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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
entire
adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
full/entire/whole panoply of sth (=the whole range of something)
the total/whole/entire population
▪ The entire population will be celebrating.
the whole/entire world
▪ Today the whole world is threatened with pollution.
the whole/full/entire length of sth
▪ The camera looks down the full length of the street.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
area
▪ One has to consider that an entire area has been hit and thousands of people are homeless.
▪ Soon, the firebases could cover almost the entire area of operations.
▪ The entire area was so altered it took her several minutes to establish where their cottage had been.
▪ The stench of low tide hung over the entire area, from the river all the way over to the Five Points.
▪ Thus only counts covering this entire area are likely to give a true indication of winter status.
▪ As it was, however, units were spread out across the entire area of operations.
▪ Work up and down the head covering the entire area.
▪ Before we set up for the night, we made a sweep of the entire area.
body
▪ Her skin is flawless, her legs endless and her entire body a flab-free zone.
▪ As a youth, he had learned the entire body of logarithmic tables by heart.
▪ The entire body of the larva is being dismembered and reassembled.
▪ The disease appeared to have invaded her entire body.
▪ Searing, excruciating agony ripped through his hand and up his arm until it seemed to engulf his entire body.
▪ She was fighting for her life with her entire body, kicking and biting and cursing.
▪ It comprises the entire body politic, with all its citizens and all their interest groups and social movements.
▪ In severe infections the entire body will be covered with the parasites, and the fishes will appear almost white.
career
▪ A version of a Donovan song longer than his entire career?
▪ Just three years into his formal career as a choreographer, Alvin was discovering the law that would govern his entire career.
▪ Recite my entire career history complete with qualifications, pay scale, dates of promotions and dossier of official merit-ratings and reprimands?
▪ But in an entire career, I never knew a judge who I believed was bribed by raw money.
▪ No wonder; in her entire career in the Civil Service she has never typed out anything remotely like it.
▪ Craft sociology can provide a full range of opportunities for writing during an entire career.
▪ Why would anyone renounce their entire career just to boost their ego?
▪ Out of nowhere, for the first time in his entire career, he was investigated.
city
▪ One plant closing or relocation is enough to terminate the employment future of an entire city.
▪ It makes the festival compact and accessible and gives the entire city a festive air.
▪ There were twenty-five, covering the entire city in fine detail.
▪ What is crashing one lousy car compared to scorching two entire cities?
▪ It is even conceivable that in the future the bubble policy may be applied to an entire city.
▪ The effect was to shut off the detours and bring the entire city to a halt.
▪ The entire city represents to him the place where a dead man he's obsessed with lived.
▪ Ray and Jimmy could laugh all they wanted, but Weiss had made sure the entire city knew his name.
community
▪ Ruptured gas lines resulted in fires that gutted entire communities of wooden houses, leaving behind smoldering embers resembling a bomb site.
▪ This was an entire community of speech-pathology.
▪ Why, in short, was it necessary to criminalise and terrorise our entire community?
▪ Marriage was a ritual celebrated and strongly supported-by the entire community.
▪ The entire community was also welded together by two other elements.
▪ The entire community needs to work together to resolve the conflict rather than furthering the polarization that has developed.
country
▪ If they wanted to, collectively, these men had the power to purchase entire countries.
▪ It was a model for the entire country.
▪ Surely we should treat the entire country fairly when introducing a local taxation system.
▪ Currently there are only about 5, 200 officers patrolling the entire country, which has a population of about 7 million.
▪ But in reality the entire country was infected.
▪ Bubbies first became a major brand in the competitive California marketplace and are now eagerly asked for throughout the entire country.
▪ The only place they can now be found in the entire country is in Upper Teesdale.
▪ The entire country is in motion before Obon.
day
▪ In another hour it would be dark and we had wasted an entire day frying in the sun.
▪ She spent the entire day at the washing, months, years, a lifetime.
▪ The entire day was her own.
▪ Had sat by himself at his desk for an entire day.
▪ It was what the entire day had been about.
▪ So far that you simply lose an entire day just by crossing the international dateline.
▪ It took an entire day of buses and hitching to get back to camp and when I did they'd finished supper.
▪ And they were very protective of me the entire day.
family
▪ Pol Pot killed her entire family.
▪ Each Sunday her entire family, with all their servants, attended a small country church near their home.
▪ Parsytec plans to release an entire family of character recognition systems with prices starting at £15,000.
▪ Yet she remains for the modern reader perhaps the most intriguing member of the entire family.
▪ It made sad reading, with five entire families from her street numbered among the dead.
▪ Not that those considerations need worry Baggio, who has bought 52 stand tickets so that his entire family can watch him today.
▪ A mystery creature crawls from your living rock and eats your entire family.
▪ But I wasn't supposed to like her because her love for my father was buggering up our entire family.
group
▪ Result in the disintegration of the entire group.
▪ They are generalizations assumed to be true of an entire group of people, regardless of their personal characteristics and circumstances.
▪ Successful drives often capture the entire group.
▪ Some of the stories which were first distributed on Monday will be read this time to the entire group.
▪ A spokesman for Bond Corporation admitted the action could wipe out the entire group.
▪ But in a self-defeating organization, dysfunctional attitudes become tenets of belief for entire groups of individuals.
▪ Finally, for a group of homogeneous but not identical items, the expected value of the entire group can be used.
▪ In the instant case, temporary exclusion of the entire group was rested by the military on the same ground.
history
▪ Some teachers might even choose to teach the entire history syllabus by working backwards from the present.
▪ An enormous amount of time is represented by these rocks and unconformities, almost a third of the entire history of Earth.
▪ He seemed to embody in his person the entire history of the sport: he symbolized the Hawaiian spirit.
▪ Here he was, refocusing his entire history, as if it had just begun, on the dream of boundless empire.
▪ Within the collective memory of the North Shore resides an entire history of its natural phenomena.
▪ And yet, his professors insisted, their entire history proved they were.
▪ The entire history on which our leading Occidental religions have been founded is an anthology of fictions.
length
▪ The lateral membrane takes up the entire length of one side of the chamber, pushing the grapes against the other side.
▪ Sedimenting particles in the horizontal-head centrifuge must travel the entire length of the liquid in the tube.
▪ The freak wave broke top to bottom across the entire length of the Bay.
▪ She walks back and forth, slowly, the entire length of the bus.
▪ The flexible rod in its back which runs the entire length of its body carries transverse bands of muscles.
▪ The proposal covers the entire length of the 30-acre site, from County Hall to Waterloo Bridge.
▪ Analysis was confined to those crypts whose entire lengths could be completely visualised and which contained a single layer of cells only.
▪ The day we were going to hammer a post into the ground every three yards for the entire length of the fence.
life
▪ Harry had the impression this was one man who had never been drunk in his entire life.
▪ She was never in doubt about one single thing in her entire life.
▪ I was then told to go away and write down my entire life history on three sheets of blank paper.
▪ In fact, she had spent her entire life in that impoverished mountain village.
▪ It could ruin your entire life.
▪ Each of us contains his entire life.
▪ His talent for empathetic understanding reaches its peak with Sylvia, who has not read a good book in her entire life.
▪ For his entire life, it seemed, there had been the terror of discovery.
nation
▪ Theirs is a tragedy for our entire nation.
▪ All groups should enthusiastically coordinate their social and economic activities to achieve the good of the entire nation.
▪ What is good for the food industry can be fatally bad for the health of the entire nation.
▪ Probably not, although there is no uniform law on this question applicable to the entire nation.
▪ Complete public humiliation in front of the entire nation is a prospect likely to make a man reckless, desperate even.
▪ Imagine an entire nation of people missing their mutton.
▪ It was an entire nation of pragmatists, each individual swaying with the prevailing wind to ensure his or her own future.
▪ It must involve the total mobilization of the creative energies, imagination and problem-solving capacities of the entire nation.
operation
▪ From his later writings it is obvious that he was quite fascinated by the entire operation and its execution.
▪ The entire operation should be completed by March 15, he said.
▪ Xerox now applies benchmarking across its entire operation as part of a total quality management process.
▪ Par of me couldn't give a monkeys about the entire operation.
▪ The entire operation will use remote devices in the boron-rich water that keeps the reactor fuel from overheating.
▪ Raytheon say they are reviewing the entire operation.
▪ Since then, they have restructured virtually their entire operation around the needs of their customers.
population
▪ Lack of control over these had led to health hazards for the entire population, rich and poor.
▪ Should the United States enact some health plan that covers the entire population?
▪ Prior to World War I, infant mortality rates in the workhouses were more than double the rate for the entire population.
▪ Now imagine 5 billion people, the entire population of Earth, each setting off a 24ton explosion at the same time.
▪ It stretches for nearly fifty miles, and the entire population cultivates copra.
▪ The slaves were driven to work at such a pace that their entire population had to be replaced about every 20 years.
▪ Britain was the first country to offer health care to the entire population free at the point of use.
▪ The current tuberculosis epidemic, which threatens the entire population with antibiotic-resistant strains, is the result of one such foolish cutback.
process
▪ Repeat the entire process for the second fillet of trout.
▪ He was very skillful, not only in how legislation was drafted but in the entire process of how it became law.
▪ Even more alluringly, the entire process could be handed over to private enterprise.
▪ After scrutinizing the entire process, the staff discovered that the Burbank water system was to blame.
▪ Directives come from on high, and the entire process is remote and out of reach.
▪ This is the only time in our entire process of manufacturing where our prod-ucts are touched by human hands.
▪ The entire process was to take less than a month.
▪ The entire process takes less than a half second.
project
▪ The entire Project Eden team - or what was left of it - was milling around: cowed, shocked and submissive.
▪ The $ 550 million Zeckendorf mentioned was the cost of the entire project, including design, construction, and financial fees.
▪ The entire project took a number of years to complete.
▪ The total for all the big chunks is the budget and time needed for the entire project.
▪ Your advice entails the abandonment of our entire project.
▪ If we allow this trend to continue, the entire project will get further and further off track.
▪ A financial plan for the entire project has yet to be worked out.
▪ The lawyer could look at the entire project, for starters, as simply a prospectively interesting business.
range
▪ This applies across our entire range.
▪ But how then can any species be constant in character across its entire range?
▪ Ask to see the entire range of photograph albums together with any extras you may require such as pocket books and frames.
▪ These debates are developed in Chapter 9, which provides an overview of the entire range of inner-city interventions.
region
▪ Shakespeare Fever continues to grip the entire region, with King Lear at the Unity.
▪ The same zero-pollution closed-loop principles in a plating factory can be designed into an industrial park or entire region.
▪ The entire region has fewer phones than does New York City.
▪ In the same period, the entire region will have lost more than 28, 000 defense jobs.
▪ The entire region has been cordoned off by civil-defense workers, making Kalapana a brand-new wasteland.
▪ The potential for heavy rain, along with strong to severe storms, exists tonight across the entire region.
▪ The entire region is an olfactory overload of pungent fruit.
school
▪ She was the most beautiful girl in the entire school.
▪ Beyond the curriculum, the staff at Fratney works to organize the entire school in ways that are consistent with its philosophy.
▪ Internally the school is organized into separate departments, primary and secondary, which between them cover the entire school age range.
▪ She seemed as excited as I.. By the next day, the entire school knew because she had told everyone.
▪ An interesting natural experiment arose when the entire school moved over to the new pathway course in 1987.
▪ As any teacher can tell you, this is made much easier when the entire school works together to build this ethos.
▪ In one of the worst affected towns, Anjar, an entire school of 300 children and staff was wiped out.
▪ In practice, the entire school comes alive with each theme.
system
▪ Take away coffee, and the entire system collapses.
▪ In that spirit, chapter 7 addresses why change must involve the entire system, not a few pieces of it.
▪ His investigation concluded thatthe operators grabbed the entire system for nothing.
▪ They set the Core Groups to work defining performance targets and measures for the entire system.
▪ The entire system is goal-directed, although the search through the space of formulae is forward.
▪ The entire system, according to the Thayer Advisory Handbook, is about communication.
▪ It teaches you a severe disregard for the entire system.
▪ When the referees begin calling the plays and deciding who gets in the game, the entire system begins to bog down.
world
▪ He feels as if he is the only man awake in the entire world.
▪ These two chapters move through the entire world of images and ideas surrounding the divine body.
▪ As though, in fact, the entire world were within our compass.
▪ The entire world was engulfed in a titanic struggle be-tween starkly drawn forces of good and evil.
▪ She probably knows more about the nineteenth-century industrial novel than anyone else in the entire world.
▪ It seems as if the entire world is ready to help and support us when our children are babies.
▪ And the entire World Superbike championship itself must know it's lost one of the sport's all-time greats.
▪ They believed the Macintosh would be a dividend to the entire world.
year
▪ That is the size of the average pension for former Mirror Group employees for an entire year.
▪ But why not reward teams that played the best during the entire year?
▪ Prospects for 1993 are very mixed and boss Robert Fitzpatrick does not expect to achieve profitability for the entire year.
▪ The researchers tracked their gifts for the entire year.
▪ Students must make do with two exercise books for the entire year.
▪ Some no doubt will spend the entire year in the minors, but others will get their chance.
▪ I was the only Arsenal supporter in my entire year at school.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ Dad spent the entire day in the kitchen.
▪ Gary was so hungry that he ate an entire chicken for dinner.
▪ I wasted an entire day waiting at the airport.
▪ This function of the word processor allows you to correct the entire document before printing.
▪ We realized that our entire conversation had been recorded.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ And that means Boro boss Lennie Lawrence has succeeded in keeping together his entire promotion-winning squad.
▪ Grijalva said the supervisors were dancing in the dark without specific development plans for the entire property.
▪ He returns to the deck and commands the entire crew to come before him.
▪ In this sense athletics offer a metaphor of the entire dilemma of liberation.
▪ No wonder; in her entire career in the Civil Service she has never typed out anything remotely like it.
▪ Omegaview/400, giving a single workstation view of the entire network.
▪ The researchers tracked their gifts for the entire year.
▪ Unless Guy came up with an acceptable explanation, the entire Court would be gossiping about them.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Entire

Entire \En*tire"\, a. [F. entier, L. integer untouched, undiminished, entire; pref. in-, negative + the root of tangere to touch. See Tangent, and cf. Integer.]

  1. Complete in all parts; undivided; undiminished; whole; full and perfect; not deficient; as, the entire control of a business; entire confidence, ignorance.

    That ye may be perfect and entire, wanting nothing.
    --James i. 4.

    With strength entire and free will armed.
    --Milton.

    One entire and perfect chrysolite.
    --Shak.

  2. Without mixture or alloy of anything; unqualified; morally whole; pure; faithful.

    Pure fear and entire cowardice.
    --Shak.

    No man had ever a heart more entire to the king.
    --Clarendon.

  3. (Bot.)

    1. Consisting of a single piece, as a corolla.

    2. Having an evenly continuous edge, as a leaf which has no kind of teeth.

  4. Not gelded; -- said of a horse.

  5. Internal; interior. [Obs.]
    --Spenser.

    Syn: See Whole, and Radical.

Entire

Entire \En*tire"\, n.

  1. Entirely. ``Too long to print in entire.''
    --Thackeray.

  2. (Brewing) A name originally given to a kind of beer combining qualities of different kinds of beer. [Eng.] ``Foker's Entire.''
    --Thackeray.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
entire

late 14c., from Old French entier "whole, unbroken, intact, complete," from Latin integrum "completeness" (nominative integer; see integer). Related: Entireness.

Wiktionary
entire

a. 1 (context sometimes postpositive English) whole; complete. 2 (context botany English) Having a smooth margin without any indentation. 3 (context botany English) Consisting of a single piece, as a corolla. 4 (context complex analysis of a complex function English) complex-differentiable on all of ℂ. 5 (context of a male animal English) not gelded. 6 Without mixture or alloy of anything; unqualified; morally whole; pure; faithful. 7 Internal; interior. n. 1 An uncastrated horse; a stallion. 2 (context philately English) A complete envelope with stamps and all official markings: (prior to the use of envelopes) a page folded and posted.

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WordNet
entire

  1. adj. constituting the full quantity or extent; complete; "an entire town devastated by an earthquake"; "gave full attention"; "a total failure" [syn: full, total]

  2. constituting the undiminished entirety; lacking nothing essential especially not damaged; "a local motion keepeth bodies integral"- Bacon; "was able to keep the collection entire during his lifetime"; "fought to keep the union intact" [syn: integral, intact]

  3. (of leaves or petals) having a smooth edge; not broken up into teeth or lobes

  4. (used of domestic animals) sexually competent; "an entire horse" [syn: intact]

entire

n. uncastrated adult male horse [syn: stallion]

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Entire
  • In philately, see Cover
  • In mathematics, see Entire function
  • In animal fancy and animal husbandry, entire indicates that an animal has not been desexed, that is, spayed or neutered
  • In botany, an edge (such as of a leaf, petal, calyx, etc.) is called entire if it has a smooth margin without notches (teeth).
Entire (animal)

In animal fancy and animal husbandry, entire (or intact) indicates an animal has not been desexed, i.e., spayed (female) or neutered (male).

Animals are desexed for selective breeding purposes. Males may also be neutered in order to make them more tractable or meatier. A specialized vocabulary has arisen for neutered animals of given species.

Except where a desexed pet is desirable, entire animals usually fetch much higher prices than castrated ones, mostly because they retain the ability to breed. There are various health effects of the decision to leave an animal intact, or to castrate it. Leaving a female animal intact may lead to such complications as ovarian cysts, uterine infections such as pyometra, and cancer of the reproductive tract. In small animals such as dogs and cats, the ovaries and uterus are removed eliminating the possibility of disease in these organs. By de-sexing or spaying the female, the animal is surgically sterilized and cannot get pregnant; this however, may lead to weight gain in the pet and may not be able to burn as many calories in their daily activities. This can be avoided by reducing the food intake once the female has been surgically sterilized to prevent unnecessary weight gain. In addition to a reduced caloric intake, increasing the animals daily physical activity once recovered from surgery will help reduce the chance of weight gain after being de-sexed.

In the case of livestock, mainly cattle, there are various pros and cons to castrating or leaving the animal intact. Leaving a bull calf (an intact male under the age of six months), allows the animal to gain more weight, and have a higher feed efficiency than compared to a steer (or castrated male calf). Leaving a bull calf intact however, can also have disadvantages. If left intact, bull calves can exhibit aggressive behaviour causing damages to fences, equipment, and handlers leaving an occupational risk for employees. Castrating a bull calf before the age of six months leads to a better performing animal not showing signs of aggression when penned with other males, while intact bulls will tend to fight with male siblings. Castration of bulls is recommended to occur before entering the feed lot as a precaution against infections and the calves are small enough to be handled easily with minimal stress towards the animal.

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Usage examples of "entire".

Almost the entire population of Aberdeen had been at the muster to gape at the visitors from Beyond.

By common consent of the entire profession they are among the ablest judges who ever sat on the Supreme Bench.

Society at Athens from 1883 to 1889 have laid bare the entire surface of the Acropolis, and shed an unexpected light upon the early history of Attic art.

Were the two papers in Acta Neurologica the entire story, or was she supposed to do more?

Furthermore, the rights which the present statutes confer are subject to the Anti-Trust Acts, though it can be hardly said that the cases in which the Court has endeavored to draw the line between the rights claimable by patentees and the kind of monopolistic privileges which are forbidden by those acts exhibit entire consistency in their holdings.

His father had lived his entire life in Braintree, and no Adams had ever taken part in public life beyond Braintree.

Third Street, the home of Mayor Samuel Powel, whose wealth and taste could be measured in richly carved paneling, magnificent paintings, a tea service in solid silver that would have fetched considerably more than the entire contents of the Adams household at Braintree.

While his entire political standing, his reputation as President, were riding on his willingness to make peace, Adams was no less ardent for defense.

The morning of August 14, 1821, 200 West Point cadets, an entire corps, who were touring New England, marched out from Boston to parade past the Adams house, colors flying and band playing.

Only one work has been preserved entire which gives clear expression to the Adoptian Christology, viz.

In the entire twelve-year history of FBI mistakes leading up to September 11, the fact that FBI headquarters ignored that desperate eleventh-hour plea from its own field agents is perhaps the greatest indictment of the house that Hoover built.

General Aguinaldo had mobilized his entire division and, with help from the army, a thorough search and surveillance operation encompassing all the territory within a hundred-kilometer radius of Mount Amethyst was mounted.

Firefox shuddered, and the entire airframe lurched away from him towards deeper water.

The fact that your President, at the eager prompting of the Chiefs of Staff, the entire Pentagon, the NSA and your own Director, have ordered us to rescue the airframe if we humanly can?

Even if he left Aisling out of the story, the entire thing would sound paranoid.