The Collaborative International Dictionary
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.]
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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.
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Alone; having no companion.
Who single hast maintained, Against revolted multitudes, the cause Of truth.
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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. Not doubled, twisted together, or combined with others; as, a single thread; a single strand of a rope.
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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.
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Uncompounded; pure; unmixed.
Simple ideas are opposed to complex, and single to compound.
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Not deceitful or artful; honest; sincere.
I speak it with a single heart.
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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.
Entry \En"try\, n.; pl. Entries. [OE. entree, entre, F. entr['e]e, fr. entrer to enter. See Enter, and cf. Entr['e]e.]
The act of entering or passing into or upon; entrance; ingress; hence, beginnings or first attempts; as, the entry of a person into a house or city; the entry of a river into the sea; the entry of air into the blood; an entry upon an undertaking.
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The act of making or entering a record; a setting down in writing the particulars, as of a transaction; as, an entry of a sale; also, that which is entered; an item.
A notary made an entry of this act.
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That by which entrance is made; a passage leading into a house or other building, or to a room; a vestibule; an adit, as of a mine.
A straight, long entry to the temple led.
--Dryden. (Com.) The exhibition or depositing of a ship's papers at the customhouse, to procure license to land goods; or the giving an account of a ship's cargo to the officer of the customs, and obtaining his permission to land the goods. See Enter, v. t., 8, and Entrance, n.,
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5. (Law)
The actual taking possession of lands or tenements, by entering or setting foot on them.
A putting upon record in proper form and order.
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The act in addition to breaking essential to constitute the offense or burglary.
--Burrill.Bill of entry. See under Bill.
Double entry, Single entry. See Bookkeeping.
Entry clerk (Com.), a clerk who makes the original entries of transactions in a business.
Writ of entry (Law), a writ issued for the purpose of obtaining possession of land from one who has unlawfully entered and continues in possession.
--Bouvier.
WordNet
n. a simple bookkeeping system; transactions are entered in only one account [syn: single-entry bookkeeping]
Usage examples of "single entry".
Cyr (before it was destroyed during World War II) the memorial tablet to the dead of the Great War bore only a single entry for “.
In his journal or exegesis it came as entry #47 and was by far the longest single entry.
With the reception vehicles preprogrammed, every visitor could be funneled through a single entry channel.
The Mir suit had only a single entry and exit point and the user donned it by climbing through a port on the back and then sitting in it cross-legged.
All farcaster portals were actually a single entry door to Planck space, manipulated across space-time to provide the functioning illusion of so many doors.
He reached the bottom statement, the first It was a transfer from a bank in Singapore and the largest single entry.
A reason for the limited size of our party was that, though forage was kept in readiness at the keep, it was only enough for a hundred dottles at a single entry.
The arcane device spawned of far-future technology still squatted in the cellar of that ancient tower, its greenish glow providing the only light that had penetrated the chamber for the two and more generations since its single entry had been finally walled up and sealed by the authority of the then-reigning king.
The entry was four pages long, the longest single entry in the entire journal.
And then, just as Turpin was preparing to congratulate him on being able to pick that single entry out of heaven knew how many security files-which, indeed, was a rather sobering feat and indicated just why Clarke was as high as he was in the hierarchy of his force-he did something that took Turpin absolutely by surprise.