What (who) is entire - definition
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Entire (disambiguation)
entire
Frequency: The word is one of the 1500 most common words in English.
You use entire when you want to emphasize that you are referring to the whole of something, for example, the whole of a place, time, or population.
He had spent his entire life in China as a doctor...
There are only 60 swimming pools in the entire country...
= whole
ADJ: det ADJ [emphasis]
entire
I. a.
1.
Whole, complete, perfect, undivided, unbroken, undiminished, unimpaired.
2.
Full, complete, plenary, thorough, unalloyed.
3.
Mere, sheer, pure, unmixed, unmingled, unmitigated, unalloyed.
4.
(Bot.) With even margins, not toothed, not notched.
II. n.
Porter, stout.
entire
[?n't???, ?n-]
¦ adjective
1. with no part left out; whole.
without qualification; absolute.
2. not broken, damaged, or decayed.
3. (of a male horse) not castrated.
4. Botany (of a leaf) without indentations or division into leaflets.
Origin
ME: from OFr. entier, based on L. integer 'untouched, whole', from in- 'not' + tangere 'to touch'.
Wikipedia
Entire
Entire may refer to:
- Entire function, a function that is holomorphic on the whole complex plane
- Entire (animal), an indication that an animal is not neutered
- Entire (botany), a term in botany
Pronunciation examples for entire
1. of the entire universe-- entire world
Weapons of Math Destruction _ Cathy O'Neil _ Talks at Google
2. to the entire living world, entire universe.
Ariyaratne + More _ Talks at Google
3. The entire ocean.
The entire world!
Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl (2003)
4. entire book.
Extra Lives _ Tom Bissell _ Talks at Google
5. entire night.
Charles Phan _ Vietnamese Home Cooking _ Talks at Google
Examples of use of entire
1. And soon after that, the entire world in fact, probably the entire Universe, learnt the details.
2. The entire infrastructure is in a dilapidated state and the entire sector is in need of urgent development work.
3. The three of us are responsible for the entire sector here," one said, his hand gesturing towards the entire wadi.
4. "We will start operations in the entire country, in the entire province," the group‘s spokesman, Maulvi Umar, said.
5. Who is a bigger goon than us ... we have left the entire world and the entire world has abandoned us.