What is single?

More definitions of "single":

• (adj): Having uniform application.
  Example: "A single legal code for all"

• (adj): Used of flowers having usually only one row or whorl of petals.
  Example: "Single chrysanthemums resemble daisies and may have more than one row of petals"

• (verb): Hit a one-base hit.

• (adj): Not married or related to the unmarried state.
  Example: "Sex and the single girl"; "single parenthood"; "are you married or single?"
  Synonyms: unmarried

• (adj): Involved two individuals.
  Example: "Single combat"

• (adj): Characteristic of or meant for a single person or thing.
  Example: "Single occupancy"; "a single bed"
  Synonyms: individual, separate

• (adj): Individual and distinct.
  Example: "A gift for every single child"
  Synonyms: separate

• (noun): A base hit on which the batter stops safely at first base.

• (adj): Existing alone or consisting of one entity or part or aspect or individual.
  Example: "Upon the hill stood a single tower"; "had but a single thought which was to escape"; "a single survivor"; "a single serving"; "a single lens"; "a single thickness"

• (noun): The smallest whole number or a numeral representing this number.
  Synonyms: one, 1, I, ace, unity

Famous quotes containing the word single:

“The art of leadership ... consists in consolidating the attention of the people against a single adversary and taking care that nothing will split up that attention.... The leader of genius must have the ability to make different opponents appear as if they belonged to one category.”
—Adolf Hitler (1889–1945)

“The wood for a temple does not come from a single tree.”
—Chinese proverb.

“You have beheld a smiling Rose
When Virgins hands have drawn
O’r it a Cobweb-Lawne:
And here, you see, this Lilly shows,
Tomb’d in a Christal stone,
More faire in this transparent case,
Than when it grew alone;
And had but single grace.”
—Robert Herrick (1591–1674)