entire
Pronunciation Adjective
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Pronunciation Adjective
entire (not comparable)
- (sometimes postpositive) Whole; complete.
- We had the entire building to ourselves for the evening.
- 1624, John Donne, “17. Meditation”, in Deuotions upon Emergent Occasions, and Seuerall Steps in My Sicknes: […], London: Printed by A[ugustine] M[atthews] for Thomas Iones, OCLC 55189476 ↗; republished as Geoffrey Keynes, John Sparrow, editor, Devotions upon Emergent Occasions: […], Cambridge: At the University Press, 1923, OCLC 459265555 ↗, lines 2–3, page 98 ↗:
- No man is an Iland, intire of it selfe; every man is a peece of the Continent, a part of the maine; {{...}
- (botany) Having a smooth margin without any indentation.
- (botany) Consisting of a single piece, as a corolla.
- (complex analysis, of a complex function) Complex-differentiable on all of ℂ.
- (of a, male animal) Not gelded.
- morally whole; pure; sheer
- c. 1596–1599, William Shakespeare, “The Second Part of Henry the Fourth, […]”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First Folio), London: Printed by Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358 ↗, [Act II, scene iv]:
- See now, whether pure fear and entire cowardice doth not make thee
wrong this virtuous gentlewoman to close with us.
- No man had ever a heart more entire to the king.
- Internal; interior.
- French: entier, entière
- German: ganz, gesamt
- Italian: intero, intera
- Portuguese: inteiro
- Russian: це́лый
- Spanish: entero
entire
- (now, rare) The whole of something; the entirety.
- 1876, WE Gladstone, Homeric Synchronism:
- In the entire of the Poems we never hear of a merchant ship of the Greeks.
- 1924, EM Forster, A Passage to India, Penguin 2005, p. 19:
- ‘Then is the City Magistrate the entire of your family now?’
- 1876, WE Gladstone, Homeric Synchronism:
- An uncastrated horse; a stallion.
- 2005, James Meek, The People's Act of Love (Canongate 2006, p. 124)
- He asked why Hijaz was an entire. You know what an entire is, do you not, Anna? A stallion which has not been castrated.
- 2005, James Meek, The People's Act of Love (Canongate 2006, p. 124)
- (philately) A complete envelope with stamps and all official markings: (prior to the use of envelopes) a page folded and posted.
- Porter or stout as delivered from the brewery.
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