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• intire (obsolete)

語源

From 中期英語 entere, enter, borrowed from Anglo-Norman entier, from Latin integrum, accusative of integer (“whole”), from Proto-Italic *əntagros (“untouched”). Doublet of entier and integer.

発音

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA: /ɪnˈtaɪə/, /ənˈtaɪə/
• (General American) IPA: /ɪnˈtaɪɚ/, /ənˈtaɪɚ/
• 韻: -aɪə(ɹ)
• ハイフネーション: en‧tire

形容詞

entire (not comparable)

1. (sometimes postpositive) Whole; complete.

   Synonyms: complete, total, utter

   Antonyms: partial, incomplete

   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: […] A[ugustine] M[atthews] for Thomas Iones, →OCLC, pages 415–416:

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

2. (botany) Having a smooth margin without any indentation.
   • 1899, Memoirs of the Torrey Botanical Club, volumes 6-8, page 192:

     Spores tetrahedral, paraphyses mastoid-claviform, scales smooth, entire.

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 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Second Part of Henry the Fourth, […]. Epilogue.”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [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 [Sheldonian] Theater:

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

7. Internal; interior.
   • 1595, Edmunde Spenser [i.e., Edmund Spenser], “[Amoretti.] Sonnet VI”, in Amoretti and Epithalamion. […], London: […] [Peter Short] for William Ponsonby, →OCLC:

     Depp is the wound, that dints the parts entire

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名詞

entire (countable and uncountable, plural 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, published 2005, page 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, published 2006, page 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.

アナグラム

• entier, in-tree, nerite, triene