whole

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noun

1 all of sth

VERB + WHOLE

▪ comprise, cover, embrace, encompass, involve, span

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The project involved the whole of the university.

▪ fill, occupy, take up

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The library takes up the whole of the first floor.

▪ permeate, pervade

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Technology permeates the whole of our lives.

2 complete thing

ADJECTIVE

▪ coherent, cohesive, harmonious, homogeneous, integrated, organized, seamless

▪

She was struggling to organize her ideas into a coherent whole.

▪ one, single

▪ larger

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The text must be seen as part of a larger whole.

▪ complex

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The author examines each aspect of Roman society, then attempts to summarize the complex whole.

▪ meaningful, satisfying

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At this age, babies do not yet combine sounds into a meaningful whole.

▪ organic

▪ collective, social

VERB + WHOLE

▪ form, make, make up

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He tried to fit the pieces of evidence together to make a coherent whole.

PHRASES

▪ as a whole

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Unemployment is higher in the north than in the country as a whole.

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adj.

Whole is used with these nouns: ↑affair, ↑almond, ↑array, ↑atmosphere, ↑basis, ↑batch, ↑battery, ↑body, ↑building, ↑business, ↑charade, ↑concept, ↑continent, ↑crowd, ↑cycle, ↑decade, ↑document, ↑earth, ↑evening, ↑existence, ↑experience, ↑face, ↑family, ↑food, ↑fortnight, ↑future, ↑gamut, ↑generation, ↑grain, ↑herd, ↑idea, ↑incident, ↑issue, ↑length, ↑life, ↑lifetime, ↑lot, ↑mess, ↑milk, ↑minute, ↑month, ↑mystery, ↑nation, ↑neighbourhood, ↑night, ↑note, ↑number, ↑oats, ↑ordeal, ↑package, ↑picture, ↑point, ↑purpose, ↑range, ↑realm, ↑region, ↑saga, ↑self, ↑semester, ↑sentence, ↑sequence, ↑series, ↑set, ↑situation, ↑society, ↑soul, ↑spectrum, ↑story, ↑succession, ↑tenor, ↑thing, ↑thrust, ↑truth, ↑universe, ↑wardrobe, ↑wealth, ↑week, ↑wheat, ↑width, ↑workforce, ↑world, ↑year