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entire

adj
/ɪnˈtaɪə/UK/ɪnˈtaɪɚ/US

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.

  1. derived from *əntagros✻ — “untouched”
  2. derived from integrum
  3. derived from entier
  4. inherited from entere

Definitions

  1. Whole

    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; […]

  2. Having a smooth margin without any indentation.

    • Spores tetrahedral, paraphyses mastoid-claviform, scales smooth, entire.

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

  4. ›+ 8 more definitions

    1. Complex-differentiable on all of ℂ.

    2. Not gelded.

      • On top of that, he was entire, which meant his bloodline could carry on.

    3. Morally whole

      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.

    4. Internal

      Internal; interior.

      • Depp is the wound, that dints the parts entire

    5. The whole of something

      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?’

    6. An uncastrated horse

      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.

    7. A complete envelope with stamps and all official markings

      A complete envelope with stamps and all official markings: (prior to the use of envelopes) a page folded and posted.

    8. Porter or stout as delivered from the brewery.

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Derived

entire function, entirely, entireness, entirety, go the entire animal, go the entire swine, subentire, unentire

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for entire. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA