alone

Everyday

1. Alone means without anyone else: if you are alone, nobody is with you. tree →
2. Alone means without help. tree →
3. Alone means only, just that one: «You alone know the secret». tree →
4. «Leave alone» means do not touch or bother. tree →

In the lessons

the work or amount of one person without help; in work problems the time one worker needs; in safety lessons, never go off alone; phrases «all alone», «leave alone», «let alone», «on your own»

Examples

• Sam alone can paint the fence in 6 hours. tree →
• Mia ate 4 cookies alone. tree →
• The garden alone costs 50 dollars. tree →
• Working alone, Tom picks 30 apples an hour. tree →
• Leave the cat alone, it is sleeping. tree →
• She walked home alone. tree →
• You are not alone, we will help. tree →
• The old man lived alone. tree →
• Never swim alone. tree →
• He can't ride a bike, let alone drive a car. tree →
• Peter was alone on the lagoon. tree →

Note

Marks one part apart from the others. Trap: «alone» in a work problem gives one worker's rate; together the time is shorter, not the sum of the times. Safety: do not go alone with strangers, and tell an adult where you are going. «Alone» is not the same as «lonely» (sad from being alone).

In Jewish tradition

It often stresses that God alone, with no other god, guided Israel. It also describes Jacob left by himself before he wrestled.

Interpretation. "The LORD alone" is the heart of the Shema, the belief that God is one. The rabbis also read Jacob's being alone as the start of his meeting with the angel who gave him the name Israel.

Examples

• How can I myself alone bear your cumbrance, and your burden, and your strife? (Torah DEU.1.12, JPS 1917) tree →
• The LORD alone did lead him, and there was no strange god with Him. (Torah DEU.32.12, JPS 1917) tree →
• And Jacob was left alone; and there wrestled a man with him until the breaking of the day. (Torah GEN.32.24, JPS 1917) tree →
• Ephraim is joined to idols; let him alone. (Prophets HOS.4.17, JPS 1917) tree →
• Behold, I was left alone; these, where were they?' (Prophets ISA.49.21, JPS 1917) tree →
• For Thou art great, and doest wondrous things; Thou art God alone. (Writings PSA.86.10, JPS 1917) tree →

Note

Marks one part apart from the others. Trap: «alone» in a work problem gives one worker's rate; together the time is shorter, not the sum of the times. Safety: do not go alone with strangers, and tell an adult where you are going. «Alone» is not the same as «lonely» (sad from being alone).