Individual
[ɪndɪ'vɪdjʊ(ə)l] or [,ɪndɪ'vɪdʒuəl]
Definition
(noun.) a single organism.
(adj.) being or characteristic of a single thing or person; 'individual drops of rain'; 'please mark the individual pages'; 'they went their individual ways' .
(adj.) separate and distinct from others of the same kind; 'mark the individual pages'; 'on a case-by-case basis' .
(adj.) characteristic of or meant for a single person or thing; 'an individual serving'; 'single occupancy'; 'a single bed' .
(adj.) concerning one person exclusively; 'we all have individual cars'; 'each room has a private bath' .
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Definition
(a.) Not divided, or not to be divided; existing as one entity, or distinct being or object; single; one; as, an individual man, animal, or city.
(a.) Of or pertaining to one only; peculiar to, or characteristic of, a single person or thing; distinctive; as, individual traits of character; individual exertions; individual peculiarities.
(n.) A single person, animal, or thing of any kind; a thing or being incapable of separation or division, without losing its identity; especially, a human being; a person.
(n.) An independent, or partially independent, zooid of a compound animal.
(n.) The product of a single egg, whether it remains a single animal or becomes compound by budding or fission.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
a. Particular, special, separate, single, one.
n. Person, personage, character, being, somebody, some one.
Editor: Priscilla
Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Personal, specific, peculiar, indivisible, identical, singular, idiosyncratic, special,single, separate, particular
ANT:General, common, collective, plural
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Definition
adj. not divisible without loss of identity: subsisting as one: pertaining to one only of a group where each constituent is different from the others: (Milt.) inseparable.—n. a single person animal plant or thing.—n. Individualisā′tion.—v.t. Individ′ualīse to stamp with individual character: to particularise.—ns. Individ′ualism individual character: independent action as opposed to co-operation: that theory which opposes interference of the State in the affairs of individuals opposed to Socialism or Collectivism: (logic) the doctrine that individual things alone are real: the doctrine that nothing exists but the individual self; Individ′ualist.—adj. Individualist′ic.—n. Individual′ity separate and distinct existence: oneness: distinctive character.—adv. Individ′ually.—v.t. Individ′uāte to individualise: to make single.—n. Individuā′tion the question as to what it is that distinguishes one organised or living being or one thinking being from all others.
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Examples
- While there are several distinct parts of this device, each having its individual function, they may be considered as a whole under the general term of the escapement. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- The troops engaged in them will have to look to the detailed reports of their individual commanders for the full history of those deeds. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- But every subject at some phase of its development should possess, what is for the individual concerned with it, an aesthetic quality. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- Such a creature as a reptile has in its brain a capacity for experience, but when the individual dies, its experience dies with it. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- This, as I have said before, is not a complete confession; but nothing is stated of consequence to any individual which is not strictly true. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
- The circulating capital of a society is in this respect different from that of an individual. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- His real use, his real importance depended upon his individual quality. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Could such an individual be found--' said the lady. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- I bought it of an individual that he gave it to, and that lived here after him. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- A monopoly granted either to an individual or to a trading company, has the same effect as a secret in trade or manufactures. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- They had generally acquired some of the vices of civilization, but none of the virtues, except in individual cases. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- It might as well be something about Mars or about some fanciful country unless it fructifies in the individual's own life. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- Out of experience come warrings, the conflict of opinions and acts within the individual and between individuals. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- He described this republic; shewed how it gave privilege to each individual in the state, to rise to consequence, and even to temporary sovereignty. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- And is justice dimmer in the individual, and is her form different, or is she the same which we found her to be in the State? Plato. The Republic.
- However, private individuals and companies continued to invent and improve, and the civil war in America revolutionised the systems of warfare and its weapons. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- Out of experience come warrings, the conflict of opinions and acts within the individual and between individuals. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- The excess of liberty, whether in States or individuals, seems only to pass into excess of slavery. Plato. The Republic.
- Individuals use one another so as to get desired results, without reference to the emotional and intellectual disposition and consent of those used. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- The evils from which society suffers are set down to the efforts of misguided individuals to transgress these boundaries. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- We together fixed the prices to be paid for the negro labor, whether rendered to the government or to individuals. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- It is used in a similar manner in nearly all the large stores, and by many individuals in their business correspondence. William K. David. Secrets of Wise Men, Chemists and Great Physicians.
- What reason, it may be asked, is there for supposing in these cases that two individuals ever concur in reproduction? Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
- But I should pine after my kind; no, not my kind, for love for my species could never fill my heart to the utter exclusion of love for individuals. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
- It involves me in correspondence with public bodies and with private individuals anxious for the welfare of their species all over the country. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- Most individuals would find it hard to come up to his level. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- If I met a dozen individuals during that month who were not going to Europe shortly, I have no distinct remembrance of it now. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- Socially the distinction has to do with the part of life which is dependent upon authority and that where individuals are free to advance. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- According to this theory, social control of individuals rests upon the instinctive tendency of individuals to imitate or copy the actions of others. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- Differences of economic opportunity then dictate what the future callings of individuals are to be. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
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