The difference between Buck and Single
When used as nouns, buck means a male deer, antelope, sheep, goat, rabbit, hare, and sometimes the male of other animals such as the ferret and shad, whereas single means (music) a 45 rpm vinyl record with one song on side a and one on side b.
When used as verbs, buck means to copulate, as bucks and does, whereas single means to identify or select one member of a group from the others.
Single is also adjective with the meaning: not accompanied by anything else.
check bellow for the other definitions of Buck and Single
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Buck as a noun:
A male deer, antelope, sheep, goat, rabbit, hare, and sometimes the male of other animals such as the ferret and shad.
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Buck as a noun (US):
An uncastrated sheep, a ram.
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Buck as a noun:
A young buck; an adventurous, impetuous, dashing, or high-spirited young man.
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Buck as a noun (British, obsolete):
A fop or dandy.
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Buck as a noun (US, dated, derogatory):
A black or Native American man.
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Buck as a noun (US, Australia, NZ, Canada, informal):
A dollar (one hundred cents).
Examples:
"Can I borrow five bucks?"
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Buck as a noun (South Africa, informal):
A rand (currency unit).
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Buck as a noun (by extension, Australia, South Africa, US, informal):
Money
Examples:
"Corporations will do anything to make a buck."
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Buck as a noun (US, slang):
One hundred.
Examples:
"The police caught me driving a buck forty on the freeway."
"That skinny guy? C'mon, he can't weigh more than a buck and a quarter."
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Buck as a noun (dated):
An object of various types, placed on a table to indicate turn or status; such as a brass object, placed in rotation on a US Navy wardroom dining table to indicate which officer is to be served first, or an item passed around a poker table indicating the dealer or placed in the pot to remind the winner of some privilege or obligation when his or her turn to deal next comes.
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Buck as a noun (US, in certain metaphors or phrases):
Blame; responsibility; scapegoating; finger-pointing.
Examples:
"[[pass the buck]]''; ''[[the buck stops here]]"
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Buck as a noun (UK, dialect):
The body of a post mill, particularly in East Anglia. See Wikipedia:Windmill machinery.
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Buck as a noun (finance):
One million dollars.
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Buck as a noun (informal):
A euro.
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Buck as a noun:
A frame on which firewood is sawed; a sawhorse; a sawbuck.
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Buck as a noun:
A wood or metal frame used by automotive customizers and restorers to assist in the shaping of sheet metal bodywork. See [http://www.hotrod.com/how-to/additional-how-to/1009sr-making-a-wood-buck/ Street Rodder "Making a Wood Buck"].
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Buck as a noun (AAVE, dated, dance):
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Buck as a noun:
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Buck as a verb (intransitive):
To copulate, as bucks and does.
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Buck as a verb (intransitive):
To bend; buckle.
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Buck as a verb (intransitive, of a horse, _, or similar saddle or pack animal):
To leap upward arching its back, coming down with head low and forelegs stiff, forcefully kicking its hind legs upward, often in an attempt to dislodge or throw a rider or pack.
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Buck as a verb (transitive, of a horse, _, or similar saddle or pack animal):
To throw (a rider or pack) by bucking.
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Buck as a verb (transitive, military):
To subject to a mode of punishment which consists of tying the wrists together, passing the arms over the bent knees, and putting a stick across the arms and in the angle formed by the knees.
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Buck as a verb (intransitive, by extension):
To resist obstinately; oppose or object strongly.
Examples:
"The vice president bucked at the board's latest solution."
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Buck as a verb (intransitive, by extension):
To move or operate in a sharp, jerking, or uneven manner.
Examples:
"The motor bucked and sputtered before dying completely."
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Buck as a verb (transitive, by extension):
To overcome or shed (e.g., an impediment or expectation), in pursuit of a goal; to force a way through despite (an obstacle); to resist or proceed against.
Examples:
"The plane bucked a strong headwind."
"Our managers have to learn to buck the trend and do the right thing for their employees."
"John is really bucking the odds on that risky business venture. He's doing quite well."
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Buck as a verb (riveting):
To press a reinforcing device (bucking bar) against (the force of a rivet) in order to absorb vibration and increase expansion. See Wikipedia: Rivet:Installation.
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Buck as a verb (forestry):
To saw a felled tree into shorter lengths, as for firewood.
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Buck as a verb (electronics):
To output a voltage that is lower than the input voltage. See Wikipedia: Buck converter
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Buck as a noun (Scotland):
The beech tree.
Examples:
"rfquotek Johnson"
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Buck as a noun:
Lye or suds in which cloth is soaked in the operation of bleaching, or in which clothes are washed.
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Buck as a noun:
The cloth or clothes soaked or washed.
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Buck as a verb:
To soak, steep or boil in lye or suds, as part of the bleaching process.
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Buck as a verb:
To wash (clothes) in lye or suds, or, in later usage, by beating them on stones in running water.
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Buck as a verb (mining):
To break up or pulverize, as ores.
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Single as an adjective:
Not accompanied by anything else; one in number.
Examples:
"Can you give me a single reason not to leave right now?"
"The vase contained a single long-stemmed rose."
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Single as an adjective:
Not divided in parts.
Examples:
"The potatoes left the spoon and landed in a single big lump on the plate."
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Single as an adjective:
Designed for the use of only one.
Examples:
"a single room"
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Single as an adjective:
Performed by one person, or one on each side.
Examples:
"a single combat"
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Single as an adjective:
Not married or (in modern times) not involved in a romantic relationship without being married or not dating anyone exclusively.
Examples:
"Forms often ask if a person is single, married, divorced, or widowed. In this context, a person who is dating someone but who has never married puts "single"."
"Josh put down that he was a single male on the dating website."
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Single as an adjective (botany):
Having only one rank or row of petals.
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Single as an adjective (obsolete):
Simple and honest; sincere, without deceit.
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Single as an adjective:
Uncompounded; pure; unmixed.
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Single as an adjective (obsolete):
Simple; foolish; weak; silly.
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Single as a noun:
(music) A 45 RPM vinyl record with one song on side A and one on side B.
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Single as a noun:
(music) A popular song released and sold (on any format) nominally on its own though usually having at least one extra track.
Examples:
"The Offspring released four singles from their most recent album."
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Single as a noun:
One who is not married.
Examples:
"He went to the party, hoping to meet some friendly singles there."
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Single as a noun (cricket):
A score of one run.
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Single as a noun (baseball):
A hit in baseball where the batter advances to first base.
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Single as a noun (dominoes):
A tile that has a different value (i.e. number of pips) at each end.
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Single as a noun:
A bill valued at $1.
Examples:
"I don't have any singles, so you'll have to make change."
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Single as a noun (UK):
A one-way ticket.
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Single as a noun (Canadian football):
A score of one point, awarded when a kicked ball is dead within the non-kicking team's end zone or has exited that end zone. Officially known in the rules as a rouge.
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Single as a noun (tennis, chiefly, in the plural):
A game with one player on each side, as in tennis.
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Single as a noun:
One of the reeled filaments of silk, twisted without doubling to give them firmness.
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Single as a noun (UK, Scotland, dialect):
A handful of gleaned grain.
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Single as a verb:
To identify or select one member of a group from the others; generally used with out, either to single out or to single (something) out.
Examples:
"Eddie singled out his favorite marble from the bag."
"Yvonne always wondered why Ernest had singled her out of the group of giggling girls she hung around with."
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Single as a verb (baseball):
To get a hit that advances the batter exactly one base.
Examples:
"Pedro singled in the bottom of the eighth inning, which, if converted to a run, would put the team back into contention."
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Single as a verb (agriculture):
To thin out.
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Single as a verb (of a horse):
To take the irregular gait called singlefoot.
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Single as a verb:
To sequester; to withdraw; to retire.
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Single as a verb:
To take alone, or one by one.
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