Word Finder - one

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The digit or figure 1.

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The neutral element with respect to multiplication in a ring.

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A one-dollar bill.

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One run scored by hitting the ball and running between the wickets; a single.

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A joke or amusing anecdote.

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A particularly special or compatible person or thing.

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I knew as soon I met him that John was the one for me and we were married within a month.

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(leet) Used instead of ! to amplify an exclamation, parodying unskilled typists who forget to press the shift key while typing exclamation points, thus typing "1".

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2003 September 26, "DEAL WITH IT!!!!11one!!", in alt.games.video.nintendo.gamecube, Usenet

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To cause to become one; to gather into a single whole; to unite.

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Of a period of time, being particular.

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One day the prince set forth to kill the dragon that had brought terror to his father’s kingdom for centuries.

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Being a single, unspecified thing; a; any.

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My aunt used to say, "One day is just like the other."

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Sole, only.

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He is the one man who can help you.

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Whole, entire.

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Body and soul are not separate; they are one.

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In agreement.

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We are one on the importance of learning.

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The same.

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The two types look very different, but are one species.

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Being a preeminent example.

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He is one hell of a guy.

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Being an unknown person with the specified name; see also "a certain".

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The town records from 1843 showed the overnight incarceration of one “A. Lincoln”.

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

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In many cultures, a baby turns one year old a year after its birth.

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The first positive number in the set of natural numbers.

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The cardinality of the smallest nonempty set.

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

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(impersonal pronoun, indefinite) One thing (among a group of others); one member of a group.

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Any one of the boys.  The big one looks good.  I want the green one.  A good driver is one who drives carefully.

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(impersonal pronoun, sometimes with "the") The first mentioned of two things or people, as opposed to the other.

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She offered him an apple and an orange; he took one and left the other.

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(indefinite personal pronoun) Any person (applying to people in general).

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One’s guilt may trouble one, but it is best not to let oneself be troubled by things which cannot be changed.  One shouldn’t be too quick to judge.

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(pronoun) Any person, entity or thing.

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"driver", noun: one who drives.

One brow shot up.

No, this one is ours.

First of all, I wasn't the only one involved.

Let's go do the chores one last time before we leave.

The houses of the city were all made of glass, so clear and transparent that one could look through the walls as easily as through a window.

That is the one thing I have faith in!

So he placed Dorothy upon one side of him and the boy upon the other and set a lantern upon each of their heads.

Lifting the skirt slightly with one hand so she wouldn't trip on it, she let the other hand slide lightly down the banister for added balance.

He raised one eyebrow.

They loved one child as much as the other, but one child could never take the place of another.

Zeb struck a match and lighted one of the lanterns.

Because you're the one who is concerned about my safety.

A few minutes later the television was on one of Tammy's shows.

One little boy chose "The Horse."

It isn't one of those things you can talk through, I guess.

I wasn't the one running away.

Wasted years caused by one silly mistake.

I'm sorry to have missed act one, but I promise a short intermission before I give act two a try.

A balloon meant to her some other arrival from the surface of the earth, and she hoped it would be some one able to assist her and Zeb out of their difficulties.

One of the men is staying up with her.

At least they had one common interest.

Not that one had anything to do with the other, but the technology of surrogacy would have been inconceivable back then.

There was only one way to find out... well, maybe two, but asking Sarah or Giddon was probably wasted effort.

Only one thing came to mind – a drug deal.

Let me make one thing clear.

Anyway she finally got so lonely and depressed that she locked herself in her room one day and shot herself.

That's when it first crossed my mind that you might be the one.

And all the time she thought she was the only one with the torrid thoughts.

It was the joyous weekend my future wife and I made public our marriage plans, with no one listening.

I'm here in one piece, sort of, and you've given me a clean slate to begin act two of my life.

No one had a rebuttal.

He was simply one of their children.

She was the one who had insisted on waiting until they were married.

A wisp of blond hair hung over one eye and Lisa brushed it back.

Well... Yancey, maybe you're the one I should be careful about.

He slung the dishtowel over his shoulder and one long step brought him to a point where she was pinned in the corner of the counter.

The destination of the path remained a burning mystery, but Tammy innocently tossed fuel on the flames with a chance comment one day while they were watching television.

One was an electric bill, but the other was addressed to Sharon Dobson, Brownsville, Texas.

She lit with one foot underneath her body, and the momentum of her fall threw her forward - over the ledge.

She had no idea what made him angry one minute and jovial the next.

They had cake and ice cream and talked for nearly an hour about one thing and another.

After all, he was the one who insisted that his mother was her boss.

Or was Brandon the one with the problem?

If there's one thing I don't need, it's a man telling me how to run my life.

For a moment he held Zach, body in one hand and head cradled in the other.

I thought he could stay in one of the rooms upstairs at night – if you don't mind.

I'd assume no one would believe me and I'd be at a loss to prove what I saw.

Maybe one of them is like those mushrooms you hear about that book you on a psychedelic vacation.

No one will believe a psychic is calling the shots.

You've got a baby up there asleep and you're alone in the house, tying one on.