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single | expendable |

As adjectives the difference between single and expendable

is that single is not accompanied by anything else; one in number while expendable is able to be expended; not inexhaustible.

As nouns the difference between single and expendable

is that single is a 45 rpm vinyl record with one song on side a and one on side b while expendable is an expendable person or object; usually used in the plural.

As a verb single

is 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 .

single

English

Adjective

(-)
  • Not accompanied by anything else; one in number.
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  • Not divided in parts.
  • Designed for the use of only one.
  • Performed by one person, or one on each side.
    • a single combat
  • * Milton
    • These shifts refuted, answer thy appellant, / Who now defies thee thrice to single fight.
  • Not married, and also not dating.
  • * Shakespeare
    • Grows, lives, and dies in single blessedness.
  • * Dryden
    • Single chose to live, and shunned to wed.
  • (botany) Having only one rank or row of petals.
  • (obsolete) Simple and honest; sincere, without deceit.
  • * 1526 , (William Tyndale), trans. Bible , Luke XI:
    • 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?
  • * Shakespeare
    • I speak it with a single heart.
  • Uncompounded; pure; unmixed.
  • * I. Watts
    • Simple ideas are opposed to complex, and single to compound.
  • (obsolete) Simple; foolish; weak; silly.
  • * Beaumont and Fletcher
    • 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) unmarried

    Antonyms

    * (single) divorced, married, widowed

    Derived 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-word

    Related terms

    * singly

    Related terms

    * singular * singularity * singularly

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • 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.
    • The Offspring released four singles from their most recent album.
  • One who is not married.
    • He went to the party, hoping to meet some friendly singles there.
  • (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.
    • I don't have any singles , so you'll have to make change.
  • (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.

    • Antonyms

    * album * (one who is not married) married

    Derived terms

    * cassingle * lead single * singles bar * singles charts * split single * CD single

    See also

    * baseball * cricket

    Verb

    (singl)
  • 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 .
    • 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.
  • * Francis Bacon
    • dogs who hereby can single out their master in the dark
  • (baseball) To get a hit that advances the batter exactly one base.
    • Pedro singled in the bottom of the eighth inning, which, if converted to a run, would put the team back into contention.
  • (agriculture) To thin out.
  • * 1913 ,
    • Paul went joyfully, and spent the afternoon helping to hoe or to single turnips with his friend.
  • (of a horse) To take the irregular gait called singlefoot.
  • * W. S. Clark
    • 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.
  • To sequester; to withdraw; to retire.
  • * Hooker
    • an agent singling itself from consorts
  • To take alone, or one by one.
  • * Hooker
    • men commendable when they are singled

    Derived terms

    * single out

    See also

    (coefficient)

    References

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    expendable

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Able to be expended; not inexhaustible.
    • Oil and other expendable resources are frequently the subject of military disputes.
  • Designed for a single use; not reusable.
    • The anti-aircraft rocket is fired from an expendable launch platform.
  • Not essential or mandatory in order to achieve a goal.
    • The research department was deemed expendable , and its funding was not renewed.
  • That which is regarded as not worth preserving or saving; able to be sacrificed.
    • In the internecine rivalries of large corporations, whole departments may become expendable in the execution of one executive's power play.

    Synonyms

    * (not inexhaustible ): exhaustible, finite, limited * (not reusable ): dispensable, disposable, throwaway * (not essential or mandatory ): adjunct, dispensable, redundant, superfluous * (not worth saving or preserving ): collateral, inconsiderable, sacrificable, worthless

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • An expendable person or object; usually used in the plural.
    • Private Johnson was afraid the Lieutenant considered him an expendable , since he was always picked as point man.

    Derived terms

    * expendability * expendably