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To enter into the conjugal or connubial state; to take a husband or a wife.
* 1641', Evelyn, ''Diary'', quoted in '''1869 by Edward J. Wood in ''The Wedding Day in All Ages and Countries , volume 2, page 241:
* 1755 , The Holy Bible, both Old and New Testament, Digested, Illustrated, and Explained , second edition, page 59:
(in passive) To be joined (to) (someone) as spouse according to law or custom.
To arrange for the marriage of; to give away as wife or husband.
* 1526 , William Tyndale, trans. Bible , Matthew XXIII:
To take as husband or wife.
(figuratively) To unite; to join together into a close union.
* (rfdate), Bible (KJV), Jeremiah 3.14:
To unite in wedlock or matrimony; to perform the ceremony of joining spouses; to bring about a marital union according to the laws or customs of a place.
* (rfdate), Gay, The what d'ye call it :
(nautical) To place (two ropes) alongside each other so that they may be grasped and hauled on at the same time.
(nautical) To join (two ropes) end to end so that both will pass through a block.
(obsolete) indeed!, in truth!; a term of asseveration.
* William Shakespeare, King Henry IV, Part ii , Act 1, Scene 2,
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 a verb marry
is to enter into the conjugal or connubial state; to take a husband or a wife.As an interjection marry
is (obsolete) indeed!, in truth!; a term of asseveration.As a noun single is
single (45rpm vinyl record).marry
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) marien, from (etyl) marier, from (etyl) .(ae)J.P. Mallory and D.Q. Adams, Encyclopedia of Indo-European Culture , s.v. "woman" (London: Dearborn Fitzroy, 1997), 656.)Verb
(en-verb)- Neither of her daughters showed any desire to marry .
- Evelyn, in his "Diary," under date 1641, says that at Haerlem "they showed us a cottage where, they told us, dwelt a woman who had been married to her twenty-fifth husband, and, being now a widow, was prohibited to marry in future; "
- But Esau'', being now forty years of age, took a false step by marrying not only without his parents consent; but with two wives, daughters of the ''Hittites .
- She was not happily married .
- His daughter was married some five years ago to a tailor's apprentice.
- The kyngdome of heven is lyke unto a certayne kinge, which maryed his sonne [...].
- He was eager to marry his daughter to a nobleman.
- In some cultures, it is acceptable for an uncle to marry his niece.
- The attempt to marry medieval plainsong with speed metal produced interesting results.
- Turn, O backsliding children, saith the Lord; for I am married unto you.
- A justice of the peace will marry Jones and Smith.
- Tell him that he shall marry the couple himself.
Synonyms
* get married * wed * dowryingAntonyms
* divorceDerived terms
* * married sectorInterjection
(en-interj)!- I have chequed him for it, and the young lion repents; marry , not in ashes and sackcloth, but in new silk and old sack.
References
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