single – English noun declension

English noun forms of single

Noun: single
Singularsingle
Pluralsingles

Sample Sentences

  • The Offspring released four singles from their most recent album.
  • He went to the party, hoping to meet some friendly singles there.
  • He refused to take a single as the ball was dropped by his opponent's best fielder.
  • I don't have any singles, so you'll have to make change.
  • She looked in her purse, found a ten and a single, gave him the ten. ‘I'll spend it on booze,’ he said. [1966 March, Thomas Pynchon, chapter 5, in The Crying of Lot 49, New York, N.Y.: Bantam Books, published November 1976, →ISBN, page 94:]
  • ‘I want to know, Mr Stone, if, in the course of the day, you have issued any tickets to a person dressed in Arab costume?’
  • His reply was prompt.
  • ‘I have — by the last train, the 7.25, — three singles.’ [1897, Richard Marsh, The Beetle:]
  • After tea, Mrs. Inglethorp went to lie down to rest before her efforts in the evening and I challenged Mary Cavendish to a single at tennis. [1920, Agatha Christie, The Mysterious Affair at Styles, London: Pan Books, published 1954, page 18:]
  • If you want to be a scientist or an engineer, learn to say “no” to singles and floats. [2011, Rubin H. Landau, A First Course in Scientific Computing, page 214:]
  • 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. [1990, Jon Boorstin, The Hollywood Eye: What Makes Movies Work, page 94:]
  • A few such examples have been preserved, as is well known, such as one of the Stirling 8-ft. singles of the late Great Northern Railway, the Great Western 4-4-0 City of Truro, ex-Caledonian single-driver No. 123, the Brighton 0-4-2 Gladstone, and others. [1945 March and April, “Preserving Historic Locomotives”, in Railway Magazine, page 64:]

Etymology

From Middle English single, sengle, from Old French sengle, saingle, sangle, from Latin singulus, a diminutive derived from Proto-Indo-European *sem- (“one”). Akin to Latin simplex (“simple”). See simple, and compare singular. See: Middle English Nouns 'single', Latin Nouns 'singulus', Latin Nouns 'simplex'.

Verbs referencing "single"

Catalan Nouns single, Dutch Nouns single, Finnish Nouns single, Italian Nouns single, Norwegian Bokmål Nouns single, Norwegian Nynorsk Nouns single, Norwegian Bokmål Nouns singel, Norwegian Nynorsk Nouns singel, Polish Nouns singel, German Nouns Single, Finnish Nouns sinkku, Russian Nouns сингл, Polish Nouns singiel, Finnish Nouns sinkula.