The Collaborative International Dictionary
One \One\, n.
A single unit; as, one is the base of all numbers.
A symbol representing a unit, as 1, or i.
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A single person or thing. ``The shining ones.''
--Bunyan. ``Hence, with your little ones.''
--Shak.He will hate the one, and love the other.
--Matt. vi. 2 -
That we may sit, one on thy right hand, and the other on thy left hand, in thy glory.
--Mark x. 37.After one, after one fashion; alike. [Obs.]
--Chaucer.At one, in agreement or concord. See At one, in the Vocab.
Ever in one, continually; perpetually; always. [Obs.]
--Chaucer.In one, in union; in a single whole.
One and one, One by one, singly; one at a time; one after another. ``Raising one by one the suppliant crew.''
--Dryden.one on one contesting an opponent individually; -- in a contest.
go one on one, to contest one opponent by oneself; -- in a game, esp. basketball.
Usage examples of "ever in one".
Ally could have rhymed off the names of everyone who was ever in one of his classes, but even had he not been what Annette referred to as 'the human database', it was unlikely he'd have forgotten hers.