single

1. (music) A 45 RPM vinyl record with one song on side A and one on side B.Antonyms: album

2. (music) A popular song released and sold (on any format) nominally on its own though usually having at least one extra track.Examples: "The Offspring released four singles from their most recent album."

3. (cricket) A score of one run.Examples: "He refused to take a single as the ball was dropped by his opponent's best fielder."

4. (baseball) A hit in baseball where the batter advances to first base.

5. (dominoes) A tile that has a different value (i.e. number of pips) at each end.

6. (US, informal) A bill valued at $1.Examples: "I don't have any singles, so you'll have to make change."; "She looked in her purse, found a ten and a single, gave him the ten. ‘I'll spend it on booze,’ he said."USinformal

1. (baseball) To get a hit that advances the batter exactly one base.Examples: "Pedro singled in the bottom of the eighth inning, which, if converted to a run, would put the team back into contention."

2. (agriculture) To thin out.Examples: "Paul went joyfully, and spent the afternoon helping to hoe or to single turnips with his friend."; "The seeds did not germinate in many parts of a row until rains in end of June and thunderplumps in first week of July brought them up later in patches, so that no second sowing was necessary, but singling was done by stages."

3. (of a horse) To take the irregular gait called singlefoot.Examples: "Many very fleet horses, when overdriven, adopt a disagreeable gait, which seems to be a cross between a pace and a trot, in which the two legs of one side are raised almost but not quite, simultaneously. Such horses are said to single, or to be single-footed."

4. (intransitive, archaic) To sequester; to withdraw; to retire.Examples: "an agent singling itself from consorts"archaicintransitive

5. (intransitive, archaic) To take alone, or one by one; to single out.Examples: "men […] commendable when they are singled"archaicintransitive

6. (transitive) To reduce (a railway) to single track.Examples: "In the east of Yorkshire, Mr. A. M. Ross reports the belief of local railwaymen that the N.E.R. plans to single the York-Beverley line, leaving an adequate provision of passing loops, and to operate it by C.T.C. from York; […]"; "The Henley branch, recently singled and fully track-circuited, is worked by acceptance lever between Twyford and Shiplake cabins."; "Sadly, it's not the quickest route as much of it has been singled, but it still boasts some attractive stations as well as an active Community Rail Partnership, one of the first in the country."transitive