I. adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a hit single/show/record etc
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the hit musical ‘Phantom of the Opera’
a single bed (= for one person )
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There was only a single bed.
a single bedroom (= with a bed for one person )
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We have one single bedroom and two doubles.
a single currency (= one currency for the countries in Europe )
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Britain does not use the single currency.
a single dose
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The medicine is given as a single dose.
a single individual (= one person on their own )
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Equipment of this kind is not something a single individual could afford.
a single parent ( also a lone parent British English ) (= someone who has their children living with them, but no partner )
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My mum is a single parent.
a single shot (= just one shot )
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He died from a single shot to his heart.
a single/individual item
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This is the largest amount ever paid for a single item of jewellery.
a single/one-car garage (= for one car )
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A single garage could boost the price of a house by 8%.
a single/sole exception (= one on its own )
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All the men were killed, with the sole exception of Captain Jones.
be singled out for praise (= be the one person who is praised )
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His work was singled out for praise by the examiners.
debut album/CD/single etc
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Their debut album was recorded in 1991.
every single (= used to emphasize that you mean 'all' )
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He seems to know every single person in the school.
in single figures (= less than 10 )
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Women heads of department are in single figures.
Not a single
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Not a single person said thank you.
single combat (= in which you and one other person fight together )
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The champion called out a challenge to single combat.
single combat
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He had already defeated an enemy champion in single combat.
single cream British English (= thin cream that you can pour easily )
single cream
single currency
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Europe is moving steadily towards a single currency.
single entity
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Good design brings a house and garden together as a single entity .
single figures
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Interest rates have stayed in single figures for over a year now.
single file
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We walked in single file across the bridge.
single honours
single market
single parent
single sb out for criticism (= to criticize one person, organization etc specifically )
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The goalkeeper was singled out for criticism.
single spacing (= lines with no empty lines between them )
single track road
single/double room (= a room in a hotel for one person or for two )
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I’d like to book a double room for two nights.
single/multiple occupancy
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single occupancy room rates
the singles charts (= of CDs that have only one song on them )
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The song reached number 9 in the singles charts.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
bed
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Bedroom with two single beds which makes a double bed if required.
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One of the important things to take into account when designing single bed Fair Isle patterns is the length of the floats.
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To knit single bed tuck and slip stripes, the yarn goes in feeder 1 of the YC6 colour changer sinker plate.
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Two bedrooms with twin single beds .
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For both double and single bed welts I prefer to mattress stitch for a perfect finish.
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I did quite a lot on that single bed machine, even intarsia and then I saw a double bed advertised for £15.
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Are the bedrooms large enough to contain, say, two single beds ?
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I made his socks on my Singer KE2400 single bed machine which I have had for years.
cell
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However, some yeasts can grow in both ways - either as hyphae or as single cells .
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Similar studies in the past were based on single cell neuro-physiological data.
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Even here there is debate about whether the activity of any single cell could be used to identify a particular face.
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It was as if every single cell in my body sprouted wings and started flying about inside wildly.
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They did come in, and it took seven of them to get me down to a single cell .
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Every new organism begins as a single cell and grows anew.
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The objects and phenomena that a physics book describes are simpler than a single cell in the body of its author.
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The elephant not only has its beginning in a single cell , a fertilized egg.
currency
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The other idea is that we should have a single currency .
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Candidates for a single currency must limit their public deficits to 3 percent of gross domestic product by the end of 1997.
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If we are to adopt a single currency , we must achieve the theoretical advantages which are there to be grasped.
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Does that mean that every Opposition Member who supports the amendment tonight is fully in favour of a single currency ?
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If there were a single currency without convergence, it would have several serious effects on the smaller countries.
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Whether there would continue to be a single currency was, however, unresolved.
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Can a majority of public opinion be won over to vote for joining a single currency in just three or four years?
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Stay outside the single currency , particularly if the euro keeps strengthening, and that importance diminishes.
day
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To illustrate, suppose that all dividend payments are concentrated on a single day in each quarter.
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In a single day our raft covered ninety-nine miles.
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On 26 February six of the bombers were destroyed and seven badly damaged in a single day .
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It features 10 shower rooms, five single day rooms with showers and a double room with shower.
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In a single day , 29 September, the recession claimed over 4,500 jobs.
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It's doubtful she ever has taken a single day of unpaid leave during any of her innumerable campaigns for public office.
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Fans should note that single day tickets do not include camping and car parking.
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In the eternal struggle against administrative incompetence, we need it every single day .
entity
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They are not normally thought of as potassium nitrate molecules existing as single entities outside the solid lattice.
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Furthermore, they would be viewed as a single entity from a collections point of view.
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In the public mind they're a single entity .
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Any combination of fixed and mobile telephony and data communications can operate as a single entity over the Ericsson Business Network.
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Good design brings house and garden together as a single entity .
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Medved muddies the waters by treating cinema, television and pop more or less as a single entity .
file
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Teams of horses in single file hauled trains of a dozen flat-topped wagons loaded with granite along these rails.
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The jungle area we had to go into was so thick, the APCs could only travel single file .
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Okay single file , we're coming to a wood.
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The stairs are approached along a raised pavement so narrow the people must have walked along it in single file .
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Men passed us, dark, bearded, stern, armed with sticks, walking swiftly in single file .
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Then we are instructed to leave Damrosch Park single file .
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A narrow spiral staircase leads up from chamber 2b to 2c; characters must ascend in single file .
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Ambush patrols at night were always in single file , with no point or flank security.
market
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The directive is designed to ease labour market restrictions and strengthen the single market.
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The single market and economic and monetary union will expose regions and firms to greater competition.
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For one thing, as Ian Lang rightly observed yesterday, that is how single markets work.
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This could distort competition and reduce support in the business community for the single market .
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But he praised its role in running the single market .
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One aspect of Britain's opting out of the social charter is that it must surely undermine the single market .
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What training, in languages and other skills, do we need to be ready for the single market ?
parent
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She was a single parent and had a nine-year-old son, Darren, who was in a home for mentally handicapped children.
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Now we had plumbing and electric lights and, more important, that vital device for a single parent , a telephone.
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Liz, 36, was left the single parent of Amy, now five.
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Examiner contributor Elva Yanez is a single parent living in Albany.
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And benefit changes make it easier for more families - including single parents - to combine work and family responsibilities.
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A single parent with two or three children in California would lose $ 1 in income.
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Only about 2 % nationally of single parent families are thought to be headed by the father.
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Priority for assistance will be given to senior citizens, disabled and single parent families.
person
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If a newspaper commissioned a political poll based on the opinion of a single person it would immediately become a laughing-stock.
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Friedman argued that no single person , even a Nobel laureate, could make a pencil.
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The figures are costed for a single person .
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She has something that she brings the best out in every single person .
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It produces five billion food packets every year; that's one for every single person on earth.
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Almost at once he experienced what most religious innovators of his type suffered: not a single person joined his worldwide movement.
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So the single person now receives the same tax relief on a £30,000 mortgage as a couple.
room
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His own family-seven strong-live in a single room in the house.
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Additional night, single room and upgrade prices are available.
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Supplements per person per night: No single room supp.
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The five-person group shared a single room , with a small anteroom to the side.
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If no roommate is found, the line assigns a single room for the price of a shared room.?
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Larger rooms sleep 3 people comfortably and there are also some single rooms available.
shot
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Williams said that he glanced away and suddenly heard several single shots .
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Ruestman died from a single shot to his heart after answering a knock at the front door of his mobile home.
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It has been used twice before to kill, and each time a single shot was fired.
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The whole woman of reproductive age produces an ovum a month, representing a single shot at a pregnancy every twenty-eight days.
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The latter was essential as the police only fired single shots .
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From the hut behind them they had heard a single shot .
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For scripting movies, there is a standard format in which each line represents a single shot .
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Resolve damage at strength 5 for single shots , 4 for multiple shots.
track
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The line was seven miles long, single track , and of standard gauge.
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It was only a single track and had a gradient of 1 in 50 or worse for several miles.
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We paddled under a single track embankment linking North Uist with Benbecula, exchanging waves with the friendly local driving overhead.
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It was nine miles of single track with five intermediate stations.
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For the time being, this single track was to be used as a terminus for the service.
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The line could also be built in three segments and partially single track , reducing the finance required.
woman
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Women had the vote, and education and employment opportunities had increased significantly for single women.
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The city was rife with forlorn single women , and there was plenty of blame to go around.
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Just think what would happen if every single woman went on strike, refused to do housework.
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Twenty percent of single women and 18 percent of women who are now separated or divorced answered yes.
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As a single woman officer the crunch would come if she wished to marry some one who was not also an officer.
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Also patron of eloquence, maidens, philosophers, preachers, single women , and students.
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Pregnant single women , for example, were often taken in until after the birth.
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So do 84 per-cent of divorced and separated women , and 78 percent of single women.
word
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Stephen did not speak at all until he was seven and even now at 15 only answers questions with a single word .
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Hyphens Hyphens, perhaps the most creative punctuation marks, join two or more words to create a single word.
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Yet his serious manner at the very end of our conversation suggested he meant every single word he had just said.
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Any small dictionary will provide an ample fund for single word technique.
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His father had not spoken a single word to him, just followed him around the house, not a solitary word.
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And then there was this shout, this single word , this name.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
in single file
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The class walked in single file down the hall.
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The path was so narrow that we had to walk in single file.
the single market
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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a single -lane bridge
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At my age it's difficult to meet single women.
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Carla wore a single strand of pearls around her neck.
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How does it feel to be single again?
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I'm a single mother, so I don't have much money.
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Jeff is 38 years old and still single .
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Many of the children at the school come from single parent families.
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Please fill in the section on the form that asks if you're single , married or divorced.
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The Cubs won the game by a single point.
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These trees can grow over a foot in a single summer.
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We hope to establish a single safety standard for all airlines.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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A single bug may catch ten or more termites in succession in this way.
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And some will just have a single mention of the term you are searching for.
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But Schweiker did not add a single delegate.
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Forbes wanted to simplify filing taxes by narrowing the current five rates to a single flat rate.
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However, the biggest single barrier remains the memory limitation inherent in chip storage.
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In 1990 the Gift Aid Scheme allows tax relief on single cash gifts to charities.
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The first four acts of Don Juan Tenorio take place in a single night.
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Top with a spoonful of Creme fraiche or single cream and some whole mint leaves.
II. noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
hit
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His album Stars was last year's best seller and spawned a string of hit singles .
new
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I suppose their new single will be the price of a double album!!
■ NOUN
championship
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It was a memorable weekend for Pierre, as his son Paul, won the singles championship just 24 hours later.
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Mortimer Barrett captured three of the four Grand Slam singles championships .
chart
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The singles chart needs to be treated as a separate entity, and not as a cheap promotions gimmick for greedy businessmen.
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What do Feel think of the dance craze which is currently dominating the singles charts ?
title
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Rita was on target to capture the singles title when a recurring leg injury regrettably ended her bid.
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She began playing tennis at age 4, and has 21 Grand Slams singles titles to her credit.
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Tilden won three Wimbledon singles titles .
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He had three national singles titles .
■ VERB
play
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My mind was the furthest away it could be to playing singles , so I pulled out of a couple of tournaments.
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She will not, however, play singles in Atlanta.
release
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It means there are no plans to release any more singles from her current album Wishing.
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I was frustrated because they wouldn't allow us to release more than two singles from it.
win
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He also won the Bangor Open singles this season, and deserves a lot of respect from the former champion.
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Tilden won three Wimbledon singles titles.
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Althea Gibson wins the women's singles title at Wimbledon in 1957.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Does anybody have five singles?
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the Top 40 singles chart
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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In the men's singles, Hunter proceeded to the final without conceding a set and ended wildcard entry.
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Or how many divorced singles live there.
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She began playing tennis at age 4, and has 21 Grand Slams singles titles to her credit.
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The average cost of recording a pop single was in thousands rather than hundreds of pounds.
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The category of singles includes people in various stages of life.
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The possibility of commercial suicide aside, the single was to become the perfect deflecting plate for the new album.
III. verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
out
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No doubt there are many, but I would like to single out just three.
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He didn't single out anyone by name.
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Two forms of livestock in particular are worth singling out .
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The mobile phone is then instructed to single out and decipher only the conversation with the right code.
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It can single out for special treatment the special aggravating features of a crime.
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By singling out the black population for a special history month makes all other races feel slighted.
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They single out an old, young, or infirm animal and only then start the chase.
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I single out Attitash only because I was there.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Rodriguez singled to left field.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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By singling out the black population for a special history month makes all other races feel slighted.
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Frequently we abstract from this covenant by singling out the Ten Commandments and ignoring much of the remainder of the Mosaic code.
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He didn't single out anyone by name.
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I will single out two of them.
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In singling out gay men, the offence bears the hallmarks of homophobic prejudice, and belongs to the less tolerant era.
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The mobile phone is then instructed to single out and decipher only the conversation with the right code.
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They single out an old, young, or infirm animal and only then start the chase.