singleton
A playing card that is the only one of its suit in a hand, especially at bridge.
Adjective
- Of a class offered only once within a school year.
- a singleton class
Origin
From single + -ton, probably following the model of simpleton.
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Noun
- A playing card that is the only one of its suit in a hand, especially at bridge.
- A hand containing only one card of a certain suit.
- A single object, especially one of a group.
- A class that may not be instantiated more than once, i.e. that implements the singleton design pattern.
- A set with exactly one element.
- A child or animal that is born singly, not as a twin or other multiple birth.
- singleton preterm birth
- Viable non-malformed singleton pregnancies were selected for cerebellar measurements; transcerebellar diameter, (TCD), left and right cerebellar diameters (LCD, RCD). - 2015 October 23, “Periconception Maternal Folate...
- A person without a romantic partner.
- The time draws near when pink and red creep insidiously into the periphery, jewelry retailers go into overdrive and drugstore aisles burst with cherubs for the one holiday of the year that separates the singletons from...
- Millennials and Gen Zedders’ approach to romance can teach later-life singletons a thing or two about new relationships, according to dating agent Anna Williamson. - 2022 August 14, “Lessons in love”, in The Sunday...
- A person without a dissociative identity.
- A single consonant, as opposed to a geminated consonant.
- singleton sonorants
- Synonym of blot.
Synonyms: blot
- A class offered only once within a school year.