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After 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.

Usage examples of "after one".

I was severely wounded after one of the battles, and they found my resting place.

It was after one o'clock, that time of night when the body is in its deepest slumber, when it is most vulnerable to death.

I got to the checkroom girls perhaps ten minutes after one of them had given the coat, hat, and parcel to number 308.

We decided to call each ship after one of the counties in my realm, and as far as we can we will crew her from that county.

I knock louder, longer, and Tamsin opens the door, pretty and friendly, blonde and barefoot, smiling at me as though I have never disgraced myself in this flat, as though I didnt act like a prize dickhead after one Tsingtao too many, as though I am her best friend in the whole wide world.

Then, after one false start, he made his way to Pennsylvania Avenue, which as he remembered ran between the Capitol and the White House, which last structure now seemed blocked from view by red-brick office buildings under construction.

It's amazing how they can lose their stomach for the fight after one of them's lost his stomach altogether.

It was some vague time of night, that on-call temporal displacement vortex that she got trapped in after one a.