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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
single
I.adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a hit single/show/record etc
▪ the hit musical ‘Phantom of the Opera’
a single bed (=for one person)
▪ There was only a single bed.
a single bedroom (=with a bed for one person)
▪ We have one single bedroom and two doubles.
a single currency (=one currency for the countries in Europe)
▪ Britain does not use the single currency.
a single dose
▪ The medicine is given as a single dose.
a single individual (=one person on their own)
▪ Equipment of this kind is not something a single individual could afford.
a single parent (also a lone parent British English) (= someone who has their children living with them, but no partner)
▪ My mum is a single parent.
a single shot (=just one shot)
▪ He died from a single shot to his heart.
a single/individual item
▪ This is the largest amount ever paid for a single item of jewellery.
a single/one-car garage (=for one car)
▪ A single garage could boost the price of a house by 8%.
a single/sole exception (=one on its own)
▪ All the men were killed, with the sole exception of Captain Jones.
be singled out for praise (=be the one person who is praised)
▪ His work was singled out for praise by the examiners.
debut album/CD/single etc
▪ Their debut album was recorded in 1991.
every single (=used to emphasize that you mean 'all')
▪ He seems to know every single person in the school.
in single figures (=less than 10)
▪ Women heads of department are in single figures.
Not a single
▪ Not a single person said thank you.
single combat (=in which you and one other person fight together)
▪ The champion called out a challenge to single combat.
single combat
▪ He had already defeated an enemy champion in single combat.
single creamBritish English (= thin cream that you can pour easily)
single cream
single currency
▪ Europe is moving steadily towards a single currency.
single entity
▪ Good design brings a house and garden together as a single entity.
single figures
▪ Interest rates have stayed in single figures for over a year now.
single file
▪ We walked in single file across the bridge.
single honours
single market
single parent
single sb out for criticism (=to criticize one person, organization etc specifically)
▪ The goalkeeper was singled out for criticism.
single spacing (=lines with no empty lines between them)
single track road
single/double room (=a room in a hotel for one person or for two)
▪ I’d like to book a double room for two nights.
single/multiple occupancy
▪ single occupancy room rates
the singles charts (=of CDs that have only one song on them)
▪ The song reached number 9 in the singles charts.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
bed
▪ Bedroom with two single beds which makes a double bed if required.
▪ One of the important things to take into account when designing single bed Fair Isle patterns is the length of the floats.
▪ To knit single bed tuck and slip stripes, the yarn goes in feeder 1 of the YC6 colour changer sinker plate.
▪ Two bedrooms with twin single beds.
▪ For both double and single bed welts I prefer to mattress stitch for a perfect finish.
▪ I did quite a lot on that single bed machine, even intarsia and then I saw a double bed advertised for £15.
▪ Are the bedrooms large enough to contain, say, two single beds?
▪ I made his socks on my Singer KE2400 single bed machine which I have had for years.
cell
▪ However, some yeasts can grow in both ways - either as hyphae or as single cells.
▪ Similar studies in the past were based on single cell neuro-physiological data.
▪ Even here there is debate about whether the activity of any single cell could be used to identify a particular face.
▪ It was as if every single cell in my body sprouted wings and started flying about inside wildly.
▪ They did come in, and it took seven of them to get me down to a single cell.
▪ Every new organism begins as a single cell and grows anew.
▪ The objects and phenomena that a physics book describes are simpler than a single cell in the body of its author.
▪ The elephant not only has its beginning in a single cell, a fertilized egg.
currency
▪ The other idea is that we should have a single currency.
▪ Candidates for a single currency must limit their public deficits to 3 percent of gross domestic product by the end of 1997.
▪ If we are to adopt a single currency, we must achieve the theoretical advantages which are there to be grasped.
▪ Does that mean that every Opposition Member who supports the amendment tonight is fully in favour of a single currency?
▪ If there were a single currency without convergence, it would have several serious effects on the smaller countries.
▪ Whether there would continue to be a single currency was, however, unresolved.
▪ Can a majority of public opinion be won over to vote for joining a single currency in just three or four years?
▪ Stay outside the single currency, particularly if the euro keeps strengthening, and that importance diminishes.
day
▪ To illustrate, suppose that all dividend payments are concentrated on a single day in each quarter.
▪ In a single day our raft covered ninety-nine miles.
▪ On 26 February six of the bombers were destroyed and seven badly damaged in a single day.
▪ It features 10 shower rooms, five single day rooms with showers and a double room with shower.
▪ In a single day, 29 September, the recession claimed over 4,500 jobs.
▪ It's doubtful she ever has taken a single day of unpaid leave during any of her innumerable campaigns for public office.
▪ Fans should note that single day tickets do not include camping and car parking.
▪ In the eternal struggle against administrative incompetence, we need it every single day.
entity
▪ They are not normally thought of as potassium nitrate molecules existing as single entities outside the solid lattice.
▪ Furthermore, they would be viewed as a single entity from a collections point of view.
▪ In the public mind they're a single entity.
▪ Any combination of fixed and mobile telephony and data communications can operate as a single entity over the Ericsson Business Network.
▪ Good design brings house and garden together as a single entity.
▪ Medved muddies the waters by treating cinema, television and pop more or less as a single entity.
file
▪ Teams of horses in single file hauled trains of a dozen flat-topped wagons loaded with granite along these rails.
▪ The jungle area we had to go into was so thick, the APCs could only travel single file.
▪ Okay single file, we're coming to a wood.
▪ The stairs are approached along a raised pavement so narrow the people must have walked along it in single file.
▪ Men passed us, dark, bearded, stern, armed with sticks, walking swiftly in single file.
▪ Then we are instructed to leave Damrosch Park single file.
▪ A narrow spiral staircase leads up from chamber 2b to 2c; characters must ascend in single file.
▪ Ambush patrols at night were always in single file, with no point or flank security.
market
▪ The directive is designed to ease labour market restrictions and strengthen the single market.
▪ The single market and economic and monetary union will expose regions and firms to greater competition.
▪ For one thing, as Ian Lang rightly observed yesterday, that is how single markets work.
▪ This could distort competition and reduce support in the business community for the single market.
▪ But he praised its role in running the single market.
▪ One aspect of Britain's opting out of the social charter is that it must surely undermine the single market.
▪ What training, in languages and other skills, do we need to be ready for the single market?
parent
▪ She was a single parent and had a nine-year-old son, Darren, who was in a home for mentally handicapped children.
▪ Now we had plumbing and electric lights and, more important, that vital device for a single parent, a telephone.
▪ Liz, 36, was left the single parent of Amy, now five.
▪ Examiner contributor Elva Yanez is a single parent living in Albany.
▪ And benefit changes make it easier for more families - including single parents - to combine work and family responsibilities.
▪ A single parent with two or three children in California would lose $ 1 in income.
▪ Only about 2 % nationally of single parent families are thought to be headed by the father.
▪ Priority for assistance will be given to senior citizens, disabled and single parent families.
person
▪ If a newspaper commissioned a political poll based on the opinion of a single person it would immediately become a laughing-stock.
▪ Friedman argued that no single person, even a Nobel laureate, could make a pencil.
▪ The figures are costed for a single person.
▪ She has something that she brings the best out in every single person.
▪ It produces five billion food packets every year; that's one for every single person on earth.
▪ Almost at once he experienced what most religious innovators of his type suffered: not a single person joined his worldwide movement.
▪ So the single person now receives the same tax relief on a £30,000 mortgage as a couple.
room
▪ His own family-seven strong-live in a single room in the house.
▪ Additional night, single room and upgrade prices are available.
▪ Supplements per person per night: No single room supp.
▪ The five-person group shared a single room, with a small anteroom to the side.
▪ If no roommate is found, the line assigns a single room for the price of a shared room.?
▪ Larger rooms sleep 3 people comfortably and there are also some single rooms available.
shot
▪ Williams said that he glanced away and suddenly heard several single shots.
▪ Ruestman died from a single shot to his heart after answering a knock at the front door of his mobile home.
▪ It has been used twice before to kill, and each time a single shot was fired.
▪ The whole woman of reproductive age produces an ovum a month, representing a single shot at a pregnancy every twenty-eight days.
▪ The latter was essential as the police only fired single shots.
▪ From the hut behind them they had heard a single shot.
▪ For scripting movies, there is a standard format in which each line represents a single shot.
▪ Resolve damage at strength 5 for single shots, 4 for multiple shots.
track
▪ The line was seven miles long, single track, and of standard gauge.
▪ It was only a single track and had a gradient of 1 in 50 or worse for several miles.
▪ We paddled under a single track embankment linking North Uist with Benbecula, exchanging waves with the friendly local driving overhead.
▪ It was nine miles of single track with five intermediate stations.
▪ For the time being, this single track was to be used as a terminus for the service.
▪ The line could also be built in three segments and partially single track, reducing the finance required.
woman
▪ Women had the vote, and education and employment opportunities had increased significantly for single women.
▪ The city was rife with forlorn single women, and there was plenty of blame to go around.
▪ Just think what would happen if every single woman went on strike, refused to do housework.
▪ Twenty percent of single women and 18 percent of women who are now separated or divorced answered yes.
▪ As a single woman officer the crunch would come if she wished to marry some one who was not also an officer.
▪ Also patron of eloquence, maidens, philosophers, preachers, single women, and students.
▪ Pregnant single women, for example, were often taken in until after the birth.
▪ So do 84 per-cent of divorced and separated women, and 78 percent of single women.
word
▪ Stephen did not speak at all until he was seven and even now at 15 only answers questions with a single word.
▪ Hyphens Hyphens, perhaps the most creative punctuation marks, join two or more words to create a single word.
▪ Yet his serious manner at the very end of our conversation suggested he meant every single word he had just said.
▪ Any small dictionary will provide an ample fund for single word technique.
▪ His father had not spoken a single word to him, just followed him around the house, not a solitary word.
▪ And then there was this shout, this single word, this name.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
in single file
▪ The class walked in single file down the hall.
▪ The path was so narrow that we had to walk in single file.
the single market
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ a single-lane bridge
▪ At my age it's difficult to meet single women.
▪ Carla wore a single strand of pearls around her neck.
▪ How does it feel to be single again?
▪ I'm a single mother, so I don't have much money.
▪ Jeff is 38 years old and still single.
▪ Many of the children at the school come from single parent families.
▪ Please fill in the section on the form that asks if you're single, married or divorced.
▪ The Cubs won the game by a single point.
▪ These trees can grow over a foot in a single summer.
▪ We hope to establish a single safety standard for all airlines.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ A single bug may catch ten or more termites in succession in this way.
▪ And some will just have a single mention of the term you are searching for.
▪ But Schweiker did not add a single delegate.
▪ Forbes wanted to simplify filing taxes by narrowing the current five rates to a single flat rate.
▪ However, the biggest single barrier remains the memory limitation inherent in chip storage.
▪ In 1990 the Gift Aid Scheme allows tax relief on single cash gifts to charities.
▪ The first four acts of Don Juan Tenorio take place in a single night.
▪ Top with a spoonful of Creme fraiche or single cream and some whole mint leaves.
II.noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
hit
▪ His album Stars was last year's best seller and spawned a string of hit singles.
new
▪ I suppose their new single will be the price of a double album!!
■ NOUN
championship
▪ It was a memorable weekend for Pierre, as his son Paul, won the singles championship just 24 hours later.
▪ Mortimer Barrett captured three of the four Grand Slam singles championships.
chart
▪ The singles chart needs to be treated as a separate entity, and not as a cheap promotions gimmick for greedy businessmen.
▪ What do Feel think of the dance craze which is currently dominating the singles charts?
title
▪ Rita was on target to capture the singles title when a recurring leg injury regrettably ended her bid.
▪ She began playing tennis at age 4, and has 21 Grand Slams singles titles to her credit.
▪ Tilden won three Wimbledon singles titles.
▪ He had three national singles titles.
■ VERB
play
▪ My mind was the furthest away it could be to playing singles, so I pulled out of a couple of tournaments.
▪ She will not, however, play singles in Atlanta.
release
▪ It means there are no plans to release any more singles from her current album Wishing.
▪ I was frustrated because they wouldn't allow us to release more than two singles from it.
win
▪ He also won the Bangor Open singles this season, and deserves a lot of respect from the former champion.
▪ Tilden won three Wimbledon singles titles.
▪ Althea Gibson wins the women's singles title at Wimbledon in 1957.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ Does anybody have five singles?
▪ the Top 40 singles chart
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ In the men's singles, Hunter proceeded to the final without conceding a set and ended wildcard entry.
▪ Or how many divorced singles live there.
▪ She began playing tennis at age 4, and has 21 Grand Slams singles titles to her credit.
▪ The average cost of recording a pop single was in thousands rather than hundreds of pounds.
▪ The category of singles includes people in various stages of life.
▪ The possibility of commercial suicide aside, the single was to become the perfect deflecting plate for the new album.
III.verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
out
▪ No doubt there are many, but I would like to single out just three.
▪ He didn't single out anyone by name.
▪ Two forms of livestock in particular are worth singling out.
▪ The mobile phone is then instructed to single out and decipher only the conversation with the right code.
▪ It can single out for special treatment the special aggravating features of a crime.
▪ By singling out the black population for a special history month makes all other races feel slighted.
▪ They single out an old, young, or infirm animal and only then start the chase.
▪ I single out Attitash only because I was there.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ Rodriguez singled to left field.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ By singling out the black population for a special history month makes all other races feel slighted.
▪ Frequently we abstract from this covenant by singling out the Ten Commandments and ignoring much of the remainder of the Mosaic code.
▪ He didn't single out anyone by name.
▪ I will single out two of them.
▪ In singling out gay men, the offence bears the hallmarks of homophobic prejudice, and belongs to the less tolerant era.
▪ The mobile phone is then instructed to single out and decipher only the conversation with the right code.
▪ They single out an old, young, or infirm animal and only then start the chase.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary
Single

Single \Sin"gle\, v. i. To take the irrregular gait called single-foot; -- said of a horse. See Single-foot.

Many very fleet horses, when overdriven, adopt a disagreeable gait, which seems to be a cross between a pace and a trot, in which the two legs of one side are raised almost but not quite, simultaneously. Such horses are said to single, or to be single-footed.
--W. S. Clark.

Single

Single \Sin"gle\, a. [L. singulus, a dim. from the root in simplex simple; cf. OE. & OF. sengle, fr. L. singulus. See Simple, and cf. Singular.]

  1. One only, as distinguished from more than one; consisting of one alone; individual; separate; as, a single star.

    No single man is born with a right of controlling the opinions of all the rest.
    --Pope.

  2. Alone; having no companion.

    Who single hast maintained, Against revolted multitudes, the cause Of truth.
    --Milton.

  3. Hence, unmarried; as, a single man or woman.

    Grows, lives, and dies in single blessedness.
    --Shak.

    Single chose to live, and shunned to wed.
    --Dryden.

  4. Not doubled, twisted together, or combined with others; as, a single thread; a single strand of a rope.

  5. Performed by one person, or one on each side; as, a single combat.

    These shifts refuted, answer thy appellant, . . . Who now defles thee thrice ti single fight.
    --Milton.

  6. Uncompounded; pure; unmixed.

    Simple ideas are opposed to complex, and single to compound.
    --I. Watts.

  7. Not deceitful or artful; honest; sincere.

    I speak it with a single heart.
    --Shak.

  8. Simple; not wise; weak; silly. [Obs.]

    He utters such single matter in so infantly a voice.
    --Beau. & Fl.

    Single ale, Single beer, or Single drink, small ale, etc., as contrasted with double ale, etc., which is stronger. [Obs.]
    --Nares.

    Single bill (Law), a written engagement, generally under seal, for the payment of money, without a penalty.
    --Burril.

    Single court (Lawn Tennis), a court laid out for only two players.

    Single-cut file. See the Note under 4th File.

    Single entry. See under Bookkeeping.

    Single file. See under 1st File.

    Single flower (Bot.), a flower with but one set of petals, as a wild rose.

    Single knot. See Illust. under Knot.

    Single whip (Naut.), a single rope running through a fixed block.

Single

Single \Sin"gle\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Singled; p. pr. & vb. n. Singling.]

  1. To select, as an individual person or thing, from among a number; to choose out from others; to separate.

    Dogs who hereby can single out their master in the dark.
    --Bacon.

    His blood! she faintly screamed her mind Still singling one from all mankind.
    --More.

  2. To sequester; to withdraw; to retire. [Obs.]

    An agent singling itself from consorts.
    --Hooker.

  3. To take alone, or one by one.

    Men . . . commendable when they are singled.
    --Hooker.

Single

Single \Sin"gle\, n.

  1. A unit; one; as, to score a single.

  2. pl. The reeled filaments of silk, twisted without doubling to give them firmness.

  3. A handful of gleaned grain. [Prov. Eng. & Scot.]

  4. (Law Tennis) A game with but one player on each side; -- usually in the plural.

  5. (Baseball) A hit by a batter which enables him to reach first base only.

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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
single

early 14c., "unmarried," from Old French sengle, sangle "alone, unaccompanied; simple, unadorned," from Latin singulus "one, one to each, individual, separate" (usually in plural singuli "one by one"), from sim- (stem of simplus; see simple) + diminutive suffix. Meaning "consisting of one unit, individual, unaccompanied by others" is from late 14c. Meaning "undivided" is from 1580s. Single-parent (adj.) is attested from 1966.

single

c.1400, "unmarried person," mid-15c., "a person alone, an individual," from single (adj.). Given various technical meanings from 16c. Sports sense is attested from 1851 (cricket), 1858 (baseball). Of single things from 1640s. Meaning "one-dollar bill" is from 1936. Meaning "phonograph record with one song on each side" is from 1949. Meaning "unmarried swinger" is from 1964; singles bar attested from 1969. An earlier modern word for "unmarried or unattached person" is singleton (1937).

single

"to separate from the herd" (originally in deer-hunting, often with forth or out), 1570s, from single (adj.). Baseball sense of "to make a one-base hit" is from 1899 (from the noun meaning "one-base hit," attested from 1858). Related: Singled; singling.

Wiktionary
single

  1. Not accompanied by anything else; one in number. n. 1 A 45 RPM vinyl record with one song on side A and one on side B. 2 A popular song released and sold (on any format) nominally on its own though usually has at least one extra track. 3 One who is not married. 4 (context cricket English) A score of one run. 5 (context baseball English) A hit in baseball where the batter advances to first base. 6 (context dominoes English) A tile that has different values (i.e., number of pips) in each end. 7 A bill valued at $1. 8 (context UK English) A one-way ticket. 9 (context Canadian football English) A score of one point, awarded when a kicked ball is dead within the non-kicking team's end zone or has exited that end zone. Officially known in the rules as a rouge. 10 (context tennis chiefly in the plural English) A game with one player on each side, as in tennis. 11 One of the reeled filaments of silk, twisted without doubling to give them firmness. 12 (context UK Scotland dialect English) A handful of gleaned grain. v

  2. 1 To identify or select one member of a group from the others; generally used with out, either to '''single out''' or to '''single''' (something) '''out'''. 2 (context baseball English) To get a hit that advances the batter exactly one base. 3 (context agriculture English) To thin out. 4 (context of a horse English) To take the irregular gait called singlefoot. 5 To sequester; to withdraw; to retire. 6 To take alone, or one by one.

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WordNet
single

  1. adj. existing alone or consisting of one entity or part or aspect or individual; "upon the hill stood a single tower"; "had but a single thought which was to escape"; "a single survivor"; "a single serving"; "a single lens"; "a single thickness" [syn: single(a)] [ant: multiple]

  2. used of flowers having usually only one row or whorl of petals; "single chrysanthemums resemble daisies and may have more than one row of petals" [ant: double]

  3. not married or related to the unmarried state; "unmarried men and women"; "unmarried life"; "sex and the single girl"; "single parenthood"; "are you married or single?" [syn: unmarried] [ant: married]

  4. characteristic of or meant for a single person or thing; "an individual serving"; "separate rooms"; "single occupancy"; "a single bed" [syn: individual, separate, single(a)]

  5. having uniform application; "a single legal code for all" [syn: single(a)]

  6. not divided among or brought to bear on more than one object or objective; "judging a contest with a single eye"; "a single devotion to duty"; "undivided affection"; "gained their exclusive attention" [syn: single(a), undivided, exclusive]

  7. involved two individuals; "single combat" [syn: single(a)]

  8. individual and distinct; "pegged down each separate branch to the earth"; "a gift for every single child" [syn: separate, single(a)]

single

  1. n. a base hit on which the batter stops safely at first base

  2. 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: one, 1, I, ace, unity]

single

v. hit a one-base hit

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Wikipedia
Single (music)

In music, a single or record single is a type of release, typically a song recording of fewer tracks than an LP record, an album or an EP record. This can be released for sale to the public in a variety of different formats. In most cases, a single is a song that is released separately from an album, although it usually also appears on an album. Typically, these are the songs from albums that are released separately for promotional uses such as digital download or commercial radio airplay and are expected to be the most popular. In other cases a recording released as a single may not appear on an album.

As digital downloading and audio streaming have become more prevalent, it is often possible for every track on an album to also be available separately. Nevertheless, the concept of a single for an album has been retained as an identification of a more heavily promoted or more popular song (or group of songs) within an album collection.

Despite being referred to as a single, singles can include up to as many as three tracks on them. The biggest digital music distributor iTunes accepts as many as three tracks less than ten minutes each as a single, as well as popular music player Spotify also following in this trend. Any more than three tracks on a musical release or longer than thirty minutes in total running time is commonly classed as an Extended Play (EP).

Single (baseball)

In baseball, a single is the most common type of base hit, accomplished through the act of a batter safely reaching first base by hitting a fair ball (thus becoming a runner) and getting to first base before a fielder puts him out. As an exception, a batter-runner reaching first base safely is not credited with a single when an infielder attempts to put out another runner on the first play; this is one type of a fielder's choice. Also, a batter-runner reaching first base on a play due to a fielder's error trying to put him out at first base or another runner out (as a fielder's choice) is not credited with a single.

On a single hit to the outfield, any runners on second base or third base normally score, and sometimes the runner from first base is able to advance to third base. Depending on the location of the hit, a quick recovery by the outfielder can prevent such an advance or create a play on the advancing runner.

Hitters who focus on hitting singles rather than doubles or home runs are often called "contact hitters". Contact hitters who rely on positioning their hits well and having fast running speed to achieve singles are often called "slap hitters". Ty Cobb, Pete Rose, Tony Gwynn, and Ichiro Suzuki are examples of contact hitters; of these, Rose and Suzuki might be called slap hitters.

Single (locomotive)

In railway terminology, a single is a steam locomotive with a single pair of driving wheels. Some sources use 'Single' only for the 2-2-2 type, also known as a Jenny Lind locomotive, but more commonly singles could have any number of leading or trailing wheels.

Single (film)

Single is an American independent mumblecore comedy film created by Duck in a Truck Productions and Soapbox Comedy. It stars Wilder Shaw, Ezra Edmond, Julian Timm, Mark Donica, and Kristina Plisko. It was directed by Edmond & Shaw, and was produced by Edmond. Single was filmed in the summer of 2009 throughout Los Angeles, CA. The screenplay was written by Edmond with a story by Edmond and Shaw.

Single (William Wei song)

"Single" is a song recorded by Taiwanese Mandopop singer-songwriter William Wei. The song was written by Wei for television series Shia Wa Se as the closing theme song. It was released as a single by Linfair Records on 26 January 2016. "Single" peaked at number 19 on KKBOX Digital Music Chart. It reached number 2 in Singapore, Malaysia and China.

Single

Single may refer to:

In music:

  • Single (music), a song release
  • "Single" (Natasha Bedingfield song)
  • "Single" (New Kids on the Block and Ne-Yo song)

In film:

  • Single (film), a 2010 American film
  • Single (2015 film), a 2015 Indonesian film

In sports:

  • Single (baseball), the most common type of base hit
  • Single (cricket), point in cricket
  • Single (football), Canadian football point
  • Single-speed bicycle

In other fields:

  • Single (mathematics) (1-tuple), a list or sequence with only one element
  • "Single", a slang term for a United States one-dollar bill
  • Single (bet), a type of bet made on one selection
  • Single (locomotive), a steam locomotive with a single pair of driving wheels
  • Single person, a person who is not married; usually refers today to someone who is neither married, not in a serious romantic relationship, or not involed with a steady sexual relationship with a partner.
  • Single precision, a computer numbering format that occupies one storage location in computer memory at a given address
Single (football)

In Canadian football, a single (single point, or rouge), scoring one point, is awarded when the ball is kicked into the end zone by any legal means, other than a successful field goal, and the receiving team does not return, or kick, the ball out of its end zone. It is also a single if the kick travels through the end zone or goes out of bounds in the end zone without being touched, except on a kickoff. After conceding a single, the receiving team is awarded possession of the ball at the 35-yard line of its own end of the field.

Singles are not awarded in the following situations:

  • if a ball is downed in the end zone after being intercepted in the end zone
  • if a ball is fumbled outside the end zone
  • if the kicked ball hits the goalposts (since the 1970s; before then it was a live ball)
  • when a kickoff goes into the end zone and then out of bounds without being touched

In all these cases the defending team is awarded possession of the ball at the 25-yard line.

In the United States, singles are not usually recognized in most leagues and are awarded only in matches played under the auspices of the National Indoor Football League and the now-defunct American Indoor Football Association. It is applied only on kickoffs in both leagues, and is scored if the receiving team fails to advance the ball out of the end zone when kicked. The NIFL and AIFA also allowed a single to be scored by kicking a kickoff through the uprights (as in a field goal); this type of single is nicknamed (and has since been codified in the AIFA rules as) an uno, from the Spanish word for the number one.

There is one other way to score a single point on a gridiron football play, outside of the routine extra point: if either team scores a safety on a conversion attempt after a touchdown, one point is awarded.

The Canadian Football League has discussed abolishing the single but proposals to do so as recently as 2005 have been rejected. A less sweeping proposal would see the single eliminated on punts and field goal attempts that pass out the sidelines of the end zone – such a change would eliminate the "consolation" point for a failed coffin corner attempt. Another proposal would have the rouge scored only when kicks from scrimmage are deemed 'returnable' having touched the end zone or a return team player without being advanced back into the field of play.

In the official rules, the single point is also called a rouge, French for "red", and the origin is unclear. One theory is that a red flag was used to signal the score in the game's early days. Another is that, because the conceding team had a point deducted from its score on the play in earlier days, the tally was called a "red point".

However, the concept of the rouge dates back to several public school sports played in England from the early 19th century. In rossall hockey played at Rossall School, and the Eton Field Game, both of which are still played today, a rouge can be scored after the ball has gone into the local equivalent of the 'end zone' after striking another player. The Sheffield Rules, a 19th-century code of football, also utilized the rouge as a secondary scoring method. The behind used in Australian rules football is similar in concept to the Canadian single (a goal in that code is six points, but narrowly missing either side of the goal scores one point), as is the point in Gaelic football (where goals that go into the net score three points but balls that go over the crossbar score just one).

Single (cricket)

In the sport of cricket, a single is scored when the batsman take one run, either following a successful shot (with the run attributed to the on-strike batsman) or when running for a bye or leg bye (counted as an extra).

Unlike when a boundary is hit (and the run are scored even if the batsmen don't leave their creases), scoring a single requires the batsmen to physically run between the wickets. This introduces the risk of being run out, so effective communication between the batsmen is vital. If one batsman attempts to run and the other stays put, then a humiliating run out is likely, but quick and well attuned batsmen may be able to run "quick singles" when other batsmen wouldn't. In general, singles are much easier to score when the field is set further out, but bringing more fielders in makes it easier for the on-strike batsman to hit boundaries.

Singles usually rotate the strike in a partnership, but because the bowling end changes at the end of an over, singles deliberately only taken at the end of an over are used by quality batsmen to keep the strike when they are batting with the tail-enders, who are unlikely to survive for long against quality bowling and whom an experienced batsman will normally try to protect.

Single (Natasha Bedingfield song)

"Single" is a pop song by British singer Natasha Bedingfield. It was written by Steve Kipner, Andrew Frampton, Wayne Wilkins and Bedingfield for her debut album, Unwritten (2004), with production handled by the former three. It received a positive reception from music critics and was released as the first single in Europe in the second quarter of 2004, reaching the top five in the United Kingdom. In North and Latin America, "Single" was released as Bedingfield's third single in the second quarter of 2006. On the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 chart, the song reached number fifty-seven.

Single (New Kids on the Block and Ne-Yo song)

"Single" is the second single from New Kids on the Block's fifth studio album, The Block, which is a duet with Ne-Yo. The lead vocals were sung by Joey McIntyre, Donnie Wahlberg, and Jordan Knight. Donnie also rapped in the song.

The song was released on August 12, 2008 as a digital download. According to allaccess.com, the single impacted radio on September 2, 2008. the same day the album was released. The song was released as a CD single in the UK on November 11, 2008.

Ne-Yo included a solo version of the song on his album Year of the Gentleman with a length of 4:18.

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Usage examples of "single".

Upon this ugly race antagonism it is not necessary to enlarge here in discussing the problem of education, and I will leave it with the single observation that I have heard intelligent negroes, who were honestly at work, accumulating property and disposed to postpone active politics to a more convenient season, say that they had nothing to fear from the intelligent white population, but only from the envy of the ignorant.

And then I seen them cussed outlaws had dismounted off of their hosses and was coming acrost the bridge single file on foot, with their Winchesters in their hands.

In this respect, the decision in the Florida election case may be ranked as the single most corrupt decision in Supreme Court history, because it is the only one that I know of where the majority justices decided as they did because of the personal identity and political affiliation of the litigants.

Another bit of luck was that Gretchen Scheffler -- possibly I had asked her to do so -- tailored me a suit which, cut in the unassuming, electively affinitive style of the early nineteenth century, still conjures up the spirit of Goethe in my album, bearing witness to the two souls in my breast, and enables me, with but a single drum, to be in St.

I realized that as there was no limit to the number of operations which could be conducted, you could even have multiple independent units, bonded by affinity, and sharing a single identity.

All you have to concede is that it is possible for a single gene, other things being equal and lots of other essential genes and environmental factors being present, to make a body more likely to save somebody from drowning than its allele would.

Multiple allelomorphs, that is, a series of different grades of a single factor.

We have not yet mentioned the Ambrosian Library in Milan, nor, except the Vatican, a single library by name in Rome.

Moreover the Romans intensely admired feats of bravery, and that this captive should offer to face single handed an animal that was known to be one of the most powerful of those in the amphitheatre filled them with admiration.

As Mervyn had said, the general had very limited power, but when that power was amplified by the Gate itself and directed with emotional fury at a single individual, it was powerful indeed.

If, during his long persecution by President Kruger, Wools-Sampson in the bitterness of his heart had vowed a feud against the Boer cause, it must be acknowledged that he has most amply fulfilled it, for it would be difficult to point to any single man who has from first to last done them greater harm.

In the particular instance of which I have given you a relation, Mircalla seemed to be limited to a name which, if not her real one, should at least reproduce, without the omission or addition of a single letter, those, as we say, anagrammatically, which compose it.

And we are led to this conclusion, which has been arrived at by many naturalists under the designation of single centres of creation, by some general considerations, more especially from the importance of barriers and from the analogical distribution of sub-genera, genera, and families.

London dealer to the farmer who manufactured the cheese: he declared that he had bought the anotta of a mercantile traveller, who had supplied him and his neighbours for years with that commodity, without giving occasion to a single complaint.

The United Mine Workers of America is the strongest single force in the anthracite region, and under it the anthracite miner lives a civilized life compared with that of the miner in the soft coal regions about Pittsburgh, West Virginia, and the western states.