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Definitions for singles
sin·gles

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. singlesnoun

    badminton played with one person on each side

  2. singlesnoun

    tennis played with one person on each side

GCIDE

  1. singlesadjective

    For unmarried persons, or catering especially to unmarried persons; as, a singles bar; a singles party.

Wiktionary

  1. singlesnoun

    a game between individual players

  2. singlesadjective

    Of or pertaining to unmarried people.

    a singles bar

ChatGPT

  1. singles

    In a broad sense, singles can refer to: 1) Unmarried or unattached individuals. 2) Individual songs released separately from an album by a music artist for radio play and commercial sale. 3) A category in sports, especially racquet games where a game is played one-on-one, such as Tennis. 4) Single units of something, like a single room or a single ticket. 5) In finance, a single is a bet on one selection in one event. Your selection must be successful to have a return. The precise definition can vary depending on the context where the term is being used.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Singles

    see Single, n., 2

Wikidata

  1. Singles

    Singles is a 1992 American romantic comedy film written, co-produced, and directed by Cameron Crowe. The film stars Bridget Fonda, Campbell Scott, Kyra Sedgwick, and Matt Dillon.

Rap Dictionary

  1. singlesnoun

    Single Track (for Promotion).

Surnames Frequency by Census Records

  1. SINGLES

    According to the U.S. Census Bureau, Singles is ranked #104156 in terms of the most common surnames in America.

    The Singles surname appeared 172 times in the 2010 census and if you were to sample 100,000 people in the United States, approximately 0 would have the surname Singles.

    95.3% or 164 total occurrences were White.

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of singles in Chaldean Numerology is: 5

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of singles in Pythagorean Numerology is: 4

Examples of singles in a Sentence

  1. Mitt Romney:

    When the only American citizen President Trump singles out for China's investigation is his political opponent in the midst of the Democratic nomination process, it strains credulity to suggest that it is anything other than politically motivated. By all appearances, the President's brazen and unprecedented appeal to China and to Ukraine to investigate Hunter Biden is wrong and appalling.

  2. Andy Murray:

    I know how bad I felt in Australia and how bad I felt the last year that I played singles here, and I feel better now than I did then, so if physically I can get back to a good level, my tennis is still fine. I'm sure that tennis-wise, I will be able to keep up with guys.

  3. Marcus Stroman:

    I don’t dwell on any of them, but it was eight singles, balls that were hit in holes, it was just one of those starts that could have went either way.

  4. Mitt Romney:

    When the only American citizen President Trump singles out for China's investigation is his political opponent in the midst of the Democratic nomination process, it strains credulity to suggest that it is anything other than politically motivated, by all appearances, the president's brazen and unprecedented appeal to China and to Ukraine to investigate Joe Biden is wrong and appalling.

  5. Srdjan Djokovic:

    Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison're keeping him in captivity. Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison're stomping all over Novak to stomp all over Serbia and Serbian people, morrison and his like have dared attack Novak to bring Serbia to its knees. Serbia has always shown that he comes from a proud nation. Novak Djokovic holds the Norman Brookes Challenge Cup after defeating Russia's Daniil Medvedev in the men's singles final at the Australian Open tennis championship in Melbourne, Australia, Sunday, Feb. 21, 2021. ( AP Photo/Andy Brownbill, File) Novak Djokovic SUPPORTERS SHOW UP AT MELBOURNE HOTEL WHERE HE'S BELIEVED TO BE HELD.

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