What's the difference between entirely and entirety?

Entirely


Definition:

  • (adv.) In an entire manner; wholly; completely; fully; as, the trace is entirely lost.
  • (adv.) Without alloy or mixture; truly; sincerely.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Previous attempts to purify this enzyme from the liquid endosperm of kernels of Zea mays (sweet corn) were not entirely successful owing to the lability of partially purified preparations during column chromatography.
  • (2) The sound of the ambulance frightened us, especially us children, and panic gripped the entire community: people believe that whoever is taken into the ambulance to the hospital will die – you so often don’t see them again.
  • (3) The lesion (10.6 X 9.8 mm) was a well-defined ellipsoid granuloma due to a foreign body with a central zone of necrosis surrounded entirely by a fibrous wall.
  • (4) Only seven films (or 0.7 percent of the entire cohort) showed nodular or rounded opacities of the type typically seen in uncomplicated silicosis.
  • (5) It is entirely proper for serving judges to set out the arguments in high-profile cases to help public understanding of the legal issues, as long as it is done in an even-handed way.
  • (6) These results suggest that photochemical modification of a single residue of aspartate (or asparagine) is largely, if not entirely, responsible for photoinactivation of the enzyme under these conditions.
  • (7) Plasmids containing the inverted repeat alone bound ER, though less efficiently than did plasmids containing the entire sequence.
  • (8) Throughout the entire cultivation cytidyl derivatives occurred in trace quantities.
  • (9) A 2.7-kilobase DNA fragment carrying the entire exotoxin A (ETA) structural gene was divided into three nonoverlapping probes.
  • (10) Second, this report can be adopted and adapted by the entire health service, from dental practices to ambulances, from GP surgeries to acute hospitals.
  • (11) There are questions with regard to the interpretation of some of the newer content scales of the MMPI-2, whereas most clinicians feel comfortably familiar, even if not entirely satisfied, with the Wiggins Content Scales of the MMPI.
  • (12) A suggestion is made to transfer the veterinary establishments from the agro-industrial complexes to the community systems, with responsibilities and rights of their own for the entire and dependable veterinary service in aid of the community systems.
  • (13) Pregnancy loss rates through 28 weeks' gestation and the entire gestation were not significantly different.
  • (14) The perinatal development of the levator ani (LA) muscle in male and female rats was investigated by measuring the total number of muscle units (MU) (i.e., mononucleate cells, clustered or independent myotubes, and muscle fibers) in transverse semithin sections of the entire muscle and the MU cross-sectional area in 22-day-old fetuses (F22), 1-day-old (D1 = day of birth), 3-day-old (D3), and 6-day-old (D6) newborns.
  • (15) Magnetic resonance imaging of the spinal cord clearly demonstrated the entire lesion.
  • (16) Broad-based secular comprehensives that draw in families across the class, faith and ethnic spectrum, entirely free of private control, could hold a new appeal.
  • (17) The letters of discharge or the case records were obtained for all patients under one year for the entire period and for all patients over one year for the period 1984-1986, a total of 627 persons.
  • (18) A strain of Escherichia coli lacking the entire ponB gene and a strain lacking the proximal part of the ponA gene were constructed by substitution with a drug resistance gene.
  • (19) At its centre was the Holocaust, the industrialised slaughter of 6 million Jews by the Nazis: an attempt at the annihilation of an entire people.
  • (20) Sequences representing the entire TIR are transcribed into poly(A)+ mRNA at both early and late times in the infection.

Entirety


Definition:

  • (n.) The state of being entire; completeness; as, entirely of interest.
  • (n.) That which is entire; the whole.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) It would cost their own businesses hundreds of millions of pounds in transaction costs, it would blow a massive hole in their balance of payments, it would leave them having to pick up the entirety of UK debt.
  • (2) It confirms that Fifa, through its internal bodies, is conducting a one-sided, unfair and biased investigation against Michel Platini, repeatedly violating his right to defend himself.” The Fifa appeals committee, chaired by the Bermudan Larry Mussenden, said the appeals had been rejected in full and the decision of the adjudicatory chamber of the independent ethics committee, chaired by the German judge Hans Joachim-Eckert, confirmed in its entirety.
  • (3) A method was evolved by which the organ of Corti could be examined in its entirety with the scanning electron microscope, the organ meanwhile retaining its spiral form.
  • (4) These results suggest that ultrasonography can delineate the entirety of diffusely fibrous breast cancer, but can hardly depict the outer part of the lesion which is fibrous in the inner part and cellular in the outer part.
  • (5) It also wants the entire to see the deficit reduction plan in its entirety in one go in order to cut uncertainty.The EEF chief executive, Terry Scuoler, said the organisation "recognises the remedy will not be pain free but will want to see a clear plan with all the bad news out of the way now.
  • (6) The diameters of the right ventricular infundibulum, pulmonary trunk, and the entirety of the right and left pulmonary arteries were measured (in millimeters), corrected for magnification, and expressed in standard deviation units (Z-values).
  • (7) In one undisclosed court document in Kenya, seen by the Guardian, BAT’s lawyers demand the country’s high court “quash in its entirety” a package of anti-smoking regulations and rails against what it calls a “capricious” tax plan.
  • (8) The results, in their entirety, suggest (a) that different patterns of psychopathology, if any, tend to be associated with different professions and at different periods in individuals' lives, (b) that different professions are associated with different levels of creative achievement, and (c) that certain types of psychopathology are associated with creative achievement across all professions.
  • (9) In all probability, it is merely a particularly striking presentation of a GI tract that is irritable throughout its entirety.
  • (10) The analysed specimens were studied microscopically in their entirety regarding tumour type and occurrence of necrosis and non-tumour tissue admixture, such as fibrosis and haemorrhage.
  • (11) The cDNA insert of clone lambda C2HL5-3 was sequenced in its entirety.
  • (12) The equine blood oxyhemoglobin dissociation curve has been traced in its entirety in standard conditions and the effects of temperature, pH and 2,3-diphosphoglycerate on this curve have been measured.
  • (13) Examinations can be done repeatedly over many days, or a dynamic event (e.g., ovulation) can be monitored in its entirety by continuous observation (e.g., 30 min).
  • (14) "It's hard to imagine that anyone who has read Alexie's book in its entirety would try to have it banned.
  • (15) The Israeli prime minister, Binyamin Netanyahu, gave a guarded response to the agreement , stating that it must be judged on whether it eliminated Bashar al-Assad's arsenal in its entirety.
  • (16) For those analytics lovers, there’s the evidence via Extra Skater that the Kings Fenwick score (shot attempts) was better throughout the entirety of the game, perhaps suggesting that the true abnormality of Saturday night’s game was that the Rangers led for so much of it.
  • (17) The question has to be asked again and again: if each and every Labour politician does not oppose this in its entirety, what exactly are they here for?
  • (18) I regret this matter in its entirety and the position in which I put my former partner and I now ask that her privacy be respected."
  • (19) The clones do not express detectable HpaII restriction endonuclease activity, suggesting that either the endonuclease gene is not expressed well in E. coli, or that it is not present in its entirety in any of the clones that we have isolated.
  • (20) We are printing in its entirety the discussion document which sets out a code of professional conduct for nurses published by the Royal College of Nursing in November 1976 together with commentaries by the Assistant Secretary of the British Medical Association, a professor of nursing studies, student nurses and a lawyer.