ones

1. 1
   noun

   Plural of one. Use this when you mean more than one of the digit or number.

   The accountant wrote a neat column of ones down the page.

   All the ones in his handwriting looked like sevens.

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2. 2
   pronoun

   Plural of one. Use it to point to several things already named, like the red ones.

   I like the blue ones better than the green.

   Are these the ones you wanted from the shelf?

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3. 3
   nounplural

   A sports club's main team, not its backup or reserve team.

   Like the top team a club puts on the field, not the practice squad.

   Our club's ones train on Tuesday evenings while the reserves practice apart.

   He was moved up from the reserves to the ones this season.

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4. 4
   verb

   The form of one used in the present with he, she, it, or a singular noun such as the dog or water.

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5. 5
   nounslangUKplural

   In a British prison, the cells on the ground floor.

   Like the rooms on the bottom floor of a tall building.

   New arrivals usually get put on the ones before earning a move upstairs.

   He spent his first month on the ones near the wing office.

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