line-drive single
line single | a single resulting from a line drive |
single
bingle | a base hit on which the batter stops safely at first base |
rack
single-foot | a rapid gait of a horse in which each foot strikes the ground separately |
single entry
single-entry bookkeeping | a simple bookkeeping system, transactions are entered in only one account |
| single combat | a fight between two people, in all armies there were officers who needed to prove their bravery by single combat |
detached house
single dwelling | a house that stands alone |
racing skiff
single shell | a shell for a single oarsman |
| single bed | a bed for one occupant |
| single-breasted jacket | a jacket having fronts that overlap only enough for a single row of buttons |
| single-breasted suit | a suit having a single-breasted jacket |
single crochet
single stitch | a crochet stitch |
single prop
single-propeller plane | a propeller plane with a single propeller |
| single-mindedness | characterized by one unified purpose |
joy
delight
pleasure | something or someone that provides a source of happiness, a joy to behold, the pleasure of his company, the new car is a delight |
uninominal system
uninominal voting system
single-member system
scrutin uninomial system
scrutin uninominal voting system | based on the principle of having only one member (as of a legislature) selected from each electoral district |
| single-spacing | typing that does not leave lines blank |
| single quote | a single quotation mark |
delight
delectation | a feeling of extreme pleasure or satisfaction, his delight to see her was obvious to all |
| Turkish Delight | a jellied candy typically flavored with rose water |
wintergreen
boxberry
checkerberry
teaberry
spiceberry | spicy red berrylike fruit, source of wintergreen oil |
wintergreen oil
oil of wintergreen | oil or flavoring obtained from the creeping wintergreen or teaberry plant |
light cream
coffee cream
single cream | cream that has at least % butterfat, in England they call light cream `single cream' |
file
single file
Indian file | a line of persons or things ranged one behind the other |
single nucleotide polymorphism
SNP | (genetics) genetic variation in a DNA sequence that occurs when a single nucleotide in a genome is altered, SNPs are usually considered to be point mutations that have been evolutionarily successful enough to recur in a significant proportion of the population of a species |
single-leaf
single-leaf pine
single-leaf pinyon
Pinus monophylla | pinon of southwestern United States having solitary needles and often many stems, important as a nut pine |
California single-leaf pinyon
Pinus californiarum | very small tree similar to Rocky mountain pinon but having a single needle per fascicle, similar to Parry's pinyon in range |
mullein pink
rose campion
gardener's delight
dusty miller Lychnis coronaria | an old cottage garden plant of southeastern Europe widely cultivated for its attractive white woolly foliage and showy crimson flowers |
red-flowered silky oak
Grevillea banksii | tall shrub with cylindrical racemes of red flowers and pinnatifid leaves silky and grey beneath, eastern Australia |
teaberry
wintergreen checkerberry
mountain tea
groundberry ground-berry creeping wintergreen
Gaultheria procumbens | creeping shrub of eastern North America having white bell-shaped flowers followed by spicy red berrylike fruit and shiny aromatic leaves that yield wintergreen oil |
Pyrolaceae
family Pyrolaceae
wintergreen family | evergreen herbs of temperate regions: genera Pyrola, Chimaphila, Moneses, Orthilia |
| genus Pyrola | short-stemmed perennial herbs of cool or temperate regions: wintergreen, shinleaf |
wintergreen
pyrola | any of several evergreen perennials of the genus Pyrola |
false wintergreen
Pyrola americana
Pyrola rotundifolia americana | evergreen of eastern North America with leathery leaves and numerous white flowers |
lesser wintergreen
Pyrola minor | the common wintergreen having many-flowered racemes of pink-tinged white flowers, Europe and North America |
| wild lily of the valley shinleaf Pyrola elliptica | North American evergreen with small pinkish bell-shaped flowers and oblong leaves used formerly for shinplasters |
| wild lily of the valley Pyrola rotundifolia | evergreen with rounded leaves and very fragrant creamy-white flowers, widely distributed in northern parts of Old and New Worlds |
one-flowered wintergreen
one-flowered pyrola
Moneses uniflora
Pyrola uniflora | delicate evergreen dwarf herb of north temperate regions having a solitary white terminal flower, sometimes placed in genus Pyrola |
agueweed ague weed
five-flowered gentian
stiff gentian
Gentianella quinquefolia
Gentiana quinquefolia | gentian of eastern North America having clusters of bristly blue flowers |
few-flowered leek
Allium paradoxum | leek producing bulbils instead of flowers, Russia and Iran |
flowering wintergreen
gaywings
bird-on-the-wing
fringed polygala
Polygala paucifolia | common trailing perennial milkwort of eastern North America having leaves like wintergreen and usually rosy-purple flowers with winged sepals |
large-flowered fiddleneck
Amsinckia grandiflora | annual of the western United States having large coiled flower spikes, a threatened species |
large-flowered calamint
Calamintha grandiflora
Clinopodium grandiflorum
Satureja grandiflora | aromatic herb with large pink flowers, southern and southeastern Europe, Anatolia, northern Iran |
violet-flowered petunia
Petunia integrifolia | herb or small shrublet having solitary violet to roseed flowers |
| single tax | a system of taxation in which a tax is levied on a single commodity (usually land) |
| single supplement | a surcharge added to the cost per person when traveling alone |
one
I
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single
unity | the smallest whole number or a numeral representing this number, he has the one but will need a two and three to go with it, they had lunch at one |
function
mathematical function
single-valued function
map
mapping | (mathematics) a mathematical relation such that each element of a given set (the domain of the function) is associated with an element of another set (the range of the function) |
| single out | select from a group, She was singled out for her outstanding performance |
delight
enjoy
revel | take delight in, he delights in his granddaughter |
| single | hit a single, the batter singled to left field |