資料來源 : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

One \One\, a. [OE. one, on, an, AS. ["a]n; akin to D. een, OS.
   ["e]n, OFries. ["e]n, ["a]n, G. ein, Dan. een, Sw. en, Icel.
   einn, Goth. ains, W. un, Ir. & Gael. aon, L. unus, earlier
   oinos, oenos, Gr. ? the ace on dice; cf. Skr. ["e]ka. The
   same word as the indefinite article a, an. [root] 299. Cf. 2d
   A, 1st {An}, {Alone}, {Anon}, {Any}, {None}, {Nonce}, {Only},
   {Onion}, {Unit}.]
   1. Being a single unit, or entire being or thing, and no
      more; not multifold; single; individual.

            The dream of Pharaoh is one.          --Gen. xli.
                                                  25.

            O that we now had here But one ten thousand of those
            men in England.                       --Shak.

   2. 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.

   3. 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.

            From the one side of heaven unto the other. --Deut.
                                                  iv. 32.

   4. Closely bound together; undivided; united; constituting a
      whole.

            The church is therefore one, though the members may
            be many.                              --Bp. Pearson

   5. Single in kind; the same; a common.

            One plague was on you all, and on your lords. --1
                                                  Sam. vi. 4.

   6. Single; inmarried. [Obs.]

            Men may counsel a woman to be one.    --Chaucer.

   Note: One is often used in forming compound words, the
         meaning of which is obvious; as, one-armed, one-celled,
         one-eyed, one-handed, one-hearted, one-horned,
         one-idead, one-leaved, one-masted, one-ribbed,
         one-story, one-syllable, one-stringed, one-winged, etc.

   {All one}, of the same or equal nature, or consequence; as,
      he says that it is all one what course you take. --Shak.



   Note: In the ancient phrases, all too dear, all too much, all
         so long, etc., this word retains its appropriate sense
         or becomes intensive.

   2. Even; just. (Often a mere intensive adjunct.) [Obs. or
      Poet.]

            All as his straying flock he fed.     --Spenser.

            A damsel lay deploring All on a rock reclined.
                                                  --Gay.

   {All to}, or {All-to}. In such phrases as ``all to rent,''
      ``all to break,'' ``all-to frozen,'' etc., which are of
      frequent occurrence in our old authors, the all and the to
      have commonly been regarded as forming a compound adverb,
      equivalent in meaning to entirely, completely, altogether.
      But the sense of entireness lies wholly in the word all
      (as it does in ``all forlorn,'' and similar expressions),
      and the to properly belongs to the following word, being a
      kind of intensive prefix (orig. meaning asunder and
      answering to the LG. ter-, HG. zer-). It is frequently to
      be met with in old books, used without the all. Thus
      Wyclif says, ``The vail of the temple was to rent:'' and
      of Judas, ``He was hanged and to-burst the middle:'' i.
      e., burst in two, or asunder.

   {All along}. See under {Along}.

   {All and some}, individually and collectively, one and all.
      [Obs.] ``Displeased all and some.'' --Fairfax.

   {All but}.
      (a) Scarcely; not even. [Obs.] --Shak.
      (b) Almost; nearly. ``The fine arts were all but
          proscribed.'' --Macaulay.

   {All hollow}, entirely, completely; as, to beat any one all
      hollow. [Low]

   {All one}, the same thing in effect; that is, wholly the same
      thing.

   {All over}, over the whole extent; thoroughly; wholly; as,
      she is her mother all over. [Colloq.]

   {All the better}, wholly the better; that is, better by the
      whole difference.

   {All the same}, nevertheless. ``There they [certain
      phenomena] remain rooted all the same, whether we
      recognize them or not.'' --J. C. Shairp. ``But Rugby is a
      very nice place all the same.'' --T. Arnold. -- See also
      under {All}, n.