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6-letter words (3 found)

INGLES,LIGNES,SINGLE,

5-letter words (16 found)

ELSIN,GLEIS,GLENS,INGLE,LENGS,LENIS,LIENS,LIGNE,LINES,LINGS,NELIS,SEGNI,SENGI,SILEN,SINGE,SLING,

4-letter words (31 found)

EGIS,ENGS,GELS,GENS,GIEN,GIES,GINS,GLEI,GLEN,INGS,ISLE,LEGS,LEIS,LENG,LENS,LIEN,LIES,LIGS,LINE,LING,LINS,NEGS,NIES,NILS,SEIL,SIEN,SIGN,SILE,SINE,SING,SNIG,

3-letter words (27 found)

ELS,ENG,ENS,GEL,GEN,GIE,GIN,GIS,ING,INS,LEG,LEI,LES,LIE,LIG,LIN,LIS,NEG,NIE,NIL,NIS,SEG,SEI,SEL,SEN,SIG,SIN,

2-letter words (9 found)

EL,EN,ES,GI,IN,IS,LI,NE,SI,

1-letter words (1 found)

E,

You can make 87 words from single according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

Definitions and meaning of single

single

Etymology

From Middle English single, sengle, from Old French sengle, saingle, sangle, from Latin singulus, a diminutive derived from Proto-Indo-European *sem- (“one”). Akin to Latin simplex (“simple”). See simple, and compare singular.

Pronunciation

  • (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈsɪŋɡl̩/
  • (General American) IPA(key): /ˈsɪŋɡəl/
  • Homophone: cingle
  • Rhymes: -ɪŋɡəl

Adjective

single (not comparable)

  1. Not accompanied by anything else; one in number.
    Synonyms: lone, sole
  2. Not divided in parts.
    Synonyms: unbroken, undivided, uniform
  3. Designed for the use of only one.
  4. Performed by one person, or one on each side.
  5. Not married, and (in modern times) not dating or without a significant other.
    Synonyms: unmarried, unpartnered, available
  6. (botany) Having only one rank or row of petals.
  7. (obsolete) Simple and honest; sincere, without deceit.
  8. Uncompounded; pure; unmixed.
  9. (obsolete) Simple; foolish; weak; silly.

Derived terms

Related terms

  • singular
  • singularity
  • singularly

Translations

Noun

single (plural singles)

  1. (music) A 45 RPM vinyl record with one song on side A and one on side B.
    Antonym: album
  2. (music) A popular song released and sold (on any format) nominally on its own though usually having at least one extra track.
  3. One who is not married or does not have a romantic partner.
    Antonym: married
  4. (cricket) A score of one run.
  5. (baseball) A hit in baseball where the batter advances to first base.
  6. (dominoes) A tile that has a different value (i.e. number of pips) at each end.
  7. (US, informal) A bill valued at $1.
  8. (UK) A one-way ticket.
  9. (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.
    Synonym: (official name in the rules) rouge
  10. (tennis, chiefly in the plural) 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. (UK, Scotland, dialect) A handful of gleaned grain.
  13. (computing, programming) A floating-point number having half the precision of a double-precision value.
    Coordinate term: double
  14. (film) A shot of only one character.
  15. A single cigarette.
  16. (rail transport, obsolete) Synonym of single-driver.

Derived terms

Descendants

  • → Finnish: sinkku
  • → German: Single
  • → Japanese: シングル (shinguru)
  • → Polish: singiel

Translations

See also

  • baseball
  • cricket

Verb

single (third-person singular simple present singles, present participle singling, simple past and past participle singled)

  1. (baseball) To get a hit that advances the batter exactly one base.
  2. (agriculture) To thin out.
  3. (of a horse) To take the irregular gait called singlefoot.
  4. (intransitive, archaic) To sequester; to withdraw; to retire.
  5. (intransitive, archaic) To take alone, or one by one; to single out.
  6. (transitive) To reduce (a railway) to single track.

Derived terms

  • single out

Translations

See also

References

  • “single”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
  • Douglas Harper (2001–2024) “single”, in Online Etymology Dictionary.

Anagrams

  • Nigels, glinse, ingles

Alemannic German

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English single.

Adjective

single (indeclinable)

  1. single (not in a relationship)
    Antonym: vergee

Catalan

Etymology

Borrowed from English single.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): (Central, Balearic) [ˈsiŋ.ɡəl]
  • IPA(key): (Valencian) [ˈsiŋ.ɡel]

Noun

single m (plural singles)

  1. (music) single

Further reading

  • “single” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
  • “single”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2024
  • “single” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from English single.

Pronunciation

  • (music record or track): IPA(key): /ˈsɪŋ.əl/, /ˈsɪŋ.ɡəl/
  • ((person) without romantic partner): IPA(key): /ˈsɪŋ.ɡəl/
  • Hyphenation: sin‧gle

Noun

single m (plural singles, diminutive singletje n)

  1. A single (short music record, e.g. 45 RPM vinyl with an A side and a B side; main track of such a record).
  2. A single (person without a romantic partner).

Derived terms

  • debuutsingle
  • hitsingle

Adjective

single (not comparable)

  1. single (without a romantic partner)

Inflection

Finnish

Etymology

Borrowed from English single.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈsiŋle/, [ˈs̠iŋle̞]
  • Rhymes: -iŋle
  • Syllabification(key): sing‧le

Noun

single

  1. single (45 rpm record; track nominally released on its own)

Declension

Derived terms

See also

  • pitkäsoitto

Further reading

  • “single”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish]‎[1] (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 2023-07-03

French

Noun

single m (plural singles)

  1. single room
  2. (music) single

Further reading

  • “single”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Italian

Etymology

Borrowed from English single.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈsin.ɡol/
  • Rhymes: -inɡol
  • Hyphenation: sìn‧gle

Noun

single m or f by sense (invariable)

  1. single, loner (person who lives alone and has no emotional ties)

Adjective

single (invariable)

  1. single (unmarried, not in a relationship)
    Synonym: (formal) celibe

References

Kapampangan

Alternative forms

  • singlai, singlay (obsolete)

Etymology

From sangle.

Pronunciation

  • Hyphenation: sing‧le
  • IPA(key): /sɪŋˈle/, [sɪŋˈlɛː]

Noun

singlé

  1. fried rice

Verb

singlé

  1. complete aspect of isangle

Norwegian Bokmål

Alternative forms

  • singel

Etymology 1

Borrowed from English single and singles.

Adjective

single

  1. plural of singel

Noun

single m (definite singular singlen, indefinite plural singler, definite plural singlene)

  1. (music) a single (record or CD)
    Synonym: singelplate
  2. (sports) singles (e.g. in tennis)

Etymology 2

From singel.

Verb

single (imperative single, present tense singler, simple past and past participle singla or singlet)

  1. to sprinkle or scatter shingle

References

  • “single” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
  • “single” in Det Norske Akademis ordbok (NAOB).

Norwegian Nynorsk

Alternative forms

  • singel

Etymology

Borrowed from English single and singles.

Noun

single m (definite singular singlen, indefinite plural singlar, definite plural singlane)

  1. (music) a single (record or CD)
  2. (sports) singles (e.g. in tennis)

Synonyms

  • singelplate (record)

References

  • “single” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Portuguese

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English single.

Pronunciation

  • (Brazil) IPA(key): /ˈsĩ.ɡow/

Noun

single m (plural singles)

  1. (music) single (song released on its own or with an extra track)

Romanian

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English single. Doublet of singur.

Noun

single n (plural single-uri)

  1. single (album)

Declension

Spanish

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈsinɡle/ [ˈsĩŋ.ɡle]
  • Rhymes: -inɡle
  • Syllabification: sin‧gle

Etymology 1

Unadapted borrowing from English single. Doublet of sendos.

Noun

single m (plural singles)

  1. single (song released)

Noun

single m or f by sense (plural singles)

  1. single, single person

Etymology 2

Verb

single

  1. inflection of singlar:
    1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
    2. third-person singular imperative

Further reading

  • “single”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014

Turkish

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English single.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /siŋɡɫ̩/

Noun

single (definite accusative singleı, plural singlelar)

  1. (music) single

Declension


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