English Dictionary: ONE | by the DICT Development Group |
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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]: | |
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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
-one \-one\ [From Gr. -w`nh, signifying, female descendant.] (Chem.) A suffix indicating that the substance, in the name of which it appears, is a ketone; as, acetone. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
-one \-one\(Chem.) A termination indicating that the hydrocarbon to the name of which it is affixed belongs to the fourth series of hydrocarbons, or the third series of unsaturated hydrocarbonsl as, nonone. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
One \One\, a. [OE. one, on, an, AS. [84]n; akin to D. een, OS. [89]n, OFries. [89]n, [84]n, G. ein, Dan. een, Sw. en, Icel. einn, Goth. ains, W. un, Ir. & Gael. aon, L. unus, earlier oinos, oenos, Gr. [?] the ace on dice; cf. Skr. [89]ka. The same word as the indefinite article a, an. [root] 299. Cf. 2d A, 1st {An}, {Alone}, {Anon}, {Any}, {None}, {Nonce}, {Only}, {Onion}, {Unit}.] 1. Being a single unit, or entire being or thing, and no more; not multifold; single; individual. The dream of Pharaoh is one. --Gen. xli. 25. O that we now had here But one ten thousand of those men in England. --Shak. 2. Denoting a person or thing conceived or spoken of indefinitely; a certain. [bd]I am the sister of one Claudio[b8] [--Shak.], that is, of a certain man named Claudio. 3. Pointing out a contrast, or denoting a particular thing or person different from some other specified; -- used as a correlative adjective, with or without the. From the one side of heaven unto the other. --Deut. iv. 32. 4. Closely bound together; undivided; united; constituting a whole. The church is therefore one, though the members may be many. --Bp. Pearson 5. Single in kind; the same; a common. One plague was on you all, and on your lords. --1 Sam. vi. 4. 6. Single; inmarried. [Obs.] Men may counsel a woman to be one. --Chaucer. Note: One is often used in forming compound words, the meaning of which is obvious; as, one-armed, one-celled, one-eyed, one-handed, one-hearted, one-horned, one-idead, one-leaved, one-masted, one-ribbed, one-story, one-syllable, one-stringed, one-winged, etc. {All one}, of the same or equal nature, or consequence; as, he says that it is all one what course you take. --Shak. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
One \One\, indef. pron. Any person, indefinitely; a person or body; as, what one would have well done, one should do one's self. It was well worth one's while. --Hawthorne. Against this sort of condemnation one must steel one's self as one best can. --G. Eliot. Note: One is often used with some, any, no, each, every, such, a, many a, another, the other, etc. It is sometimes joined with another, to denote a reciprocal relation. When any one heareth the word. --Matt. xiii. 19. She knew every one who was any one in the land of Bohemia. --Compton Reade. The Peloponnesians and the Athenians fought against one another. --Jowett (Thucyd. ). The gentry received one another. --Thackeray. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
One \One\, n. 1. A single unit; as, one is the base of all numbers. 2. A symbol representing a unit, as 1, or i. 3. A single person or thing. [bd]The shining ones.[b8] --Bunyan. [bd]Hence, with your little ones.[b8] --Shak. He will hate the one, and love the other. --Matt. vi. 24. That we may sit, one on thy right hand, and the other on thy left hand, in thy glory. --Mark x. 37. {After one}, after one fashion; alike. [Obs.] --Chaucer. {At one}, in agreement or concord. See {At one}, in the Vocab. {Ever in one}, continually; perpetually; always. [Obs.] --Chaucer. {In one}, in union; in a single whole. {One and one}, {One by one}, singly; one at a time; one after another. [bd]Raising one by one the suppliant crew.[b8] --Dryden. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
One \One\, v. t. To cause to become one; to gather into a single whole; to unite; to assimilite. [Obs.] The rich folk that embraced and oned all their heart to treasure of the world. --Chaucer. |