singleness
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gəl noun
the state or quality of being single.
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single (ˈsɪŋɡəl) ![[Click for IPA pronunciation guide]](http://static.sfdict.com/dictstatic/g/d/dictionary_questionbutton_default.gif) | |
| —adj | |
| 1. | existing alone; solitary: upon the hill stood a single tower |
| 2. | distinct from other things; unique or individual |
| 3. | composed of one part |
| 4. | designed for one user: a single room; a single bed |
| 5. | (also postpositive) unmarried |
| 6. | connected with the condition of being unmarried: he led a single life |
| 7. | (esp of combat) involving two individuals; one against one |
| 8. | sufficient for one person or thing only: a single portion of food |
| 9. | even one: there wasn't a single person on the beach |
| 10. | (of a flower) having only one set or whorl of petals |
| 11. | determined; single-minded: a single devotion to duty |
| 12. | (of the eye) seeing correctly: to consider something with a single eye |
| 13. | rare honest or sincere; genuine |
| 14. | archaic (of ale, beer, etc) mild in strength |
| —n | |
| 15. | something forming one individual unit |
| 16. | an unmarried person |
| 17. | a gramophone record, CD, or cassette with a short recording, usually of pop music, on it |
| 18. | golf a game between two players |
| 19. | cricket a hit from which one run is scored |
| 20. | a. (Brit) a pound note |
| b. (US), (Canadian) a dollar note | |
| 21. | See single ticket |
| —vb (usually foll by out) | |
| 22. | to select from a group of people or things; distinguish by separation: he singled him out for special mention |
| 23. | (tr) to thin out (seedlings) |
| 24. | short for single-foot |
| [C14: from Old French sengle, from Latin singulus individual] | |
| 'singleness | |
| —n | |
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Singleness
is always a great word to know.
So is interrobang. Does it mean:
| a chattering or flighty, light-headed person. |
| a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question. |
Example sentences
One does not find the singleness of purpose and the coherence of thought that mark his later work.
And each of these three is invested with a singleness of purpose that lends danger to whatever they wish for.
All else is secondary, and it is this singleness of aim that gives his work its driving power.
One of the key ones is efficiency and singleness of decision.
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