| one | (w<ucr/n), a. [OE. one, on, an, AS. <amac/n; akin to D. een, OS. <emac/n, OFries. <emac/n, <amac/n, G. ein, Dan. een, Sw. en, Icel. einn, Goth. ains, W. un, Ir. & Gael. aon, L. unus, earlier oinos, oenos, Gr. o'i`nh the ace on dice; cf. Skr. <emac/ka. The same word as the indefinite article a, an. |
| one | , n. 1.
A single unit; as, one is the base of all numbers.
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A symbol representing a unit, as 1, or i.
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3.
A single person or thing. The shining ones. Bunyan. Hence, with your little ones. Shak.
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-He will hate the one, and love the other. Matt. vi. 24.
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-That we may sit, one on thy right hand, and the other on thy left hand, in thy glory. Mark x. 37.
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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. Raising one by one the suppliant crew. Dryden. -- one on one contesting an opponent individually; -- in a contest. -- go one on one, to contest one opponent by oneself; -- in a game, esp. basketball.
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| one | (w<ucr/n), indef. pron.
Any person, indefinitely; a person or body; as, what one would have well done, one should do one's self.
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-It was well worth one's while. Hawthorne.
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-Against this sort of condemnation one must steel one's self as one best can. G. Eliot.
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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.
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-When any one heareth the word. Matt. xiii. 19.
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-She knew every one who was any one in the land of Bohemia. Compton Reade.
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-The Peloponnesians and the Athenians fought against one another. Jowett (Thucyd. ).
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-The gentry received one another. Thackeray.
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| one | , v. t.
To cause to become one; to gather into a single whole; to unite; to assimilite. [Obs.]
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-The rich folk that embraced and oned all their heart to treasure of the world. Chaucer.
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