whole [ həul] a.完整的 n.全部
as a whole 总体上
on the whole 总的来说，大体上
on the whole 总的来说
on the whole
总的来说
whole [həul] a. 整个的
whole [həul] 整个
少数服从多数、下级服从上级、局部服从全体、全党服从中央 "the minority is subordinate to the majority, the lower level to the higher level, the part to the whole and the entire membership of the Party to the Central Committee "
Cabinet whole-plant equipment 橱柜整厂设备
Chair whole-plant equipment 椅子整厂设备
Door whole-plant equipment 门斗整厂设备
semibreve 全音符 (美作:whole note)
You blow it! 你把事情搞砸了!
A: We could have got the deal , but you blew the whole thing!
A: 我们原本可以达成那笔交易的, 但是你把整个事情都搞砸了!
B: What did I do?
B: 我作了什么呢?
- blow up 是「发脾气」的意思。
"You'd better take off right now. Kevin will blow up if you're late again."
你最好现在就出发吧! 你要是再迟到, Kevin 会气炸的。
at each other's throats 吵架
A: I can't believe Sean and Keith. They were at each other's throats in front of the whole class yesterday.
A: 我真不敢相信 Sean 跟 Keith会这样。他俩昨天当着整个班上互相叫骂起来了。
B: They fight all the time. You didn't know that?
B: 他们经常在吵架, 你不知道吗?
That's the whole damned trouble. 这就是所有的麻烦.
The whole world knows it. 全世界都知道.
on the whole 总的来说,大体上
committee of the whole Council [Provisional Legislative Council] 全体委员会〔临时立法会〕
Standard Form of Receipt for Donations to the Geographical Constituency List As a Whole 捐赠地方选区候选人名单的划一收据
From what has been discussed above, we may safely draw a conclusion that part-time job can produce a far-reaching impact on students and they should be encouraged to take part-time job, which will benefit students and their family, even the society as a whole.
通过上面的讨论，我们不难得出结论：业余工作对学生们会产生深远的影响，我们应鼓励学生从事业余工作，这将有利于学生和他们的家庭，甚至整个社会。
In the first place, extra studies bring about unhealthy impacts on physical growth of children. Educational experts point out that, it is equally important to take some sport activities instead of extra studies when children have spent the whole day in a boring classroom.
首先，额外的学习对孩子们的身体发育是不利的。教育专家指出，孩子们在枯燥的教室里呆了一整天后，从事一些体育活动，而不是额外的学习，是非常重要的。
Parents should be encouraged to send their children to nursery schools, which will bring about profound impacts on children and families, and even the society as a whole.
应该鼓励父母将他们的孩子送到幼儿园，这将对孩子，家庭，甚至整个社会产生深远的影响。
全液过滤
whole solution through filtering
My ideal of a picture is that every part of it should oblige the looker-on who has any real sense for a whole to see the rest.
我理想中的画是这样的：它的每个部分都会促使具有任何真正整体感的观者去看其余的部分。
Particulars are not to be examined till the whole has been surveyed.
在概括地考察整体之前先不要探究细节。
The whole significance of life lies in the unremitting efforts to explore the unknown and increase knowledge.
生活的全部意义在于不懈努力探索未知事物与增加知识。
All poets pretend to write for immortality, but he whole tribe have no objection to present pay and present praise.
所有诗人都自称是为不巧的名声而写作，可这些家伙对眼前的稿酬与眼前的赞扬却全无异议。
The Authors doubt that any breakthrough can be made in the research of Chinese Understanding without the grasp of Natural Language Understanding as a whole.
笔者不太相信脱离自然语言理解研究的全局而能够单独或超前取得汉语理解研究的突破。
I had a sudden urge to tell the boss the whole truth.
我突然产生一种强烈愿望, 想把全部真相告诉老板。
The lawyer spent a whole day talking with his client about the case.
律师就该案子与当事人谈了一天。
The whole class were infected with the virus.
全班学生都感染上了这种病毒。
At the end of game, the whole crowd got to their feet and cheered wildly.
比赛结束时，整个人群都站起来疯狂地欢呼。
He contrived to make a mix-up of the whole thing.
他费尽心机，结果反而把事情弄糟了。
Our football team's performance has been poor during the whole year.
我们的足球队今年一直表现不佳。
The whole building collapsed.
整个大楼倒塌了。
The boy's adoption by the kind old woman changed his whole life.
这位善良的老妇人收养了这个男孩，从而改变了他一生。
The whole community was affected by the terrible event.
这可怕的事件使整个社区大受震动。
She devoted her whole life to the cause of female rights to be equal.
她把一生都奉献给了争取女性平等的事业。
The big fire turned the whole of the city into ashes but the small house stayed standing.
大火把整个城市化为灰烬，可那幢小屋居然没有损坏。
The whole nation was overwhelmed with excitement because of its victory in bidding for hosting the 2008 Olympic Games.
由于申办2008年奥运会成功，整个国家都沉浸在兴奋激动之中。
The news of the terrorist attacks in New York caused quite a stir in the whole world.
在纽约发生恐怖主义袭击的消息在全世界引起了极大震动。
In her novel, she characterizes the whole year as a period of changes.
她在她的小说中把这一年描绘成一个充满变革的时期。
The whole hall held its breath waiting for the announcement of the winner of the first prize.
整个大厅里的人们都屏息等待着宣布一等奖的获得者。
The whole system will be fully operational by December 2003.
到2003年12月，整个系统将全面运行。
It's been a whole year since I last saw you.
我整整一年没见你了。
The whole class is in a heated discussion.
全班同学正在热烈讨论。
The whole world knows that． 全世界都知道。
They played a shameful part in the whole affair.他们在这一事件中扮演了可耻的角色。
The result of attrition is that, where the areas of the whole leaves follow a normal distribution, a bimodal distribution is produced, one peak composed mainly of fragmented pieces, the other of the larger remains.
磨擦的结果是，在叶面上服从正态分布的地方就会产生两种分布方式，顶点上主要是小块，其他的地方是小块，其他的地方是大块的地方。
No prudent person dared to act on the assumption that, when the continent was settled, one government could include the whole; and when the vast expense broke up, as seemed inevitable, into a collection of separate nations, only discord, antagonism, and wars could be expected.
没有一个谨慎的人能按如下的假设行事：当陆地确定以后，一个政府并不能包括全部；当这种巨大的开销终于分裂为几个民族时，这看起来是不可避免的，人们就只能等待着争论，敌对和战争了。
Somehow he knows that if our huckstering civilization did not at every moment violate the eternal fitness of things, the poet’s song would have been given to the world, and the poet would have been cared for by the whole human brotherhood, as any man should be who does the duty that every man owes it.
他认识到如果不是我们的“小贬”文明每时每刻地破坏事实内部的和谐的话，诗人的诗歌就该已经奉献给了世界，而诗人也该被全人类关怀着，每个为大家做事的人都该被如此对待。
He had devoted his whole life to the study of contemporary art.
他把他的一生都献给了当代艺术研究。
They drank a whole bottle!
他们喝了一整瓶酒！
He has eaten a whole box of chocolates.
他吃了一整盒巧克力。
Her whole life has been given to the study of dance.
她一生献身于研究舞蹈。
He's devoted his whole life to the protection of the rare animals.
他终生献身于珍稀动物的保护。
We should have the whole deal sewn up by the end of this week.
到本周末，我们应该可以把整个交易谈妥。
What good does it do a man if he gains the whole world but loses his soul?
如果一个人得到全世界而丧失了灵魂，这对他有何益处呢？
I'm so tired I could sleep for a whole day.
我真是累极了，简直可以睡上一整天。
The whole country was anxious for peace.
全国上下都渴望和平。
我永远爱你。
I'll love you forever.
I'll always love you. (我会永远爱你。)
I'll love you my whole life. (我一生都会爱你的。)
白白浪费了一整天。
I wasted a whole day.
I wasted my whole day (away).
The whole carton is packed with double straps, each corner of the carton consolidated with metal angles.
纸箱外加了两道箍，每个箱角都用金属角加固。
at large 与 by and large：
at large 当形容词，最常用的意思是指嫌犯脱逃，逍遥法外（escape,referring to criminal before arrest）而 by and large 当副词用，意思是一般而言（generally speaking on the whole）。 例如：
* The murder suspect is still at large. （凶手仍然逍遥法外）
* By and large, I feel（that）the new proposal is sensible.（大体来说，我认为新的建议是很切合实际的。）
* By and large, most people will care about their weight. （一般而言，许多人关心他们的体重）
然而，有时 at large 也有「一般」（in general）的意思。 例如：
* The Chinese people at large are peace－loving. （一般中国人是爱好和平的）
Let's call it quits.
我们算了吧！
= Let's forget the whole thing.
That's it.
不错，就是这样。
= That's the whole story.
A fair death honours the whole life.
死得光明，终身荣耀。
For age and want save while you may; no morning sun lasts a whole day.
为了年老和急须，要及时积蓄，因为早晨的太阳，不会整天照耀。
Industry keeps the body healthy, the mind clear, the heart whole, the purse full.
勤奋使身体健康，使心情开朗，使思想专注，使经济充裕。
Let our object be our courtry, our whole country, and nothing but our country.
我们的心目中要有国家，要有整个国家，而且只有我们的国家别如其他。
Like draws to like the whole world over.
物以类聚，世间皆如此。
One drop of poison infects the whole tun of wine.
一滴之毒，毒染整桶之酒。
One rotten apple spoils the whole barrel.
一只烂苹果烂一萝苹果。
One thorn of experience is worth a whole wilderness of warning.
一次痛苦的经验抵得上千百次的告诫。
One wrong (or false) move can lose the whole game.
棋错一著，全盘皆输。
Save while you may, no morning sun lasts a whole day.
能节俭时就节俭，朝阳难照一整天。
All products have to go through five checks in the whole process.
所有产品在整个生产过程中得通过五道质量检查关。
A The Olympics will be on television everywhere.
A 世界各地都将通过电视转播奥运会比赛盛况。
B There’ll be millions and millions watching it on TV.
B 将有数百万人通过电视观看比赛。
A I know. The whole world will be watching. It’s a real global event.
A 我知道。整个世界都将观看比赛。它是全球的盛事。
B It’s good for Beijing, and for China.
B 这对北京和中国都有好处。
A I know. The eyes of the world will be on Beijing.
A 我知道。整个世界都将注视北京。
B For a few fantastic weeks, Beijing will be the centre of attention.
B 在几个激动人心的星期里，北京都将是世人瞩目的中心。
A Where is the new Olympic Stadium being built?
A 新的奥林匹克露天体育场建在哪里？
B It’s north of the city centre. It’s a whole new area, especially for the Olympics.
B 在市中心的北部。那是一个新区，专为奥运会准备的。
A I’d like to go and see it. I’ve seen pictures of the new stadium – it looks fantastic.
A 我想去看看。我已经看过了这座新体育场的一些照片——看起来非常漂亮。
B It’s not just the stadium – it’s the main centre for the Olympics, with lots of other things there too.
B 它不仅是体育场——还是奥运会的主会场，那里还有很多其他的建筑设施。
A Yes, I know. The swimming centre is there.
A 是的，我知道。游泳中心在那里。
B The Olympics will be all over Beijing – north, south, east and west – but the main centre is in the north.
B 奥运会场将遍及全北京——北、南、东和西——但是主会场在北部。
A OK, let’s meet tomorrow at 10 in Starbucks for a working breakfast. We can discuss everything over a coffee.
A 好，我们明天10点在星巴克一起吃工作早餐。我们可以边喝咖啡边讨论事情。
B OK, 10 am tomorrow. Shall I bring my laptop?
B 好的，明天10点。我需要把笔记本电脑带来吗？
A Yes, definitely. We can work there. You can connect to the internet in Starbucks.
A 是的，当然。我们可以在那里工作。在星巴克能上网。
B Really? How do I do that? Do I need a cable or anything?
B 是吗？那我怎么办呢？我需要一根线或者其他什么吗？
A No, it’s easy. No cables, no wires. The whole place is wi-fi broadband connected. All you need is your laptop.
A 不，很简单。不需电缆，不需电线。整个星巴克都可以无线宽带上网。你所需要的只是你的笔记本电脑。
B That’s great. See you at 10.
B 那太棒了。明天10点见。
A I'm taking a month off for the Olympics.
A 我将为奥运会请一个月的假。
B To spend time with your visitors?
B 为了花时间和你的来访者们在一起？
A Yes, my friends are coming in late July.
A 是的，我的朋友们7月末来。
B That's just before the Olympics, isn't it?
B 就在奥运会开幕之前来，是吗？
A Yes, and they're staying for the whole of August.
I'm going to show them around everywhere.
A 是的，他们将这里度过整个8月。我将带他们到各处转转。
B You'll have a busy time . . . and Beijing will be really busy.
B 他们将会很忙碌. . .北京也会非常热闹。
A The Olympics will be on television all round the world.
A 世界各地都将通过电视观看奥运比赛。
B There’ll be millions watching it on TV.
B 将有数以百万计的人将通过电视观看比赛。
A The whole world will be watching. It’s a real global event.
A 整个世界都将观看比赛，那将是全球的大事。
B It’s good for Beijing, and for China. The eyes of the world will be on Beijing.
B 这对北京以及中国都有好处。北京将成为世人关注的焦点。
A Yes, for a few fantastic weeks, Beijing will be the centre of attention.
B 是的，在几个激动人心的星期里，北京都将成为人们关注的中心。
A The new stadium looks fantastic!
A 新体育场看起来棒极了！
B Yes, it’s wonderful. It’s a really dramatic building.
B 是的，非常好。这真是一个壮观的建筑。
A I guess that whole area of north Beijing will change because of the Olympics.
A 我想奥林匹克运动会将给整个北京带来一个巨大的变化。
B Yes, it’s not just the stadium – it’s new roads, parks, other Olympic buildings too.
B 是的，不仅仅是体育场——还有崭新的道路、公园以及其他的奥运会场馆。
A Big changes everywhere! The Olympics are really changing the city.
A 到处都焕然一新！ 奥运会正改变着整个北京城。
A When your friend is here, will you stay in Beijing the whole time?
A 当你朋友在这的时候，你们会一直呆在北京吗？
B Most of the time we’ll be in Beijing. But we’ll also do a short trip to Xi’an.
B 大部分时间我们都将在北京。但是我们也将去西安短暂停留。
A That’ll be exciting. Are you going to see the Terracotta Warriors?
A 那好啊。你们将去看秦始皇兵马俑吗？
B Yes. It’s an organised tour. We’re both looking forward to it.
B 是的，我们随团旅游。我们都期待着去那里。
A And how long will you be in Xi’an?
A 你们将在西安呆多久？
B Not long. We’re staying thee for three nights.
B 不会太久。我们将在西安住三晚。
You can talk about different lengths of time in various ways, eg: the whole time / the whole time eg: most of the time / most of the time eg: Most of the time we’ll be in Beijing / Most of the time we’ll be in Beijing.
你可以用不同的方法谈论时间的长短。例如the whole time /整个时间；most of the time /大部分时间。例如：Most of the time we’ll be in Beijing /大部分时间我们都将在北京。
A I'm very impressed with all the preparations for the Olympics.
A 中国对奥运会所做的种种准备给我留下了深刻的印象。
B So am I. New roads, new metro lines, new sports centres - there's so much going on.
B 我也是。 新的道路，新的地铁线路，新的运动中心——这么多的事情都在进行当中。
A I'm sure the Games will be really successful.
A 我肯定奥运会将取得巨大的成功。
B Me too. The organisation is excellent.
B 我也这样想。奥运会的组织工作非常出色。
A It’s really changing the whole face of Beijing.
A 北京的整个面貌都焕然一新。
A I’d love to go to the opening day of the Olympics.
A 我想去看奥运会的开幕式。
B So would I. I think the whole city will be celebrating.
B 我也想去。我想整个北京城都将热烈庆祝奥运会的召开。
A What’s the exact date?
A 具体是哪天？
B You mean for the opening ceremony? The start of the Olympics?
B 你是说开幕式吗？奥运会开始的日子？
A Yes, the first day.
A 是的，第一天。
B The eighth of August. The eighth day of the eighth month, 2008.
B 8月8日。2008年的8月8日。
A The Olympics will be on television everywhere, all across the world.
A 世界各地都将通过电视收看奥运会盛况。
B There’ll be millions and millions watching it on TV.
B 到时候将有亿万人通过电视收看比赛盛况。
A I know. The whole world will be watching. It’s a real global event.
A 我知道。全世界的人都将收看比赛实况。这是一个全球的盛事。
B It’s good for Beijing, and for China.
B 这对北京、对中国都很有好处。
A I know. It’ll be an exciting time for the city and the country.
A 我知道。这对于北京和中国都将是一个激动人心的时刻。
B The eyes of the world will be on Beijing.
B 全世界的眼睛都将关注北京。
Remember when you are talking about the future, use will / will , eg: The Olympics will be on television everywhere / The Olympics will be on television everywhere ; The whole world will be watching / The whole world will be watching.
记住，当你谈论将来的情况时用will / 将要 , 例如: The Olympics will be on television everywhere /各地都将通过电视收看奥运盛况。
When you describe something which involves the whole world, or most of the world, you can use It’s a global event.
当你描述与全世界有关或者与世界的大部分相关的事情时，你可以用global / 全球的, 例如 It’s a global event /这是一个全球的盛况。
We are going to the Ming Tombs at the weekend. Would you like to come with us?
我们周末去明十三陵，你想和我们一起去吗？
Yes, thanks. How long will it take?
是的，谢谢。到那里要多长时间？
Well, we have to drive from Beijing. I suppose it will take three or four hours for the whole trip.
哦，我们得从北京开车去。我想整个路程大概需要三、四个小时。
That sounds fine. Which day at the weekend are you going?
听起来可以。周末的哪天去？
Sunday. Is that ok for you?
周日去。时间对你合适吗？
Yes, that’s fine.
是的，合适。
A Where is the new Olympic Stadium?
A 新建的奥运场馆在哪里？
B It’s north of the city centre. It’s a whole new area, specially for the Olympics.
B 它在市中心的北边。它是一个整个翻新的地方，为奥运准备的。
A The swimming centre is there and lots of other events.
A 游泳中心就在那里，还有其他很多活动。
B The Olympics will be all over Beijing – north, south, east and west – but the main centre is in the north.
B 奥运活动将会遍布北京城－东西南北。但中心点是在城北。
Sunday clears away the rest of the whole week.
Joseph Addison, British essayist
星期天能去掉一个星期的锈迹。
英国散文家艾迪生.J.
Differences-----both real and imagined ---- are invariably exaggerated in the media and in society as a whole.
Delia M. Rios, American writer
差别——不管是真实的还是主观想象的——总是被传媒和社会夸大。
美国作家里奥.D.M.
We must deal with pleasure as we do with honey, only touch them with the tip of the finger, and not with the whole hand for fear of surfeit.
aint Bede, British bishop
我们应该像吃蜂密那样对待享受，只用指尖蘸，而不能用整只手去抓，以免吃得太多。
英国主教比德.S.
If a friend tells a fault, imagine always that he has not told the whole.
Robert Louis Stevenson, British novelist and poet
如果朋友告诉你一个缺点，请设想他没有和盘托出。
英国小说家、诗人史蒂文森. R.L.
No man is the whole of himself; his friends are the rest of him.
Harry Emerson Fosdick, American churchman
任何人自己都不是完整的；他的朋友是他的其余部分。
美国教士福斯迪克,H.E.
One thorn of experience is worth a whole wilderness5 of warning.
James Russell Lowell, British Poet and critic
一次痛苦的经验抵得上千百次的告诫。
英国诗人、批评家洛威尔.J. R .
If you want to live your whole life free from pain,
You must become either a god or else a coupes.
Consider other men's troubles,
That will comfort yours.
Menander, Ancient Athenian playwriter
如果你想一生摆脱苦难，
你就得是神或者是死尸。
想想他人的不幸，
你就能坦然面对人生。
古雅典剧作家米南德
One who loves not wine, woman and song, remains a fool his whole life long.
Martin Luther, German religious reformer
谁不爱酒、女人和歌，谁毕生准是傻瓜。
德国宗教改革家路德M
You blow it!你把事情搞砸了!
A: We could have got the deal , but you blew the whole thing!
A:我们原本可以达成那笔交易的,但是你把整个事情都搞砸了!
B: What did I do?
B:我作了什么呢?
blow up是「发脾气」的意思。"You'd better take off right now. Kevin will blow up if you're late again."你最好现在就出发吧!你要是再迟到, Kevin会气炸的。
at each other's throats 吵架
A: I can't believe Sean and Keith. They were at each other's throats in front of the whole class yesterday.
A:我真不敢相信Sean跟Keith会这样。他俩昨天当着整个班上互相叫骂起来了。
B: They fight all the time. You didn't know that?
B:他们经常在吵架,你不知道吗?
@@@ 就...来说/而言
as ... go(es) 就...来说
as far as 1.远到..., 直到...
2.就...而言, 从...来看; 尽...所能
by and large 总的来说, 一般来说
in general 通常, 一般而言; 大体上
in short 简而言之
in terms of ... 从...立场; 就...而言
on the part of 就...而言; 代表...;
由...做出的
on the whole 总之, 总的来说
when it comes to 一谈到...; 就...而论
with respect to 就...而言; 在...方面
@@@ 作为
as a means of 作为...的一种手段、方法
as a result of 作为...的结果, 由于...
as a whole 作为一个整体; 总的说来
design to do sth. 计划; 打算将...用作
liken to 把...比作...
make as if & make believe 假装, 装作
make an exception 把...作为例外
responsible for 对...负责; 作为...的原因, 应归咎或归功于
serve as/for 充当; 用作, 满足(需要)
@@@ 整体, 具体
as a whole 作为一个整体; 总的说来
in general 通常, 一般而言; 大体上
integrate with 使成为一体, 使结合
take shape 成形; 具体化
go whole hog全力以赴
She went whole hog in planning he New Year's Eve party.
她全心全力筹办新年晚会。
in a whole skin 平安地
That's the whole damned trouble. 这就是所有的麻烦.
The whole world knows it. 全世界都知道.
Temper, if ungoverned, governs the whole man.
放纵性情，失去自我。
“Mr. Rockefeller bought the whole oil company lock, stock and barrel.”
“洛克菲勒先生把整个石油公司买了下来”。
"We had so much food left over from dinner at the China garden last night that we took enough home in doggy bags to feed the whole family tonight."
“昨晚我们在汉宫吃饭剩下了好多菜。我们带回家的剩菜就足够我们全家今天晚上再吃一顿的。”
"For the last ten years the Tigers have been the worst team in the league: we've finished down at the bottom. But now the shoe is on the other foot: we have all these good young players and we're beating everybody else in the whole league."
“我们这个地方的球队老虎队十年前是参加联赛的所有球队中最次的一个，比赛结果老是最后一名。现在可不同了。我们球队的队员都很年轻，球艺也好。他们把其他球队一个个全打败了。”
- be green with envy 羡慕极了
Don't be green with envy. He deserves the prize, since he has spent a whole month on that paper.
- marry a fortune 嫁给了有钱人
Scariet was in trouble, She wanted to marry a fortune and save the whole family.
- louse up something 把某事搞得一团糟
He let the cat out of the bag, which loused up the whole deal.
全部 sum; entirety; full; whole; all
Western people often introduce themselves formally by saying their family name first, then their whole name, eg Smith, Neil Smith / Smith, Mr Smith.
西方人在介绍自己时经常正式地先说自己的姓，然后再说全名，如Smith, Neil Smith /尼尔?史密斯。
A: We are going to the Ming Tombs at the weekend. Would you like to go with us?
A: 我们周末去明十三陵，你想和我们一起去吗？
B: Sure, thanks. How long will it take?
B: 好的，谢谢。到那里要多长时间？
A: Well, we have to drive from Beijing. I suppose it will take three or four hours for the whole trip.
A: 哦，我们得从北京开车去。我想整个路程大概需要三、四个小时。
B: That sounds fine. Which day at the weekend are you going?
B: 听起来可以。周末的哪天去？
A: Sunday. Is that ok for you?
A: 周日去。时间对你合适吗？
B: Yes, that’s fine.
B: 是的，合适。
版面 [bǎn miàn] /space of a whole page/layout (makeup) of a printed sheet/
包办 [bāo bàn] /take care of everything concerning a job/run the whole show/
包场 [bāo cháng] /book a whole theatre/
包揽 [bāo lǎn] /undertake the whole thing/take on everything/
包园儿 [bāo yuán ér] /buy the whole lot/finish up or off/
本末 [běn mò] /the whole course of an event from beginning to end/ins and outs/the fundamental and the incidental/
毕 [bì] /the whole of/to finish/to complete/complete/full/finished/
毕其功于一役 [bì qí gōng yú yī yì] /accomplish the whole task at one stroke/
部份 [bù fen ] /part (of a whole)/piece/section/share/shell (Unix)/
成套 [chéng tào] /(adj) whole; complete/
大都 [dà dōu] /general/for the most part/on the whole/
大体 [dà tǐ] /in general/on the whole/
抵 [dǐ] /hold up/on the whole/push against/to support/to resist/to reach/to arrive/mortgage/
氐 [dǐ] /foundation/on the whole/
囫 [hú] /whole/in one lump/
基本上 [jī běn shang ] /basically/on the whole/
全 [quán] /all/whole/entire/every/complete/
全部 [quán bù] /whole/entire/complete/
统 [tǒng] /to gather/to unite/to unify/whole/
完 [wán] /to finish/to be over/whole/complete/entire/
完全 [wán quán] /complete/whole/totally/entirely/
一向 [yí xiàng] /all along/the whole time/constantly/earlier/lately/
有生以来 [yǒu shēng yǐ lái] /since birth/for one's whole life/
原委 [yuán wěi] /the whole story/
整 [zhěng] /exactly/in good order/whole/complete/entire/in order/orderly/
整个 [zhěng gè] /whole/entire/total/
整数 [zhěng shù] /(n) integer; whole number/
整体 [zhěng tǐ] /overall/as a whole/whole (thing, situation)/entirety/integrated/
整整 [zhěng zhěng] /whole/full/
总算 [zǒng suàn] /at long last/finally/on the whole/
In the past three or four years, the world wide web has given birth to a whole industry of point-and-click spying.
在过去的三四年中，国际互联网已经派生出一个可称为点击谍报的完整的产业。
The spooks call it "open source intelligence," and as the Net grows, it is becoming increasingly influential.
间谍们把它称为“公开来源情报”。随着互联网的增长，这样的情报变得越来越有影响力。
The railroad industry as a whole, despite its brightening fortunes, still does not earn enough to cover the cost of the capital it must invest to keep up with its surging traffic.
从整体来说，虽然铁路行业有耀眼的资产，但它的收入仍然不足以支付为满足不断增长的运输需要而进行的固定资产投资。
This, though it fulfills the laws and requirements of Futurist poetry, can hardly be classed as Literature.
尽管这符合未来派诗歌的规则和要求，却很难被归入文学之列。
All the same, no thinking man can refuse to accept their first proposition: that a great change in our emotional life calls for a change of expression. 实际上，没有一个善于思考的人会拒绝接受他们的第一个观点：即情感生活的巨大变化要求表达方式也随之变化。
The whole question is really this: have we essentially changed?
实际问题是：我们发生了根本的变化吗？
It is also less than most forecasters had predicted.
这也低于许多预测者预测的数字。
In late 1994 the panel of economists which The Economist polls each month said that America's inflation rate would average 3.5% in 1995.
1994年底，每月接受《经济学家》意见调查的一组经济学家指出，美国在1995年的平均通货膨胀率将达到3.5％。
In fact, it fell to 2.6% in August, and is expected to average only about 3% for the year as a whole. In Britain and Japan inflation is running half a percentage point below the rate predicted at the end of last year.
实际上，8月份就降到了2.6％。而且有望达到全年平均仅为3％。去年年底，英国和日本的通货膨胀率实际上比预测的要低半个百分点。
This is no flash in the pan; over the past couple of years, inflation has been consistently lower than expected in Britain and America.
这不是昙花一现。在过去几年里，英国和美国的通货膨胀率始终低于预测水平。
{adj: about, astir} on the move
"up and about"
"the whole town was astir over the incident"
{adj: afloat, awash, flooded, inundated, overflowing} covered with water
"the main deck was afloat (or awash)"
"the monsoon left the whole place awash"
"a flooded bathroom"
"inundated farmlands"
"an overflowing tub"
{adj: aggregate, aggregated, aggregative, mass} gathered or tending to gather into a mass or whole
"aggregate expenses include expenses of all divisions combined for the entire year"
"the aggregated amount of indebtedness"
{adj: all} quantifier; used with either mass or count nouns to indicate the whole number or amount of or every one of a class
"we sat up all night"
"ate all the food"
"all men are mortal"
"all parties are welcome"
<-> some, no
{adj: amalgamate, amalgamated, coalesced, consolidated, fused} joined together into a whole
"United Industries"
"the amalgamated colleges constituted a university"
"a consolidated school"
{adj: analytic, analytical} using or skilled in using analysis (i.e., separating a whole--intellectual or substantial--into its elemental parts or basic principles)
"an analytic experiment"
"an analytic approach"
"a keenly analytic man"
"analytical reasoning"
"an analytical mind"
<-> synthetic
{adj: collective} forming a whole or aggregate
<-> distributive
{adj: colonial, compound} composed of many distinct individuals united to form a whole or colony
"coral is a colonial organism"
{adj: common} belonging to or participated in by a community as a whole; public
"for the common good"
"common lands are set aside for use by all members of a community"
<-> individual
{adj: complemental, complementary, completing} acting as or providing a complement (something that completes the whole)
{adj: compressed, flat} flattened laterally along the whole length (e.g., certain leafstalks or flatfishes)
{adj: earthshaking, world-shaking, world-shattering} sufficiently significant to affect the whole world
"earthshaking proposals"
"the contest was no world-shaking affair"
"the conversation...could hardly be called world-shattering"
{adj: elusive, subtle} be difficult to detect or grasp by the mind
"his whole attitude had undergone a subtle change"
"a subtle difference"
"that elusive thing the soul"
{adj: embedded} inserted as an integral part of a surrounding whole
"confused by the embedded Latin quotations"
"an embedded subordinate clause"
{adj: endless} having the ends united so as to form a continuous whole
"an endless chain"
{adj: enormous, tremendous} extraordinarily large in size or extent or amount or power or degree
"an enormous boulder"
"enormous expenses"
"tremendous sweeping plains"
"a tremendous fact in human experience; that a whole civilization should be dependent on technology"- Walter Lippman
"a plane took off with a tremendous noise"
{adj: fractional} constituting or comprising a part or fraction of a possible whole or entirety
"a fractional share of the vote"
"a partial dose"
<-> whole
{adj: freaky} strange and somewhat frightening
"the whole experience was really freaky"
{adj: full of life, lively, vital} full of spirit
"a dynamic full of life woman"
"a vital and charismatic leader"
"this whole lively world"
{adj: garnished} having decorative or flavorful additions; sometimes used in combination
"a whole salmon garnished with lemon slices"
"parsley-garnished potatoes"
{adj: hale, whole} exhibiting or restored to vigorous good health
"hale and hearty"
"whole in mind and body"
"a whole person again"
{adj: half} (of siblings) related through one parent only
"a half brother"
"half sister"
<-> whole
{adj: heart-whole, wholehearted, whole-souled} with unconditional and enthusiastic devotion
"heart-whole friendship"
"gave wholehearted support to her candidacy"
"wholehearted commitment"
"demonstrated his whole-souled allegiance"
{adj: holistic} emphasizing the organic or functional relation between parts and the whole
<-> atomistic
{adj: incorporate, incorporated, integrated, merged, unified} formed or united into a whole
{adj: incorporated} introduced into as a part of the whole
"the ideas incorporated in his revised manuscript"
{adj: intact, whole} not impaired or diminished in any way
"emerged from the trial with his prestige intact"
"the blast left his hearing intact"
{adj: intact} undamaged in any way; whole
"the vase remained intact despite rough handling"
{adj: integrated, structured} resembling a living organism in organization or development
"society as an integrated whole"
{adj: integrated} formed into a whole or introduced into another entity
"a more closely integrated economic and political system"- Dwight D.Eisenhower
"an integrated Europe"
<-> nonintegrated
{adj: integrative} combining and coordinating diverse elements into a whole
<-> disintegrative
{adj: monistic} of or relating to the philosophical doctrine of monism
"the monistic school would regard national law and international law as an integrated whole"- J.S.Roucek
{adj: mortgaged} burdened with legal or financial obligations
"his house, his business, indeed, his whole life was heavily mortgaged"
{adj: nightlong, all-night, overnight} lasting, open, or operating through the whole night
"a nightlong vigil"
"an all-night drugstore"
"an overnight trip"
{adj: nonintegrated, unintegrated} not integrated; not taken into or made a part of a whole
<-> integrated
{adj: one-piece} (of clothing) consisting of or fashioned in a single whole piece
"a one-piece garment"
<-> two-piece, three-piece
{adj: organismal, organismic} of or relating to or belonging to an organism (considered as a whole)
"the organismic theory of the state"
{adj: organized} formed into a structured or coherent whole
<-> unorganized
{adj: overall, total, whole} including everything
"the overall cost"
"the total amount owed"
{adj: partitive} (Romance languages) relating to or denoting a part of a whole or a quantity that is less than the whole
"a partitive construction"
{adj: plantigrade} (of mammals) walking on the whole sole of the foot (as rabbits, raccoons, bears, and humans do)
<-> digitigrade
{adj: public} affecting the people or community as a whole
"community leaders"
"community interests"
"the public welfare"
{adj: public} not private; open to or concerning the people as a whole
"the public good"
"public libraries"
"public funds"
"public parks"
"a public scandal"
"public gardens"
"performers and members of royal families are public figures"
<-> private
{adj: solid, unanimous, whole} acting together as a single undiversified whole
"a solid voting bloc"
{adj: synecdochic, synecdochical} using the name of a part for that of the whole or the whole for the part; or the special for the general or the general for the special; or the material for the thing made of it
"to use `hand' for `worker' or `ten sail' for `ten ships' or `steel' for `sword' is to use a synecdochic figure of speech"
{adj: synoptic} presenting a summary or general view of a whole
"a synoptic presentation of a physical theory"
{adj: synthetic, synthetical} involving or of the nature of synthesis (combining separate elements to form a coherent whole) as opposed to analysis
"limnology is essentially a synthetic science composed of elements...that extend well beyond the limits of biology"- P.S.Welch
<-> analytic
{adj: thin} relatively thin in consistency or low in density; not viscous
"air is thin at high altitudes"
"a thin soup"
"skimmed milk is much thinner than whole milk"
"thin oil"
<-> thick
{adj: touristed, touristy} visited by throngs of tourists
"of the three American Virgin islands St. Thomas is the most touristed"
"tourists descend in busloads...so the whole place is rather touristy"
{adj: unbroken} not broken; whole and intact; in one piece
"fortunately the other lens is unbroken"
<-> broken
{adj: unharmed, unhurt, unscathed, whole} wholly unharmed
{adj: unimposing} lacking in impressiveness
"on the whole the results of this system are unimposing"
{adj: universalistic} of or relating to the whole
{adj: unorganized, unorganised} not having or belonging to a structured whole
"unorganized territories lack a formal government"
<-> organized
{adj: wheaten, whole-wheat, wholemeal} of or relating to or derived from wheat
"wheaten bread"
{adj: whole} (of siblings) having the same parents
"whole brothers and sisters"
<-> half
{adj: whole} 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"
<-> fractional
{adj: woven} made or constructed by interlacing threads or strips of material or other elements into a whole
"woven fabrics"
"woven baskets"
"the incidents woven into the story"
"folk songs woven into a symphony"
<-> unwoven
{adv: all in all, on the whole, altogether, tout ensemble} with everything considered (and neglecting details)
"altogether, I'm sorry it happened"
"all in all, it's not so bad"
{adv: all the way, the whole way} to the goal
"she climbed the mountain all the way"
{adv: loyally} with loyalty; in a loyal manner
"government will not be efficient unless the people as a whole accept leadership loyally and enthusiastically"
<-> disloyally
{adv: nationally} with regard to a nation taken as a whole
"a nationally uniform culture"
{adv: slam-bang, slap-bang} in a violent or sudden or noisy manner
"the pans fell slam-bang and woke the whole house"
{adv: solidly} as an undiversified whole
"the unions voted solidly for Roosevelt"
{adv: through} over the whole distance
"this bus goes through to New York"
{adv: wholly, entirely, completely, totally, all, altogether, whole} to a complete degree or to the full or entire extent (`whole' is often used informally for `wholly')
"he was wholly convinced"
"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"
<-> partly
{n: Australia, Commonwealth of Australia} a nation occupying the whole of the Australian continent; aboriginal tribes are thought to have migrated from southeastern Asia 20,000 years ago; first Europeans were British convicts sent there as a penal colony
{n: Cordyline, genus Cordyline} Asiatic and Pacific trees or shrubs; fragments of the trunk will regrow to form whole plants
{n: Emergency Alert System, EAS} a federal warning system that is activated by FEMA; enables the President to take over the United States airwaves to warn the whole country of major catastrophic events
{n: MIPS, million instructions per second} (computer science) a unit for measuring the execution speed of a computer's CPU (but not the whole system)
"4 MIPS is 4,000,000 instructions per second"
{n: Planck's law} (physics) the basis of quantum theory; the energy of electromagnetic waves is contained in indivisible quanta that have to be radiated or absorbed as a whole; the magnitude is proportional to frequency where the constant of proportionality is give by Planck's constant
{n: Torah} the whole body of the Jewish sacred writings and tradition including the oral tradition
{n: Zion, Sion} originally a stronghold captured by David (the 2nd king of the Israelites); above it was built a temple and later the name extended to the whole hill; finally it became a synonym for the city of Jerusalem
"the inhabitants of Jerusalem are personified as `the daughter of Zion'"
{n: adverse opinion} an opinion concerning financial statements (usually based on an audit by a CPA) that the statements as a whole do not present results fairly or are not in conformity with the generally accepted accounting practices of the United States
{n: aerospace} the atmosphere and outer space considered as a whole
{n: allometry} the study of the relative growth of a part of an organism in relation to the growth of the whole
{n: analysis, analytic thinking} the abstract separation of a whole into its constituent parts in order to study the parts and their relations
<-> synthesis
{n: analysis} an investigation of the component parts of a whole and their relations in making up the whole
{n: anchovy} small herring-like plankton-eating fishes often canned whole or as paste; abundant in tropical waters worldwide
{n: appointment, assignment, designation, naming} the act of putting a person into a non-elective position
"the appointment had to be approved by the whole committee"
{n: arm} a human limb; technically the part of the superior limb between the shoulder and the elbow but commonly used to refer to the whole superior limb
{n: artifact, artefact} a man-made object taken as a whole
<-> natural object
{n: astronomy, uranology} the branch of physics that studies celestial bodies and the universe as a whole
{n: ballgame, new ballgame} a particular situation that is radically different from the preceding situation
"HDTV looks the same but it's really a whole new ballgame"
{n: barbecue, barbeque} a cookout in which food is cooked over an open fire; especially a whole animal carcass roasted on a spit
{n: basis, base, foundation, fundament, groundwork, cornerstone} the fundamental assumptions from which something is begun or developed or calculated or explained
"the whole argument rested on a basis of conjecture"
{n: batch, deal, flock, good deal, great deal, hatful, heap, lot, mass, mess, mickle, mint, muckle, peck, pile, plenty, pot, quite a little, raft, sight, slew, spate, stack, tidy sum, wad, whole lot, whole slew} (often followed by `of') a large number or amount or extent
"a batch of letters"
"a deal of trouble"
"a lot of money"
"he made a mint on the stock market"
"it must have cost plenty"
{n: biodiversity} the diversity of plant and animal life in a particular habitat (or in the world as a whole)
"a high level of biodiversity is desirable"
{n: bit, chip, flake, fleck, scrap} a small fragment of something broken off from the whole
"a bit of rock caught him in the eye"
{n: bite} a portion removed from the whole
"the government's weekly bite from my paycheck"
{n: black eye} a bad reputation
"his behavior gave the whole family a black eye"
{n: black pepper} pepper that is ground from whole peppercorns with husks on
{n: blood agar} a culture medium containing whole blood as the nutrient
{n: blood bank} a place for storing whole blood or blood plasma
"the Red Cross created a blood bank for emergencies"
{n: body armor, body armour, suit of armor, suit of armour, coat of mail, cataphract} armor that protects the wearer's whole body
{n: body, organic structure, physical structure} the entire structure of an organism (especially an animal or human being)
"he felt as if his whole body were on fire"
{n: body} a group of persons associated by some common tie or occupation and regarded as an entity
"the whole body filed out of the auditorium"
{n: boot} footwear that covers the whole foot and lower leg
{n: brick cheese} semisoft sweet American cheese from whole milk in a brick form
{n: broadside} the whole side of a vessel from stem to stern
"the ship was broadside to the dock"
{n: buckwheat, Polygonum fagopyrum, Fagopyrum esculentum} a member of the genus Fagopyrum; annual Asian plant with clusters of small pinkish white flowers and small edible triangular seeds which are used whole or ground into flour
{n: building complex, complex} a whole structure (as a building) made up of interconnected or related structures
{n: bunch, lot, caboodle} any collection in its entirety
"she bought the whole caboodle"
{n: calamity, catastrophe, disaster, tragedy, cataclysm} an event resulting in great loss and misfortune
"the whole city was affected by the irremediable calamity"
"the earthquake was a disaster"
{n: camp} a group of people living together in a camp
"the whole camp laughed at his mistake"
{n: censor} a person who is authorized to read publications or correspondence or to watch theatrical performances and suppress in whole or in part anything considered obscene or politically unacceptable
{n: circumference} the boundary line encompassing an area or object
"he had walked the full circumference of his land"
"a danger to all races over the whole circumference of the globe"
{n: circus, carnival} a frenetic disorganized (and often comic) disturbance suggestive of a large public entertainment
"it was so funny it was a circus"
"the whole occasion had a carnival atmosphere"
{n: clove} spice from dried unopened flower bud of the clove tree; used whole or ground
{n: cochon de lait, suckling pig} whole young pig suitable for roasting
{n: cold water} disparagement of a plan or hope or expectation
"she poured cold water on the whole idea of going to Africa"
{n: collection, aggregation, accumulation, assemblage} several things grouped together or considered as a whole
{n: combination, combining, compounding} the act of combining things to form a new whole
{n: communalism} loyalty and commitment to the interests of your own minority or ethnic group rather than to society as a whole
{n: complement, full complement} number needed to make up a whole force
"a full complement of workers"
{n: complex, composite} a conceptual whole made up of complicated and related parts
"the complex of shopping malls, houses, and roads created a new town"
{n: composition, composing} the spatial property resulting from the arrangement of parts in relation to each other and to the whole
"harmonious composition is essential in a serious work of art"
{n: composition} something that is created by arranging several things to form a unified whole
"he envied the composition of their faculty"
{n: compound} a whole formed by a union of two or more elements or parts
{n: consensus} agreement in the judgment or opinion reached by a group as a whole
"the lack of consensus reflected differences in theoretical positions"
"those rights and obligations are based on an unstated consensus"
{n: consolidation, integration} the act of combining into an integral whole
"a consolidation of two corporations"
"after their consolidation the two bills were passed unanimously"
"the defendants asked for a consolidation of the actions against them"
{n: continuum} a continuous nonspatial whole or extent or succession in which no part or portion is distinct of distinguishable from adjacent parts
{n: coriander, coriander seed} dried coriander seeds used whole or ground
{n: cross section} a sample meant to be representative of a whole population
{n: crudeness, crudity, gaucheness} an impolite manner that is vulgar and lacking tact or refinement
"the whole town was famous for its crudeness"
{n: cyborg, bionic man, bionic woman} a human being whose body has been taken over in whole or in part by electromechanical devices
"a cyborg is a cybernetic organism"
{n: dark bread, whole wheat bread, whole meal bread, brown bread} bread made with whole wheat flour
{n: detail, item, point} an isolated fact that is considered separately from the whole
"several of the details are similar"
"a point of information"
{n: detail, particular, item} a small part that can be considered separately from the whole
"it was perfect in all details"
{n: diatonic scale} a scale with eight notes in an octave; all but two are separated by whole tones
{n: direct supporting fire} fire delivered in support of part of a force (as opposed to general supporting fire delivered in support of the force as a whole)
{n: domino effect} the consequence of one event setting off a chain of similar events (like a falling domino causing a whole row of upended dominos to fall)
{n: eighth note, quaver} a musical note having the time value of an eighth of a whole note
{n: ensemble, tout ensemble} an assemblage of parts or details (as in a work of art) considered as forming a whole
{n: enterprise, endeavor, endeavour} a purposeful or industrious undertaking (especially one that requires effort or boldness)
"he had doubts about the whole enterprise"
{n: family therapy} any of several therapeutic approaches in which a family is treated as a whole
{n: family, household, house, home, menage} a social unit living together
"he moved his family to Virginia"
"It was a good Christian household"
"I waited until the whole house was asleep"
"the teacher asked how many people made up his home"
{n: floor} the occupants of a floor
"the whole floor complained about the lack of heat"
{n: flower head} a shortened compact cluster of flowers so arranged that the whole gives the effect of a single flower as in clover or members of the family Compositae
{n: fraction} a small part or item forming a piece of a whole
{n: galvanization, galvanisation} stimulation that arouses a person to lively action
"the unexpected news produced a kind of galvanization of the whole team"
{n: general} a fact about the whole (as opposed to particular)
"he discussed the general but neglected the particular"
<-> particular, specific
{n: gestalt} a configuration or pattern of elements so unified as a whole that it cannot be described merely as a sum of its parts
{n: gherkin} any of various small cucumbers pickled whole
{n: graham bread} bread made of graham (whole wheat) flour
{n: graham cracker} semisweet whole-wheat cracker
{n: great snipe, woodcock snipe, Gallinago media} Old World snipe larger and darker than the whole snipe
{n: grocery list, shopping list} a list of heterogenous items that someone wants
"the union came to the table with a whole grocery list of demands"
{n: half note, minim} a musical note having the time value of half a whole note
{n: half rest} a musical rest having the time value of half a whole rest or equal in duration to two beats in common time
{n: harmony, concord, concordance} a harmonious state of things in general and of their properties (as of colors and sounds); congruity of parts with one another and with the whole
{n: head, chief, top dog} a person who is in charge
"the head of the whole operation"
{n: head, head word} (grammar) the word in a grammatical constituent that plays the same grammatical role as the whole constituent
{n: hematocrit, haematocrit, packed cell volume} the ratio of the volume occupied by packed red blood cells to the volume of the whole blood as measured by a hematocrit
{n: hex, jinx, curse, whammy} an evil spell
"a witch put a curse on his whole family"
"he put the whammy on me"
{n: holism, holistic theory} the theory that the parts of any whole cannot exist and cannot be understood except in their relation to the whole
"holism holds that the whole is greater than the sum of its parts"
"holistic theory has been applied to ecology and language and mental states"
<-> atomism
{n: holistic medicine} medical care of the whole person considered as subject to personal and social as well as organic factors
"holistic medicine treats the mind as well as the body"
{n: holonym, whole name} a word that names the whole of which a given word is a part
"`hat' is a holonym for `brim' and `crown'"
{n: holonymy, whole to part relation} the semantic relation that holds between a whole and its parts
{n: integer, whole number} any of the natural numbers (positive or negative) or zero
{n: integrated circuit, microcircuit} a microelectronic computer circuit incorporated into a chip or semiconductor; a whole system rather than a single component
{n: item} a whole individual unit; especially when included in a list or collection
"they reduced the price on many items"
{n: kernel} a single whole grain of a cereal
"a kernel of corn"
{n: leg} a human limb; commonly used to refer to a whole limb but technically only the part of the limb between the knee and ankle
{n: line printer, line-at-a-time printer} printer that serves as an output device on a computer; prints a whole line of characters at a time
{n: macrobiotic diet} a diet consisting chiefly of beans and whole grains
{n: macrobiotics} the theory of promoting health and longevity by means of diet (especially whole beans and grains)
{n: major scale, major diatonic scale} a diatonic scale with notes separated by whole tones except for the 3rd and 4th and 7th and 8th
{n: majority rule, democracy} the doctrine that the numerical majority of an organized group can make decisions binding on the whole group
{n: makeweight, filler} anything added to fill out a whole
"some of the items in the collection are mere makeweights"
{n: match} a burning piece of wood or cardboard
"if you drop a match in there the whole place will explode"
{n: megillah} (Yiddish) a long boring tediously detailed account
"he insisted on giving us the whole megillah"
{n: meronym, part name} a word that names a part of a larger whole
"`brim' and `crown' are meronyms of `hat'"
{n: meronymy, part to whole relation} the semantic relation that holds between a part and the whole
{n: merry-go-round} a never-ending cycle of activities and events (especially when they seem to have little purpose)
"if we lose the election the whole legislative merry-go-round will have to start over"
{n: middle} an intermediate part or section
"A whole is that which has beginning, middle, and end"- Aristotle
<-> end, beginning
{n: minor scale, minor diatonic scale} a diatonic scale with notes separated by whole tones except for the 2nd and 3rd and 5th and 6th
{n: mishpocha, mishpachah} (Yiddish) the entire family network of relatives by blood or marriage (and sometimes close friends)
"she invited the whole mishpocha"
{n: nation, land, country} the people who live in a nation or country
"a statement that sums up the nation's mood"
"the news was announced to the nation"
"the whole country worshipped him"
{n: network, web} an interconnected system of things or people
"he owned a network of shops"
"retirement meant dropping out of a whole network of people who had been part of my life"
"tangled in a web of cloth"
{n: office, office staff} professional or clerical workers in an office
"the whole office was late the morning of the blizzard"
{n: one, 1, I, ace, single, unity} the smallest whole number or a numeral representing this number
"he has the one but will need a two and three to go with it"
"they had lunch at one"
{n: one-half, half} one of two equal parts of a divisible whole
"half a loaf"
"half an hour"
"a century and one half"
{n: one-third, third, tierce} one of three equal parts of a divisible whole
"it contains approximately a third of the minimum daily requirement"
{n: pantheism} the doctrine or belief that God is the universe and its phenomena (taken or conceived of as a whole) or the doctrine that regards the universe as a manifestation of God
{n: part, portion} something less than the whole of a human artifact
"the rear part of the house"
"glue the two parts together"
{n: part, section, division} one of the portions into which something is regarded as divided and which together constitute a whole
"the written part of the exam"
"the finance section of the company"
"the BBC's engineering division"
{n: partitive} word (such a `some' or `less') that is used to indicate a part as distinct from a whole
{n: pavis, pavise} (Middle Ages) a large heavy oblong shield protecting the whole body; originally carried but sometimes set up in permanent position
{n: pepper, peppercorn} pungent seasoning from the berry of the common pepper plant of East India; use whole or ground
{n: pie chart} a circular chart divided into triangular areas proportional to the percentages of the whole
{n: piece} a separate part of a whole
"an important piece of the evidence"
{n: plasmapheresis} plasma is separated from whole blood and the rest is returned to the donor
{n: plateletpheresis} platelets are separated from whole blood and the rest is returned to the donor
{n: playbook} a book containing the scripts of one or more dramatic plays
"the 1963 playbook leaves out the whole first scene"
{n: plethysmograph} a measuring instrument for measuring changes in volume of a part or organ or whole body (usually resulting from fluctuations in the amount of blood it contains)
{n: point} the precise location of something; a spatially limited location
"she walked to a point where she could survey the whole street"
{n: poppy seed} small grey seed of a poppy flower; used whole or ground in baked items
{n: populace, public, world} people in general considered as a whole
"he is a hero in the eyes of the public"
{n: probability, chance} a measure of how likely it is that some event will occur; a number expressing the ratio of favorable cases to the whole number of cases possible
"the probability that an unbiased coin will fall with the head up is 0.5"
{n: proportion, proportionality, balance} harmonious arrangement or relation of parts or elements within a whole (as in a design)
"in all perfectly beautiful objects there is found the opposition of one part to another and a reciprocal balance"- John Ruskin
{n: proportion} the quotient obtained when the magnitude of a part is divided by the magnitude of the whole
{n: public office} a position concerning the people as a whole
{n: quarter note, crotchet} a musical note having the time value of a quarter of a whole note
{n: quarter rest} a musical rest having one-fourth the time value of a whole rest
{n: quartermaster general} a staff officer in charge of supplies for a whole army
{n: rallying} the act of mobilizing for a common purpose
"the bell was a signal for the rallying of the whole neighborhood"
{n: realization, realisation, fruition} something that is made real or concrete
"the victory was the realization of a whole year's work"
{n: room} the people who are present in a room
"the whole room was cheering"
{n: sale in gross, contract of hazard} a sale of a tract of land as a whole without a warranty as to the acreage
{n: sample} a small part of something intended as representative of the whole
{n: schmeer, schmear, shmear} (Yiddish) a batch of things that go together
"he bought the whole schmeer"
{n: school} an educational institution's faculty and students
"the school keeps parents informed"
"the whole school turned out for the game"
{n: scot and lot} obligations of all kinds taken as a whole
{n: section, segment} one of several parts or pieces that fit with others to constitute a whole object
"a section of a fishing rod"
"metal sections were used below ground"
"finished the final segment of the road"
{n: shebang} an entire system; used in the phrase `the whole shebang'
{n: ship's company, company} crew of a ship including the officers; the whole force or personnel of a ship
{n: shock} a pile of sheaves of grain set on end in a field to dry; stalks of Indian corn set up in a field
"corn is bound in small sheaves and several sheaves are set up together in shocks"
"whole fields of wheat in shock"
{n: sixteenth note, semiquaver} a musical note having the time value of a sixteenth of a whole note
{n: sixty-fourth note, hemidemisemiquaver} a musical note having the time value of a sixty-fourth of a whole note
{n: skim milk, skimmed milk} milk from which the cream has been skimmed
<-> whole milk
{n: smithereens} a collection of small fragments considered as a whole
"Berlin was bombed to smithereens"
"his hopes were dashed to smithereens"
"I wanted to smash him to smithereens"
"the toilet bowl ws blown to smithereens"
{n: social psychology} the branch of psychology that studies persons and their relationships with others and with groups and with society as a whole
{n: statute book} a record of the whole body of legislation in a given jurisdiction
{n: stay} a judicial order forbidding some action until an event occurs or the order is lifted
"the Supreme Court has the power to stay an injunction pending an appeal to the whole Court"
{n: stoichiometry} (chemistry) the relation between the quantities of substances that take part in a reaction or form a compound (typically a ratio of whole integers)
{n: strand} a pattern forming a unity within a larger structural whole
"he tried to pick up the strands of his former life"
"I could hear several melodic strands simultaneously"
{n: street} people living or working on the same street
"the whole street protested the absence of street lights"
{n: subtraction, deduction} the act of subtracting (removing a part from the whole)
"he complained about the subtraction of money from their paychecks"
<-> addition
{n: sum, total, totality, aggregate} the whole amount
{n: synthesis, synthetic thinking} the combination of ideas into a complex whole
<-> analysis
{n: system, scheme} a group of independent but interrelated elements comprising a unified whole
"a vast system of production and distribution and consumption keep the country going"
{n: system} the living body considered as made up of interdependent components forming a unified whole
"exercise helped him get the alcohol out of his system"
{n: table} a company of people assembled at a table for a meal or game
"he entertained the whole table with his witty remarks"
{n: thirty-second note, demisemiquaver} a musical note having the time value of a thirty-second of a whole note
{n: tippet} a woman's fur shoulder cape with hanging ends; often consisting of the whole fur of a fox or marten
{n: tone, whole tone, step, whole step} a musical interval of two semitones
{n: town, townspeople, townsfolk} the people living in a municipality smaller than a city
"the whole town cheered the team"
{n: transposon, jumping gene} a segment of DNA that can become integrated at many different sites along a chromosome (especially a segment of bacterial DNA that can be translocated as a whole)
{n: transubstantiation} the Roman Catholic doctrine that the whole substance of the bread and the wine changes into the substance of the body and blood of Christ when consecrated in the Eucharist
{n: trip, trip-up, stumble, misstep} an unintentional but embarrassing blunder
"he recited the whole poem without a single trip"
"he arranged his robes to avoid a trip-up later"
"confusion caused his unfortunate misstep"
{n: two-thirds} two of three equal parts of a divisible whole
{n: unit} a single undivided whole
"an idea is not a unit that can be moved from one brain to another"
{n: unit} an individual or group or structure or other entity regarded as a structural or functional constituent of a whole
"the reduced the number of units and installations"
"the word is a basic linguistic unit"
{n: vantage point, viewpoint} a place from which something can be viewed
"from that vantage point he could survey the whole valley"
{n: wheat, wheat berry} grains of common wheat; sometimes cooked whole or cracked as cereal; usually ground into flour
{n: whitebait} minnows or other small fresh- or saltwater fish (especially herring); usually cooked whole
{n: whole blood} blood that has not been modified except for the addition of an anticoagulant
"whole blood is normally used in blood transfusions"
{n: whole gale} wind moving 55-63 knots; 10 on the Beaufort scale
{n: whole life insurance, ordinary life insurance, straight life insurance} insurance on the life of the insured for a fixed amount at a definite premium that is paid each year in the same amount during the entire lifetime of the insured
{n: whole milk} milk from which no constituent (such as fat) has been removed
<-> skim milk
{n: whole note, semibreve} a musical note having the longest time value (equal to four beats in common time)
{n: whole rest} a musical rest equal in duration to four beats in common time
{n: whole shebang, whole kit and caboodle, kit and caboodle, whole kit and boodle, kit and boodle, whole kit, whole caboodle, whole works, works, full treatment} everything available; usually preceded by `the'
"we saw the whole shebang"
"a hotdog with the works"
"we took on the whole caboodle"
"for $10 you get the full treatment"
{n: whole snipe, Gallinago gallinago} common snipe of Eurasia and Africa
{n: whole wheat flour, graham flour, graham, whole meal flour} flour made by grinding the entire wheat berry including the bran; (`whole meal flour' is British usage)
{n: whole, unit} an assemblage of parts that is regarded as a single entity
"how big is that part compared to the whole?"
"the team is a unit"
{n: whole-word method} teaching reading by training beginners to associate printed words with spoken words
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