What's the difference between entirety and whole?

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.

Whole


Definition:

  • (a.) Containing the total amount, number, etc.; comprising all the parts; free from deficiency; all; total; entire; as, the whole earth; the whole solar system; the whole army; the whole nation.
  • (a.) Complete; entire; not defective or imperfect; not broken or fractured; unimpaired; uninjured; integral; as, a whole orange; the egg is whole; the vessel is whole.
  • (a.) Possessing, or being in a state of, heath and soundness; healthy; sound; well.
  • (n.) The entire thing; the entire assemblage of parts; totality; all of a thing, without defect or exception; a thing complete in itself.
  • (n.) A regular combination of parts; a system.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The patterns observed were: clusters of granules related to the cell membrane; positive staining localized to portions of the cell membrane, and, less commonly, the whole cell circumference.
  • (2) These included bringing in the A* grade, reducing the number of modules from six to four, and a greater attempt to assess the whole course at the end.
  • (3) The role of whole Mycobacteria, mycobacterial cell walls and waxes D as immunostimulants was well established many years ago.
  • (4) Thus, saponin and ammonium chloride can be used to isolate whole infected erythrocytes, depleted of hemoglobin, by selective disruption of uninfected cells.
  • (5) However, ticks, which failed to finish their feeding and represent a disproportionately great part of the whole parasite's population, die together with them and the parasitic system quickly restores its stability.
  • (6) A phytochemical investigation of an ethanolic extract of the whole plant of Echites hirsuta (Apocynaceae) resulted in the isolation and identification of the flavonoids naringenin, aromadendrin (dihydrokaempferol), and kaempferol; the coumarin fraxetin; the triterpene ursolic acid; and the sterol glycoside sitosteryl glucoside.
  • (7) Further analysis with two other synthetic peptides (212Cys to 222Glu and Cys X 221Ile to 236Glu) indicated that the dodecapeptide Ile-Glu-Phe-Gln-Lys-Asn-Asn-Arg-Leu-Leu-Glu mimicked either the whole or a major part of the neutralization epitope.
  • (8) This study was designed to investigate the localization and cyclic regulation of the mRNA for these two IGFBPs in the porcine ovary, RNA was extracted from whole ovaries morphologically classified as immature, preovulatory, and luteal.
  • (9) Finally the advanced automation of the equipment allowed weekly the evaluation of catecholamines and the whole range of their known metabolites in 36 urine samples.
  • (10) Wages for the population as a whole are £1,600 a year worse off than five years ago.
  • (11) Retention of platelets from whole blood on glass beads was performed by the method of Bowie.
  • (12) These cases show that an examination of the whole neuraxis is as important in patients with midline posterior fossa cysts as it is in patients with developmental syringomyelia or Chiari I malformation.
  • (13) If there is a will to use primary Care centres for effective preventive action in the population as a whole, motivation of the professionals involved and organisational changes will be necessary so as not to perpetuate the law of inverse care.
  • (14) The BMDs of the DM-HD group were lower in these areas and whole body than that in the non-DM,HD group.
  • (15) Whole-virus vaccines prepared by Merck Sharp and Dohme (West Point, Pa.) and Merrell-National Laboratories (Cincinnati, Ohio) and subunit vaccines prepared by Parke, Davis and Company (Detroit, Mich.) and Wyeth Laboratories (Philadelphia, Pa.) were given intramuscularly in concentrations of 800, 400, or 200 chick cell-agglutinating units per dose.
  • (16) Between whole blood and whole blood related to hematocrit and hemoglobin content, r was 0.8 and 0.89 respectively (p less than 0.001).
  • (17) The phenylalanine model allows the rapid assessment of whole body and muscle protein turnover from plasma samples alone, obviating the need for measurement of expired air CO2 production or enrichment.
  • (18) Pitlike surface structures seen in negatively stained whole cells and thin sections were correlated with periodically spaced perforations of the rigid sacculus.
  • (19) The whole-cell outward currents develop in a characteristic sequence.
  • (20) Sera from three of these patients gave a precipitin band in gel diffusion tests identical to that produced by a monospecific rabbit anti-E. granulosus antigen 5 serum, when tested against whole hydatid fluid.