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singlet

Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English 5++朗文当代英语 5++LDOCE 5++朗文 5++
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sin·glet /ˈsɪŋɡlɪt/ noun [countable] British English  DCCa piece of clothing that you wear for sport which covers the top part of your body but not your arms 无袖汗衫,运动背心
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singletWe set up an apparatus in which pairs of protons, A and B, are produced in a singlet state.I put on a singlet and a pair of nylon running shorts.Self-destructive Melissa, that kooky chick who sometimes wore braces over a singlet to hold up her baggy pants.Studies on a range of alternative singlet forms of basic hydrocarbons have been done.The sweat was still pouring out of me, and my shorts and singlet were soaked.Wu Tak Seng himself is sitting on a varnished wooden chair in his doorway, in singlet and baggy shorts.They were the same, full of khaki shirts, khaki socks and khaki singlets.A fat man in a white singlet barged in, then barged out again.
sin·glet nounChineseSyllable
of a clothing Corpus for wear you that piece sport


singlet
singlet /ˈsɪŋɡlət, ˈsɪŋɡlɪt/ noun [countable] British English
a piece of clothing that you wear for sport which covers the top part of your body but not your arms


sing·letBrE /ˈsɪŋɡlət/ 🔊NAmE /ˈsɪŋɡlət/ 🔊 noun (BrE) a piece of clothing without sleeves, worn under or instead of a shirt; a similar piece of clothing worn by runners, etc. 背心;无袖汗衫;运动背心   compare vest noun (1)