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SINGLY

Pronunciation (US):

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 I. (adverb) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

One by one; one at a time

Example:

they were arranged singly

Classified under:

Adverbs

Antonym:

multiply (in several ways; in a multiple manner)

Pertainym:

single (being or characteristic of a single thing or person)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Apart from others

Example:

the fine points are treated singly

Synonyms:

individually; on an individual basis; one by one; separately; severally; singly

Classified under:

Adverbs

Pertainym:

single (being or characteristic of a single thing or person)

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 Context examples: 

LY6K is a tumor-associated antigen (TAA) that occurs singly in glycosylphosphatidyl-inositol (GPI)-linked cell-surface glycoproteins or as three-fold repeated domain in the urokinase-type plasminogen activator receptor; VEGFRs are cell surface receptors that stimulate endothelial cell proliferation, invasion, angiogenesis, and vasculogenesis upon ligand binding and receptor activation.

(LY6K/VEGFR1/VEGFR2 Multipeptide Vaccine, NCI Thesaurus)

Perhaps, continued Elinor, if I should happen to cut out, I may be of some use to Miss Lucy Steele, in rolling her papers for her; and there is so much still to be done to the basket, that it must be impossible I think for her labour singly, to finish it this evening.

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)

This even tint was indeed broken up by streaks of yellow sand-break in the lower lands, and by many tall trees of the pine family, out-topping the others—some singly, some in clumps; but the general colouring was uniform and sad.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

Before long they streamed away singly, licking their lips.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

At that moment a little accident supervened, which seemed decreed by fate purposely to prove the truth of the adage, that misfortunes never come singly, and to add to their distresses the vexing one of the slip between the cup and the lip.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

I see the lights scattered all over the town, sometimes in rows where the streets are, and sometimes singly; they run right up the Esk and die away in the curve of the valley.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)