Kinglet vs Singlet - What's the difference?
kinglet | singlet |
A petty king; a king ruling over a small or unimportant territory.
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* 1951 , (Isaac Asimov), publication), part V, chapter 10, pages 160–161:
A bird of the crest family (Regulidae).
(UK, Australian, Irish, Nigeria, New Zealand) A vest; a sleeveless garment with a low-cut neck, often worn underneath a shirt.
* 1949 , George Orwell, Nineteen Eighty-Four , p28,
* 2000 , Nicole Matthews, Kitsch on the Fringe: Suburbia in Recent Australian Comedy Film'', Roger Webster, ''Expanding Suburbia: Reviewing Suburban Narratives ,
* 2006 , Albert Moran, Errol Vieth, Film in Australia: An Introduction ,
* 2009 , Deborah Penrith, Live & Work in: Australia , Crimson Publishing, UK,
(physics) A multiplet having a single member, especially a single spectroscopic peak.
(physics, quantum mechanics) A quantum state having zero spin.
* 2003 , Timothy M. Cox, 90: Protoporphyria'', Karl M. Kadish, Kevin M. Smith, Roger Guilard, (editors), ''The Porphyrin Handbook , Volume 14: Medical Aspects of Porphyrins,
* 2010 , Donald L. Pavia, Gary M. Lampman, George S. Kriz, Randall G. Engel, A Small Scale Approach to Organic Laboratory Techniques ,
As nouns the difference between kinglet and singlet
is that kinglet is a petty king; a king ruling over a small or unimportant territory while singlet is a vest; a sleeveless garment with a low-cut neck, often worn underneath a shirt.kinglet
English
Noun
(en noun)- Cæsar'' termeth all the Lords, which in his time had justice in ''France , to be Kinglets [tr. (reguli)], or pettie Kings.
- “My son hears tales. In the viceroy’s personal entourage, one could scarcely help it. And he tells me of them. Our new viceroy would not refuse the Crown if offered, but he guards his line of retreat. There are stories that, failing Imperial heights, he plans to carve out a new Empire in the Barbarian hinterland. It is said, but I don’t vouch for this, that he has already given one of his daughters as wife to a Kinglet somewhere in the uncharted Periphery.”
singlet
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Noun
(en noun)- Winston wrenched his body out of bed — naked, for a member of the Outer Party received only 3,000 clothing coupons annually, and a suit of pyjamas was 600 — and seized a dingy singlet and a pair of shorts that were lying across a chair.
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- The semiotics of the singlet - immediately identifiable in Australia, especially in its usual shade of blue, with male manual labourers16 - underlines the contrast between the effete fakery of ballroom costumes and real masculinity to be found underneath or in the world of folk dancing.
page 85,
- However, even in the latter he wears a blue singlet to help remind the audience of his working-class roots.
page 192,
- Women wear dresses, cropped trousers and vests with lightweight linen jackets and you will find men in anything from a business suit to a pair of stubbies (very short shorts) and a singlet top (white vest) or knee-length cargo trousers.
page 132,
- When a ground state molecule absorbs a photon, the values of the electron spins are not altered and thus the primary excited state is the singlet state.
page 416,
- However, even if it were possible to supply benzophenone with radiation of the appropriate wavelength to produce the second excited singlet' state of the molecule, this '''singlet''' would rapidly convert to the lowest ' singlet state (S1).