How to pronounce “single”

Meaning

• [Adjective]
• Not accompanied by anything else; one in number.
• Not divided in parts.
• Designed for the use of only one.
• Performed by one person, or one on each side.
• Not married, and (in modern times) not dating or without a significant other.
• (botany) Having only one rank or row of petals.
• (obsolete) Simple and honest; sincere, without deceit.
• Uncompounded; pure; unmixed.
• (obsolete) Simple; foolish; weak; silly.
• [Noun]
• (music) A 45 RPM vinyl record with one song on side A and one on side B.
• (music) A popular song released and sold (on any format) nominally on its own though usually having at least one extra track.
• One who is not married or does not have a romantic partner.
• (cricket) A score of one run.
• (baseball) A hit in baseball where the batter advances to first base.
• (dominoes) A tile that has a different value (i.e. number of pips) at each end.
• (US, informal) A bill valued at $1.
• (UK) A one-way ticket.
• (Canadian football) 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.
• (tennis, chiefly in the plural) A game with one player on each side, as in tennis.
• One of the reeled filaments of silk, twisted without doubling to give them firmness.
• (UK, Scotland, dialect) A handful of gleaned grain.
• (computing, programming) A floating-point number having half the precision of a double-precision value.
• (film) A shot of only one character.
• A single cigarette.
• (rail transport, obsolete) Synonym of single-driver.
• [Verb]
• (baseball) To get a hit that advances the batter exactly one base.
• (agriculture) To thin out.
• (of a horse) To take the irregular gait called singlefoot.
• (intransitive, archaic) To sequester; to withdraw; to retire.
• (intransitive, archaic) To take alone, or one by one; to single out.
• (transitive) To reduce (a railway) to single track.

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Similar Sounds

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