one

Plural

ones

Noun

Noun

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A word that identifies a person, place, thing, or idea.

1. 1.The digit or figure 1.

   • This effectively allows switching on and off of the flow of current, so it is either conducting or not conducting, creating the binary system of zeroes and ones used in digital computers.

2. 2.Used to briefly refer to a noun phrase understood by context

   • I need some ones to make change.
   • Did you hear the one about the agnostic dyslexic insomniac?
   • The ophthalmic surgeon attends Tuesdays and Saturdays, at half-past one.

3. 3.A person or thing (having some specified characteristic or attribute).

   • He's not one for pulling his punches.
   • That's the one to watch if you want to win.
   • Well, well, well, it seems the silent one does have a voice, after all.

4. 4.A particularly special or compatible person or thing.(colloquial)

   • That car's the one, I'll buy it.
   • I knew as soon I met him that John was the one for me and we were married within a month.

Num

Numeral

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A word that represents a number or quantity.

1. 1.The number represented by the Arabic numeral 1; the numerical value equal to that cardinal number.

   • In some religions, there is more than one god.
   • Venters began to count them, one, two, three, four, on up to sixteen.
   • In many cultures, a baby turns one year old a year after its birth.

2. 2.The first positive number in the set of natural numbers.

3. 3.The cardinality of the smallest nonempty set.

4. 4.The ordinality of an element which has no predecessor, usually called first or number one.

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Synonyms

• i
• unity

Word family

• only