clutch vs one

clutch

noun
  • A group or bunch (of people or things). 

  • The claw of a predatory animal or bird. 

  • An important or critical situation. 

  • A brood of chickens or a sitting of eggs. 

  • A device to interrupt power transmission, commonly used to separate the engine and gearbox in a car. 

  • A fastener that attaches to the back of a tack pin to secure an accessory to clothing. (See Clutch (pin fastener).) 

  • A small handbag or purse with no straps or handle. 

  • Any device for gripping an object, as at the end of a chain or tackle. 

  • A grip, especially one seen as rapacious or evil. 

  • The pedal in a car that disengages power and torque transmission from the engine (through the drivetrain) to the drive wheels. 

  • A difficult maneuver 

verb
  • To unexpectedly or luckily succeed in a difficult activity. 

  • To hatch. 

  • To seize, as though with claws. 

  • To grip or grasp tightly. 

  • To win in a 1vX (one versus X) situation. 

adj
  • Performing or tending to perform well in difficult, high-pressure situations. 

one

noun
  • A particularly special or compatible person or thing. 

  • One run scored by hitting the ball and running between the wickets; a single. 

  • A joke or amusing anecdote. 

  • A one-dollar bill. 

  • Used instead of ! to amplify an exclamation, parodying unskilled typists who forget to press the shift key while typing exclamation points, thus typing "1". 

  • The neutral element with respect to multiplication in a ring. 

  • One o'clock, either a.m. or p.m. 

  • The digit or figure 1. 

pron
  • The first mentioned of two things or people, as opposed to the other. 

  • Functions as a relative pronoun at the end of a relative clause. 

  • Any person (applying to people in general). 

  • One thing (among a group of others); one member of a group. 

  • Any person, entity or thing. 

  • Used as a noun substituent following a possessive determiner. 

adj
  • Whole, entire. 

  • Being an unknown person with the specified name; see also "a certain". 

  • The same. 

  • In agreement. 

  • Being a preeminent example. 

  • Sole, only. 

  • Being a single, unspecified thing; a; any. 

  • Of a period of time, being particular. 

verb
  • To cause to become one; to gather into a single whole; to unite. 

particle
  • Used to emphasize or explain something, with an implied antecedent. 

  • Used at the end of a sentence to highlight the characteristics of someone or something. 

  • A nominalizer; used to form a noun phrase without a head noun. 

num
  • The cardinality of the smallest nonempty set. 

  • The first positive number in the set of natural numbers. 

  • The number represented by the Arabic numeral 1; the numerical value equal to that cardinal number. 

  • The ordinality of an element which has no predecessor, usually called first or number one. 

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