Singly

Definition

single /'sÇŋgl/ adj ၁။ (က) တစ္… တည္းေသာ။ a single red rose တစ္ပြင့္တည္းေသာ ႏွင္းဆီနီ။ ❍ do all the work in a single afternoon ❍ the single European market ❍ single-sex education က်ား-မ သီးသန္႔ပညာေရး။ ❍ a single-storey house ❍ There wasn't a single person I knew (ie I knew no one at all) at the party. (ခ) တစ္မူထူးေသာ။ သီးျခား ျဖစ္ေသာ။ the single most important event in the history of the world ❍ She removed every single thing from the box. ေသတၱာထဲရိွသမွ် တစ္ခုမက်န္ အကုန္ထုတ္ပစ္ လိုက္သည္။ ၂။ တစ္ကိုယ္ေရတစ္ကာယ။ အိမ္ေထာင္မရိွေသာ။ single men and women ❍ remain single. ၃။ တစ္ေယာက္ (စာ၊ သံုး၊ အတြက္ စသည္)။ a single bed/sheet ❍ reserve one single and one double room (eg at a hotel). ၄။ ( Brit ) ( US one-way ) (အသြား)တစ္ေခါက္တည္း အတြက္။ a single fare/ticket. Compare RETURN n ၂ n ၁။ [C] ( infml ) အသြားလက္မွတ္။ two singles to Leeds. ၂။ [C] ( dated ) တစ္ဖက္စီတြင္ သံုးမိနစ္စာခန္႔ အသံသြင္းခ်က္ တိုတိုပါရိွသည့္ လံုးခ်င္းဓာတ္ျပား။ ေဘာက္ျပား။ a hit single. Compare ALBUM ၂, LP ၃။ singles [pl] ( esp US ) တစ္ ကိုယ္ေရတစ္ကာယသမားမ်ား။ a club for singles ❍ a singles bar/holiday. ၄။ singles [sing v ] (တစ္ဖက္လွ်င္)တစ္ဦးခ်င္းယွဥ္ၿပိဳင္သည့္ အားကစားပြဲ။ တစ္ဦးခ်င္းၿပိဳင္ပြဲ ။ play (a) singles ❍ the men's/women's singles in the golf tournament ❍ a singles match. ၅။ [C] (ခရစ္ကက္႐ိုက္ပြဲ) တစ္ မွတ္ရသည့္ ႐ိုက္ခ်က္။ ❏ single-breasted adj ရင္ကြဲ(အက်ႌ)။ Compare DOUBLE-BREASTED ❏ single combat n [U] တစ္ဦးခ်င္းရင္ဆိုင္တိုက္ပြဲ။ ကိုယ္စီ တိုက္ပြဲ။ meet in single combat. ❏ single cream n [U] ( Brit ) အဆီဓာတ္နည္းသည့္ မလိုင္။ Compare DOUBLE CREAM ❏ single-decker n (ႏွစ္ထပ္မဟုတ္ေသာ)ဘတ္စကား။ Compare DOUBLE-DECKER ❏ (in) single figures [ IDM ] တစ္ဆယ္ေအာက္ကိန္းမ်ား။ Inflation is down to single figures. ေငြေဖာင္းပြမႈ(ရာႏႈန္း) သည္ ၁၀-ေအာက္သို႔ ဆင္းသြားသည္။ ❏ single-handed adj, adv တစ္ကိုယ္ေတာ္။ မိမိတစ္လက္ တည္း ေဆာင္ရြက္ေသာ။ a single-handed round-the-world race ❍ do sth single-handed. ❏ single-handedly adv တစ္ဦးတည္း။ She won the game almost single-handedly. ❏ single market n ႏိုင္ငံအမ်ား စုေပါင္းပါဝင္ ဖြဲ႕စည္းထားသည့္ တစ္ခုတည္းေသာ ေဈးကြက္။ ဘံုေဈးကြက္။ ❏ single-minded adj (စိတ္)ၿမဲၿမံေသာ။ I admire her single-minded determination to succeed. ❏ single-mindedly adv စြဲ စြဲ ၿမဲၿမဲ။ work single-mindedly at sth. single-mindedness n [U] ❏ singleness n [U] စိုက္လိုက္မတ္တတ္ ႀကိဳးပမ္းအားထုတ္ မႈ။ show singleness of purpose (ie concentrate on one goal, aim, etc). ❏ single sb/sth out (for sth) [ PHRV ] (… အနက္မွ … အတြက္) တစ္ …တည္း ကြက္၍ေရြးသည္။ Which would you single out as the best? ❍ He was singled out for punishment. ❏ single parent n ကေလးမ်ားကို တစ္ေယာက္တည္း အုပ္ထိန္းရသည့္ မိခင္(သို႔)ဖခင္။ a single-parent family. ❏ singly /sÇŋgli/ adv တစ္ေယာက္ခ်င္း။ သူ႕ဘာသာသူ တစ္ ေယာက္တည္း။ Do you teach your students singly or in groups?

Examples

1. We ought to be able to complete the work in a single day.
2. The envelope contained a single sheet of paper.
3. Please state whether you are single
4. married
5. or divorced.
6. Are there no attractive single men left?
7. [a single bed/mattress/sheet] : The room has two single beds.
8. There is a supplement to pay for a single room.
9. Do we have to count every single penny we spend?
10. [the single largest/biggest etc] : Drugs are the single biggest cause of crime here.
11. [the biggest/largest etc single] : This is the biggest single issue facing older people.
12. We’re paying a single rate for all workers
13. experienced or inexperienced.
14. I’d like a single ticket to Dover.