Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
- adj. Having no part excluded or left out; whole: I read the entire book. See Synonyms at whole.
- adj. With no reservations or limitations; complete: gave us his entire attention.
- adj. All in one piece; intact.
- adj. Of one piece; continuous.
- adj. Not castrated.
- adj. Botany Not having an indented margin: an entire leaf.
- adj. Unmixed or unalloyed; pure or homogenous.
- n. The whole; the entirety.
- n. An uncastrated horse; a stallion.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
- adj. whole; complete
- adj. Having a smooth margin without any indentation.
- adj. Complex-differentiable on all of ℂ.
- adj. Not gelded.
- n. An uncastrated horse; a stallion.
- n. A complete envelope with stamps and all official markings: (prior to the use of envelopes) a page folded and posted.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
- adj. Complete in all parts; undivided; undiminished; whole; full and perfect; not deficient
- adj. Without mixture or alloy of anything; unqualified; morally whole; pure; faithful.
- adj.
- adj. Consisting of a single piece, as a corolla.
- adj. Having an evenly continuous edge, as a leaf which has no kind of teeth.
- adj. Not gelded; -- said of a horse.
- adj. Internal; interior.
- n. Entirely.
- n. A name originally given to a kind of beer combining qualities of different kinds of beer.
from The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Whole; unbroken; undiminished; perfect; not mutilated; complete; having all its normal substance, elements, or parts: as, not an article was left entire.
- In botany, without toothing or division: applied to leaves, petals, etc.
- in heraldry, reaching the sides of the shield and apparently made fast to them: said of a bearing, such as a cross.
- Not castrated or spayed; uncut: as, an entire horse (that is, a stallion as distinguished from a gelding).
- Full; complete; undivided; wholly unshared, undisputed, or unmixed: as, the general had the entire command of the army; to have one's entire confidence.
- Essential; real; true.
- Interior; internal.
- n. The total; the whole matter or thing; entirety.
- n. A kind of malt liquor known also as porter or Stout.
- Entirely; wholly; unreservedly: as, your entire loving brother.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adj. (used of domestic animals) sexually competent
- n. uncastrated adult male horse
- adj. (of leaves or petals) having a smooth edge; not broken up into teeth or lobes
- adj. constituting the full quantity or extent; complete
- adj. constituting the undiminished entirety; lacking nothing essential especially not damaged
Etymologies
Examples
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The masked Queen pictured in the first issue was Manfred Lee, and by Lee's account, in a 1969 letter to _The Armchair Detective, _ the two shared the workload: "[W] e were its entire staff -- you read me -- _entire; _ we did not even have a secretary.
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Now when he has won the title entire nation, tennis loves and his family feeling so proud of him.
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Halsted had operated on enough women and extracted enough tumors to create what he called an entire “cancer storehouse” at Hopkins.
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There are countless dramas within this leela, which I define as the entire theatre of life and all its forms.
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I called the entire abortion problem a tragedy at the Princeton conference, and I stand by it.
Dr. David P. Gushee: Abortion, American Culture And The Limits Of Law
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You can see how that sentence and how what I've told you here are actually not in entire disagreement.
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It would be collective action backed by board of the IMF, "says Ambrose," and, by doing many countries at once, try to restore confidence in entire system.
International Monetary Fund Debates Internal Reforms, Global Economic Growth
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Levy says, "real-time poke will lead to better means marketing, which will spin entire operations in to better tellurian citizens."
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Combo updaters contain entire apps, not just snippets of them.
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When unions fought for safe and fair working conditions, the bosses brought in entire police forces and hired thugs to physically intimidate, injure and kill the workers.
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