one

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Definitions

Phrases

• one and all
• one and only
• one and the same
• one another
• one by one
• one eye on
• one fell swoop, in
• one foot in the grave, have
• one for the books
• one for the road
• one good turn deserves another
• one in a million
• one jump ahead
• one man's meat is another man's poison
• one of a kind
• one of these days
• one of those days
• one on one
• one on, that's
• one picture is worth a thousand words
• one up

Synonyms & Antonyms

Examples

• Added to drinking water at concentrations of around one part per million, fluoride ions stick to dental plaque.

• In his view, a writer has only one duty: to be present in his books.

• Yet this, in the end, is a book from which one emerges sad, gloomy, disenchanted, at least if we agree to take it seriously.

• The fear of violence should not determine what one does or does not say.

• The al Qaeda-linked gunmen shot back, but only managed to injure one officer before they were taken out.

• Practise gliding in the form of inflection, or slide, from one extreme of pitch to another.

• He alludes to it as one of their evil customs and used by them to produce insensibility.

• There was a rumor that Alessandro and his father had both died; but no one knew anything certainly.

• Truth is a torch, but one of enormous size; so that we slink past it in rather a blinking fashion for fear it should burn us.

• Under the one-sixth they appear as slender, highly refractive fibers with double contour and, often, curled or split ends.