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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
-one \-one\ ([=o]n). [From Gr. -w`nh, signifying, female descendant.] (Chem.) A suffix indicating that the substance, in the name of which it appears, is a ketone; as, acetone. [1913 Webster] .
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
-one \-one\ suff. (Chem.) A termination indicating that the hydrocarbon to the name of which it is affixed belongs to the fourth series of hydrocarbons, or the third series of unsaturated hydrocarbons; as, nonone. [archaic] [1913 Webster +PJC] .
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
One \One\ (w[u^]n), a. [OE. one, on, an, AS. [=a]n; akin to D. een, OS. [=e]n, OFries. [=e]n, [=a]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. [=e]ka. The same word as the indefinite article a, an. [root] 299. Cf. 2d A, 1st An, Alone, Anon, Any, None, Nonce, Only, Onion, Unit.] 1. Being a single unit, or entire being or thing, and no more; not multifold; single; individual. [1913 Webster] The dream of Pharaoh is one. --Gen. xli. 25. [1913 Webster] O that we now had here But one ten thousand of those men in England. --Shak. [1913 Webster] 2. Denoting a person or thing conceived or spoken of indefinitely; a certain. "I am the sister of one Claudio" [--Shak.], that is, of a certain man named Claudio. [1913 Webster] 3. Pointing out a contrast, or denoting a particular thing or person different from some other specified; -- used as a correlative adjective, with or without the. [1913 Webster] From the one side of heaven unto the other. --Deut. iv. 32. [1913 Webster] 4. Closely bound together; undivided; united; constituting a whole. [1913 Webster] The church is therefore one, though the members may be many. --Bp. Pearson [1913 Webster] 5. Single in kind; the same; a common. [1913 Webster] One plague was on you all, and on your lords. --1 Sam. vi. 4. [1913 Webster] 6. Single; unmarried. [Obs.] [1913 Webster] Men may counsel a woman to be one. --Chaucer. [1913 Webster] Note: One is often used in forming compound words, the meaning of which is obvious; as, one-armed, one-celled, one-eyed, one-handed, one-hearted, one-horned, one-idead, one-leaved, one-masted, one-ribbed, one-story, one-syllable, one-stringed, one-winged, etc. [1913 Webster] All one, of the same or equal nature, or consequence; all the same; as, he says that it is all one what course you take. --Shak. One day. (a) On a certain day, not definitely specified, referring to time past. [1913 Webster] One day when Phoebe fair, With all her band, was following the chase. --Spenser. [1913 Webster] (b) Referring to future time: At some uncertain day or period in the future; some day. [1913 Webster] Well, I will marry one day. --Shak. [1913 Webster] .
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
One \One\ (w[u^]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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Note: 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.
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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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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
One \One\, n.
1. A single unit; as, one is the base of all numbers.
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2. 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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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
One \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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