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What do people use one to talk about?
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What words refer to one?
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What words refer to people doing something one by one?
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What words indicate that something happens or is done one time?
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What are the cardinal numbers? (the numbers you use when you count)
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multiples of one hundred
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multiples of one thousand
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What words indicate that something is done in groups of a certain number?
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What words indicate that everyone is to get a certain number of something?
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What words indicate that an event has happened once?
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What words intensify an attribute?
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What words refer to a person who belongs to your group?
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What words describe a simple connection between two things?
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What words describe a complex connection between two things?
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What words indicate that no one is in a place?
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What words describe a group that is united?
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What words refer to a particular fraction of something?
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What words refer to not any of a number of things?
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What words refer to no person?
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What words describe the only person or thing?
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What words refer to an indefinite day?
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What words describe a group of things that have been put in order?
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What words indicate that someone does things in a series?
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What words refer to something that happened before?
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What words describe something that comes before another in a series?
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What words indicate that an event happens again?
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What words refer to having to start something again from the very beginning?
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What pronouns express indefinite reference of a person?
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What words refer to no person?
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What words describe someone who is not injured?
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What words refer to someone you love?
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What words refer to a single time of adultery?
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What words describe someone who is almost dead?
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What words refer to not paying attention?
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What words refer to when two people agree?
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What words refer to something you like more than any others?
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What words refer to feeling obsessed with something?
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What words describe a place that is uninteresting
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What words refer to speaking so that people can't understand you?
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What words refer to someone who belongs to a group?
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What words refer to something said humorously?
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What words refer to being bad-tempered for a short time?
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What words refer to someone you love?
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What words refer to hating someone?
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What words refer to being selfish?
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What words refer to acting in such a way that someone is led to believe something false?deceive fool take in defraud cheat fleece bilk swindle hustle dupe hoodwink foist upon palm off on outwit outmaneuver finagle slip one over on put something over on con lay a trap for lure beguile delude trick entrap ensnare pull the wool over someone's eyes play a trick on play a practical joke on send on a fool's errand make a fool of mislead
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What words refer to being unlucky on a particular occasion?
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What words indicate that a person recognizes he has done wrong?
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What types of houses are there?
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How do people stand?
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What words refer to kneeling down?
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What words refer to jumping on one leg?
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What words refer to cutting something with one slice?
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What words indicate the number of times something has happened? ("He fell down three times.")
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What words indicate that there are a small number of things or people?
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What words indicate that something is a member of a group?
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What words refer to the same person or thing, not a different one?
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What words indicate that something is next to the last?
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What words indicate that two things happen at the same time?
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What pronouns express reciprocal reference?
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What words indicate that something is done one part at a time?
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What words indicate that something is very probably true
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What words are used to negate the truth of something?
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What words indicate that two people do something to each other?
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What words indicate association?
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What words are used to join two clauses or sentences without specifying the relationship between them?
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What words indicate that a phrase or sentence is important?then indeed surely so certainly in fact actually how you know really sure just you know don't you that how much more emphatically absolutely without question no way of course obviously you've got to be kidding it is just that the only thing is one thing that in reality only that as it were just as you can see as you know without a doubt don't you remember I am convinced that
Examples one examples
How do I use one in a sentence?
Simple sentences
Round trip? Only one-way.
I'd like to stay for one night.
We can travel through time. And we do at the remarkable rate of one second per second.
You are the only one.
To kill two birds with one stone.
Put it on one bill, please.
For one thing, I'm penniless; for another, I don't have the time.
One minute earlier, and they could have caught the bus.
Mary took out the eggs one by one.
One speaks English, and the other speaks Japanese.
One can always find time.
One can't expect everything from schools.
No one understands me.
In the 1950's, the Finns were cited as having one of the least healthy diets in the world.
One million people lost their lives in the war.
Poor is not the one who has too little, but the one who wants too much.
To be perfect she lacked just one defect.
You found me where no one else was looking.
Where can one make a phone call?
One hundred and fifty thousand couples are expected to get married in Shanghai in 2006.
I have so much work that I will stay for one more hour.
No one will know.
All you can do is trust one another.
Movie subtitles
Your mom was a famous movie star a long time ago. And your brother is one of the top singer in our country. Killer, huh?
How, not one but two why would she abandon me!
I mean why make a big deal with just one shirt.
Just one shirt?
With just this one shirt, I can feed 5 people in my family.
Am I the only one to be pick on? Am I some kind of passing dog?
He jumped in the mouth of one to help his brother.
Don't tell me, with only one machine.
Our futures are intertwined with one another, right?
It appears to be a one-sided love.
Kind people are the ones who have one-sided loves.
Suzaku-san, could you take me to one more place?
The one who did it was Zero!
In order to use the Geass, one must look directly into the opponents' eyes.
Britannia is much too large and powerful of an opponent to fight with just one Geass.
Dammit. four on one.
The viceroy wasn't the only one asking what was going on.
Garbage like you should just die where no one can. let's break this up.
There can be only one messiah.
Just tell me one thing!
Don't let one escape!
I am sitting next to a photographic telescope very similar to the one used by David Gill.
One can ask whether they realised the size of such an undertaking.
We spend all of our time trying to keep one step ahead of all the teachers.
One week of catching, a kid can make more than two years worth of allowance.
When a kid owes me money, that makes me money. Now instead of paying a catcher 20 bucks, I got one for free. It's all profit.
I'd better go talk to Mary on this one.
Yo, Johnny, Frankie says you're one of his best workers, and what's the problem?
Tell him I don't like to see a friend of mine so unhappy, so one more catch, I'll cut him loose.
That's, like, the one thing he told us not to do.
Look, I got a free catcher, I got one of Nick's crew suspended, and I got Nick to turn his back on one of his best friends.
It must be killing him. Now his whole crew is like a chicken with one of its wings cut off.
One. That's what I'm talking about.
Except, they let Danny Steele play there, but that's only because he smells like one of those scented candles.
I respectfully ask you one Let us share the soccer pitch. You're never gonna play on our soccer field.
Yeah, but not the right one.
News and current affairs
One successful gold investor recently explained to me that stock prices languished for a more than a decade before the Dow Jones index crossed the 1,000 mark in the early 1980's.
One answer, of course, is a complete collapse of the US dollar.
One senses something like the making of an American-Asian dominated universe.
For a short while, many prominent people - Albert Einstein, for one - believed that only a world government would be able to ensure global peace.
Most of the weight will remain, and one's life prospects will have worsened significantly.
First, funds from different sources of finance are interchangeable to a certain degree: deficiency of funds for one component of total debt can be supplemented by surplus funds originally aimed at financing other components.
In the long run, America's growth pattern must undergo a structural shift from reliance on debt and consumption one based on Americans vaunted capacity for creativity and innovation.
Using this macro-historical framework, we can see Japanese deflation, European debt, and even the Arab Spring as phases of systemic changes within complex structures that are interacting with one another in a new, multipolar global system.
The INET conference in Berlin showed the need for a new one - a consensus that supports sacrifice in the interest of unity.
Now the world's attention is focussed on Iran, one recipient of Pakistani technology, as the country seemingly keenest to create its own nuclear arsenal.
Nearly one billion people are trapped in chronic hunger - perhaps 100 million more than two years ago.
One is that they are very costly; or, more accurately, the price charged for them is very high, though the cost of producing them is but a fraction of that amount.
Thomas Jefferson compared knowledge to candles: when one is used to light another, it does not diminish the light of the first.
One of these species, orange roughy, has been caught commercially for only around a quarter-century, but already is being fished to the point of collapse.
With soaring deficits, and a rudderless fiscal policy, one does wonder whether a populist administration might recklessly turn to the printing press.
Even so, the fact that very high inflation is possible does not make it probable, so one should be cautious in arguing that higher gold prices are being driven by inflation expectations.
That leaves only about one-third of total federal spending from which to cut, and much of that goes to the defense budget, which Republicans will attempt to protect in the future.
But, while putting the ECB in charge of banking supervision solves one problem, it creates another: can national authorities still be held responsible for saving banks that they no longer supervise?
But that is often the way that European integration proceeds: an incomplete step in one area later requires further steps in related areas.
But a financial crisis does not give policymakers the time that they once had to explain to voters why one step required another.
A couple of weeks later, I was faced with one of those conflicts: a board meeting here, a conference there, another opportunity at the same time somewhere else.
The Internet, one of the great inventions of the modern Western world, has shown itself to be a weapon that can be used to incite and train those who wish to cause harm to that world.
One or both of these agencies would then have an account with several billion dollars.
He saw one black male standing inside the house and asked him to come out.
One thing to be learned, if we didn't know this already, is how close racial sensitivities are to the surface of US life, despite the election of a black president.
The field is too full of mines. One of Obama's great achievements is that he made it into a serious topic through the brilliance and subtlety of his rhetoric.