entire

adjective intire

1. not comparable, postpositional, sometimes Whole; complete. We had the entire building to ourselves for the evening.

   Similar: complete, total, utter · Opposite: partial, incomplete

2. not comparable Having a smooth margin without any indentation. Spores tetrahedral, paraphyses mastoid-claviform, scales smooth, entire.
3. not comparable Consisting of a single piece, as a corolla.
4. not comparable, of a complex function Complex-differentiable on all of ℂ.
5. not comparable, of a male animal Not gelded. On top of that, he was entire, which meant his bloodline could carry on.
6. not comparable Morally whole; pure; sheer. See now, whether pure fear and entire cowardice doth not make thee / wrong this virtuous gentlewoman to close with us.
7. not comparable Internal; interior. Depp is the wound, that dints the parts entire

Similar: complete, entire, holo-, one, overall, total, whole

noun entires · intire

1. archaic, countable, uncountable The whole of something; the entirety. In the entire of the Poems we never hear of a merchant ship of the Greeks.
2. countable, uncountable An uncastrated horse; a stallion. 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. countable, uncountable A complete envelope with stamps and all official markings: (prior to the use of envelopes) a page folded and posted.
4. countable, uncountable Porter or stout as delivered from the brewery.