Wholeness

Definition

whole /hǝƱl/ adj ၁။ (တစ္) … လံုး။ (သံုးရက္လံုး၊ တစ္ၿမိဳ႕လံုး စသည္။ ) အားလံုး။ three whole days ❍ We drank a whole bottle each ❍ The whole town was destroyed by the earthquake. ❍ The whole country (ie All the people in it) mourned the death of the president. ❍ I've sold the whole lot (ie everything). ❍ Let's forget the whole affair/matter/thing. ❍ Tell me the whole truth. ❍ half ၂။ အေကာင္လိုက္။ အလံုးလိုက္။ cook sth whole (ie without cutting if into pieces) ❍ swallow sth whole (ie without chewing (chew) it). n ၁။ [C] (ျပည့္စံုေသာ) တစ္ခု။ Four quarters make a whole. ❍ As members of society we are all parts of a greater whole. အသင္းဝင္တစ္ေယာက္ခ်င္း အေနနဲ႔ တို႔အားလံုး ဟာ အသင္းႀကီးတစ္ခုလံုးရဲ႕ အစိတ္အပိုင္း တစ္ခုစီပါပဲ။ ❍ half ၂။ [sing] ~ of sth ( esp Brit ) တစ္…လံုး။ She spent the whole of the year in hospital. wholeness n [U] ❏ as a whole [ IDM ] ၁။ တေပါင္းတစည္းတည္း။ Is the collection going to be divided up or sold as a whole? ၂။ အားလံုးအေနႏွင့္။ ေယဘုယ်အားျဖင့္။ The population as a whole is/are in favour of the reform. ❏ go the whole hog [ IDM ] ( infml ) မႁခြင္းမခ်န္ လုပ္သည္။ We painted the kitchen, and then decided to go the whole hog and redecorated the other rooms as well. ❏ on the whole [ IDM ] ၿခံဳငံုလ်က္။ ၿခံဳၾကည့္ေသာ္။ On the whole, I'm in favour of the idea. ❏ the whole bag of tricks/ caboodle/ she bang/ shooting match [ IDM ] ( infml ) ရိွရိွသမွ် အကုန္။ I just threw the whole caboodle in the back of the car. ❍ They bought the house, the land, the stables — the whole shooting match. ❏ a whole lot [ IDM ] ( infml ) အမ်ားႀကီး။ I'm feeling a whole lot better. ❏ a whole lot (of sth) [ IDM ] ( infml ) တစ္ပံုတစ္ေခါင္း။ There were a whole lot of people I didn't know. ❍ I lost a whole lot of money. ❏ whole milk n [U] မလိုင္အျပည့္ပါေသာႏို႔။ ❏ whole note n ( US ) = semibreve ❏ whole number n ( mathematics ) ကိန္းျပည့္။ ❏ wholly /'hǝƱlli/ adv အျပည့္အဝ။ လံုးလံုးလ်ားလ်ား။ ရာႏႈန္းျပည့္။ not a wholly successful book ❍ I'm not wholly convinced by your argument.

Examples

1. His whole body was trembling.
2. My whole family came to watch me playing in the concert.
3. The whole process will take months.
4. [the whole thing] : Come on
5. let’s just forget the whole thing.
6. [the whole story/truth] : She told Tilly the whole story about what had happened.
7. Add three whole eggs plus two additional yolks.
8. Some of the statues were broken
9. but others were still whole.
10. [a whole range/series] : There is a whole range of therapies that may be suitable.
11. [a whole lot] : I feel a whole lot better today.
12. [a whole host] : We’ve had a whole host of problems.
13. [in the whole world] : They’re the best icecreams in the whole world.