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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
once
I.adverb
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
once again/yet again (=used to emphasize that something has happened several or many times before)
once in a lifetime
▪ It’s the sort of opportunity you see only once in a lifetime.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ VERB
ask
▪ Roland had once asked her if he could help in the garden, in exchange for the right to sit there sometimes.
▪ Tex Schram was once asked why his Dallas Cowboys fell apart after almost a quarter of a century of football success.
▪ He remembered that his father had not once asked whether Tess had money or not.
▪ My mother is worried about Beate, but she has never once asked me how I have managed.
▪ She once asked him outright if he were homosexual.
▪ The nun had once asked him please, Mr Mayor, come out there and see how the people are suffering.
▪ I was asked once if it seemed real to me that one day I would be lifeless inside it.
▪ Rudi once asked the class to comment on a passage he had assigned.
call
▪ I seem to have mislaid all the friends who once called me Nigel.
▪ The pilots called once before crossing the pass to say that the visibility was almost zero, but they could make it.
▪ He once called liberalism a form of bigotry, but he did not particularly mind being called a bigot himself.
▪ This calls for good spirits and good morale and also a certain amount of what was once called dogged determination.
▪ Mike had once called her a natural non-drinker, one who enjoyed neither the taste nor the effect.
▪ The contrast could not be more stark between Spiro's Hollywood life-style and the North London suburb he once called home.
tell
▪ Abraham once told me that Ishmael would be the beginning of a nation - now I believe him.
▪ You once told me you wanted to.
▪ And he didn't once tell me he loved me.
▪ Some one once told me you had died.
▪ He once told me that he found a company of not more than eleven people the most congenial.
▪ As I once told you, I never knew where we were heading when I first drove out the Anacreonians.
▪ He recalls once telling a group of students to clear their minds and observe what was going on in the room.
▪ Some one once told me about him.
write
▪ No, you wouldn't because we've never met before, but once written, for ever smitten!
▪ He once wrote Jefferson that Catholicism was Hindu and cabalistic.
▪ Anne had once written a piece about prison conditions.
▪ Drosnin is an investigative newspaper reporter who once wrote a best seller about Howard Hughes.
▪ Alec Clegg once wrote a fable.
▪ I once wrote a column suggesting that Gov.
▪ BThe writer Stephen Dobyns once wrote a poem about Death disappearing for a time.
▪ Dad once wrote in a letter to me.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
cousin once/twice etc removed
once bitten, twice shy
once more
▪ Once more the soldiers attacked.
▪ Try calling her once more.
▪ And after the computer once more refuses to load the game, you type mouse. exe at the Cprompt.
▪ He settled once more on the ceiling.
▪ Instead, the Packers are thriving, proving once more that sound management is the most significant factor in sports.
▪ It remains only for these new actors to play it out once more.
▪ The sequence Coincides again after 260 days and the new Sacred Round begins with 1 Imix once more.
▪ The voices and noise around them became apparent once more, a tide of excited news, a civilized clamor.
▪ Their electron traps are bleached during transport but after sedimentation and burial they begin to accumulate electrons once more.
▪ Tireless, she came back once more and was condemned to death.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ Once, when I was a little boy, I found a gold watch on the beach.
▪ Here's a picture of a convertible we had once.
▪ I've only worn this dress once.
▪ I remember once it snowed on my birthday, and I was so excited.
▪ She once called me a liar - I've never forgiven her.
▪ They had met once on holiday, so they knew each other slightly.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Brush tops with garlic oil and turn once more.
▪ In seventh grade, the problem increased once again, with nearly 22 percent of students identified as work-inhibited.
▪ It will be opened to the public in the next few years, once essential maintenance is completed.
▪ Nomatterhow he had changed - if indeed he had changed - that man had once been a sadistic brute.
▪ Some were hit more than once.
▪ The invisible flutter and swoop of black creatures, still furious with the woman who had once banished them.
▪ The school funding proposed by Wilson this year is once again the minimum required by school funding.
▪ You once let out the fact that you wished you were free of the burdens your family placed on you.
II.conjunction
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ Once in the US, the drugs are distributed to all the major cities.
▪ I called Lara once he'd left.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
once

Ounce \Ounce\, n. [F. once; cf. It. lonza, Sp. onza; prob. for lonce, taken as l'once, fr. L. lynx, Gr. ?, or an (assumed) fem. adj. lyncea, from lynx. Cf. Lynx.] (Zo["o]l.) A feline quadruped ( Felis irbis syn. Felis uncia) resembling the leopard in size, and somewhat in color, but it has longer and thicker fur, which forms a short mane on the back. The ounce is pale yellowish gray, with irregular dark spots on the neck and limbs, and dark rings on the body. It inhabits the lofty mountain ranges of Asi

  1. Called also once.

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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
once

c.1200, anes, from ane "one" (see one ) + adverbial genitive. Replaced Old English æne. Spelling changed as pronunciation shifted from two syllables to one after c.1300. Pronunciation change to "wuns" parallels that of one. As an emphatic, meaning "once and for all," it is attested from c.1300, but this now is regarded as a Pennsylvania German dialect formation. Meaning "in a past time" (but not necessarily just one time) is from mid-13c.\n

\nOnce upon a time as the beginning of a story is recorded from 1590s. At once originally (early 13c.) meant "simultaneously," later "in one company" (c.1300), and preserved the sense of "one" in the word; the phrase typically appeared as one word, atones; the modern meaning "immediately" is attested from 1530s.

Wiktionary
once

adv. 1 (lb en frequency) one and only one time. 2 (lb en temporal location) formerly; during some period in the past. conj. As soon as; when; after.

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WordNet
once

adj. belonging to some prior time; "erstwhile friend"; "our former glory"; "the once capital of the state"; "her quondam lover" [syn: erstwhile(a), former(a), once(a), onetime(a), quondam(a), sometime(a)]

once

  1. adv. on one occasion; "once I ran into her" [syn: one time, in one case]

  2. as soon as; "once we are home, we can rest" [syn: when]

  3. at a previous time; "once he loved her"; "her erstwhile writing" [syn: formerly, at one time, erstwhile, erst]

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Wikipedia
Once

Once may refer to:

Once (Nightwish album)

Once is the fifth studio album by Finnish symphonic metal band Nightwish, released on 7 June 2004 by Spinefarm Records and Nuclear Blast. It is the last album to feature Tarja Turunen on lead vocals. The album cost nearly €250,000 to make, (1,000,000 including the videos) which made it Finland's most expensive recording ever until the release of Nightwish's next album, Dark Passion Play, which cost over €500,000 to produce.

Once (The Tyde album)

Once is the debut album by American indie rock band The Tyde, released in 2001.

Neal Casal, of Ryan Adams and the Cardinals, lists Once as one of his favourite albums of all time.

ONCE (cycling team)

ONCE cycling team, also known as Liberty Seguros, Liberty Seguros-Würth and in succession in its final year, Astana-Würth and Astana was a Spanish cycling team. It competed in the UCI ProTour circuit.

On 25 May 2006, Liberty Mutual ("seguros" means "insurance" in Spanish) pulled out of primary sponsorship due to a doping scandal involving the directeur sportif, Manolo Saiz. On 2 June 2006, the team acquired a primary sponsor named Astana, after the capital of Kazakhstan. Würth was co-sponsor until 3 July 2006, withdrawing at the end of the 2006 Tour de France, in which didn't compete 1 2. At the end of the season, Astana also withdrew due to the non-participation in the Tour. On 16 December 2006, the UCI withdrew the ProTour licence of Saiz's company, Active Bay 3.

Some riders and staff formed the Kazakhstan-based Astana Team.

Once (Pearl Jam song)

"Once" is a song by the American rock band Pearl Jam. Featuring lyrics written by vocalist Eddie Vedder and music written by guitarist Stone Gossard, "Once" is the first track on the band's debut album, Ten (1991). On Ten, it is preceded by a brief interlude of the album's closing hidden track, "Master/Slave". Besides Ten, the song was also featured as a B-side on the single for " Alive". Remixed versions of the song were included on Pearl Jam's 2004 greatest hits album, Rearviewmirror (Greatest Hits 1991–2003), and the 2009 Ten reissue. The song is one of the band's heaviest compositions to date.

Once (Roy Harper album)

Once is the sixteenth studio album by English rock/ folk singer-songwriter Roy Harper, released in 1990.

Once (Diana Vickers song)

"Once" is a song by English singer and songwriter Diana Vickers. It was written by Cathy Dennis and Eg White for Vickers' debut studio album, Songs from the Tainted Cherry Tree (2010). "Once" was produced and mixed by Mike Spencer and released as the album's lead single and Vickers' debut single on 16 April 2010. It reached number one on the UK Singles Chart, making it Vickers' most successful single release to date.

Once (film)

Once is a 2007 Irish musical romance film written and directed by John Carney. The film stars Glen Hansard and Markéta Irglová as two struggling musicians in Dublin, Ireland. Hansard and Irglová had previously performed music as the Swell Season, and composed and performed the film's original songs.

Once spent years in development with the Irish Film Board and was made for a budget of €112,000. It was a commercial success, earning substantial per-screen box office averages in the United States. It received awards including the 2007 Independent Spirit Award for Best Foreign Film. Hansard and Irglová's song " Falling Slowly" won the 2007 Academy Award for Best Original Song, and the soundtrack received a Grammy Award nomination.

Once (Morris Gleitzman novel)

Once is a 2005 children's novel by Australian author Morris Gleitzman. It is about a Jewish boy named Felix, who lived in Poland, and is on a quest to find his book-keeper parents after he sees Nazis burning the books from a Catholic orphanage library in which he stays. He finds a girl called Zelda in a burning house with her dead parents—he takes her with him and protects her from confronting her parents' death by telling her stories. Although Once is a work of fiction, Gleitzman was inspired by the story of Janusz Korczak, the events of World War II, and Hitler's attempt to exterminate the Jewish population of Europe.

Once was translated into German () and was nominated for the 2010 Deutscher Jugendliteraturpreis; it won the 2011 .

The sequel to the book is called Then (2009), followed by Now (2010), After (2012), and Soon (2015).

Once (musical)

Once is a musical stage adaptation based on the 2007 film of the same name by John Carney. Like the film, music and lyrics were by Glen Hansard and Markéta Irglová, including the Academy Award-winning " Falling Slowly". The book for the musical was written by Enda Walsh. The musical premiered at the New York Theatre Workshop in 2011, before transferring to Broadway in 2012. The production received eleven 2012 Tony Award nominations, and won eight including Best Musical, Best Actor and Best Book. The musical also won the 2012 Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Musical and the 2013 Grammy Award for Best Musical Theater Album. It has since spawned a London production, with a North American Tour which started on 1 October 2013.

In the musical, the cast also serves as the orchestra. A minimalist set is used, including a bar in center stage with chairs lining stage left and right. Exiting cast members simply step to the side of the stage and sit down. They serve as the orchestra from these chairs. The bar is used before the show and at intermission as a working bar for theater patrons.

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Usage examples of "once".

Once inside the ablutions one of the interrogators pulled his underpants down around his ankles and ordered him to step out of them and bend over.

It was only natural that once everyone had had time to adjust to the tragic void created by his departure, they would turn to that one person who could so ably fill the gap, that one person whose standards of excellence were above reproach, that one person whom they could rely upon to continue the noble traditions of the fair-Irina Stoddard!

The purpose of my visit, and the frightful abnormalities it postulated struck at me all at once with a chill sensation that nearly over-balanced my ardour for strange delvings.

Once in a while, though, there would be glimpses of the sun--which looked abnormally large--and of the moon, whose markings held a touch of difference from the normal that I could never quite fathom.

The baying was very faint now, and it ceased altogether as I approached the ancient grave I had once violated, and frightened away an abnormally large horde of bats which had been hovering curiously around it.

Since they were aboard unlawfully, any punishment meted out to them was an assault, and would be the subject of a criminal charge once the men were back with their true captain.

Once was I taken of the foemen in the town where I abode when my lord was away from me, and a huge slaughter of innocent folk was made, and I was cast into prison and chains, after I had seen my son that I had borne to my lord slain before mine eyes.

All the Aboriginal girls were sent out as domestics once they reached fourteen.

Whilst the mechanist abridges, and the political economist combines labour, let them beware that their speculations, for want of correspondence with those first principles which belong to the imagination, do not tend, as they have in modern England, to exasperate at once the extremes of luxury and want.

I They secured the end of the rope to one of the poles wedged like an anchor in the opening of the tunnel that led to the crystal cavern, and Craig abseiled down the rope to the water at the bottom of the shaft once more.

Once the two-hundred-foot abseiling rope was on the ground, Joe and Fat Boy would start to ease themselves out of the heli so that their feet were on the deck and their bodies were at forty-five degrees to the ground.

But the point is that, where there once appeared a single and absolutely unbridgeable gap between the world of matter and the world of lifea gap that posed a completely unsolvable problemthere now appeared only a series of minigaps.

Aurelia in Pistoja, to fall with tears at her feet, to be pardoned and absolved, to rise to the life of honour and respect once more.

So, though Rosemary West may have physically abused him, neither she nor her husband were anxious to relinquish Steven McAvoy once he was in her hands.

And to rage was added fear: fear that once on her own she might complain that he had sexually abused her as a child, and, worse still, that she might voice her suspicions about the fate of some of the young women she had seen in Cromwell Street.