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  1. adjective Not accompanied by another or others; solitary.
  2. adjective Consisting of one part, aspect, or section: a single thickness; a single serving.
  3. adjective Having the same application for all; uniform: a single moral code for all.
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  • While not available on CD yet, the single is available on vinyl for the retro crowd and from Amazon MP3 Downloads for those who prefer their music in noncorporeal form. —  robots.net
  • The problem with everyone already downloading it off the album surely only means that by the time the single is actually out on release, all the casual listeners that have liked it will already have it and most likely won't buy it again as a single.
  • Then, once the single has been added, it's up to the promoter to persuade the station to play it more often in the hope it will attain that golden No. 1 spot. —  American Chronicle
  • I wonder if the single is a desktop board with ECC support or something? edit: oh, new Airport Extreme and Time Capsule, dual-band to use G / B and N at the same time. derFunkenstein on Tue Mar 03, 2009 8: 02 am, edited 1 time in total. —  The Tech Report: News
  • On its own, the single is a weak, rehashed version of "Vertigo," itself one of the most pointless songs in the band's catalogue. —  ! Exclaim.ca - News
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single:   singles ·  singled ·  singling
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Etymologies (3)

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  1. Middle English sengle, from Old French, from Latin singulus; see sem-1 in Indo-European roots.

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  1. Early modern English also sengle (see note under English); from Middle English single, sengle, from Old French single, sengle =Portuguese singelo =Italian singulo, singolo, from Latin singulus, single, separate (usually in the plural singuli, one by one), for *sinculus, *simculus, from sim-, as in sim-plex, simple, single (akin to English same: see simple, same), + diminutive suffix -culus. Hence ult. singular.
  2. from Old French singler, sigler, French cingler =Spanish singlar =Portuguese singrar (Middle Latin siglare), sail, cut the water with a full wind, make head (cf. Old French single, sigle, a sail): see sail, v., and cf. seel.
 

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