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Entire vs Within - What's the difference?

entire | within |

As an adjective entire

is (sometimes|postpositive) whole; complete.

As a noun entire

is an uncastrated horse; a stallion.

As a preposition within is

.

As an adverb within is

in or into the interior; inside.

entire

English

(wikipedia entire)

Alternative forms

* intire (obsolete)

Adjective

(-)
  • (sometimes, postpositive) Whole; complete.
  • (botany) Having a smooth margin without any indentation.
  • (botany) Consisting of a single piece, as a corolla.
  • (complex analysis, of a complex function) Complex-differentiable]] on all of [[?.
  • (of a, male animal) Not gelded.
  • Without mixture or alloy of anything; unqualified; morally whole; pure; faithful.
  • * (William Shakespeare) (1564-1616)
  • pure fear and entire cowardice
  • * Clarendon
  • No man had ever a heart more entire to the king.
  • Internal; interior.
  • (Spenser)

    Derived terms

    * entirety

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • An uncastrated horse; a stallion.
  • * 2005', He asked why Hijaz was an '''entire . You know what an entire is, do you not, Anna? A stallion which has not been castrated. — James Meek, ''The People's Act of Love (Canongate 2006, p. 124)
  • (philately) A complete envelope with stamps and all official markings: (prior to the use of envelopes) a page folded and posted.
  • Anagrams

    * (l)

    within

    English

    Preposition

    (English prepositions)
  • * 1908 , (Kenneth Grahame), (The Wind in the Willows) ,
  • The Rat.
  • * 2011 , Tom Fordyce, Rugby World Cup 2011: England 12-19 France [http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/rugby_union/15210221.stm]
  • England struck back with a fine try from Ben Foden and closed to within seven points with three minutes left when Mark Cueto capitalised on a break from replacement Matt Banahan.
  • Before the specified duration ends.
  • * {{quote-news, year=2012, date=June 9, author=Owen Phillips, work=BBC Sport
  • , tyitle= Euro 2012: Netherlands 0-1 Denmark , passage=And Netherlands, backed by a typically noisy and colourful travelling support, started the second period in blistering fashion and could have had four goals within 10 minutes}}

    Antonyms

    * without * outside * outwith

    Statistics

    *

    Adverb

    (en adverb)
  • in or into the interior; inside