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**entire** — *Everyday, meaning 1:* Whole; with every part included (the entire class, the entire day).[↗](../../entire/#m1 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 2:* Complete, total (with his entire attention).[↗](../../entire/#m2 "tree and pragmatics") *Example:* The entire class went on the trip.[↗](../../entire/#x1 "tree and pragmatics") · I read the entire book in one day.[↗](../../entire/#x2 "tree and pragmatics") · She spent her entire pocket money on sweets.[↗](../../entire/#x3 "tree and pragmatics") · It rained the entire weekend.[↗](../../entire/#x4 "tree and pragmatics") · The entire school came to watch.[↗](../../entire/#x5 "tree and pragmatics") · If you eat 3/8 of a pizza, 5/8 of the entire pizza is left.[↗](../../entire/#x6 "tree and pragmatics") · Next morning the king had the entire town searched for his daughter’s shoe.[↗](../../entire/#x7 "tree and pragmatics") · The entire Greek account of Pythagoras and his philosophy is unreliable and most likely is a forgery.[↗](../../entire/#x8 "tree and pragmatics") (Mordell, The Origin of Letters and Numerals according to Sefer Yetzirah (1914))[↗](../../entire/#x8 "tree and pragmatics") · Rabbi Hanina and Rabbi Oshaiah sat the entire eve of the Sabbath studying the Sefer Yetzirah and created a three-year old calf, and ate it' . . .[↗](../../entire/#x9 "tree and pragmatics") (Mordell, The Origin of Letters and Numerals according to Sefer Yetzirah (1914))[↗](../../entire/#x9 "tree and pragmatics")

**entirely** — *Everyday, meaning 1:* Entirely means completely, totally, in every way.[↗](../../entirely/#m1 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 2:* Entirely can mean only, as in «entirely made of wood».[↗](../../entirely/#m2 "tree and pragmatics") *Example:* The house was made entirely of wood.[↗](../../entirely/#x1 "tree and pragmatics") · I'm not entirely sure where we are.[↗](../../entirely/#x2 "tree and pragmatics") · It was entirely my fault, and I'm sorry.[↗](../../entirely/#x3 "tree and pragmatics") · The rectangle is entirely shaded, so the fraction is one whole.[↗](../../entirely/#x4 "tree and pragmatics") · The two stories are entirely different.[↗](../../entirely/#x5 "tree and pragmatics") · The cake was eaten almost entirely by the dog.[↗](../../entirely/#x6 "tree and pragmatics") · The decision is entirely up to you.[↗](../../entirely/#x7 "tree and pragmatics") · It was made entirely of ice.[↗](../../entirely/#x8 "tree and pragmatics") · As such a view is entirely re- pugnant to the modern critical raind, some writers regard this closing Mishnah as a later interpolation.[↗](../../entirely/#x9 "tree and pragmatics") (Mordell, The Origin of Letters and Numerals according to Sefer Yetzirah (1914))[↗](../../entirely/#x9 "tree and pragmatics")

**entirety** — *Everyday, meaning 1:* (formal) The entirety of something is all of it, the whole thing.[↗](../../entirety/#m1 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 2:* In its entirety means completely, from start to finish.[↗](../../entirety/#m2 "tree and pragmatics") *Example:* Read the story in its entirety before answering.[↗](../../entirety/#x1 "tree and pragmatics") · The entirety of the cake was eaten.[↗](../../entirety/#x2 "tree and pragmatics") · He spent the entirety of the holiday reading.[↗](../../entirety/#x3 "tree and pragmatics") · The film was shown in its entirety.[↗](../../entirety/#x4 "tree and pragmatics") · The entirety of the class passed the test.[↗](../../entirety/#x5 "tree and pragmatics") · She copied the poem in its entirety.[↗](../../entirety/#x6 "tree and pragmatics") · The flood covered the entirety of the field.[↗](../../entirety/#x7 "tree and pragmatics") · Listen to the song in its entirety.[↗](../../entirety/#x8 "tree and pragmatics")

**entitle** — *Everyday, meaning 1:* To entitle someone to something is to give them the right to have or do it.[↗](../../entitle/#m1 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 2:* To entitle a book, film or poem is to give it a title.[↗](../../entitle/#m2 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 3:* (adjective entitled) Someone who acts entitled thinks they deserve special treatment.[↗](../../entitle/#m3 "tree and pragmatics") *Example:* This ticket entitles you to one free drink.[↗](../../entitle/#x1 "tree and pragmatics") · Every child is entitled to go to school.[↗](../../entitle/#x2 "tree and pragmatics") · You are entitled to a refund if it's broken.[↗](../../entitle/#x3 "tree and pragmatics") · Her poem is entitled «The Sea».[↗](../../entitle/#x4 "tree and pragmatics") · Being captain doesn't entitle you to boss others around.[↗](../../entitle/#x5 "tree and pragmatics") · He acts so entitled, expecting everyone to wait for him.[↗](../../entitle/#x6 "tree and pragmatics") · "Your companions," said she, "have already been received into my palace, and have enjoyed the hospitable treatment to which the propriety of their behavior so well entitles them.[↗](../../entitle/#x7 "tree and pragmatics")

**entitled** — *Everyday, meaning 1:* If you are entitled to something, you have a right to have it or do it.[↗](../../entitled/#m1 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 2:* If a book, song or film is entitled something, that is its title or name.[↗](../../entitled/#m2 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 3:* (disapproving) Someone who is entitled acts as if they deserve special treatment when they do not.[↗](../../entitled/#m3 "tree and pragmatics") *Example:* Everyone is entitled to their own opinion.[↗](../../entitled/#x1 "tree and pragmatics") · If the toy is broken, you are entitled to a refund.[↗](../../entitled/#x2 "tree and pragmatics") · She wrote a poem entitled «The Snow Fox».[↗](../../entitled/#x3 "tree and pragmatics") · Each pupil is entitled to two free tickets, so 30 pupils get 60 tickets.[↗](../../entitled/#x4 "tree and pragmatics") · He acts so entitled, pushing to the front of every queue.[↗](../../entitled/#x5 "tree and pragmatics") · Children are entitled to an education.[↗](../../entitled/#x6 "tree and pragmatics") · The film is entitled «Return to the Island».[↗](../../entitled/#x7 "tree and pragmatics") · The ticket entitles you to one free drink.[↗](../../entitled/#x8 "tree and pragmatics") · Gollancz informs me he remembers a version entitled “Pepper, Salt, and Mustard,” with the refrain just given.[↗](../../entitled/#x9 "tree and pragmatics") · This passage is explained by Isaac Satanow in his Hebrew Dictionary entitled Sephath Emeth, p. 44, b: (Sefer Yetzirah, Kalisch 1877)[↗](../../entitled/#x10 "tree and pragmatics") · Tom., I, Chap.[↗](../../entitled/#x11 "tree and pragmatics") 1.)[↗](../../entitled/#x11 "tree and pragmatics") Third, Rittangel published the book "Yezirah," 1642, at Amsterdam, entitled: "Liber Yezirah qui Abrahamo patriarchae adscribitur, una cum commentario (Sefer Yetzirah, Kalisch 1877)[↗](../../entitled/#x11 "tree and pragmatics") · Dr. Steinshneider (see Magazin fuer Literatur des Auslandes, 1845) and Dr. Cassel (in his commentary to the book entitled Kusari,) maintain that the ancient Jewish (Sefer Yetzirah, Kalisch 1877)[↗](../../entitled/#x12 "tree and pragmatics")

**entitlement** — *Everyday, meaning 1:* An entitlement is something you have a right to have or do, like holiday time or free meals.[↗](../../entitlement/#m1 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 2:* Entitlement can mean the feeling that you deserve special treatment, even when you do not; this sense is disapproving.[↗](../../entitlement/#m2 "tree and pragmatics") *Example:* Workers have an entitlement of 25 days' holiday a year.[↗](../../entitlement/#x1 "tree and pragmatics") · Pupils from low-income families have an entitlement to free meals.[↗](../../entitlement/#x2 "tree and pragmatics") · His sense of entitlement annoyed everyone.[↗](../../entitlement/#x3 "tree and pragmatics") · Check your entitlement before you apply.[↗](../../entitlement/#x4 "tree and pragmatics") · She used all her holiday entitlement in summer.[↗](../../entitlement/#x5 "tree and pragmatics") · The spoiled prince acted with entitlement.[↗](../../entitlement/#x6 "tree and pragmatics")

**entity** — *Everyday, meaning 1:* An entity is something that exists as a separate, single thing with its own identity, such as a company, a country or a living being.[↗](../../entity/#m1 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 2:* (formal) In law and business, an entity is an organisation treated as one unit, such as «a legal entity».[↗](../../entity/#m2 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 3:* In computing and stories, an entity can be any object or being: a character in a game, or a mysterious creature or ghost.[↗](../../entity/#m3 "tree and pragmatics") *Example:* The school and the nursery are separate entities.[↗](../../entity/#x1 "tree and pragmatics") · A company is a legal entity, like a person in the eyes of the law.[↗](../../entity/#x2 "tree and pragmatics") · Each country is an independent entity.[↗](../../entity/#x3 "tree and pragmatics") · In the game, every monster is an entity with its own health points.[↗](../../entity/#x4 "tree and pragmatics") · The ghost story was about a strange entity in the attic.[↗](../../entity/#x5 "tree and pragmatics") · The team works together as a single entity.[↗](../../entity/#x6 "tree and pragmatics") · 1) Our author maintains that there is a first intelligent, self-existing, almighty, eternal ruling cause of all things, and that an everlasting entity produced nonentities by a progression of effects.[↗](../../entity/#x7 "tree and pragmatics") (Sefer Yetzirah, Kalisch 1877)[↗](../../entity/#x7 "tree and pragmatics") · In this interpretation, they are ten elemental entities or properties which bind or restrain primordial תֹּהוּ tohu, 'chaos, void, waste(land)' \[Genesis 1:2\], allowing structure and order to exist in creation.[↗](../../entity/#x8 "tree and pragmatics") (Sefer Yetzirah, Sefaria community translation)[↗](../../entity/#x8 "tree and pragmatics") · This way of thinking about language imbues the Hebrew root itself with a certain metaphysical reality, an entity from which more concrete instantions of individual words may ontologically descend and ultimately crystallize into concrete speech or material reality.[↗](../../entity/#x9 "tree and pragmatics") (Sefer Yetzirah, Sefaria community translation)[↗](../../entity/#x9 "tree and pragmatics")

**entrails** — *Everyday, meaning 1:* The entrails of an animal or person are the inside parts, such as the stomach and guts.[↗](../../entrails/#m1 "tree and pragmatics") *Example:* The hunter cleaned the deer's entrails.[↗](../../entrails/#x1 "tree and pragmatics") · In the story the old wolf asked for his entrails to be washed.[↗](../../entrails/#x2 "tree and pragmatics") · The vet looked at the sheep's entrails.[↗](../../entrails/#x3 "tree and pragmatics")

**entrance** — *Everyday, meaning 1:* An entrance is a door, gate or opening where you go into a place.[↗](../../entrance/#m1 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 2:* An entrance is the act of coming in, like an actor coming on stage.[↗](../../entrance/#m2 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 3:* Entrance is the right to go in, as in an entrance fee.[↗](../../entrance/#m3 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 4:* As a verb (stress on «TRANCE»), to entrance someone is to fill them with wonder.[↗](../../entrance/#m4 "tree and pragmatics") *Example:* Meet me at the main entrance.[↗](../../entrance/#x1 "tree and pragmatics") · The entrance to the cave was dark.[↗](../../entrance/#x2 "tree and pragmatics") · The entrance fee is five dollars for children.[↗](../../entrance/#x3 "tree and pragmatics") · The queen made a grand entrance.[↗](../../entrance/#x4 "tree and pragmatics") · The school entrance is on the other side.[↗](../../entrance/#x5 "tree and pragmatics") · The music entranced the audience.[↗](../../entrance/#x6 "tree and pragmatics") · If the entrance fee is 3 pounds each, 4 children pay 12 pounds.[↗](../../entrance/#x7 "tree and pragmatics") · The name glittered in gas-jets over the entrance.[↗](../../entrance/#x8 "tree and pragmatics") · So they went up, and spied out the land from the wilderness of Zin unto Rehob, at the entrance to Hamath.[↗](../../entrance/#x9 "tree and pragmatics") (Torah NUM.13.21, JPS 1917)[↗](../../entrance/#x9 "tree and pragmatics") · from mount Hor ye shall mark out a line unto the entrance to Hamath; and the goings out of the border shall be at Zedad; (Torah NUM.34.8, JPS 1917)[↗](../../entrance/#x10 "tree and pragmatics") · These twenty-two letters, the foundations, He arranged as on a sphere, with two hundred and thirty-one modes of entrance.[↗](../../entrance/#x11 "tree and pragmatics") (Sefer Yetzirah, Westcott 1887)[↗](../../entrance/#x11 "tree and pragmatics") · So also made he for the entrance of the temple door-posts of olive-wood, within a frame four-square; (Prophets 1KI.6.33, JPS 1917)[↗](../../entrance/#x12 "tree and pragmatics") · And for the entrance of the Sanctuary he made doors of olive-wood, the door-posts within the frame having five angles.[↗](../../entrance/#x13 "tree and pragmatics") (Prophets 1KI.6.31, JPS 1917)[↗](../../entrance/#x13 "tree and pragmatics") · And Abimelech chased him, and he fled before him, and there fell many wounded, even unto the entrance of the gate.[↗](../../entrance/#x14 "tree and pragmatics") (Prophets JDG.9.40, JPS 1917)[↗](../../entrance/#x14 "tree and pragmatics")

**entrant** — *Everyday, meaning 1:* A person, team or animal that enters a competition, race or exam.[↗](../../entrant/#m1 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 2:* A person who joins a school, job or profession as a newcomer.[↗](../../entrant/#m2 "tree and pragmatics") *Example:* There were forty entrants in the spelling bee.[↗](../../entrant/#x1 "tree and pragmatics") · Each entrant gets a number to pin on their shirt.[↗](../../entrant/#x2 "tree and pragmatics") · The youngest entrant in the race was only seven.[↗](../../entrant/#x3 "tree and pragmatics") · All entrants must hand in their poems by Friday.[↗](../../entrant/#x4 "tree and pragmatics") · The cake competition had more entrants than last year.[↗](../../entrant/#x5 "tree and pragmatics") · New entrants to the school get a buddy for the first week.[↗](../../entrant/#x6 "tree and pragmatics") · If each of 12 entrants pays £2, the prize fund is £24.[↗](../../entrant/#x7 "tree and pragmatics")

**entrap** — *Everyday, meaning 1:* To entrap someone or something is to catch them in a trap.[↗](../../entrap/#m1 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 2:* To entrap someone is to trick them into doing something wrong, especially so they can be caught.[↗](../../entrap/#m2 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 3:* (law) Entrapment is when police unfairly trick someone into committing a crime.[↗](../../entrap/#m3 "tree and pragmatics") *Example:* The hunters tried to entrap the wolf.[↗](../../entrap/#x1 "tree and pragmatics") · Bubbles of air were entrapped in the ice.[↗](../../entrap/#x2 "tree and pragmatics") · The villain's plan was to entrap the detective.[↗](../../entrap/#x3 "tree and pragmatics") · The judge said the police had used entrapment.[↗](../../entrap/#x4 "tree and pragmatics") · Flies get entrapped in the sticky paper.[↗](../../entrap/#x5 "tree and pragmatics") · He felt entrapped by his promise.[↗](../../entrap/#x6 "tree and pragmatics") · Terrors shall overwhelm him on every side, and shall entrap him at his feet.[↗](../../entrap/#x7 "tree and pragmatics") (Writings JOB.18.11, JPS 1917)[↗](../../entrap/#x7 "tree and pragmatics")

**entreat** — *Everyday, meaning 1:* To entreat someone is to beg them earnestly to do something; it is stronger than asking.[↗](../../entreat/#m1 "tree and pragmatics") *Early Modern English, meaning 1:* to ask someone very earnestly, pleading with them to change their mind or grant something.[↗](../../entreat/#m2 "tree and pragmatics") *Example:* I entreat you to forgive me.[↗](../../entreat/#x1 "tree and pragmatics") · The girl entreated her father to let her go.[↗](../../entreat/#x2 "tree and pragmatics") · He entreated the king for mercy.[↗](../../entreat/#x3 "tree and pragmatics") · «Stay with us,» they entreated.[↗](../../entreat/#x4 "tree and pragmatics") · And Moses went out from Pharaoh, and entreated the LORD.[↗](../../entreat/#x5 "tree and pragmatics") (Torah EXO.8.30, JPS 1917)[↗](../../entreat/#x5 "tree and pragmatics") · And he went out from Pharaoh, and entreated the LORD.[↗](../../entreat/#x6 "tree and pragmatics") (Torah EXO.10.18, JPS 1917)[↗](../../entreat/#x6 "tree and pragmatics") · And Isaac entreated the LORD for his wife, because she was barren; and the LORD let Himself be entreated of him, and Rebekah his wife conceived.[↗](../../entreat/#x7 "tree and pragmatics") (Torah GEN.25.21, JPS 1917)[↗](../../entreat/#x7 "tree and pragmatics") · And after that God was entreated for the land.[↗](../../entreat/#x8 "tree and pragmatics") (Prophets 2SA.21.14, JPS 1917)[↗](../../entreat/#x8 "tree and pragmatics") · So the LORD was entreated for the land, and the plague was stayed from Israel.[↗](../../entreat/#x9 "tree and pragmatics") (Prophets 2SA.24.25, JPS 1917)[↗](../../entreat/#x9 "tree and pragmatics") · So we fasted and besought our God for this; and He was entreated of us.[↗](../../entreat/#x10 "tree and pragmatics") (Writings EZR.8.23, JPS 1917)[↗](../../entreat/#x10 "tree and pragmatics") · And Moses went out from Pharaoh, and entreated the LORD.[↗](../../entreat/#x11 "tree and pragmatics") (Torah EXO.8.30, JPS 1917) · Then Koshchei entreated Prince Ivan, saying,--[↗](../../entreat/#x12 "tree and pragmatics") (Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore) · And he went out from Pharaoh, and entreated the LORD.[↗](../../entreat/#x13 "tree and pragmatics") (Torah EXO.10.18, JPS 1917)

**entreaty** — *Everyday, meaning 1:* An entreaty is a strong, urgent request, a begging for something.[↗](../../entreaty/#m1 "tree and pragmatics") *Example:* He answered her entreaties with a shake of his head.[↗](../../entreaty/#x1 "tree and pragmatics") · Her entreaty was heard by the queen.[↗](../../entreaty/#x2 "tree and pragmatics") · She made one last entreaty before leaving.[↗](../../entreaty/#x3 "tree and pragmatics") · The dog's sad eyes were an entreaty for food.[↗](../../entreaty/#x4 "tree and pragmatics") · The poor useth entreaties; but the rich answereth impudently.[↗](../../entreaty/#x5 "tree and pragmatics") (Writings PRO.18.23, JPS 1917)[↗](../../entreaty/#x5 "tree and pragmatics")

**entrenched** — *In Jewish tradition, meaning 1:* Fixed in a strong position, or protected with ditches or walls.[↗](../../entrenched/#m1 "tree and pragmatics") *Example:* Blessed be the LORD; for He hath shown me His wondrous lovingkindness in an entrenched city.[↗](../../entrenched/#x1 "tree and pragmatics") (Writings PSA.31.22, JPS 1917)[↗](../../entrenched/#x1 "tree and pragmatics")

**entrust** — *Everyday, meaning 1:* To give someone a job, thing or person to look after because you trust them: «She entrusted me with her keys.».[↗](../../entrust/#m1 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 2:* (church, Bible) Christians «entrust» themselves or the dead to God, meaning they put them into God's care.[↗](../../entrust/#m2 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 3:* To entrust something to someone's ear is to say it to them quietly, in secret.[↗](../../entrust/#m3 "tree and pragmatics") *Example:* The teacher entrusted me with the class hamster.[↗](../../entrust/#x1 "tree and pragmatics") · The king entrusted the secret to his best knight.[↗](../../entrust/#x2 "tree and pragmatics") · Parents entrust their children to the school each day.[↗](../../entrust/#x3 "tree and pragmatics") · She entrusted her money to the bank.[↗](../../entrust/#x4 "tree and pragmatics") · In the parable, the master entrusted his gold to his servants.[↗](../../entrust/#x5 "tree and pragmatics") · We entrust our grandmother to God's loving care.[↗](../../entrust/#x6 "tree and pragmatics")

**entry** — *Everyday, meaning 1:* An entry is a way in, like a door or gate, or the act of going in.[↗](../../entry/#m1 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 2:* An entry is a piece written in a diary, dictionary, list or log.[↗](../../entry/#m2 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 3:* An entry is something you send into a competition.[↗](../../entry/#m3 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 4:* Entry means permission or the right to go in.[↗](../../entry/#m4 "tree and pragmatics") *Example:* The sign on the gate says No Entry.[↗](../../entry/#x1 "tree and pragmatics") · I wrote a diary entry about the trip.[↗](../../entry/#x2 "tree and pragmatics") · Look up the entry for "cat" in the dictionary.[↗](../../entry/#x3 "tree and pragmatics") · Our class sent 25 entries to the poetry competition.[↗](../../entry/#x4 "tree and pragmatics") · Entry to the museum is free.[↗](../../entry/#x5 "tree and pragmatics") · The thief gained entry through a window.[↗](../../entry/#x6 "tree and pragmatics") · Fill in the missing entries in the table.[↗](../../entry/#x7 "tree and pragmatics") · Beside the gates, at the entry of the city, at the coming in at the doors, she crieth aloud: (Writings PRO.8.3, JPS 1917)[↗](../../entry/#x8 "tree and pragmatics") · And he measured the breadth of the entry of the gate, ten cubits; and the length of the gate, thirteen cubits; (Prophets EZK.40.11, JPS 1917)[↗](../../entry/#x9 "tree and pragmatics") · And a chamber with the entry thereof was by the posts at the gates; there was the burnt-offering to be washed.[↗](../../entry/#x10 "tree and pragmatics") (Prophets EZK.40.38, JPS 1917)[↗](../../entry/#x10 "tree and pragmatics")

**entwine** — *Everyday, meaning 1:* To entwine things is to twist or wind them together so that they are joined or tangled.[↗](../../entwine/#m1 "tree and pragmatics") *Example:* Ivy entwined itself around the old gate.[↗](../../entwine/#x1 "tree and pragmatics") · The two girls entwined their fingers.[↗](../../entwine/#x2 "tree and pragmatics") · Roses entwined the garden wall.[↗](../../entwine/#x3 "tree and pragmatics") · The branches were entwined above the path.[↗](../../entwine/#x4 "tree and pragmatics")

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