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Whole   /hoʊl/   Listen
Whole

adjective
1.
Including all components without exception; being one unit or constituting the full amount or extent or duration; complete.  "A whole wardrobe for the tropics" , "The whole hog" , "A whole week" , "The baby cried the whole trip home" , "A whole loaf of bread"  Antonym: fractional.
2.
(of siblings) having the same parents.  Antonym: half.
3.
Not injured.  Synonyms: unharmed, unhurt, unscathed.
4.
Exhibiting or restored to vigorous good health.  Synonym: hale.  "Whole in mind and body" , "A whole person again"
5.
Acting together as a single undiversified whole.  Synonyms: solid, unanimous.
noun
1.
All of something including all its component elements or parts.  "The whole of American literature"
2.
An assemblage of parts that is regarded as a single entity.  Synonym: unit.  "The team is a unit"
adverb
1.
To a complete degree or to the full or entire extent ('whole' is often used informally for 'wholly').  Synonyms: all, altogether, completely, entirely, totally, wholly.  "Entirely satisfied with the meal" , "It was completely different from what we expected" , "Was completely at fault" , "A totally new situation" , "The directions were all wrong" , "It was not altogether her fault" , "An altogether new approach" , "A whole new idea"  Antonym: partly.



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... everywhere south of the Potomac, if not out of politics. The Democratic victory in 1912 flooded all the governmental posts at Washington with Southerners, and they remain in power to this day, and some of them are among the chief officers of the nation. But in the whole vast corps there are, we believe, but ten who would be accepted as gentlemen by Southern standards, and only three of these are in posts of any importance. In the two houses of Congress there ...
— The American Credo - A Contribution Toward the Interpretation of the National Mind • George Jean Nathan

... not in thought: and though there must always be some one the most cunning in the world, as well as some one the most wise, these two superlatives will fare very differently in the world. In the case of cunning, the shrewdness of a whole people, of a whole generation, may doubtless be combined against that of the one, and so triumph over it; which was pretty much the case with Napoleon. But although a man of the greatest cunning can hardly conceal his designs and true character from millions of unfriendly eyes, ...
— The Life of John Sterling • Thomas Carlyle

... the streams rushed and thundered down, and the main river swept by the walls of the fort with a sullen roar; while, as if dejected and utterly out of heart, the British flag, which had flaunted out so bravely from the flagstaff, as if bidding defiance to the whole hill-country and all its swarthy tribes, hung down and clung and wrapped itself about the flagstaff, the halyard singing a dolefully weird strain in a minor key, while the wind whistled by it on its ...
— Fix Bay'nets - The Regiment in the Hills • George Manville Fenn

... should be advisory to the central authority which is constituted to administer the policy of wage settlement as a whole. The functions of this central authority in regard to the formulation and declaration of the living wage for men and women have already been discussed. It should be provided, however, that the central authority should make no living wage declaration ...
— The Settlement of Wage Disputes • Herbert Feis

... about the size of a man's hand, carrying away the anterior half of the 6th rib, fracturing the 5th rib, lacerating the lower portion of the lowest lobe of the left lung, and perforating the diaphragm and the stomach. The whole mass of the discharge together with fragments of clothing were driven into the muscles and cavity of the chest. When first seen by Dr. Beaumont about a half hour after the accident, a portion of the lung, as large as a turkey's egg was found protruding ...
— Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine • George M. Gould


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