(a.) Separate or apart from others; single; distinct.
(a.) Engaged in by only one on a side; single.
(a.) Each; individual; as, to convey several parcels of land, all and singular.
(a.) Denoting one person or thing; as, the singular number; -- opposed to dual and plural.
(a.) Standing by itself; out of the ordinary course; unusual; uncommon; strange; as, a singular phenomenon.
(a.) Distinguished as existing in a very high degree; rarely equaled; eminent; extraordinary; exceptional; as, a man of singular gravity or attainments.
(a.) Departing from general usage or expectations; odd; whimsical; -- often implying disapproval or consure.
(a.) Being alone; belonging to, or being, that of which there is but one; unique.
(n.) An individual instance; a particular.
(n.) The singular number, or the number denoting one person or thing; a word in the singular number.
Example Sentences:
(1) The combination of Azathioprine and Cyclosporin A brought with a 1-year function rate of 54% better results in comparison to the singular application of Azathioprine (22%) and Cyclosporin A (41%).
(2) But singular concern with the consequences of monopolistic control by the profession is no substitute for analysis of the dynamics among demand, production, and supply of surgery.
(3) The National Society to Prevent Blindness, formed in 1908, is the oldest voluntary agency with the singular mission to preserve sight and prevent blindness through a broad program of public and professional education, industrial and community services, and research.
(4) Nevertheless, studies on the occurrence of delayed neuronal death in the human brain have been singular and dealt with only small files of patients.
(5) Unfortunately, Hillary Clinton was advised once again by Beltway advisers who knew it all, had the models and the projections, but who called it wrong.” The USHCC was singularly invested in the outcome of Tuesday’s election, as it had endorsed Clinton for the presidency – the first time it has done so for any candidate in its 38-year history.
(6) Although singular neurectomy can be mastered, it will remain a procedure done by few surgeons.
(7) Thus, both tonB and fiu cir mutants showed a comparably reduced susceptibility to the probe compounds, whereas mutants singularly lacking any one of the six iron-regulated outer membrane proteins (Fiu, FepA, FecA, FhuA, FhuE, and Cir) or lacking any combination of any two of these proteins (except Fiu plus Cir) did not show this resistance.
(8) Each situation of terminal cases is absolutely singular and unique.
(9) A singular perturbation analysis of the 8-dimensional phase portrait of the model characterizes the role of calcium during the plateau phase of the ventricular action potential and demonstrates how the calcium refractory period prevents tetanization.
(10) Type 0 (strong) resetting occurred when respiratory drive was low, type 1 (weak) resetting when drive was high, and a phase singularity when drive was intermediate.
(11) We conclude that these equations could be used singularly or collectively to determine FFB, and a minimal weight could then be derived and assigned to a scholastic wrestler.
(12) Jim Gianopulos, the chairman of Fox Filmed Entertainment, went on a Singularity University course, and has since become evangelical about it.
(13) In contrast to neurons appearing in the pancreas of the sand rat, the neurons in the thyroid gland occur in most cases as singular neurons.
(14) In this paper we first review a modified form of the singularity decomposition of the FPP function accomplished within a prescribed error range.
(15) We could show that pathologic stress szintigrams were only found in patients with a singular stenosis in one branch of the left coronary artery.
(16) The advantages are: diminished risk of infections, local anesthesia instead of general anesthesia, applicability by the cardiologist in the catheterization-laboratory or under a simple fluoroscopy-unit, short stay of patients in the hospital without transfers to other departments, few personnel (1 scrubbed doctor, 1 non-scrubbed nurse), recognition of venous anomalies (singular left superior caval vein) without useless incisions for the patient.
(17) The resulting type, not to be identified by classical CFA, was shown to be singular and clear-cut with weakness in all 3 verbal tests.
(18) Udall barely mentioned government surveillance on the campaign trail, choosing instead to mount a singular focus on female voters, rarely straying from two topics : contraception and abortion.
(19) The presence of these microbacteria may provide a clue as to the late appearance, particular location, and singular clinical picture of pericoronitis.
(20) The results revealed that the conventional speaking tube was inferior to the electric hearing aid in terms of specificity to various frequencies, advantages and understanding of singular syllables, but almost equal to the latter in terms of understandings of three syllables.
Strange
Definition:
(superl.) Belonging to another country; foreign.
(superl.) Of or pertaining to others; not one's own; not pertaining to one's self; not domestic.
(superl.) Not before known, heard, or seen; new.
(superl.) Not according to the common way; novel; odd; unusual; irregular; extraordinary; unnatural; queer.
(superl.) Reserved; distant in deportment.
(superl.) Backward; slow.
(superl.) Not familiar; unaccustomed; inexperienced.
(adv.) Strangely.
(v. t.) To alienate; to estrange.
(v. i.) To be estranged or alienated.
(v. i.) To wonder; to be astonished.
Example Sentences:
(1) We knew it would be a strange match because they had to come out and play to win to finish third,” Benitez said afterwards.
(2) After friends heard that he was on them, Brumfield started observing something strange: “If we had people over to the Super Bowl or a holiday season party, I’d notice that my medicines would come up short, no matter how good friends they were.” Twice people broke into his house to get to the drugs.
(3) However, growing accustomed to “this strange atmosphere”, the Observer man became dazzled by Burgess’s “brilliance and charm”.
(4) Nonetheless some strange theories have been floated.
(5) The effect on milk yield, milk leucocyte concentration, and milk prolactin of dominance rank and introduction of "strange" cows into a group was studied.
(6) Perhaps strangely, it was the second remark that troubled me more than the possibility that humanity would be extinguished by my hand.
(7) "When I look at a lot of other bands, it does seem that we're the strange minority," says drummer, Jeremy Gara, who, with his standy-up hair and dishevelled clothes, seems the most old-school indie musician of them all.
(8) Britons certainly divided over that strange, heady Diana week in 1997 and again over how to mark the millennium.
(9) Having always voted Conservative, he says that Labour's increasing doubts about HS2 suggest that they may be more deserving of his vote, something that clearly feels very strange indeed.
(10) When you ask for the phone numbers or names or addresses they are, strangely, unavailable."
(11) The banalities of a news conference take on a strange significance when the men who summon the world's cameras are members of a feared insurgent group that banned television when they ruled Afghanistan and sheltered al-Qaida.
(12) Training grounds during a World Cup turn out to be a strange little bubble of a world.
(13) I was an immigrant, although a reluctant one, and I was living in a huge strange country that resembled the America I'd encountered in books and in films so much less than I had expected.
(14) When female voles were allowed contact with the stud male for only 1 h at the time of mating, 55% exhibited pregnancy failure when exposed to a strange male 48 h later.
(15) As Nelson Mandela lay in the open casket , his features both familiar and strange, a crisply suited Robert Mugabe gazed down at him through his dark glasses for a long, still, silent moment.
(16) When my floor was dirty, I rose early, and, setting all my furniture out of doors on the grass, bed and bedstead making but one budget, dashed water on the floor, and sprinkled white sand from the pond on it, and then with a broom scrubbed it clean and white... Further - and this is a stroke of his sensitive, pawky genius - he contemplates his momentarily displaced furniture and the nuance of enchanting strangeness: It was pleasant to see my whole household effects out on the grass, making a little pile like a gypsy's pack, and my three-legged table, from which I did not remove the books and pen and ink, standing amid the pines and hickories ...
(17) 12.24am BST The Labor leader has seen the decision by the Greens to back in Tony Abbott in reintroducing fuel tax indexation in this budget, but strangely he has not seen their decision to oppose the deficit tax, even though it was announced at the same time.
(18) Strange in that Chomsky's interview was given to the state-owned news agency at about the same time as another arm of the Russian state despatched two Tupolev Tu-95 strategic bombers for a cheeky incursion into the Nato-protected zone off Scotland's north coast .
(19) To explain these contentions, the history, strengths, and limits of reductionist thinking are discussed, and aspects of chaos science, such as the butterfly effect and strange attractors, are described.
(20) Strangely enough, we continue to endure retrograde policy approaches that are more likely to further entrench a sense of disempowerment among Aboriginal people, rather than acknowledge and enable individual empowerment.