also released a music video for "One Second".

One (radio series)

One is a radio comedy series created by David Quantick. It is broadcast on BBC Radio 4 and BBC Radio 4 Extra. Each episode lasts 15 minutes and consists of a series of vignettes, each of which features only a single voice.

One (The Never Ending EP)

One is the debut extended play (EP) by American indie rock and folk band The Never Ending. It was released on June 24, 2014.

One (A Chorus Line song)

One (also known as One (Singular Sensation)) is a song from the musical A Chorus Line.

One (Matthew Shipp album)

One is a solo album by American jazz pianist Matthew Shipp, which was recorded in 2005 and released on Thirsty Ear's Blue Series.

One (Maher Zain album)

One is the third studio album by Swedish Muslim singer-songwriter, Maher Zain, was released on June 6, 2016 by Awakening Records.

One (Tesseract album)

One is the debut studio album by British progressive metal band Tesseract. Released on 22 March 2011, the album features six tracks. The third track, "Concealing Fate", was split into six parts for a total length of twenty seven minutes and forty seconds. This was Tesseract's only full-length release with vocalist Daniel Tompkins until his return in 2014. A bonus track entitled "Hollow" was released digitally to those who pre-ordered One from Century Media.

A live studio play through of Concealing Fate was also included as a bonus DVD along with the album. In September 2011, an instrumental version was released digitally and in October that year both the album and the instrumental version were released on vinyl as a double LP. Nascent was released as a promotional single in February 2011, and music videos were released for both Nascent and Deception. Acoustic renditions of Perfection, April and Origin were featured on the Perspective EP.

One (Charlotte Church EP)

ONE is the first extended play by Welsh recording artist Charlotte Church. It is the first in a series of five EPs and marks another musical direction of Church, departing her pop sound that is heard in her last two albums Tissues and Issues and Back to Scratch. This marks her first alternative rock material. It was released on 3 September 2012 and is preceded by the lead single "How Not to Be Surprised When You're a Ghost". ONE and TWO were combined for a US release on 12 March 2013. Church promoted ONE and TWO in the US with her first North American performances in almost a decade. She appeared in New York, Los Angeles, Toronto, and South by Southwest Festival. Her costumes for her North American concerts were designed by Zoe Howerska.

One (Ed Sheeran song)

"One" is a song recorded by English recording artist Ed Sheeran for his second studio album, x (2014). Sheeran wrote the song immediately after releasing his debut album, + (2011). It marked the last occasion wherein Sheeran wrote about his former girlfriend, who inspired all the romantic compositions on +. "One" was produced by frequent collaborator Jake Gosling and its music was based primarily on acoustic guitar. Critics were generally positive toward the song; it was noted for its guitar-driven sound and Sheeran's use of falsetto. An accompanying video for "One" was shot in an empty Wembley Stadium and preceded the song's release on 16 May 2014. It was the first promotional single from x and its release was meant to counterbalance " Sing", the album's lead single issued to create hype although it was feared would alienate Sheeran's fan base. In Europe, the song appeared in several charts; it reached number 18 in the United Kingdom, where it was certified silver for sales of at least 200,000 units on 30 June 2014.

One (manga artist)

One is the pseudonym of a Japanese manga artist, best known for his webcomic series One-Punch Man, which was remade by Yusuke Murata. One serializes One-Punch Man on his own website (under no official publisher), meaning he doesn't get paid for the publication of the online manga, although, he receives currency from One Punch Man's associated royalties. He serializes Mob Psycho 100 in the online version of Weekly Shōnen Sunday at the same time.

As of December 2015, access to his website gets hit more than 100,000 times a day, and grew to a site that totals more than 70 million total visits.

He was born in Niigata and was brought up in Kōnosu, Saitama.

ONE (website)

ONE is an Israeli website that covers sport news from around the world. According to the IARB (Israel Audience Research Board), it is one of the two biggest sport websites in Israel along with Sport5.co.il, It categorized news into "Israeli Football", "World Football", "Israeli Basketball", "World Basketball" and "Other Sports".

Haim Revivo, Eyal Berkovic, Alon Hazan, Alon Mizrahi and Zvi Sherf are among ONE's columnists.

ONE was founded by Udi Milner and Gil Menkin in 1999, the website's headquarters are located in the BSR Towers in Ramat Gan. The website was founded in order to cover the TV show "The 91th minute", which was broadcast on Channel 2.

In the beginning of 2000, there was a race between Israeli sport websites, at the end, many of them came to an end. ONE survived by investments from the production company Telad. In 2007, Yedioth Ahronoth Group acquired 50% of the ownership on the website.

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Usage examples of "one".

For every hundred useless aberrations there may be one that is useful, that provides its bearer an advantage over its kin.

No one could doubt that Philip Augustus would abet his vassal, the Countess of Poitou, in dispositions so well calculated to thwart the Angevin.

Even the Templars and the Hospitallers were divided, and the Italian merchant princes abetted one faction or the other as their own interests decreed.

Poitou, one Geraud Berlai, whom he charged Louis with abetting in depredations against him on the marches of Anjou.

The conflict, grown beyond the scope of original plans, had become nothing less than a fratricidal war between the young king and the Count of Poitou for the succession to the Angevin empire, a ghastly struggle in which Henry was obliged to take a living share, abetting first one and then the other of his furious sons.

Then the witch with her abhominable science, began to conjure and to make her Ceremonies, to turne the heart of the Baker to his wife, but all was in vaine, wherefore considering on the one side that she could not bring her purpose to passe, and on the other side the losse of her gaine, she ran hastily to the Baker, threatning to send an evill spirit to kill him, by meane of her conjurations.

But I have bethought me, that, since I am growing old and past the age of getting children, one of you, my sons, must abide at home to cherish me and your mother, and to lead our carles in war if trouble falleth upon us.

Yet I know that thou wilt abide here till some one else come, whether that be early or late.

But now hold up thine heart, and keep close for these two days that we shall yet abide in Tower Dale: and trust me this very evening I shall begin to set tidings going that shall work and grow, and shall one day rejoice thine heart.

I made for thee, and one also for me, while I was abiding thee after the battle, and my love and my hope is woven into it.

As he helped the woman to the stage Abie realized they all knew he would choose one of them as a partner.

The Yuuzhan Vong must be replacing the abiotic drainage systems with biotic ones.

Yuuzhan Vong must be replacing the abiotic drainage systems with biotic ones.

Notary take care to set it down that the said abjuration was made by one gravely suspected of heresy, so that if she should be proved to have relapsed, she should then be judged accordingly and delivered up to the secular Court.

But it must be understood that this refers to one who had made her abjuration as one manifestly taken in heresy, or as one strongly suspected of heresy, and not to one who has so done as being under only a light suspicion.