Single Out

Definition: Single Out

Single Out

Verb

1. Select from a group; "She was singled out for her outstanding performance".

2. Treat differently on the basis of sex or race.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Synonyms: Single Out

Choice

Select; pick and choose; pick out, single out; cull, glean, winnow; sift the chaff from the wheat, separate the chaff from the wheat, winnow the chaff from the wheat; pick up, pitch upon; pick one's way; indulge one;s fancy.

Crosswords: Single Out

Well I wouldn't like to single out who I hate the most. (Press Gang; writing credit: Steven Moffat)

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Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Human Rights

Russia

There were credible reports that security forces continued regularly to single out persons from the Caucasus for document checks, detention, and the extortion of bribes. (references)

Indigenous People

Belize

Among the country's indigenous people, the Mopan and Ke'kchi are grouped under the general term Maya, although their leaders say that they should be identified as the Masenal, meaning "common people." The Maya have sought official recognition of their communal claims to land, but the Government has been reluctant to single out one ethnic group for special consideration. (references)

Minorities

Croatia

Religion and ethnicity are closely linked in society, and religion often was used to identify and single out non-Croats for discriminatory practices; however, most such incidents appeared to be motivated by ethnicity and not religion or religious doctrine. (references)

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Albanian

zgjedh (choose, constitute, cull, disentangle, draft, draught, elect, embrace, opt, pick, pick out, select, solve, take), dalloj (descry, differ, differentiate, discern, discriminate, distinguish, espy, individualize, know, perceive, pick out, show smb. up, sight, tab, tell them apart, trace). (various references)

Arabic 

‏ميز (characterize, confer distinction upon, differentiate, discern, discriminate, distinguish, favor, favour, grant a special privilege, honor, identify, know, label, make a distinction, mark, notice, observe, perceive, prefer, privilege, realize, recognize, segregate, separate, set above others, set apart, set aside, single, stamp), ‏إنتقى (pick out, select). (various references)

Bulgarian 

набелязвам (mark down, mark out, spot, trace), изтъквам (accent, accentuate, adduce, bring out, distinguish, emphasize, feature, highlight, notice, pinpoint, play up, point out, represent, show off, show up, signalize, throw up, urge), избирам (choose, cull, elect, make, mark down, name, opt, pick, pick out, put in, return, select, settle on, sort out). (various references)

Czech

vybrat (choose, clear, cull, look for, scoop, select, shell out, tell off, withdraw). (various references)

French

sélectionner (single), faire signe, distinguer (catch sight of, signalize). (various references)

German

herausheben, herausgreifen (seize on, seize upon), auswählen (choose, chosen, elect, pick, pick out, select, selects, to select), aussondern (draw out, drive out, eleminate, express, give utterance to, pick out, pull out, select, separate out, to eliminate, utter, weed out). (various references)

Greek 

ξεχωρίζω (assort, discriminate, distinguish, distinguish between, individualize, know, make out, separate, single, singularize, tell, tell apart). (various references)

Hebrew 

ל�"בליט (bring out, emphasize, highlight, make up), לברור (choose, clarify, cull, opt, pick out). (various references)

Hungarian

kiszemel (choose, cull, mark out, pick out, to cull, to pick on, to pick out, to prick, to single out). (various references)

Italian

scegliere (choose, cull, elect, pick, pick out, select, single, to choose), isolare (cut oneself off, insulate, isolate, isolate oneself, seclude, shut off), distinguere (differentiate, discern, discriminate, distinguish, distinguish oneself, know, Mark, recognize, set apart, tell). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

拾い出す (to select, to single out). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

ひろい� す (to select, to single out). (various references)

Manx

teih (elect, select), reih (champion, choice, choose, correct, correct as behaviour, discrimination, elect, favourite, opt, option, preferred). (various references)

Pig Latin

inglesay outay

Romanian

alege (appear, become, choose, churn, cull, decide, distinguish, elect, extract, glean, Peel, pick, pick on, pick out, refuse, reject, remain, result, return, screen, select, separate, shell, sift, sort, sunder, take one's choice, winnow). (various references)

Russian 

выбирать (bouse, bows, choose, chose, chosen, elect, fetch, opt, pick, pick out, round in, select, selects, take), отбирать (adeem, adeemed, choose, cull, handpick, pick, select, sort out, staple, tell off, weed away, weed out). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

izdvojiti (abstract, extricate, mark off, segregate). (various references)

Spanish

singularizar (singularize). (various references)

Swedish

välja ut (pick out). (various references)

Turkish

seçmek (adopt, be particular about, choose, co opt, constitute, coopt, cull, decide on, decide up, descry, distinguish, elect, hand-pick, intend, intend for, look out, opt, perceive, pick, pick out, plump for, postulate, select, spot), birer birer almak, belirlemek (adjust, appoint, assess, assign, condition, decide, define, detect, determine, dictate, establish, identify, limit, note, peg, seal, set, set down, settle, slate, specify, state), ayırmak (abstract, allocate, allot, allow, appropriate, assort, book, choose, classify, comb, comb out, contradistinguish, cut off, cut out, demarcate, detach, devote, disband, discard, disembody, disjoin, disrupt, dissever, dissociate, distinguish, disunite, divert, divide, divorce, divorce from, earmark, except, hive off, insulate, intend for, isolate, keep apart, mark out, part, particularize, partition, partition off, pick out, portion, reduce, reserve, resolve, seclude, segregate, select, separate, sequester, set apart, set aside, sever, shut off, snatch away from, snatch from, sort, sort out, spare, specialize, split, spread, spread out, sunder, sweep off, take apart, tear away, tear off, unpick, unstick, wall, winnow). (various references)

Ukrainian

вибирати (adopt, choose, elect, opt, pick, pick on, select), виділяти (accent, accentuate, apportion, appropriate, discriminate, evolve, excrete, exempt, exude, give off, ooze, point out, secrete, signalize, singularize, tab, throw off). (various references)

dilecta, dilectae, dilectam, dilecte, dilecti, dilectis, dilecto, dilectos, dilectum, dilectus, dilexerat, dilexerimus, dilexeris, dilexerit, dilexerunt, dilexi, dilexisset, dilexisti, dilexit, diligam, diligamus, diligant, diligas, diligat, diligatis, diligatur, dilige, diligebam, diligebant, diligebat, diligens, diligentes, diligenti, diligentia, diligentibus, diligentis, diligentium, diligere, diligerent, diligeret, diligeretis, diliges, diliget, diligetis, diligetur, diligimus, diligis, diligit, diligite, diligitis, diligo, diligunt. (various references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: elutions, eulogist, ligneous, outlines, tousling.

-2 letters: eloigns, elusion, eluting, elution, engluts, entoils, glisten, gluiest, glutens, gunites, igneous, legions, lentigo, lingoes, logiest, longest, longies, lounges, lousing, louting, luniest, lusting, luteins, lutings, ousting, outings, outlies, outline, outsing, singlet, tiglons, tingles, tongues, tousing, ugliest, utensil.

-3 letters: egoist, elints, eloign, eloins, englut, enlist, ensoul, entoil, genius, gentil.

+1 letter: gelatinous, gluttonies, longitudes, outselling, ungodliest.

+2 letters: glauconites, guillotines, langoustine, ligamentous, neurologist, outblessing, outsleeping, outspelling, regulations.

+3 letters: bluestocking, deglutitions, gelatinously, glutathiones, langoustines, neurologists, numerologist, outwrestling, silhouetting, upholstering.

+4 letters: agglutinogens, antireligious, bluestockings, conglutinates, conjugalities, deregulations, expostulating, flugelhornist, genuflections, gesticulation, litigiousness, multimegatons, numerologists, reregulations, somersaulting, unrighteously, vertiginously.

+5 letters: degranulations, flagitiousness, flugelhornists, gelatinousness, gesticulations, interreligious, lignosulfonate, neurobiologist, nonregulations, osmoregulation, pneumatologies, reupholstering, shuttlecocking, superovulating, troublemakings, underclothings.