entire
noun
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Pronunciation: /ɪnˈtaɪə/ / /ənˈtaɪə/ / /ɪnˈtaɪɚ/
adj
Etymology: From Middle English entere, enter, borrowed from Anglo-Norman entier, from Latin integrum, accusative of integer (“whole”), from Proto-Italic *əntagros (“untouched”). Doublet of entier and integer.
- Whole; complete.
“We had the entire building to ourselves for the evening.”
“No man is an Iland, intire of it ſelfe; euery man is a peece of the Continent, a part of the maine; […]”
- Having a smooth margin without any indentation.
“Spores tetrahedral, paraphyses mastoid-claviform, scales smooth, entire.”
- Consisting of a single piece, as a corolla.
- Complex-differentiable on all of ℂ.
- Not gelded.
“On top of that, he was entire, which meant his bloodline could carry on.”
- Morally whole; pure; sheer.
“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.
“Depp is the wound, that dints the parts entire”
noun
Etymology: From Middle English entere, enter, borrowed from Anglo-Norman entier, from Latin integrum, accusative of integer (“whole”), from Proto-Italic *əntagros (“untouched”). Doublet of entier and integer.
- The whole of something; the entirety.
“In the entire of the Poems we never hear of a merchant ship of the Greeks.”
“‘Then is the City Magistrate the entire of your family now?’”
- An uncastrated horse; a stallion.
“He asked why Hijaz was an entire. You know what an entire is, do you not, Anna? A stallion which has not been castrated.”
- 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.