whole
$ \mathrm{whole}^1 /həʊl/
Let's forget the whole thing.
Jenna was my best friend in the whole world.
It seems I've spent my whole life travelling.
The whole family will be there.
But that's not the whole story, is it?
He spent the whole day writing.
We drank a whole bottle each.
I went through the whole process with them.
My whole body ached.
The whole country (= all the people in it) mourned her death.
The school is keen to involve the whole community in this project.
She wasn't telling the whole truth.
I'm going to be talking about a whole range of things today.
We are going to have a whole bunch of people over tomorrow night.
I can't afford it—that's the whole point.
We offer a whole variety of weekend breaks.
I think the whole idea is ridiculous.
3 not broken or damaged
Owls usually swallow their prey whole (= without biting it into small pieces).
Peel the small onions, but leave them whole.
この2つは、すべてが含まれているという意味では同じだが、ほんのわずかの例を除いて、入れ替えが全く替えがきかない。
入れ替えられる場合
(1) The whole city was jubilant.
(2) All the city was jubilant.
入れ替えのきかない例
(4) All men are created equal.
(5) I'm disgusted with the whole thing.
$ \mathrm{whole}^2 /həʊl/
1 singular the whole of something all that there is of something The scheme would cover the whole of the UK.
The effects will last for the whole of his life.
Technology permeates the whole of our lives.
The library takes up the whole of the first floor.
The project involved the whole of the university.
Collocations
verb + whole
2 countable a thing that is complete in itself Four quarters make a whole.
Taken as a whole, the image is slightly disappointing.
The subjects of the curriculum form a coherent whole.
Harmony in music is essentially about the right relationship of the parts to the whole.
Collocations
adjective
verb + whole
phrases
$ \mathrm{whole}^3 /həʊl/
(informal)
whole new/different/other… completely new/different
It's a whole new world out here.
That's a whole other story.
I suddenly saw him in a whole different light.
Word Origin