Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Whole \Whole\, a. [OE. hole, hol, hal, hool, AS. h[=a]l well, sound, healthy; akin to OFries. & OS. h?l, D. heel, G. heil, Icel. heill, Sw. hel whole, Dan. heel, Goth. hails well, sound, OIr. c?l augury. Cf. Hale, Hail to greet, Heal to cure, Health, Holy.]
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Containing the total amount, number, etc.; comprising all the parts; free from deficiency; all; total; entire; as, the whole earth; the whole solar system; the whole army; the whole nation. ``On their whole host I flew unarmed.''
--Milton.The whole race of mankind.
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Complete; entire; not defective or imperfect; not broken or fractured; unimpaired; uninjured; integral; as, a whole orange; the egg is whole; the vessel is whole.
My life is yet whole in me.
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Possessing, or being in a state of, heath and soundness; healthy; sound; well.
[She] findeth there her friends hole and sound.
--Chaucer.They that be whole need not a physician.
--Matt. ix. 12.When Sir Lancelot's deadly hurt was whole.
--Tennyson.Whole blood. (Law of Descent) See under Blood, n., 2.
Whole note (Mus.), the note which represents a note of longest duration in common use; a semibreve.
Whole number (Math.), a number which is not a fraction or mixed number; an integer.
Whole snipe (Zo["o]l.), the common snipe, as distinguished from the smaller jacksnipe. [Prov. Eng.]
Syn: All; total; complete; entire; integral; undivided; uninjured; unimpaired; unbroken; healthy.
Usage: Whole, Total, Entire, Complete. When we use the word whole, we refer to a thing as made up of parts, none of which are wanting; as, a whole week; a whole year; the whole creation. When we use the word total, we have reference to all as taken together, and forming a single totality; as, the total amount; the total income. When we speak of a thing as entire, we have no reference to parts at all, but regard the thing as an integer, i. e., continuous or unbroken; as, an entire year; entire prosperity. When we speak of a thing as complete, there is reference to some progress which results in a filling out to some end or object, or a perfected state with no deficiency; as, complete success; a complete victory.
All the whole army stood agazed on him.
--Shak.One entire and perfect chrysolite.
--Shak.Lest total darkness should by night regain Her old possession, and extinguish life.
--Milton.So absolute she seems, And in herself complete.
--Milton.
Wiktionary
n. 1 (context maths English) An integer 2 (context maths English) A natural number (positive or non-negative integer) 3 The total count (Example: "The whole number of votes cast.")
WordNet
n. any of the natural numbers (positive or negative) or zero [syn: integer]
Usage examples of "whole number".
Not one of the whole number appeals, by look or gesture, to the pity of the people.
Cuzent, the whole number of plants on an atoll such as Fakarava will scarce exceed, even if it reaches to, one score.
One eye closed, she gnawed on her lip as she appraised it, and a whole number followed by a surprising quantity of zeros ticked off in her brain.
The variation--from month to month--of the proportion of deaths to the whole number living is singular and interesting.
The number of prisoners exceeded the whole number of men between the ages of eighteen and forty-five in several of the States and Territories in the Union.
Now if the whole number of Christians be not contained in one Commonwealth, they are not one person.
But even if one of the whole number be confirmed by impregnable truth, that should be sufficient.
When this term is completed, they are relieved by another party, and in this manner successively, until the whole number have taken their turn.
He told me that probability was the likelihood of one or another event coming to pass according to the ratio of the favourable cases to the whole number of cases possible.
To wash down ship's bread and jam, each guest was given the choice of rum or syrup, and out of the whole number only one man voted - in a defiant tone, and amid shouts of mirth - for 'Trum'!
Three-fourths of the whole number at once took their stand with Abraham.
The whole number of the chief of the fathers of the mighty men of valour were two thousand and six hundred.
Know you that your effeminate soldiery have laid aside the armour of their ancestors, because their puny bodies are too feeble to bear its weight, and that the half of my army here trebles the whole number of the guards of Rome?