English Dictionary

single

/ˈsɪŋɡəl/

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.

I prefer being single.

意味（1）

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

意味（2）

(music) A popular song released and sold (on any format) nominally on its own though usually having at least one extra track.

The Offspring released four singles from their most recent album.

意味（3）

One who is not married or does not have a romantic partner.

He went to the party, hoping to meet some friendly singles there.

意味（4）

(cricket) A score of one run.

意味（5）

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

意味（6）

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

意味（7）

(US, informal) A bill valued at $1.

I don't have any singles, so you'll have to make change.

意味（8）

(UK) A one-way ticket.

意味（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. Officially known in the rules as a rouge.

意味（10）

(tennis, chiefly in the plural) A game with one player on each side, as in tennis.

意味（11）

One of the reeled filaments of silk, twisted without doubling to give them firmness.

意味（12）

(UK, Scotland, dialect) A handful of gleaned grain.

意味（13）

(computing, programming) A floating-point number having half the precision of a double-precision value.

Coordinate term: double

意味（14）

(film) A shot of only one character.

But if the same scene is shot in singles (or “over-the-shoulder” shots where one of the actors is only a lumpy shoulder in the foreground), the editor and the director can almost redirect the scene on film.