Singling
noun, verb ·3 syllables ·Rare ·Advanced level
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- 1 Liquid collected from the wash, or fermented wort; low wine.
- 2 The reduction of a railway line from double-track to single-track.
"[…] associated with this project would be the singling of the line from Selby to Shipton Lane, 2½ miles from Market Weighton, and the working of this section on the one-engine-in-steam principle, […]"
- 1 present participle and gerund of single form-of, gerund, participle, present
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More examples"Bvalltu and I, in company with the increasing band of our fellow explorers, visited many worlds of many strange kinds. In some we spent only a few weeks of the local time; in others we remained for centuries, or skimmed from point to point of history as our interest dictated. Like a swarm of locusts we would descend upon a new-found world, each of us singling out a suitable host. After a period of observation, long or short, we would leave, to alight again, perhaps, on the same world in another of its ages; or to distribute our company among many worlds, far apart in time and in space."
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