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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"
2.
(of siblings) having the same parents.
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"



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"Whole" Quotes from Famous Books



... would be as follows:—After washing in a revolving apparatus, by which means the adherent earth would be got quit of, and almost the whole of the thin dark colored cuticle become detached, the roots could be reduced to pulp in a rasping-mill, without the use of water; the pulp might be compressed in bags by hydraulic pressure, whereby the juice, together with a small portion ...
— The Commercial Products of the Vegetable Kingdom • P. L. Simmonds

... them, as that would result badly for them. They again declared that they did not desire this friendship, and began to fire their culverins and discharge arrows; and in return the soldiers discharged, on all sides, their arquebuses. But during the whole day we were not able to enter the fort, for we Spaniards were very few in number; and the heat was intense, and we had not eaten, although it was near night. The captain, seeing that he had not accomplished anything, decided to return to the boats which he had left behind, ...
— The Philippine Islands, 1493-1803 - Volume III, 1569-1576 • E.H. Blair

... but, as far as he could judge, a perfect woman. And, as far as he could judge, there was no other man whom she loved. Then, with many doubtings, he asked her the question, and he soon learned the truth,—but not the whole truth. ...
— An Old Man's Love • Anthony Trollope

... and patting them, this will help to loosen all the skin and clotted blood that adheres to them. Lay in cold salted water for an hour at least, then put on to boil in half vinegar and half water (a crust of rye bread improves the flavor of the sauce). Add one onion, cut up fine, ten whole peppers, one bay leaf, one or two cloves and a little salt, boil altogether about fifteen minutes. Serve on a platter and decorate with ...
— The International Jewish Cook Book • Florence Kreisler Greenbaum

... prophets demanded, and go whither they would unharmed. Of the attack upon us in the pass he made light, saying it was the evil work of a few zealots wrought on by fancied insult to their god, a deed for which the whole people should not be called upon to suffer. The last words of the ...
— Moon of Israel • H. Rider Haggard


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