The difference between Individual and Single

When used as nouns, individual means a person considered alone, rather than as belonging to a group of people, whereas single means (music) a 45 rpm vinyl record with one song on side a and one on side b.

When used as adjectives, individual means relating to a single person or thing as opposed to more than one, whereas single means not accompanied by anything else.

Single is also verb with the meaning: to identify or select one member of a group from the others.

check bellow for the other definitions of Individual and Single

  1. Individual as a noun:

    A person considered alone, rather than as belonging to a group of people.

    Examples:

    "He is an unusual individual."

  2. Individual as a noun (legal):

    A single physical human being as a legal subject, as opposed to a legal person such as a corporation.

  3. Individual as a noun:

    An object, be it a thing or an agent, as contrasted to a class.

  4. Individual as a noun (statistics):

    An element belonging to a population.

  1. Individual as an adjective:

    Relating to a single person or thing as opposed to more than one.

    Examples:

    "As we can't print them all together, the individual pages will have to be printed one by one."

  2. Individual as an adjective:

    Intended for a single person as opposed to more than one person.

    Examples:

    "'individual personal pension; individual cream cakes"

  3. Individual as an adjective:

    Not divisible without losing its identity.

  1. 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."

  2. Single as an adjective:

    Not divided in parts.

    Examples:

    "The potatoes left the spoon and landed in a single big lump on the plate."

  3. Single as an adjective:

    Designed for the use of only one.

    Examples:

    "a single room"

  4. Single as an adjective:

    Performed by one person, or one on each side.

    Examples:

    "a single combat"

  5. 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."

  6. Single as an adjective (botany):

    Having only one rank or row of petals.

  7. Single as an adjective (obsolete):

    Simple and honest; sincere, without deceit.

  8. Single as an adjective:

    Uncompounded; pure; unmixed.

  9. Single as an adjective (obsolete):

    Simple; foolish; weak; silly.

  1. Single as a noun:

    (music) A 45 RPM vinyl record with one song on side A and one on side B.

  2. 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."

  3. Single as a noun:

    One who is not married.

    Examples:

    "He went to the party, hoping to meet some friendly singles there."

  4. Single as a noun (cricket):

    A score of one run.

  5. Single as a noun (baseball):

    A hit in baseball where the batter advances to first base.

  6. Single as a noun (dominoes):

    A tile that has a different value (i.e. number of pips) at each end.

  7. Single as a noun:

    A bill valued at $1.

    Examples:

    "I don't have any singles, so you'll have to make change."

  8. Single as a noun (UK):

    A one-way ticket.

  9. 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.

  10. Single as a noun (tennis, chiefly, in the plural):

    A game with one player on each side, as in tennis.

  11. Single as a noun:

    One of the reeled filaments of silk, twisted without doubling to give them firmness.

  12. Single as a noun (UK, Scotland, dialect):

    A handful of gleaned grain.

  1. 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."

  2. 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."

  3. Single as a verb (agriculture):

    To thin out.

  4. Single as a verb (of a horse):

    To take the irregular gait called singlefoot.

  5. Single as a verb:

    To sequester; to withdraw; to retire.

  6. Single as a verb:

    To take alone, or one by one.

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