entireとは

意味・読み方・使い方

語源

From Middle English entere, enter, borrowed from Anglo-Norman entier, from Latin integrum, accusative of integer, from in- (“not”) + tangō (“touch”). Doublet of integer.

発音

• (Received 発音) IPA^(key): /ɪnˈtaɪə/, /ənˈtaɪə/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ɪnˈtaɪɚ/, /ənˈtaɪɚ/
• 韻: -aɪə(ɹ)

形容詞

entire (not comparable)

1. (sometimes postpositive) Whole; complete.

   We had the entire building to ourselves for the evening.

   • 1624, John Donne, “17. Meditation”, in Deuotions upon Emergent Occasions, and Seuerall Steps in My Sicknes: […], London: Printed by A[ugustine] M[atthews] for Thomas Iones, OCLC 55189476; republished as Geoffrey Keynes, John Sparrow, editor, Devotions upon Emergent Occasions: […], Cambridge: At the University Press, 1923, OCLC 459265555, lines 2–3, page 98:

     No man is an Iland, intire of it selfe; every man is a peece of the Continent, a part of the maine; […]

2. (botany) Having a smooth margin without any indentation.
3. (botany) Consisting of a single piece, as a corolla.
4. (complex analysis, of a complex function) Complex-differentiable on all of ℂ.
5. (of a male animal) Not gelded.
   • 2018, Markus Zusak, Bridge of Clay, page 423:

     On top of that, he was entire, which meant his bloodline could carry on.

6. morally whole; pure; sheer
   • c. 1596–1599, William Shakespeare, “The Second Part of Henry the Fourth, […]”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First Folio), London: Printed by Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358, [Act II, scene iv]:

     See now, whether pure fear and entire cowardice doth not make thee
     wrong this virtuous gentlewoman to close with us.

   • 1702–1704, Edward [Hyde, 1st] Earl of Clarendon, “(please specify |book=I to XVI)”, in The History of the Rebellion and Civil Wars in England, Begun in the Year 1641. […], Oxford, Oxfordshire: Printed at the Theater, published 1707, OCLC 937919305:

     No man had ever a heart more entire to the king.

7. Internal; interior.
   • 1595, Edmunde Spenser [i.e., Edmund Spenser], “[Amoretti.] Sonnet 6”, in Amoretti and Epithalamion. […], London: Printed [by Peter Short] for William Ponsonby, OCLC 932931864; reprinted in Amoretti and Epithalamion (The Noel Douglas Replicas), London: Noel Douglas […], 1927, OCLC 474036557:

     Depp is the wound, that dints the parts entire

派生語

• entirety

関連する語

• integrity
• integrate

名詞

entire (countable かつ uncountable, 複数形 entires)

1. (now rare) The whole of something; the entirety.
   • 1876, WE Gladstone, Homeric Synchronism:

     In the entire of the Poems we never hear of a merchant ship of the Greeks.

   • 1924, EM Forster, A Passage to India, Penguin 2005, p. 19:

     ‘Then is the City Magistrate the entire of your family now?’

2. An uncastrated horse; a stallion.
   • 2005, James Meek, The People's Act of Love (Canongate 2006, p. 124)

     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. (philately) A complete envelope with stamps and all official markings: (prior to the use of envelopes) a page folded and posted.
4. Porter or stout as delivered from the brewery.