Crossword clues for singlet
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Singlet \Sin"glet\, n. An unlined or undyed waistcoat; a single garment; -- opposed to doublet. [Prov. Eng.]
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Wiktionary
n. 1 (context UK Australian Irish Nigeria New Zealand English) A vest; a sleeveless garment with a low-cut neck, often worn underneath a shirt. 2 (context physics English) A multiplet having a single member, especially a single spectroscopic peak. 3 (context physics quantum mechanics English) A quantum state having zero spin.
WordNet
n. a collarless men's undergarment for the upper part of the body [syn: vest, undershirt]
Wikipedia
Singlet may refer to:
- singlet state, in theoretical physics, a quantum state with zero spin
- in spectroscopy, an entity appearing as a single peak; see NMR spectroscopy
- in optics, a single lens element, the building blocks of lens systems; see lens (optics)
- a one-piece collarless garment, also known as a sleeveless shirt or vest
- wrestling singlet, a one-piece garment specific to wrestling
- BID/60, a British encryption machine
and also:
- Singlet oxygen, the common name used for an excited form of molecular oxygen
Usage examples of "singlet".
He was wearing a large pair of white shorts, a white singlet and white cotton gloves.
His arm was bare because, in his work with the ovens, Grubb favored a singlet over the coveralls most of the crew wore.
When she had it, she pulled on a hasty singlet and kicked around the B-ring to the bridgeway.
Twenty-four was wearing a singlet and shorts against the heat and humidity of the kitchen.
He saw the girl cross her arms over her head and pull that singlet off.
I set my alarm clock half an hour earlier than usual, and the following morning I ventured out in my new singlet, shorts and shoes.
Bloomsbury by eight-thirty, so I got up at half past six, pulled on my shorts and singlet, and put a sweatshirt over the top.
The screenwriter loved that moment after the Skywalk when the boy is descending on the dental trapeze, spinning in the spotlight as the gleaming sequins on his singlet throw back the light.
Growing up under the Clerics in New Singapore, she had needed some time to get used to the casual attitudes about dress among miners and finally to adopt the practical, skin-tight singlet most of them wore.
Terang drifted near her, radiating his smile, her singlet in his hand.
She realized she was simply holding her singlet, blushed deeply, and struggled into it.
He not only looked good, he had all the gear to show it off: black cutaway singlet, dark-grey exercise shorts with purple stripes and high vents at the sides, Reeboks that must have set him back a hundred and forty pounds.
Daddy, singlet and shorts under the dressing-gown flapping at his calves, go back into her bedroom.
Susie had brought in some of his gear, and he wore a singlet, track-suit bottoms, and his faithful old Pumas.
Only Chekov knew about the wire threaded down the left sleeve of his singlet, or about the wire loop near his ring finger that he could tug with almost no effort at all.