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noun one The lowest cardinal number; half of two; 1. 1

adjective one being or amounting to a single unit or individual or entire thing, item, or object rather than two or more; a single: one woman; one nation; one piece of cake. 1

adjective one being a person, thing, or individual instance or member of a number, kind, group, or category indicated: one member of the party. 1

adjective one existing, acting, or considered as a single unit, entity, or individual. 1

adjective one of the same or having a single kind, nature, or condition: We belong to one team; We are of one resolve. 1

adjective one noting some indefinite day or time in the future: You will see him one day. 1

adjective one a certain (often used in naming a person otherwise unknown or undescribed): One John Smith was chosen. 1

adjective one being a particular, unique, or only individual, item, or unit: I'm looking for the one adviser I can trust. 1

adjective one noting some indefinite day or time in the past: We all had dinner together one evening last week. 1

adjective one of no consequence as to the character, outcome, etc.; the same: It's all one to me whether they go or not. 1

noun one the first and lowest whole number, being a cardinal number; unity. 1

noun one a symbol of this number, as 1 or I. 1

noun one a single person or thing: If only problems would come one at a time! 1

noun one a die face or a domino face having one pip. 1

noun one a one-dollar bill: to change a five-dollar bill for five ones. 1

noun one (initial capital letter) Neoplatonism. the ultimate reality, seen as a central source of being by whose emanations all entities, spiritual and corporeal, have their existence, the corporeal ones containing the fewest of the emanations. 1

idioms one at one, in a state of agreement; of one opinion. united in thought or feeling; attuned: He felt at one with his Creator. 1

idioms one one and all, everyone: They came, one and all, to welcome him home. 1

idioms one one by one, singly and successively: One by one the children married and moved away. 1

idioms one one for the road. road (def 10). 1

noun one cardinal number: 1 1

adjective one 1 in number 1

pronoun one a single: item 1

pronoun one a single: group member 1

pronoun one I, we: impersonal 1

adjective one sth, sb unspecified 1

adjective one the same 1

adjective one unique 1

pronoun one specific person 1

adjective one one year old 1

adjective one one o'clock 1

noun one single unit 1

noun one die, domino: one pip 1

noun one banknote: £1, $1 1

noun one joke 1

noun one particular item 1

pronoun one partner: true love 1

pronoun one + who: unspecified person 1

noun Technical meaning of one (mathematics) The lowest positive integer and the basis for counting. Multiplication by one is an identity operator and, since one is its own reciprocal, so is division by one. One is the result of dividing any non-zero number by itself. One raised to any power is one and raising to the power one is also an identity operator. (data) The largest digit in binary, related to the value true in Boolean algebra. Digital computers typically represent one by a high voltage and zero by a low voltage. 1

pronoun one You use ones to refer to people in general. 0

pronoun one You can use one instead of a noun group when you have just mentioned something and you want to describe it or give more information about it. 0

determiner one You can use one when you have been talking or writing about a group of people or things and you want to say something about a particular member of the group. 0

quantifier one You use one in expressions such as 'one of the biggest airports' or 'one of the most experienced players' to indicate that something or someone is bigger or more experienced than most other things or people of the same kind. 0

determiner one You can use one when referring to a time in the past or in the future. For example, if you say that you did something one day, you mean that you did it on a day in the past. 0

pronoun one You can use one to refer to a question, joke, remark, or subject of discussion. 0

pronoun one You can use one to refer to an alcoholic drink. 0

pronoun one You use one to make statements about people in general which also apply to themselves. One can be used as the subject or object of a sentence. 0

determiner one single; lone; not two or more 0

determiner one (as pronoun) 0

determiner one (in combination) 0

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