whole meaning

• Adjective: whole  hówl
  1. Including all components without exception; being one unit or constituting the full amount or extent or duration; complete
     "gave his whole attention"; "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
     "whole brothers and sisters" 
  3. Not injured
     - unharmed, unhurt, unscathed 
  4. Exhibiting or restored to vigorous good health
     "whole in mind and body"; "a whole person again"
     - hale 
  5. Acting together as a single undiversified whole
     - solid, unanimous
  Noun: whole  hówl
  1. All of something including all its component elements or parts
     "Europe considered as a whole"; "the whole of American literature" 
  2. An assemblage of parts that is regarded as a single entity
     "how big is that part compared to the whole?"
     - unit
  Adverb: whole  hówl
  1. To a complete degree or to the full or entire extent
     "a whole new idea"
     - wholly, entirely, completely, totally, all, altogether

  Sounds like: hole

  Derived forms: wholes

  See also: complete, entire, full, full-length, full-page, healthy, intact, integral, integrity, livelong, total, undiversified, undivided, uninjured, unity, universalistic, wholeness

  Type of: concept, conception, construct, object, physical object

  Antonym: fractional, half

  Encyclopedia: Whole

• 
  [Medicine]
  adj : containing all its natural constituents, components, or elements : deprived of nothing by refining, processing, or separation ‹whole milk›
  

• What was the use of telling the whole?
• The whole office was at her wedding.
• The whole world seemed to be at the party.
• I created a whole new industry here.
• I used to pass whole evening that way.
• The timber carries the whole weight of the roof.
• She spent the whole of the year in hospital.
• On the whole their tone was precise.
• We spent the whole morning spotting.
• His whole mind was trying out the experiment.

• "whole" meaning in Chinese: adj. 1.全部的，整个的；所有的，一切的，全…。2.完全的，完整的；没有缺漏的；无疵的，没有破损的，原样未动的...
• "whole" meaning in Japanese: whole n. 全体. 【動詞＋】 ◆It forms a complete whole in itself. そ...
• "whole" meaning in Russian: 1) целое Ex: the whole and the parts целое и части Ex: nat...
• "whole" meaning in French: n. entier, intact, totalité adj. entier, intact, tout