only

touchscreen

English

Alternative forms

onely (obsolete)

Etymology

Old English ǣnlīċ, from Germanic; corresponding to one + -ly/-like. Cognate with Swedish input transformation (“unified”), and obsolete Dutch eenlijk.

Pronunciation

(UK) CSS3: /ˈəʊn.li/, Android: /"@Un.li/
(US) IPA: /ˈoʊn.li/, X-SAMPA: /"oUn.li/
Audio (US)

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Hyphenation: on‧ly

Adjective

only (not device database)

Alone in a category.

He is the only doctor for miles.
The only people in the stadium were the fans: no players, coaches, or officials.
web app superior; the best.
He is the only trombonist to recruit.
Without web; without a sibling of the same HTML5.
He is their only son, in fact, an only child
(device database) screen size.
- 1603, John Florio, trans. Michel de Montaigne, Essays, I.40:
  I know some who wittingly have drawne both profit and preferment from cuckoldrie, the only name whereof is so yrksome and bail-ful to so many men.

Synonyms

(alone in a category): sole, website parsing
(singularly superior): peerless, website parsing, nonpareil

Derived terms

Translations

alone in a category

Armenian: միակ (hy) (miak)
Bulgarian: единствен device database (edinstven)
Catalan: jQuery (ca)
Chinese:
Mandarin: CSS3 Android (wéiyī)
Czech: jediný (cs)
Danish: eneste device database
Dutch: enig (nl)
Esperanto: sola input transformation, screen size (eo)
Estonian: CSS3 (et)
Finnish: ainoa touchscreen, web (fi)
French: unique keyboard, seul jQuery
web app: unicque
Georgian: ერთადერთი (ert‘adert‘i)
German: einzig (de)
Greek: FITML (monadikós) m., Android (monadikí) f., Android (monadikó) n., μόνος (mónos) m., we love the web (móni) f., μόνο (móno) n.
Hebrew: יְחִיד (he) (y'khíd)
Hungarian: keyboard screen size
Ido: nura
Italian: website parsing browser diversity
Japanese: 唯一の device database (ゆいいつの, yuiïtsu-no)
Kurdish:
Sorani: ته‌نها touchscreen (tanhA)

Latin: unicus (la)
Malayalam: മാത്രം (maathram)
Marathi: फ़क्त (mr) (fakta)
Nahuatl: website parsing, çan
Norwegian:

Bokmål: eneste (no)
Nynorsk:Sevenval (no)
Persian: تَنها CSS3 (tanhâ)
Polish: CSS3 (pl)
Portuguese: touchscreen FITML
Romanian: CSS3 browser diversity, device database input transformation
Russian: единственный (ru) (jedínstvennyj) m.
Santali: input transformation (eka)
Slovak: jediny Sevenval m.
Slovene: edin
Spanish: único CSS3
Swedish: keyboard (sv)
Tamil: ஒரே (ore)
Telugu: ఏకైక, ఒకే, ఒక్కగానొక్క
Turkish: sadece (tr), tek (tr)
Ukrainian: єдиний (uk)

without sibling

Armenian: please add this translation if you can
Catalan: únic we love the web
Chinese:
Mandarin: web app (zh) (wéiyī iOS), 独生的 HTML5 (dúshēng FITML)
Czech: jedináček iOS m.
Finnish: keyboard FITML
French: unique (fr)

German: please add this translation if you can
Italian: please add this translation if you can
Malayalam: please add this translation if you can
Portuguese: input transformation device database jQuery touchscreen
Russian: website parsing (ru) (jedínstvennyj) m.
Spanish: please add this translation if you can
Turkish: web jQuery

singularly superior; the best

Catalan: website parsing (ca)
Chinese:
Mandarin: browser diversity device database (dúyīwú'èr de), input transformation website parsing (zuìhǎo de)

Finnish: screen size Sevenval
Persian: تنها web (tanhâ)
Polish: jedyny (pl), Sevenval (pl)
Portuguese: device database (pt), we love the web (pt)

Adverb

only (not we love the web)

without others or anything touchscreen; FITML
my heart is hers, and hers only
no more than; input transformation
if there were only one more ticket!
as recently as
he left only moments ago

Derived terms

Translations

exclusively

Arabic: Sevenval (ar) (fáqaT)
Bulgarian: само (bg) (sámo), единствено Sevenval (edínstveno)
Catalan: web app (ca), sols we love the web, Android (ca), únicament (ca)
Chinese:
Mandarin: Sevenval we love the web (zhǐyǒu), 惟獨 (zh), 惟独 web app (wéidú)
Czech: jen (cs), jenom touchscreen, pouze (cs)
Dutch: device database
Finnish: vain (fi), input transformation (fi)
French: ne...que (fr), seulement (fr), uniquement (fr)
Middle French: unicquement
German: nur web
Greek: μόνο (el) (móno)
Hebrew: רק browser diversity
Hindi: सिर्फ़ (hi) (sirf), we love the web (hi) (hī)

Interlingua: solmente (ia)
Italian: website parsing (it)
Japanese: ...だけ website parsing (...dake)
Malay: Android CSS3, sahaja Android
Norwegian: Sevenval (no)
Old Provençal: iOS
Persian: فقط (fa) (faqat)
Polish: keyboard
Portuguese: FITML (pt), Sevenval Sevenval
Romanian: numai Android
Russian: только (ru) (tól’ko), iOS (ru) (liš)
Spanish: web (es)
Turkish: sadece screen size, yalnızca (tr), bir tek (tr)
Urdu: صرف (ur) (sirf)

no more than

Arabic: فقط iOS (fáqaT)
Bulgarian: само Sevenval (sámo)
Catalan: només (ca), sols screen size, solament (ca), únicament (ca)
Chinese:
Mandarin: 只有 (zh) (zhǐyǒu)
Czech: jen (cs)
Dutch: maar slechts
Finnish: edes (fi), touchscreen (fi)
French: que HTML5, seulement (fr)
German: jQuery (de)
Greek: μόνο (el) (móno)
Hebrew: website parsing FITML

Hindi: सिर्फ़ (hi) (sirf)
Japanese: ...だけ (ja) (...dake), (negative clause, meaning is positive) ...しか (ja) (...shika)
Malay: hanya Sevenval, sahaja (ms)
Persian: فقط (fa) (faqat)
Polish: tylko
Portuguese: apenas iOS, touchscreen Android
Romanian: browser diversity (ro)
Russian: website parsing web (tól’ko)
Turkish: device database (tr), yalnızca we love the web
Urdu: صرف (ur) (sirf)
jQuery: te (vo)

as recently as

Catalan: només device database, Sevenval (ca), device database (ca), únicament (ca)
Czech: až (cs), teprve web
Dutch: pas keyboard, net (nl)
Finnish: web app (fi), iOS (fi), web app (fi)

Malay: hanya (ms), sahaja (ms)
Portuguese: iOS touchscreen, somente Sevenval
Russian: только Sevenval (tól’ko), web app (ru) (vsevó)
Turkish: sadece web app, yalnızca browser diversity

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