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Definition: One At A Time |
One At A TimeAdverb1. In single file; "the prisoners came out one by one". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Synonyms: One At A TimeSynonyms: one after another (adv), one by one (adv). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Speciality | Each, apiece, one by one, one at a time; severally, respectively, each to each; seriatim, in detail, in great detail, in excruciating detail, in mind-numbing detail; bit by bit; pro hac vice, pro re nata. |
Unity | Adverb: singly; Adjective: alone, by itself, per se, only, apart, in the singular number, in the abstract; one by one, one at a time; simply; one and a half, sesqui-. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: One At A Time |
| English words defined with "one at a time": four-card monte ♦ monte ♦ potato race ♦ serial killer, serial murderer, shoe, singly ♦ three-card monte ♦ Water spider. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "one at a time": brute force string search ♦ Constraint Logic Programming, content addressable memory, Coulter counter, coupon book ♦ display-card writer ♦ encoder ♦ incremental constraint solver, iterator ♦ lexical analysis, linear search ♦ Microsoft Access, motion picture film ♦ sign printer, SIGN WRITER, MACHINE, single step operation, step by step operation ♦ transitive reduction. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | And only enough blood to run one at a time. (Robin Williams: Live on Broadway; writing credit: Robin Williams) And I didn't know you're only supposed to wear one at a time. (NewsRadio; writing credit: Scott Bank; Jenny Banks) | |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | Patients may try eliminating various products from their diet and reintroducing them one at a time to determine which, if any, affect symptoms. (references) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| Language | Translations for "one at a time"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | in zýn eentje (singly), alleen (alone, exclusively, just, only, single, singly, sole, solely, solitary), één per keer (singly). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Esperanto | unuope (singly). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Faeroese | ein í senn (singly). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | yksitellen (one by one). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | einer nach dem anderen (one by one). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | ένασ-ένασ (one by one, singly). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | אח" אח" (one by one, severally). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | egyszerre csak egyet, egyszerre csak egy, egyesével (in singles, singly). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | 一人ひとり (each, one by one), 一人一人 (each, one by one). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | ひとりびとり (each, one by one), ひとりひとり (each, one by one). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | oneay atay aay imetay pojedynczo (singly). (various references) umaum (singly). (various references) поочередно (alternately, alternatively). (various references) en åt gången (singly). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | singulus. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-a-e-e-i-m-n-o-t-t" | |
-2 letters: antiatom. | |
-3 letters: amentia, amniote, animate, animato, emanate, enemata, etamine, manatee, matinee, onetime, taeniae, teatime, tomenta. | |
-4 letters: anatto, anemia, anomie, attain, emetin, etamin, inmate, manito, mattin, meanie, metate, mitten, notate, omenta, taenia, tamein, tatami, teniae, tentie, titman, titmen, toneme. | |
-5 letters: amain, ament, amine, amino, amnia, amnio, anima, anime, antae, atman, atone, eaten, emote, enate, enema. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-a-e-e-i-m-n-o-t-t" | |
+3 letters: decontaminate, recontaminate. | |
+4 letters: antimetabolite, decontaminated, decontaminates, endotheliomata, paleomagnetist, recontaminated, recontaminates, tatterdemalion, trihalomethane. | |
+5 letters: antiferromagnet, antimetabolites, demagnetization, paleomagnetists, tatterdemalions, trihalomethanes. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage: Modern | 5. Usage: Commercial 6. Quotations: Non-fiction 7. Translations: Modern 8. Translations: Ancient | 9. Anagrams 10. Bibliography |
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