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singling out

singling out is the present participle and gerund of single out.

Meaning of single out

Verb

single out (third-person singular simple present singles out, present participle singling out, simple past and past participle singled out)

  1. (idiomatic, transitive) To select (someone or something) from a group and highlight them or treat them differently.
    • Eddie singled out his favorite marble from the bag.
    Synonyms:
    mark out, pick out

Questions about singling out

What is singling out the present participle and gerund of?
Singling out is the present participle and gerund of single out.

Words near singling out in the dictionary

  1. Singley
  2. Singleys
  3. singlicate
  4. singlicates
  5. singling
  6. singling out
  7. singling up
  8. singlings
  9. singlino
  10. singlinos
  11. Singlish

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Adapted from Wiktionary: singling out (page history and authors); single out (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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