Individualist vs Single - What's the difference?
individualist | single |
Someone who believes in individualism
Someone who does as they wish, unconstrained to external influences
Not accompanied by anything else; one in number.
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Designed for the use of only one.
Performed by one person, or one on each side.
* Milton
Not married, and also not dating.
* Shakespeare
* Dryden
(botany) Having only one rank or row of petals.
(obsolete) Simple and honest; sincere, without deceit.
* 1526 , (William Tyndale), trans. Bible , Luke XI:
* Shakespeare
Uncompounded; pure; unmixed.
* I. Watts
(obsolete) Simple; foolish; weak; silly.
* Beaumont and Fletcher
A 45 RPM vinyl record with one song on side A and one on side B.
A popular song released and sold (on any format) nominally on its own though usually has at least one extra track.
One who is not married.
(cricket) A score of one run.
(baseball) A hit in baseball where the batter advances to first base.
(dominoes) A tile that has different values (i.e., number of pips) in each end.
A bill valued at $1.
(UK) A one-way ticket.
(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.
(tennis, chiefly, in the plural) A game with one player on each side, as in tennis.
One of the reeled filaments of silk, twisted without doubling to give them firmness.
(UK, Scotland, dialect) A handful of gleaned grain.
To identify or select one member of a group from the others; generally used with out, either to single out' or to '''single''' (something) ' out .
* Francis Bacon
(baseball) To get a hit that advances the batter exactly one base.
(agriculture) To thin out.
* 1913 ,
(of a horse) To take the irregular gait called singlefoot.
* W. S. Clark
To sequester; to withdraw; to retire.
* Hooker
To take alone, or one by one.
* Hooker
As nouns the difference between individualist and single
is that individualist is someone who believes in individualism while single is single (45rpm vinyl record).individualist
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(en noun)single
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Adjective
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- a single combat
- These shifts refuted, answer thy appellant, / Who now defies thee thrice to single fight.
- Grows, lives, and dies in single blessedness.
- Single chose to live, and shunned to wed.
- Therefore, when thyne eye is single : then is all thy boddy full off light. Butt if thyne eye be evyll: then shall all thy body be full of darknes?
- I speak it with a single heart.
- Simple ideas are opposed to complex, and single to compound.
- He utters such single matter in so infantly a voice.
Synonyms
* (not accompanied by anything else) lone, sole * (not divided in parts) unbroken, undivided, uniform * (not married) unmarriedAntonyms
* (single) divorced, married, widowedDerived terms
* single-acting * single bed * single-blind/single blind * single bond * single-cell * single-celled * single-click * single combat * single cream * single crochet * single cross * single crystal * single currency * single data rate * single-decker * singledom * single-elimination * single entry * single-eyed * single file * single flower * single-fold * single-foot * single grave * single-handed * single-handedly * single-hearted * singlehood * single-horse * single-issue * single leaf * single-line * single knot * single malt * single market * single-minded * single money * single mother * singleness * single-o * single option * single parent * single-phase * single-phasing * singleplayer * single-ply roof * single pneumonia * single-point * single-point urban interchange * single point of failure * single precision * single prop * single quote * singler * single scull * single-sex * single shell * single shot * single-shot * single sourcing * single-space * single-spaced * single-spacing * single standard * single star system * singlestick * single stitch * single supplement * singlet * single tax * singleton * single track * single union agreement * single-valued * single-wide * single-wordNoun
(en noun)- The Offspring released four singles from their most recent album.
- He went to the party, hoping to meet some friendly singles there.
- I don't have any singles , so you'll have to make change.
Antonyms
* album * (one who is not married) marriedDerived terms
* cassingle * lead single * singles bar * singles charts * split single * CD singleSee also
* baseball * cricketVerb
(singl)- Eddie singled out his favorite marble from the bag.
- Yvonne always wondered why Ernest had singled her out of the group of giggling girls she hung around with.
- dogs who hereby can single out their master in the dark
- Pedro singled in the bottom of the eighth inning, which, if converted to a run, would put the team back into contention.
- Paul went joyfully, and spent the afternoon helping to hoe or to single turnips with his friend.
- Many very fleet horses, when overdriven, adopt a disagreeable gait, which seems to be a cross between a pace and a trot, in which the two legs of one side are raised almost but not quite, simultaneously. Such horses are said to single , or to be single-footed.
- an agent singling itself from consorts
- men commendable when they are singled