one
一,一个,一种,一名
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Definitions
- 1
- : being or amounting to a single unit or individual or entire thing, item, or object rather than two or more; a single: one woman;one nation;one piece of cake.
- : being a person, thing, or individual instance or member of a number, kind, group, or category indicated: one member of the party.
- : existing, acting, or considered as a single unit, entity, or individual.
- : of the same or having a single kind, nature, or condition: We belong to one team.We are of one resolve.
- : noting some indefinite day or time in the future: You will see him one day.
- : a certain: One John Smith was chosen.
- : being a particular, unique, or only individual, item, or unit: I'm looking for the one adviser I can trust.
- : noting some indefinite day or time in the past: We all had dinner together one evening last week.
- : of no consequence as to the character, outcome, etc.; the same: It's all one to me whether they go or not.
- 1
- : the first and lowest whole number, being a cardinal number; unity.
- : a symbol of this number, as 1 or I.
- : a single person or thing: If only problems would come one at a time!
- : a die face or a domino face having one pip.
- : a one-dollar bill: to change a five-dollar bill for five ones.
- : One. Philosophy. the ultimate reality, seen as a central source of being by whose emanations all entities, spiritual and corporeal, have their existence, the corporeal ones containing the fewest of the emanations.
- 1
- : a person or thing of a number or kind indicated or understood: one of the Elizabethan poets.
- : a person unless definitely specified otherwise: every one.
- : a person or a personified being or agency: the evil one;the one I love.
- : any person indefinitely; anyone: as good as one would desire.
- : Chiefly British.: Mother had been ailing for many months, and one should have realized it.
- : a person of the speaker's kind; such as the speaker himself or herself: to press one's own claims.
- : something or someone of the kind just mentioned: The portraits are fine ones.Your teachers this semester seem to be good ones.
- : something available or referred to, especially in the immediate area: Here, take one—they're delicious.The bar is open, so have one on me!
Phrases
- one and all
- one and only
- one and the same
- one another
- one by one
- one eye on
- one fell swoop, in
- one foot in the grave, have
- one for the books
- one for the road
- one good turn deserves another
- one in a million
- one jump ahead
- one man's meat is another man's poison
- one of a kind
- one of these days
- one of those days
- one on one
- one on, that's
- one picture is worth a thousand words
- one up
- one way or another
- all in one piece
- all the same (one)
- A-1 (A-one)
- as one
- at one
- at one stroke
- at one time
- at one time or another
- back to the drawing board (square one)
- each and every (last one)
- each other (one another)
- fast one
- for one, 1
- go one better
- hang (one) on
- harp on (one string)
- hole in one
- in one ear and out the other
- in the same (in one) breath
- irons in the fire, more than one
- it takes one to know one
- just one of those things
- look out for (number one)
- more than one way to skin a cat
- not one iota
- number one
- on the one hand
- (one) picture is worth a thousand words
- put all one's eggs in one basket
- quick one
- seen one, seen them all
- six of one, half dozen of the other
- that's one on me
- tie one on
- wear another (more than one) hat
- with one arm tied behind one's back
- with one voice
- words of one syllable
Synonyms & Antonyms
Examples
Added to drinking water at concentrations of around one part per million, fluoride ions stick to dental plaque.
In his view, a writer has only one duty: to be present in his books.
Yet this, in the end, is a book from which one emerges sad, gloomy, disenchanted, at least if we agree to take it seriously.
The fear of violence should not determine what one does or does not say.
The al Qaeda-linked gunmen shot back, but only managed to injure one officer before they were taken out.
Practise gliding in the form of inflection, or slide, from one extreme of pitch to another.
He alludes to it as one of their evil customs and used by them to produce insensibility.
There was a rumor that Alessandro and his father had both died; but no one knew anything certainly.
Truth is a torch, but one of enormous size; so that we slink past it in rather a blinking fashion for fear it should burn us.
Under the one-sixth they appear as slender, highly refractive fibers with double contour and, often, curled or split ends.