entire

名词 n. 形容词 adj.
/ɪnˈtaɪə/|/ənˈtaɪə/    /ɪnˈtaɪɚ/|/ənˈtaɪɚ/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. The whole of something; the entirety. archaic,countable,uncountable
    — In the entire of the Poems we never hear of a merchant ship of the Greeks.
  2. An uncastrated horse; a stallion. countable,uncountable
    — He asked why Hijaz was an entire. You know what an entire is, do you not, Anna? A stallion which has not been castrated.
  3. A complete envelope with stamps and all official markings: (prior to the use of envelopes) a page folded and posted. countable,uncountable
  4. Porter or stout as delivered from the brewery. countable,uncountable
形容词 adj.
  1. Whole; complete. not-comparable,postpositional,sometimes
    — We had the entire building to ourselves for the evening.
  2. Having a smooth margin without any indentation. not-comparable
    — Spores tetrahedral, paraphyses mastoid-claviform, scales smooth, entire.
  3. Consisting of a single piece, as a corolla. not-comparable
  4. Complex-differentiable on all of ℂ. not-comparable
  5. Not gelded. not-comparable
    — On top of that, he was entire, which meant his bloodline could carry on.
  6. Morally whole; pure; sheer. not-comparable
    — See now, whether pure fear and entire cowardice doth not make thee / wrong this virtuous gentlewoman to close with us.
  7. Internal; interior. not-comparable
    — Depp is the wound, that dints the parts entire

词形变化

intire alternative,obsolete entires plural intire alternative,obsolete

词源

词源 1
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.
词源 2
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.
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