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Singled

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.

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singled

vb. (en-past of: single)

Usage examples of "singled".

Hot years through the eighties and nineties were singled out, but not the all-time lows in Alaska and subzero conditions across Scandinavia and in Moscow.

This distinction would cause Singers to be singled out no matter where they were.

He waved at her and, excusing her-self, she went to see why he had singled her out.

She kept wondering why she was being singled out for so much misunderstanding.

So she spoke of her situation at Half-Circle Sea Hold: how Petiron had singled her out when she was old enough to learn Teaching Ballads and Sagas.

He singled us out, Tanus and myself, and for a moment I thought I saw fear in his eyes.

Aqer laughed, not loud enough to cross the borders of respect and propriety, nevertheless my mistress singled him out.

Now that the herdsman had singled it out, he too located the large bottle that rested near the tiller of the small boat.

He badly wanted to lie on behalf of the young man thus singled out, but did not for a moment seriously consider doing so.

At a terse nod from Peregriff, the individual thus singled out felt free to respond.

Nodding to his left, he singled out a ridge of distorted, eroded salt crystals.

She had done well in a course taught by a renowned Jewish professor, well enough to have been singled out by the sought-after teacher as the student he deemed to have achieved the most.

Why were the rich singled out to provide lurid reading for people without an iota of their talents?

His was a towering intellect concealed within a cherubic face with tousled red hair, an impish smile and a ready sense of humour—as if he were embarrassed by his gifts, even quick to feign mild offence if they were singled out.

No preferred inertial reference frame could be identified that singled itself out from all the others in any way.