SINGLY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does singly mean? 

• SINGLY (adverb)
  The adverb SINGLY has 2 senses:

1. one by one; one at a time

2. apart from others

  Familiarity information: SINGLY used as an adverb is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SINGLY (adverb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

One by one; one at a time

Context example:

they were arranged singly

Antonym:

multiply (in several ways; in a multiple manner)

Pertainym:

single (being or characteristic of a single thing or person)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Apart from others

Synonyms:

individually; on an individual basis; one by one; separately; severally; singly

Context example:

the fine points are treated singly

Pertainym:

single (being or characteristic of a single thing or person)

 Context examples 

A substance whose atoms all have the same atomic number, that cannot be divided into simpler substances, and that singly or in combination constitute all matter.

(Element, NCI Thesaurus)

Defective bone formation involving individual bones, singly or in combination.

(Dysostosis, NLM, Medical Subject Headings)

Metastatic tumor cells found singly or in small clusters in the tissues.

(Disseminated Tumor Cell, NCI Thesaurus)

Any subcellular metabolic process in which at least one of the participants has one or more electrons that singly occupy an electron orbital.

(Free Radical Process, NCI Thesaurus)

G. sulfidifaciens may occur in pairs, chains or singly and is most often isolated from ruminants and pigs and is not a noted human pathogen.

(Globicatella sulfidifaciens, NCI Thesaurus)

Sweeping the glass all around us I could see here and there dots moving singly and in twos and threes and larger numbers—the wolves were gathering for their prey.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

A chronic, inflammatory skin condition characterized by raised, ring shaped eruptions occurring singly or in groups; often on the tops of the hands, feet, elbows, and knees.

(Aggravated Granuloma Annulare, NCI Thesaurus)

It is probable that she will neither love so well, nor flirt so well, as she might do either singly.

(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)

A splendid Midsummer shone over England: skies so pure, suns so radiant as were then seen in long succession, seldom favour even singly, our wave- girt land.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

They are to tilt singly not less than three courses, sire, and the victory to rest with that party which shall have won the greater number of courses, each pair continuing till one or other have the vantage.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)