English words for 'Befitting a bachelor.'
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verb
noun
- A person, especially a man, who is socially regarded as able to marry, but has not yet.
- a man who has never been married
- a knight of the lowest order; could display only a pennon
- (Canada) A bachelor apartment.
- Someone who has achieved a bachelor's degree.
- The first or lowest academic degree conferred by colleges and universities; a bachelor's degree.
- A kind of bass, an edible freshwater fish (Pomoxis annularis) of the southern United States.
adj
- Like or befitting a (young, unmarried) maiden.
- (of a fortress) Never having been captured or violated.
- (cricket) Being an over in which no runs are scored.
- (figuratively) Being a first occurrence or event.
- Virgin.
- (of a female, human or animal) Without offspring.
- (of a tree) Grown from seed and never pruned.
- Fresh; innocent; unpolluted; pure; hitherto unused.
- serving to set in motion
noun
- A maidservant.
- (cricket) A maiden over.
- A clothes maiden.
- (now chiefly literary) A girl or an unmarried young woman.
- (horse racing) A horse race in which all starters are maidens.
- (historical) A Scottish counterpart of the guillotine.
- (horse racing) A racehorse without any victory, i.e. one having a "virgin record".
- (Wicca) Alternative form of Maiden.
- an unmarried girl (especially a virgin)
- (cricket) an over in which no runs are scored
noun
- A bachelor's degree.
- (US) A farewell address in the form of a sermon delivered to a graduating class.
- A high school completion exam and qualification awarded in many countries (e.g. Finland, France, Moldova, Romania), designed to enable students to pursue higher education.
- The International Baccalaureate.
- an academic degree conferred on someone who has successfully completed undergraduate studies
- a farewell sermon to a graduating class at their commencement ceremonies
adj
noun
- A candidate for matrimony; one to be gained in marriage.
- a person regarded as a good matrimonial prospect
- Someone with a measure of an attribute equaling or exceeding the object of comparison.
- Equivalence; a state of correspondence.
- (sports) A competitive sporting event such as a boxing meet (commonly called a "bout"), a baseball game, or a cricket match.
- (metalworking) A perforated board, block of plaster, hardened sand, etc., in which a pattern is partly embedded when a mould is made, for giving shape to the surfaces of separation between the parts of the mould.
- Any contest or trial of strength or skill, or to determine superiority.
- Suitability.
- A device made of wood or paper, having the tip coated with chemicals that ignite with the friction of being dragged (struck) against a rough dry surface.
- Equality of conditions in contest or competition.
- A pair of items or entities with mutually suitable characteristics.
- A marriage.
- An agreement or compact.
- a formal contest in which two or more persons or teams compete
- a pair of people who live together
- an exact duplicate
- something that resembles or harmonizes with
- the score needed to win a match
- lighter consisting of a thin piece of wood or cardboard tipped with combustible chemical; ignites with friction
- a burning piece of wood or cardboard
- a person who is of equal standing with another in a group
verb
- (transitive) To equal or exceed in achievement.
- (intransitive) To agree; to be equal; to correspond.
- (transitive) To agree with; to be equal to; to correspond to.
- (transitive, programming) To be an example of a rule or regex.
- (transitive) To make a successful match or pairing.
- To fit together, or make suitable for fitting together; specifically, to furnish with a tongue and groove at the edges.
- bring two objects, ideas, or people together
- give or join in marriage
- make equal, uniform, corresponding, or matching
- be compatible, similar or consistent; coincide in their characteristics
- provide funds complementary to
- be equal or harmonize
- be equal to in quality or ability
- make correspond or harmonize
- set into opposition or rivalry
adj
- Not married, and (in modern times) not dating or without a significant other.
- Designed for the use of only one.
- Uncompounded; pure; unmixed.
- Performed by one person, or one on each side.
- Not divided in parts.
- Not accompanied by anything else; one in number.
- (botany) Having only one rank or row of petals.
- not divided among or brought to bear on more than one object or objective
- existing alone or consisting of one entity or part or aspect or individual
- not married or related to the unmarried state
- used of flowers having usually only one row or whorl of petals
- characteristic of or meant for a single person or thing
- being or characteristic of a single thing or person
- having uniform application
noun
- A single cigarette.
- (film) A shot of only one character.
- One of the reeled filaments of silk, twisted without doubling to give them firmness.
- One who is not married or does not have a romantic partner.
- (UK) A one-way ticket.
- (music) A 45 RPM vinyl record with one song on side A and one on side B.
- (US, informal) A bill valued at $1.
- (tennis, chiefly in the plural) A game with one player on each side, as in tennis.
- (computing, programming) A floating-point number having half the precision of a double-precision value.
- (dominoes) A tile that has a different value (i.e. number of pips) at each end.
- (music) A popular song released and sold (on any format) nominally on its own though usually having at least one extra track.
- (cricket) A score of one run.
- (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.
- (baseball) A hit in baseball where the batter advances to first base.
- (UK, Scotland, dialect) A handful of gleaned grain.
- a base hit on which the batter stops safely at first base
- the smallest whole number or a numeral representing this number
verb
adj
noun
- a person regarded as a good matrimonial prospect
- a cooperative game in which a ball is passed back and forth
- a break or check in the voice (usually a sign of strong emotion)
- a drawback or difficulty that is not readily evident
- anything that is caught (especially if it is worth catching)
- a fastener that fastens or locks a door or window
- the quantity that was caught
- a restraint that checks the motion of something
- the act of apprehending (especially apprehending a criminal)
- the act of catching an object with the hands
- (countable, music) The refrain; a line or lines of a song which are repeated from verse to verse.
- (countable) A fragment of music or poetry.
- (countable) The act of seizing or capturing.
- (countable) The act of catching an object in motion, especially a ball.
- (countable) A stopping mechanism, especially a clasp which stops something from opening.
- (countable) The act of noticing, understanding or hearing.
- Passing opportunities seized; snatches.
- (countable) Something which is captured or caught.
- (countable, cricket, baseball) The act of catching a hit ball before it reaches the ground, resulting in an out.
- (countable, sometimes noun adjunct) A concealed difficulty, especially in a deal or negotiation.
- (countable, agriculture) A crop which has germinated and begun to grow.
- (countable) A crick; a sudden muscle pain during unaccustomed positioning when the muscle is in use.
- (countable) A hesitation in voice, caused by strong emotion.
- (countable, rowing) The first contact of an oar with the water.
- (countable, cricket) A player in respect of his catching ability; particularly one who catches well.
- A slight remembrance; a trace.
- (countable, music) A type of humorous round in which the voices gradually catch up with one another; usually sung by men and often having bawdy lyrics.
- (uncountable) The game of catching a ball.
- (countable, phonetics) A stoppage of breath, resembling a slight cough.
- (countable, colloquial, by extension) A find, in particular a boyfriend or girlfriend or prospective spouse.
verb
- grasp with the mind or develop an understanding of
- get or regain something necessary, usually quickly or briefly
- reach in time
- hear, usually without the knowledge of the speakers
- catch up with and possibly overtake
- to hook or entangle
- suffer from the receipt of
- perceive with the senses quickly, suddenly, or momentarily
- cause to become accidentally or suddenly caught, ensnared, or entangled
- attract; cause to be enamored
- perceive by hearing
- be struck or affected by
- apprehend and reproduce accurately
- come down with
- be the catcher
- attract and fix
- detect a blunder or misstep
- start burning
- succeed in catching or seizing, especially after a chase
- become aware of
- capture as if by hunting, snaring, or trapping
- check oneself during an action
- spread or be communicated
- delay or hold up; prevent from proceeding on schedule or as planned
- reach with a blow or hit in a particular spot
- see or watch
- take hold of so as to seize or restrain or stop the motion of
- discover or come upon accidentally, suddenly, or unexpectedly; catch somebody doing something or in a certain state
- take in and retain
- (transitive) To grasp mentally: perceive and understand.
- (transitive) To become infected by (an illness).
- (intransitive) To get pregnant.
- (transitive) To take or replenish something necessary, such as breath or sleep.
- (transitive) To reach (someone) with a strike, blow, weapon etc.
- (transitive) To reproduce or echo a spirit or idea faithfully.
- (intransitive, agriculture) To germinate and set down roots.
- (transitive) To attract and hold (a faculty or organ of sense).
- (transitive) To grip or entangle.
- (transitive) To travel by means of.
- (transitive, rare) To become pregnant. (Only in past tense or as participle.)
- (transitive, intransitive) To receive or be affected by (wind, water, fire etc.).
- (transitive) To be hit by something.
- (intransitive) To spread by infection or similar means.
- (intransitive) To be held back or impeded.
- (transitive) To entrap or trip up a person; to deceive.
- (transitive, of fire) To spread or be conveyed to.
- (transitive) To have something be held back or impeded.
- (transitive) To overtake or catch up to; to be in time for.
- (intransitive) To serve well or poorly for catching, especially for catching fish.
- (transitive, computing) To handle an exception.
- (transitive, intransitive, baseball) To play (a specific period of time) as the catcher.
- (transitive, cricket) To end a player's innings by catching a hit ball before the first bounce.
- (transitive) To be touched or affected by (something) through exposure.
- (transitive, rowing) To grip (the water) with one's oars at the beginning of the stroke.
- (transitive) To be the victim of (something unpleasant, painful etc.).
- (intransitive) To make a grasping or snatching motion (at).
- (transitive, surfing) To contact a wave in such a way that one can ride it back to shore.
- (transitive) To unpleasantly discover unexpectedly; to unpleasantly surprise (someone doing something).
- To notice.
- (intransitive) To engage with some mechanism; to stick, to succeed in interacting with something or initiating some process.
- (transitive, informal) To take in; to watch or listen to (an entertainment).
- (transitive) To charm or entrance.
- (transitive) To capture or snare (someone or something which would rather escape).
- (transitive) To acquire, as though by infection; to take on through sympathy or influence.
- (transitive) To seize or intercept an object moving through the air (or, sometimes, some other medium).
verb
adj
noun
- The quantity of bread or other baked goods baked at one time.
- A bank; a sandbank.
- A field or patch of ground lying near a stream; the dale in which a stream flows.
- (UK, dialect, Midlands) A bread roll.
- A group or collection of things of the same kind, such as a batch of letters or the next batch of business.
- (computing) A set of data to be processed at one time.
- (by extension) A quantity of anything produced at one operation.
- (Philippines) A graduating class; school class.
- a collection of things or persons to be handled together
- all the loaves of bread baked at the same time
- (often followed by ‘of’) a large number or amount or extent
adj
adj
- (informal) Good-looking, attractive.
- Consisting of especially minute particulates; made up of particularly small pieces.
- Of superior quality.
- Made of slender or thin filaments.
- Delicate; subtle; exquisite; artful; dexterous.
- (ironic) Impressively bad, inappropriate, or unsatisfactory.
- An answer often used to cover an unnecessary explanation, rather to avoid conflict or an argument. Saying "I'm fine" can be used to avoid inquiry when the speaker is not really okay.
- (cricket) Behind the batsman and at a small angle to the line between the wickets.
- Subtle, delicately balanced or discriminated.
- (of weather) Sunny and not raining.
- Particularly slender; especially thin, narrow, or of small girth.
- (informal) Being acceptable, adequate, passable, or satisfactory.
- Having a (specified) proportion of pure metal in its composition.
- Of a particular grade of quality, usually between very good and very fine, and below mint.
- free from impurities; having a high or specified degree of purity
- thin in thickness or diameter
- of textures that are smooth to the touch or substances consisting of relatively small particles
- being satisfactory or in satisfactory condition
- characterized by elegance or refinement or accomplishment
- minutely precise especially in differences in meaning
adv
- (pool, billiards) In a manner so that the driven ball strikes the object ball so far to one side as to be barely deflected, the object ball being driven to one side.
- Well, nicely, in a positive, agreeable way.
- an expression of agreement normally occurring at the beginning of a sentence
- in a delicate manner
intj
noun
- (feudal law) A final agreement concerning lands or rents between persons, as the lord and his vassal.
- (usually in the plural) Something that is fine; fine particles.
- Fine champagne; French brandy.
- (Cambridge University slang) A drink that must be taken during a meal or as part of a drinking game, following an announcement that anyone who has done some (usually outrageous) deed is to be fined; similar to I have never; commonly associated with swaps; very similar to a sconce at Oxford University, though a fine is the penalty itself rather than the act of issuing it.
- (music) The location in a musical score that indicates the end of the piece, particularly when the piece ends somewhere in the middle of the score due to a section of the music being repeated.
- (UK, law) A sum of money or price paid for obtaining a benefit, favor, or privilege, as for admission to a copyhold, or for obtaining or renewing a lease.
- A fee levied as punishment for breaking the law.
- (music) The end of a musical composition.
- money extracted as a penalty
verb
- (intransitive) To pay a fine.
- (intransitive) To become finer, purer, or cleaner.
- (transitive) To make finer, purer, or cleaner; to purify or clarify.
- To change by fine gradations.
- (transitive) To issue a fine as punishment to (someone).
- To make finer, or less coarse, as in bulk, texture, etc.
- (transitive) To clarify (wine and beer) by filtration.
- impose a fine on
- record a fine as a penalty in a police record
noun
- (countable, usually attributive) An unmarried man; a bachelor; a man not accompanying a woman at a social event.
- (countable) An improperly or late castrated bull or ram – also called a bull seg (see note under ox).
- (countable, finance) One who applies for the allotment of shares in new projects, with a view to sell immediately at a premium, and not to hold the stock.
- (countable, chiefly Scotland) A young horse (colt or filly).
- (uncountable, UK, military, slang) Guard duty.
- (countable) An adult male deer, especially a red deer and especially one in high adulthood versus a young adult.
- (countable, slang) An informer.
- (countable) A stag beetle (family Lucanidae).
- (countable) The Eurasian wren, Troglodytes troglodytes.
- (countable, finance) An outside irregular dealer in stocks, who is not a member of the exchange.
- (countable) A social event for men held in honor of a groom on the eve of his wedding, attended by male friends of the groom; sometimes a fundraiser.
- (British) A male turkey: a turkeycock.
- adult male deer
- a male deer, especially an adult male red deer
adv
verb
noun
- A bachelor's degree.
- (US) A farewell address in the form of a sermon delivered to a graduating class.
- A high school completion exam and qualification awarded in many countries (e.g. Finland, France, Moldova, Romania), designed to enable students to pursue higher education.
- The International Baccalaureate.
- an academic degree conferred on someone who has successfully completed undergraduate studies
- a farewell sermon to a graduating class at their commencement ceremonies
noun
- A candidate for matrimony; one to be gained in marriage.
- a person regarded as a good matrimonial prospect
- Someone with a measure of an attribute equaling or exceeding the object of comparison.
- Equivalence; a state of correspondence.
- (sports) A competitive sporting event such as a boxing meet (commonly called a "bout"), a baseball game, or a cricket match.
- (metalworking) A perforated board, block of plaster, hardened sand, etc., in which a pattern is partly embedded when a mould is made, for giving shape to the surfaces of separation between the parts of the mould.
- Any contest or trial of strength or skill, or to determine superiority.
- Suitability.
- A device made of wood or paper, having the tip coated with chemicals that ignite with the friction of being dragged (struck) against a rough dry surface.
- Equality of conditions in contest or competition.
- A pair of items or entities with mutually suitable characteristics.
- A marriage.
- An agreement or compact.
- a formal contest in which two or more persons or teams compete
- a pair of people who live together
- an exact duplicate
- something that resembles or harmonizes with
- the score needed to win a match
- lighter consisting of a thin piece of wood or cardboard tipped with combustible chemical; ignites with friction
- a burning piece of wood or cardboard
- a person who is of equal standing with another in a group
verb
- (transitive) To equal or exceed in achievement.
- (intransitive) To agree; to be equal; to correspond.
- (transitive) To agree with; to be equal to; to correspond to.
- (transitive, programming) To be an example of a rule or regex.
- (transitive) To make a successful match or pairing.
- To fit together, or make suitable for fitting together; specifically, to furnish with a tongue and groove at the edges.
- bring two objects, ideas, or people together
- give or join in marriage
- make equal, uniform, corresponding, or matching
- be compatible, similar or consistent; coincide in their characteristics
- provide funds complementary to
- be equal or harmonize
- be equal to in quality or ability
- make correspond or harmonize
- set into opposition or rivalry
noun
- a person regarded as a good matrimonial prospect
- a cooperative game in which a ball is passed back and forth
- a break or check in the voice (usually a sign of strong emotion)
- a drawback or difficulty that is not readily evident
- anything that is caught (especially if it is worth catching)
- a fastener that fastens or locks a door or window
- the quantity that was caught
- a restraint that checks the motion of something
- the act of apprehending (especially apprehending a criminal)
- the act of catching an object with the hands
- (countable, music) The refrain; a line or lines of a song which are repeated from verse to verse.
- (countable) A fragment of music or poetry.
- (countable) The act of seizing or capturing.
- (countable) The act of catching an object in motion, especially a ball.
- (countable) A stopping mechanism, especially a clasp which stops something from opening.
- (countable) The act of noticing, understanding or hearing.
- Passing opportunities seized; snatches.
- (countable) Something which is captured or caught.
- (countable, cricket, baseball) The act of catching a hit ball before it reaches the ground, resulting in an out.
- (countable, sometimes noun adjunct) A concealed difficulty, especially in a deal or negotiation.
- (countable, agriculture) A crop which has germinated and begun to grow.
- (countable) A crick; a sudden muscle pain during unaccustomed positioning when the muscle is in use.
- (countable) A hesitation in voice, caused by strong emotion.
- (countable, rowing) The first contact of an oar with the water.
- (countable, cricket) A player in respect of his catching ability; particularly one who catches well.
- A slight remembrance; a trace.
- (countable, music) A type of humorous round in which the voices gradually catch up with one another; usually sung by men and often having bawdy lyrics.
- (uncountable) The game of catching a ball.
- (countable, phonetics) A stoppage of breath, resembling a slight cough.
- (countable, colloquial, by extension) A find, in particular a boyfriend or girlfriend or prospective spouse.
verb
- grasp with the mind or develop an understanding of
- get or regain something necessary, usually quickly or briefly
- reach in time
- hear, usually without the knowledge of the speakers
- catch up with and possibly overtake
- to hook or entangle
- suffer from the receipt of
- perceive with the senses quickly, suddenly, or momentarily
- cause to become accidentally or suddenly caught, ensnared, or entangled
- attract; cause to be enamored
- perceive by hearing
- be struck or affected by
- apprehend and reproduce accurately
- come down with
- be the catcher
- attract and fix
- detect a blunder or misstep
- start burning
- succeed in catching or seizing, especially after a chase
- become aware of
- capture as if by hunting, snaring, or trapping
- check oneself during an action
- spread or be communicated
- delay or hold up; prevent from proceeding on schedule or as planned
- reach with a blow or hit in a particular spot
- see or watch
- take hold of so as to seize or restrain or stop the motion of
- discover or come upon accidentally, suddenly, or unexpectedly; catch somebody doing something or in a certain state
- take in and retain
- (transitive) To grasp mentally: perceive and understand.
- (transitive) To become infected by (an illness).
- (intransitive) To get pregnant.
- (transitive) To take or replenish something necessary, such as breath or sleep.
- (transitive) To reach (someone) with a strike, blow, weapon etc.
- (transitive) To reproduce or echo a spirit or idea faithfully.
- (intransitive, agriculture) To germinate and set down roots.
- (transitive) To attract and hold (a faculty or organ of sense).
- (transitive) To grip or entangle.
- (transitive) To travel by means of.
- (transitive, rare) To become pregnant. (Only in past tense or as participle.)
- (transitive, intransitive) To receive or be affected by (wind, water, fire etc.).
- (transitive) To be hit by something.
- (intransitive) To spread by infection or similar means.
- (intransitive) To be held back or impeded.
- (transitive) To entrap or trip up a person; to deceive.
- (transitive, of fire) To spread or be conveyed to.
- (transitive) To have something be held back or impeded.
- (transitive) To overtake or catch up to; to be in time for.
- (intransitive) To serve well or poorly for catching, especially for catching fish.
- (transitive, computing) To handle an exception.
- (transitive, intransitive, baseball) To play (a specific period of time) as the catcher.
- (transitive, cricket) To end a player's innings by catching a hit ball before the first bounce.
- (transitive) To be touched or affected by (something) through exposure.
- (transitive, rowing) To grip (the water) with one's oars at the beginning of the stroke.
- (transitive) To be the victim of (something unpleasant, painful etc.).
- (intransitive) To make a grasping or snatching motion (at).
- (transitive, surfing) To contact a wave in such a way that one can ride it back to shore.
- (transitive) To unpleasantly discover unexpectedly; to unpleasantly surprise (someone doing something).
- To notice.
- (intransitive) To engage with some mechanism; to stick, to succeed in interacting with something or initiating some process.
- (transitive, informal) To take in; to watch or listen to (an entertainment).
- (transitive) To charm or entrance.
- (transitive) To capture or snare (someone or something which would rather escape).
- (transitive) To acquire, as though by infection; to take on through sympathy or influence.
- (transitive) To seize or intercept an object moving through the air (or, sometimes, some other medium).
verb
noun
- A person, especially a man, who is socially regarded as able to marry, but has not yet.
- a man who has never been married
- a knight of the lowest order; could display only a pennon
- (Canada) A bachelor apartment.
- Someone who has achieved a bachelor's degree.
- The first or lowest academic degree conferred by colleges and universities; a bachelor's degree.
- A kind of bass, an edible freshwater fish (Pomoxis annularis) of the southern United States.
noun
- (countable, usually attributive) An unmarried man; a bachelor; a man not accompanying a woman at a social event.
- (countable) An improperly or late castrated bull or ram – also called a bull seg (see note under ox).
- (countable, finance) One who applies for the allotment of shares in new projects, with a view to sell immediately at a premium, and not to hold the stock.
- (countable, chiefly Scotland) A young horse (colt or filly).
- (uncountable, UK, military, slang) Guard duty.
- (countable) An adult male deer, especially a red deer and especially one in high adulthood versus a young adult.
- (countable, slang) An informer.
- (countable) A stag beetle (family Lucanidae).
- (countable) The Eurasian wren, Troglodytes troglodytes.
- (countable, finance) An outside irregular dealer in stocks, who is not a member of the exchange.
- (countable) A social event for men held in honor of a groom on the eve of his wedding, attended by male friends of the groom; sometimes a fundraiser.
- (British) A male turkey: a turkeycock.
- adult male deer
- a male deer, especially an adult male red deer
adv
verb
verb
noun
- A person, especially a man, who is socially regarded as able to marry, but has not yet.
- a man who has never been married
- a knight of the lowest order; could display only a pennon
- (Canada) A bachelor apartment.
- Someone who has achieved a bachelor's degree.
- The first or lowest academic degree conferred by colleges and universities; a bachelor's degree.
- A kind of bass, an edible freshwater fish (Pomoxis annularis) of the southern United States.
verb
adj
noun
- The quantity of bread or other baked goods baked at one time.
- A bank; a sandbank.
- A field or patch of ground lying near a stream; the dale in which a stream flows.
- (UK, dialect, Midlands) A bread roll.
- A group or collection of things of the same kind, such as a batch of letters or the next batch of business.
- (computing) A set of data to be processed at one time.
- (by extension) A quantity of anything produced at one operation.
- (Philippines) A graduating class; school class.
- a collection of things or persons to be handled together
- all the loaves of bread baked at the same time
- (often followed by ‘of’) a large number or amount or extent
adj
- Like or befitting a (young, unmarried) maiden.
- (of a fortress) Never having been captured or violated.
- (cricket) Being an over in which no runs are scored.
- (figuratively) Being a first occurrence or event.
- Virgin.
- (of a female, human or animal) Without offspring.
- (of a tree) Grown from seed and never pruned.
- Fresh; innocent; unpolluted; pure; hitherto unused.
- serving to set in motion
noun
- A maidservant.
- (cricket) A maiden over.
- A clothes maiden.
- (now chiefly literary) A girl or an unmarried young woman.
- (horse racing) A horse race in which all starters are maidens.
- (historical) A Scottish counterpart of the guillotine.
- (horse racing) A racehorse without any victory, i.e. one having a "virgin record".
- (Wicca) Alternative form of Maiden.
- an unmarried girl (especially a virgin)
- (cricket) an over in which no runs are scored
adj
adj
- Not married, and (in modern times) not dating or without a significant other.
- Designed for the use of only one.
- Uncompounded; pure; unmixed.
- Performed by one person, or one on each side.
- Not divided in parts.
- Not accompanied by anything else; one in number.
- (botany) Having only one rank or row of petals.
- not divided among or brought to bear on more than one object or objective
- existing alone or consisting of one entity or part or aspect or individual
- not married or related to the unmarried state
- used of flowers having usually only one row or whorl of petals
- characteristic of or meant for a single person or thing
- being or characteristic of a single thing or person
- having uniform application
noun
- A single cigarette.
- (film) A shot of only one character.
- One of the reeled filaments of silk, twisted without doubling to give them firmness.
- One who is not married or does not have a romantic partner.
- (UK) A one-way ticket.
- (music) A 45 RPM vinyl record with one song on side A and one on side B.
- (US, informal) A bill valued at $1.
- (tennis, chiefly in the plural) A game with one player on each side, as in tennis.
- (computing, programming) A floating-point number having half the precision of a double-precision value.
- (dominoes) A tile that has a different value (i.e. number of pips) at each end.
- (music) A popular song released and sold (on any format) nominally on its own though usually having at least one extra track.
- (cricket) A score of one run.
- (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.
- (baseball) A hit in baseball where the batter advances to first base.
- (UK, Scotland, dialect) A handful of gleaned grain.
- a base hit on which the batter stops safely at first base
- the smallest whole number or a numeral representing this number
verb
adj
adj
adj
- (informal) Good-looking, attractive.
- Consisting of especially minute particulates; made up of particularly small pieces.
- Of superior quality.
- Made of slender or thin filaments.
- Delicate; subtle; exquisite; artful; dexterous.
- (ironic) Impressively bad, inappropriate, or unsatisfactory.
- An answer often used to cover an unnecessary explanation, rather to avoid conflict or an argument. Saying "I'm fine" can be used to avoid inquiry when the speaker is not really okay.
- (cricket) Behind the batsman and at a small angle to the line between the wickets.
- Subtle, delicately balanced or discriminated.
- (of weather) Sunny and not raining.
- Particularly slender; especially thin, narrow, or of small girth.
- (informal) Being acceptable, adequate, passable, or satisfactory.
- Having a (specified) proportion of pure metal in its composition.
- Of a particular grade of quality, usually between very good and very fine, and below mint.
- free from impurities; having a high or specified degree of purity
- thin in thickness or diameter
- of textures that are smooth to the touch or substances consisting of relatively small particles
- being satisfactory or in satisfactory condition
- characterized by elegance or refinement or accomplishment
- minutely precise especially in differences in meaning
adv
- (pool, billiards) In a manner so that the driven ball strikes the object ball so far to one side as to be barely deflected, the object ball being driven to one side.
- Well, nicely, in a positive, agreeable way.
- an expression of agreement normally occurring at the beginning of a sentence
- in a delicate manner
intj
noun
- (feudal law) A final agreement concerning lands or rents between persons, as the lord and his vassal.
- (usually in the plural) Something that is fine; fine particles.
- Fine champagne; French brandy.
- (Cambridge University slang) A drink that must be taken during a meal or as part of a drinking game, following an announcement that anyone who has done some (usually outrageous) deed is to be fined; similar to I have never; commonly associated with swaps; very similar to a sconce at Oxford University, though a fine is the penalty itself rather than the act of issuing it.
- (music) The location in a musical score that indicates the end of the piece, particularly when the piece ends somewhere in the middle of the score due to a section of the music being repeated.
- (UK, law) A sum of money or price paid for obtaining a benefit, favor, or privilege, as for admission to a copyhold, or for obtaining or renewing a lease.
- A fee levied as punishment for breaking the law.
- (music) The end of a musical composition.
- money extracted as a penalty
verb
- (intransitive) To pay a fine.
- (intransitive) To become finer, purer, or cleaner.
- (transitive) To make finer, purer, or cleaner; to purify or clarify.
- To change by fine gradations.
- (transitive) To issue a fine as punishment to (someone).
- To make finer, or less coarse, as in bulk, texture, etc.
- (transitive) To clarify (wine and beer) by filtration.
- impose a fine on
- record a fine as a penalty in a police record