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English Dictionary: one	by the DICT Development Group
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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
one adj used of a single unit or thing; not two or more; "`ane' is Scottish" Synonym(s): one, 1, i, ane having the indivisible character of a unit; "a unitary action"; "spoke with one voice" Synonym(s): one(a), unitary of the same kind or quality; "two animals of one species" used informally as an intensifier; "that is one fine dog" indefinite in time or position; "he will come one day"; "one place or another" being a single entity made by combining separate components; "three chemicals combining into one solution" eminent beyond or above comparison; "matchless beauty"; "the team's nonpareil center fielder"; "she's one girl in a million"; "the one and only Muhammad Ali"; "a peerless scholar"; "infamy unmatched in the Western world"; "wrote with unmatchable clarity"; "unrivaled mastery of her art" Synonym(s): matchless, nonpareil, one(a), one and only(a), peerless, unmatched, unmatchable, unrivaled, unrivalled n the smallest whole number or a numeral representing this number; "he has the one but will need a two and three to go with it"; "they had lunch at one" Synonym(s): one, 1, I, ace, single, unity a single person or thing; "he is the best one"; "this is the one I ordered"
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.