single entity
collocation in Englishmeaningsofsingleandentity
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single
adjective
uk/ˈsɪŋ.ɡəl/us/ˈsɪŋ.ɡəl/
one ...
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entity
noun[C]
uk/ˈen.tɪ.ti/us/ˈen.t̬ə.t̬i/
something that exists apart from other things, having its own ...
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(Definition ofsingleandentityfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
Examplesofsingle entity
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The media are not asingleentity, but having said that, newspapers and commercial television stations are businesses, motivated by economic concerns.
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The first step is to estimate the increase in profit that hospitals can obtain by acting as asingleentity.
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It is a mistake, however, to view the two communities as asingleentity.
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Despite these reservations, it was decided to place the entire rate book into a database, making each separate property unit asingleentity.
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In theatrical performance, poetry, body, and meaning become asingleentity.
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Until modern times, magic, religion, science, and medicine were asingleentity.
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Given the spatio-temporal discreteness of each world asingleentitycannot enjoy transworld identity.
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It is too easy to speak of birth control or family planning as asingleentity.
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Of course, it remains possible that empathy really is asingleentitythat happens to hold interdisciplinary relevance.
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If the three channels are controlled by asingleentity, then this monopolist will choose to broadcast each type of news.
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On the other hand, global or macro-conceptualisations view the care setting as asingleentity, and examine the impact of the whole setting on individuals.
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Even the clear differences of presentation between the 1605 and 1607 books should never detract from consideration of the cycle as asingleentity.
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They are therefore different from such other singular nouns as boy and girl, which denote only asingleentity.
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Even very long for this corpus, three pages or so, texts were correctly understood as describing asingleentity.
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In certain cases, the algorithm incorrectly produces two segments for asingleentity.
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Interestingly, this looser definition coincides with the perception that delirium cannot be described as asingleentity.
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This multiple role-playing by asingleentityis different in degree, but not in kind, from the many phases and roles each of us experiences during a single life journey.
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