adj
Meaning 1
One person wide.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: not-comparable
Examples
- They walked in a single file line.
- Single file traffic
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Phrase guide
single file
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adv
Meaning 2
In a line or queue one person wide.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: not-comparable
Examples
- They walked single file.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Meaning 3
A line or queue one person wide.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: uncountable, usually
Examples
- They walked in a single file.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Meaning 4
a line of persons or things ranged one behind the other
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: file, Indian file
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: line
Narrower terms: snake dance, column
History
Etymology
No etymology was provided for this word.
Across languages
Translations
23 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Māori: haukaiwahine — Translations
- Turkish: tekli — Translations
- Turkish: tek şeritli — Translations
- Catalan: en fila índia — line or queue one person wide
- Chinese Mandarin: 魚貫而行 /鱼贯而行 (yúguàn‘érxíng) — line or queue one person wide
- Esperanto: anservice — line or queue one person wide
- French: queue leu leu — line or queue one person wide
- French: file indienne — line or queue one person wide
- Italian: fila indiana — line or queue one person wide
- Māori: haukaiwahine — line or queue one person wide
- Portuguese: fila indiana — line or queue one person wide
- Russian: друг за другом (drug za drúgom) — line or queue one person wide
- Russian: гусько́м (gusʹkóm) — line or queue one person wide
- Spanish: fila india — line or queue one person wide
- Turkish: tek sıra halinde — line or queue one person wide
- French: file indienne — Translations
- Galician: fila india — Translations
- German: Gänsemarsch — Translations
- Italian: fila indiana — Translations
- Portuguese: fila indiana — Translations
- Romanian: șir indian — Translations
- Spanish: fila india — Translations
- Turkish: tekli sıra — Translations