attached vs single

attached

adj
  • Broadly joined to a stem or stipe, but not decurrent. 

  • Fond of (used with to). 

  • In a romantic or sexual relationship. 

  • Of a residential building, sharing walls with similar buildings on two, usually opposite, sides. 

  • Connected; joined. 

single

verb
  • To take the irregular gait called singlefoot. 

  • To reduce (a railway) to single track. 

  • 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. 

  • To thin out. 

  • To get a hit that advances the batter exactly one base. 

adj
  • Not accompanied by anything else; one in number. 

  • Designed for the use of only one. 

  • Performed by one person, or one on each side. 

  • Not divided in parts. 

  • Not married, and (in modern times) not dating or without a significant other. 

  • Having only one rank or row of petals. 

  • Uncompounded; pure; unmixed. 

noun
  • 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. 

  • A bill valued at $1. 

  • A 45 RPM vinyl record with one song on side A and one on side B. 

  • A tile that has a different value (i.e. number of pips) at each end. 

  • A single cigarette. 

  • A one-way ticket. 

  • A handful of gleaned grain. 

  • A popular song released and sold (on any format) nominally on its own though usually having at least one extra track. 

  • A shot of only one character. 

  • A score of one run. 

  • 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. 

  • A floating-point number having half the precision of a double-precision value. 

  • One who is not married or does not have a romantic partner. 

  • A hit in baseball where the batter advances to first base. 

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