ENTIRE
entire, full, total
(adjective) constituting the full quantity or extent; complete; “an entire town devastated by an earthquake”; “gave full attention”; “a total failure”
integral, entire, intact
(adjective) constituting the undiminished entirety; lacking nothing essential especially not damaged; “a local motion keepeth bodies integral”- Bacon; “was able to keep the collection entire during his lifetime”; “fought to keep the union intact”
entire, intact
(adjective) (used of domestic animals) sexually competent; “an entire horse”
entire
(adjective) (of leaves or petals) having a smooth edge; not broken up into teeth or lobes
stallion, entire
(noun) uncastrated adult male horse
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Adjective
entire (not comparable)
(sometimes postpositive) Whole; complete.
(botany) Having a smooth margin without any indentation.
(botany) Consisting of a single piece, as a corolla.
(complex analysis, of a complex function) Complex-differentiable on all of â„‚.
(of a, male animal) Not gelded.
morally whole; pure; sheer
Internal; interior.
Noun
entire (countable and uncountable, plural entires)
(now, rare) The whole of something; the entirety.
An uncastrated horse; a stallion.
(philately) A complete envelope with stamps and all official markings: (prior to the use of envelopes) a page folded and posted.
Porter or stout as delivered from the brewery.
Anagrams
• entier, in-tree, nerite, triene
Source: Wiktionary
En*tire", a. Etym: [F. entier, L. integer untouched, undiminished,
entire; pref. in-, negative + the root of tangere to touch. See
Tangent, and cf. Integer.]
1. Complete in all parts; undivided; undiminished; whole; full and
perfect; not deficient; as, the entire control of a business; entire
confidence, ignorance.
That ye may be perfect and entire, wanting nothing. James i. 4.
With strength entire and free will armed. Milton.
One entire and perfect chrysolite. Shak.
2. Without mixture or alloy of anything; unqualified; morally whole;
pure; faithful.
Pure fear and entire cowardice. Shak.
No man had ever a heart more entire to the king. Clarendon.
3. (Bot.)
(a) Consisting of a single piece, as a corolla.
(b) Having an evenly continuous edge, as a leaf which has no kind of
teeth.
4. Not gelded; -- said of a horse.
5. Internal; interior. [Obs.] Spenser.
Syn.
– See Whole, and Radical.
En*tire", n.
1. Entirely. "Too long to print in entire." Thackeray.
2. (Brewing)
Definition: A name originally given to a kind of beer combining qualities
of different kinds of beer. [Eng.] "Foker's Entire." Thackeray.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition