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RELATED WORDS : as one at one at one time beneath one beyond one fast one for each one for one for one thing from each one go one better hundred and one in one case in one ear loved one naked as the day one was born number one number one wood on one hand on the one hand one one after another one and all one and only one at a time one c one dollar bill one horse one hundred one hundred eighty one hundred fifteen one hundred fifty one hundred fifty-five one hundred five one hundred forty one hundred forty-five one hundred ninety one hundred one one hundred seventy one hundred seventy-five one hundred sixty one hundred sixty-five one hundred ten one hundred thirty one hundred thirty-five one hundred twenty one hundred twenty-five one iron one million million one million million million one of the boys one of these days one one's coattails one percent one piece one shot one sided one thousand one thousand million one thousand thousand one time one upmanship pull a fast one pull a fast one on put one across put one over rolled into one six of one and half a dozen of square one thousand and one nights to each one to one ear young one

WORDNET DICTIONARY

Adverbial one by one has 3 senses

• one by one(r = adv.all) one after another, one at a time - in single file; "the prisoners came out one by one"
• one by one(r = adv.all) by the piece - one piece at a time; "she sold the plates by the piece"
• one by one(r = adv.all) individually, on an individual basis, separately, severally, singly - apart from others; "taken individually, the rooms were, in fact, square"; "the fine points are treated singly"

THESAURUS

one by one

adrift, alone, apart, apart from, apiece, aside from, asunder, away from, by itself, each, each to each, in the abstract, in the singular, in twain, in two, independently, individually, once, particularly, per annum, per capita, per se, piecemeal, respectively, separately, severally, single-handedly, singly, singularly

ROGET THESAURUS

one by one

Disjunction

N disjunction, disconnection, disunity, disunion, disassociation, disengagement, discontinuity, abjunction, cataclasm, inconnection, abstraction, abstractedness, isolation, insularity, insulation, oasis, island, separateness, severalty, disjecta membra, dispersion, apportionment, separation, parting, circumcision, detachment, segregation, divorce, sejunction, seposition, diduction, diremption, discerption, elision, caesura, break, fracture, division, subdivision, rupture, compartition, dismemberment, dislocation, luxation, severance, disseverance, scission, rescission, abscission, laceration, dilaceration, disruption, abruption, avulsion, divulsion, section, resection, cleavage, fission, partibility, separability, fissure, breach, rent, split, rift, crack, slit, incision, dissection anatomy, decomposition, cutting instrument, buzzsaw, circular saw, rip saw, separatist, disjoined, discontinuous, multipartite, abstract, disjunctive, secant, isolated, insular, separate, disparate, discrete, apart, asunder, far between, loose, free, unattached, unannexed, unassociated, unconnected, distinct, adrift, straggling, rift, reft, scissile, divisible, discerptible, partible, separable, separately, one by one, severally, apart, adrift, asunder, in twain, in the abstract, abstractedly.

Speciality

N speciality, specialite, individuality, individuity, particularity, peculiarity, idiocrasy, personality, characteristic, mannerism, idiosyncrasy, specificness, singularity, reading, version, lection, state, trait, distinctive feature, technicality, differentia, particulars, details, items, counts, minutiae, I, self, I myself, myself, himself, herself, itself, special, particular, individual, specific, proper, personal, original, private, respective, definite, determinate, especial, certain, esoteric, endemic, partial, party, peculiar, appropriate, several, characteristic, diagnostic, exclusive, singular, idiomatic, idiotypical, typical, this, that, yon, yonder, specially, especially, particularly, in particular, in propria persona, ad hominem, for my part, each, apiece, one by one, one at a time, severally, respectively, each to each, seriatim, in detail, in great detail, in excruciating detail, in mind-numbing detail, bit by bit, pro hac vice, pro re nata, namely, that is to say, for example, id est, exemplia gratia, e, g, i, e, videlicet, viz, to wit, le style est l'homme meme.

Unity

N unity, oneness, individuality, solitude, isolation, unification, one, unit, ace, individual, none else, no other, one, sole, single, solitary, unitary, individual, apart, alone, kithless, unaccompanied, unattended, solus, single-handed, singular, odd, unique, unrepeated, azygous, first and last, isolated, insular, monospermous, unific, uniflorous, unifoliate, unigenital, uniliteral, unijocular, unimodal, unimodular, lone, lonely, lonesome, desolate, dreary, insecable, inseverable, indiscerptible, compact, indivisible, atomic, irresolvable, singly, alone, by itself, per se, only, apart, in the singular number, in the abstract, one by one, one at a time, simply, one and a half, sesqui-, natura il fece, e poi roppe la stampa, du fort au faible, two souls with but a single thought, two hearts that beat as one.

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