Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Having no part excluded or left out; whole: synonym: whole.
- adjective Constituting the full amount, extent, or duration.
- adjective Not broken, decayed, or divided; intact.
- adjective With no reservations or limitations; complete.
- adjective Not castrated.
- adjective Botany Not having an indented margin.
- adjective Archaic Unmixed or unalloyed; pure or homogenous.
- noun The whole; the entirety.
- noun An uncastrated horse; a stallion.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Entirely; wholly; unreservedly: as, your entire loving brother.
- 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.
- noun The total; the whole matter or thing; entirety.
- noun A kind of malt liquor known also as
porter or Stout.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Complete in all parts; undivided; undiminished; whole; full and perfect; not deficient
- adjective Without mixture or alloy of anything; unqualified; morally whole; pure; faithful.
- adjective Consisting of a single piece, as a corolla.
- adjective Having an evenly continuous edge, as a leaf which has no kind of teeth.
- adjective Not gelded; -- said of a horse.
- adjective obsolete Internal; interior.
- noun Entirely.
- noun (Brewing), engraving A name originally given to a kind of beer combining qualities of different kinds of beer.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective
whole ;complete - adjective botany Having a
smooth margin without anyindentation . - adjective complex analysis Complex-differentiable on all of
ℂ . - adjective of a male animal
Not gelded . - noun An uncastrated horse; a
stallion . - noun philately A complete
envelope with stamps and allofficial markings: (prior to the use of envelopes) a page folded and posted.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective (used of domestic animals) sexually competent
- noun uncastrated adult male horse
- adjective (of leaves or petals) having a smooth edge; not broken up into teeth or lobes
- adjective constituting the full quantity or extent; complete
- adjective constituting the undiminished entirety; lacking nothing essential especially not damaged
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
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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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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.
The Emperor of All Maladies Siddhartha Mukherjee 2010
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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.
The Emperor of All Maladies Siddhartha Mukherjee 2010
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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.
The Emperor of All Maladies Siddhartha Mukherjee 2010
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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 Dr. David P. Gushee 2011
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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 Dr. David P. Gushee 2011
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You can see how that sentence and how what I've told you here are actually not in entire disagreement.
msagara: Good Enough is Never Enough. Maybe... msagara 2009
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