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Synonyms: tingle, mingle, jingle, singe, ingle, bingle, shingle, singly, swingle, dingle, pingle

Antonyms: tingle, mingle, jingle, singe, ingle, bingle, shingle, singly, swingle, dingle, pingle

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Adjective

1. Not [[accompanied]] by anything else; [[one]] in number.
2. Not [[divide]]d in parts.
3. Designed for the use of only one.
4. Performed by one person, or one on each side.
5. Not [[married]], and (in modern times) not [[dating]] or without a [[significant other]].
6. {{lb|en|botany}} Having only one rank or row of [[petal]]s.
7. {{lb|en|obsolete}} [[simple|Simple]] and [[honest]]; [[sincere]], without deceit.
8. Uncompounded; pure; unmixed.
9. {{lb|en|obsolete}} Simple; foolish; weak; silly.

Noun

1. {{lb|en|music}} A [[vinyl]] [[record]] with one [[song]] on [[side]] A and one on side B, usually 7 inches in diameter and played at 45 [[RPM]].
2. {{senseid|en|Q134556}}{{lb|en|music}} A [[popular]] song [[release]]d and sold (on any [[format]]) [[nominal]]ly on its own though usually having at least one [[extra]] [[track]].
3. One who is not [[married]] or does not have a [[romantic]] [[partner]].
4. {{lb|en|cricket}} A [[score]] of one [[run]].
5. {{lb|en|baseball}} A [[hit]] in [[baseball]] where the [[batter]] advances to first [[base]].
6. {{lb|en|dominoes}} A [[tile]] that has a different value (i.e. number of [[pip]]s) at each end.
7. {{lb|en|US|informal}} A [[bill]] valued at $1.
8. {{lb|en|UK}} A [[one-way ticket]].
9. {{lb|en|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.
10. {{lb|en|tennis|chiefly|in the plural}} A game with one player on each side, as in [[tennis]].
11. One of the [[reeled]] [[filament]]s of [[silk]], twisted without doubling to give them firmness.
12. {{lb|en|UK|Scotland|dialect}} A [[handful]] of [[glean]]ed [[grain]].

Verb

1. {{lb|en|baseball}} To get a [[hit]] that advances the [[batter]] exactly one [[base]].
2. {{lb|en|agriculture}} To [[thin out]].
3. {{lb|en|of a horse}} To take the [[irregular]] [[gait]] called [[singlefoot]].
4. {{lb|en|intransitive|archaic}} To [[sequester]]; to [[withdraw]]; to [[retire]].
5. {{lb|en|intransitive|archaic}} To take alone, or one by one; to [[single out]].
6. {{lb|en|transitive}} To reduce (a railway) to single track.

Proper noun

1. {{surname|en|from=Old English}}.

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