Wifebeater vs Singlet - What's the difference?
wifebeater | singlet | Synonyms |
One who (usually as a repeated practice) beats his wife, or a husband prone to violence.
A kind of sleeveless shirt, often but not exclusively worn as an undershirt.
(uncountable, UK, slang) , a brand of lager beer.
* 2005 , Conrad Williams, London Revenant
* 2011 , Pete Brown, Three Sheets to the Wind
(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 ,
Singlet is a synonym of wifebeater.
As nouns the difference between wifebeater and singlet
is that wifebeater is one who (usually as a repeated practice) beats his wife, or a husband prone to violence while singlet is a vest; a sleeveless garment with a low-cut neck, often worn underneath a shirt.wifebeater
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Alternative forms
* wife beater * wife-beaterNoun
(en noun)- And then we were walking back alleys, trudging through the drifts of chip papers, the bottles and empty cans of wifebeater
- But Stella shouldn't really be drunk in pints the same way our dads used to drink bitter or mild that was effectively half as strong. Drink Stella in goblets like people do in its native country and, hey presto! It's no longer 'wifebeater' .
Synonyms
* abusive husband * (a kind of sleeveless shirt) A-shirt, athletic shirt, beater, muscle shirt, singlet (chiefly Australia, UK ), tank top, vestSee also
* wife-beating questionsinglet
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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.
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- However, even in the latter he wears a blue singlet to help remind the audience of his working-class roots.
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- 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.
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- 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.
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- 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).