One vs Hair - What's the difference?
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(cardinal) A numerical value equal to ; the first number in the set of natural numbers (especially in number theory); the cardinality of the smallest nonempty set. Ordinal: first.
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The ordinality of an element which has no predecessor, usually called first'' or ''number one .
(lb) One thing (among a group of others); one member of a group.
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The first mentioned of two things or people, as opposed to the other.
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*:Study gives strength to the mind; conversation, grace: the first apt to give stiffness, the other suppleness: one gives substance and form to the statue, the other polishes it.
(lb) Any person (applying to people in general).
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*:It was not far from the house; but the ground sank into a depression there, and the ridge of it behind shut out everything except just the roof of the tallest hayrick. As one sat on the sward behind the elm, with the back turned on the rick and nothing in front but the tall elms and the oaks in the other hedge, it was quite easy to fancy it the verge of the prairie with the backwoods close by.
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*:With fresh material, taxonomic conclusions are leavened by recognition that the material examined reflects the site it occupied; a herbarium packet gives one' only a small fraction of the data desirable for sound conclusions. Herbarium material does not, indeed, allow ' one to extrapolate safely: what you see is what you get.
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, title= (lb) Any person, entity or thing.
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(mathematics) The neutral element with respect to multiplication in a .
The digit or figure 1.
(US) A one-dollar bill.
(cricket) One run scored by hitting the ball and running between the wickets; a single.
A joke or amusing anecdote.
* Did you hear the one about the agnostic dyslexic insomniac?
(colloquial) A particularly special or compatible person or thing.
* I knew as soon I met him that John was the one for me and we were married within a month.
* That car's the one — I'll buy it.
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(Internet slang, leet, sarcastic) Used instead of to amplify an exclamation, imitating unskilled users who forget to press the shift key while typing exclamation points.
* 2003' September 26, "DEAL WITH IT!!!!11'''one !!", in alt.games.video.nintendo.gamecube, ''Usenet
* 2004' November 9, "AWK sound recorder!!!11!!11'''one ", in comp.lang.awk, ''Usenet
* 2007' December 1, "STANFORD!!1!!1!'''one'''!11!!1'''oneone !1!1!", in rec.sport.football.college, ''Usenet
Of a period of time, being particular; as, one morning, one year.
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, passage=One morning I had been driven to the precarious refuge afforded by the steps of the inn, after rejecting offers from the Celebrity to join him in a variety of amusements. But even here I was not free from interruption, for he was seated on a horse-block below me, playing with a fox terrier.}}
Being a single, unspecified thing; a; any.
Sole, only.
Whole, entire.
In agreement.
The same.
Being a preeminent example.
Being an unknown person with the specified name.
(obsolete) To cause to become one; to gather into a single whole; to unite.
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(label) A pigmented filament of keratin which grows from a follicle on the skin of humans and other mammals.
*(rfdate) (Geoffrey Chaucer) (c.1343-1400):
*:Then read he me how Sampson lost his hairs .
*(rfdate) (Edmund Spenser) (c.1552–1599):
*:And draweth new delights with hoary hairs .
(label) The collection or mass of such growths growing from the skin of humans and animals, and forming a covering for a part of the head or for any part or the whole body.
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*:Her abundant hair , of a dark and glossy brown, was neatly plaited and coiled above an ivory column that rose straight from a pair of gently sloping shoulders, clearly outlined beneath the light muslin frock that covered them.
A slender outgrowth from the chitinous cuticle of insects, spiders, crustaceans, and other invertebrates. Such hairs are totally unlike those of vertebrates in structure, composition, and mode of growth.
A cellular outgrowth of the epidermis, consisting of one or of several cells, whether pointed, hooked, knobbed, or stellated.
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(label) Haircloth; a hair shirt.
* (Geoffrey Chaucer), "The Second Nun's Tale", (The Canterbury Tales) :
*:She, ful devout and humble in hir corage, / Under hir robe of gold, that sat ful faire, / Hadde next hir flessh yclad hir in an haire .
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*:Thenne vpon the morne whanne the good man had songe his masse / thenne they buryed the dede man / Thenne syr launcelot sayd / fader what shalle I do / Now sayd the good man / I requyre yow take this hayre that was this holy mans and putte it nexte thy skynne / and it shalle preuaylle the gretely
(label) Any very small distance, or degree; a hairbreadth.
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As verbs the difference between one and hair
is that one is (obsolete|transitive) to cause to become one; to gather into a single whole; to unite while hair is to hate.As a numeral one
is (cardinal) a numerical value equal to ; the first number in the set of natural numbers (especially in number theory); the cardinality of the smallest nonempty set ordinal: first.As a pronoun one
is (lb) one thing (among a group of others); one member of a group.As a noun one
is (mathematics) the neutral element with respect to multiplication in a.As an adjective one
is of a period of time, being particular; as, one morning, one year.one
English
Alternative forms
* (l), (l) (both obsolete) * Arabic numeral: (see for numerical forms in other scripts) * Roman numeral: INumeral
(head)- There is only one Earth.
- In many cultures, a baby turns one year old a year after its birth.
- One''' person, '''one vote.
- Venters began to count them—one —two—three—four—on up to sixteen.
Synonyms
*See also
*Pronoun
(English Pronouns (possessive'' ''', ''plural'' ' ones )Heads designed for an essay on conversations
citation, passage=She was a fat, round little woman, richly apparelled in velvet and lace,
citation, passage=‘It's rather like a beautiful Inverness cloak one' has inherited. Much too good to hide away, so ' one wears it instead of an overcoat and pretends it's an amusing new fashion.’}}
If we're all Martians, who are the aliens?, passage=One has to admire the sheer optimism of modern science: I love the fact that there is such a discipline as astrobiology, whose practitioners' task is to imagine what life might be like on other planets. Yet here on the home planet we have profoundly strange aliens of our own.}}
Synonyms
* (unidentified person) you, they in nominative personal case.Derived terms
* oneness * oneselfNoun
(en noun)- When you love a woman then tell her
- that she's really wanted
- When you love a woman then tell her that she's the one
- 'cause she needs somebody to tell her
- that it's gonna last forever
- A: SUM1 Hl3p ME im alwyz L0ziN!!?!
- B: y d0nt u just g0 away l0zer!!1!!one'''!!'''one !!eleven!!1!
Synonyms
* unity * single * , elevenAdjective
(-)Derived terms
* all one * one and only * one-on-one * one or two * one-two * one-up * the oneVerb
(on)- The rich folk that embraced and oned all their heart to treasure of the world.