Meaning of एक in English

This word is properly an adjective, but is commonly called the indefinite article. It is used before nouns of the singular number only, and signifies one, or any, but somewhat less emphatically. In such expressions as "twice an hour," "once an age," a shilling an ounce (see 2d A, 2), it has a distributive force, and is equivalent to each, every.
If; -- a word used by old English authors.
A suffix indicating that the substance, in the name of which it appears, is a ketone; as, acetone.
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 hydrocarbonsl as, nonone.
Being a single unit, or entire being or thing, and no more; not multifold; single; individual.
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.
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.
Closely bound together; undivided; united; constituting a whole.
Single in kind; the same; a common.
Single; inmarried.
A single unit; as, one is the base of all numbers.
A symbol representing a unit, as 1, or i.
A single person or thing.
Any person, indefinitely; a person or body; as, what one would have well done, one should do one's self.
To cause to become one; to gather into a single whole; to unite; to assimilite.
One only, as distinguished from more than one; consisting of one alone; individual; separate; as, a single star.
Alone; having no companion.
Hence, unmarried; as, a single man or woman.
Not doubled, twisted together, or combined with others; as, a single thread; a single strand of a rope.
Performed by one person, or one on each side; as, a single combat.
Uncompounded; pure; unmixed.
Not deceitful or artful; honest; sincere.
Simple; not wise; weak; silly.
To select, as an individual person or thing, from among a number; to choose out from others; to separate.
To sequester; to withdraw; to retire.
To take alone, or one by one.
To take the irrregular gait called single-foot;- said of a horse. See Single-foot.
A unit; one; as, to score a single.
The reeled filaments of silk, twisted without doubling to give them firmness.
A handful of gleaned grain.
A game with but one player on each side; -- usually in the plural.
A hit by a batter which enables him to reach first base only.
In concord or friendship; in agreement (with each other); as, to be, bring, make, or set, at one, i. e., to be or bring in or to a state of agreement or reconciliation.
Of the same opinion; agreed; as, on these points we are at one.
Together.
The old plural of Eye.