Whole vs Universe - What's the difference?
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Entire.
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*:During the whole' time of his abode in the university he generally spent thirteen hours of the day in study; by which assiduity besides an exact dispatch of the ' whole course of philosophy, he read over in a manner all classic authors that are extant
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*:Athelstan Arundel walked home all the way, foaming and raging.He walked the whole way, walking through crowds, and under the noses of dray-horses, carriage-horses, and cart-horses, without taking the least notice of them.
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*1939 , (Alfred Edward Housman), Additional Poems , X, lines 5-6
*:Here, with one balm for many fevers found, / Whole of an ancient evil, I sleep sound.
(lb) From which none of its constituents has been removed.
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The sum of everything that exists in the cosmos, including time and space itself; same as the Universe.
An entity similar to our Universe; one component of a larger entity known as the multiverse.
Everything under consideration.
An imaginary collection of worlds.
Intense form of world in the sense of perspective or social setting.
As an adjective whole
is entire.As an adverb whole
is (colloquial) in entirety; entirely; wholly.As a noun whole
is something complete, without any parts missing.As a proper noun universe is
the sum of everything that exists in the cosmos, including time and space itself.whole
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Adjective
(en adjective)The Life of the most learned, reverend and pious Dr. H. Hammond
The Mirror and the Lamp, passage=“[…] She takes the whole thing with desperate seriousness. But the others are all easy and jovial—thinking about the good fare that is soon to be eaten, about the hired fly, about anything.”}}
High and wet, passage=Floods in northern India, mostly in the small state of Uttarakhand, have wrought disaster on an enormous scale. The early, intense onset of the monsoon on June 14th swelled rivers, washing away roads, bridges, hotels and even whole villages.}}
Meronyms
* partDerived terms
* as a whole * go the whole hog * make whole * on the whole * out of whole cloth * the whole nine yards * whole shitting match * whole shooting match * whole ball of wax * whole-hearted * wholemeal * whole number * whole step * wholesome * whole-wheatStatistics
*External links
*All and whole— Linguapress online English grammar
universe
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Alternative forms
* Universe (dated or religious)Noun
(en noun)- I think that the universe was created by a life force rather than a deity .
- In all this universe of possibilities, there is only one feasible option.
- The universe in this comic book series is richly imagined.
- That didn’t just rock my world, it rocked my universe .