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singularly

/sing-gyuh-ler/US // ˈsɪŋ gyə lər //UK // (ˈsɪŋɡjʊlə) //

独有的,单一地,单独地,仅仅是

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Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : extraordinary; remarkable; exceptional: a singular success.
    • : unusual or strange; odd; different: singular behavior.
    • : being the only one of its kind; distinctive; unique: a singular example.
    • : separate; individual.
    • : Grammar. noting or pertaining to a member of the category of number found in many languages that indicates that a word form has one referent or denotes one person, place, thing, or instance, as English boy and thing, which are singular nouns, or goes, a singular form of the verb go.Compare dual, plural.
    • : Logic. of or relating to something individual, specific, or not general. containing no quantifiers, as “Socrates was mortal.”
    • : Mathematics. of or relating to a linear transformation from a vector space to itself that is not one-to-one.of or relating to a matrix having a determinant equal to zero.
    • : Obsolete. private.
    • : Obsolete. single.
n.名词 noun
  1. 1

    Grammar.

    • : the singular number.
    • : a form in the singular.

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Examples

  • With great technology, collaboration and a commitment to address the underlying cultural conditions and the ivory trade that leads to most elephant deaths, there’s a real chance to save these singular creatures.

  • He is the only person to be an active participant in each of the Celtics’ 17 World Championships, an extraordinary and singular legacy.

  • In many ways, “The Life Ahead” brings Loren’s career full circle, once again casting her in a story animated by De Sica’s singular brand of humanism and compassion.

  • These past years, OnePlus has been my singular focus, and everything else has had to take a backseat.

  • “How do we take a singular voice and make it a voice of every man and woman,” Forbes asked herself and her collaborators.

  • Today that singularly revered profession is actually many jobs rolled into one.

  • The first photos from the far side of the Moon are singularly unimpressive to modern eyes.

  • This was set aside for the moment, now that a man with a knife had committed something so singularly horrific.

  • New York Times Book critic Eliot Fremont-Smith agreed in his review, calling Barbie, “singularly offensive.”

  • Professional sports has a singularly unheroic and uninspiring precedent for treating those with a medical problem.

  • Nicknames among this class of poor whites in the South seem singularly like those in vogue in New England.

  • He saw that Marius had disappeared, and that mademoiselle had risen and was regarding him with singularly imploring eyes.

  • Singularly courteous and obliging on all occasions, I, personally, have been much indebted to him for help and advice.

  • Her voice was singularly sweet and full, and Mr. Mason said to himself, "She'll be a singer some day, if she is not crazy first."

  • "You are singularly concerned in this man's life," said he, an odious undercurrent of meaning in his voice.