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# whole

«whole» in Mova's school dictionary: **all of it, with no part missing: «the whole cake»** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

adjective, noun (a whole, wholes)

### meaning for a pupil

1) Whole means all of it, with no part missing: «the whole cake». [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/whole/#m1)

2) A whole is a complete thing made of parts: «Two halves make a whole». [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/whole/#m2)

3) A whole number is a number like 0, 1, 2, 3 with no fraction or decimal part. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/whole/#m3)

### sense in the lessons

the entire problem; all of a group; «the whole» is the total of all the parts; whole numbers have no fractions; phrases: «the whole class», «as a whole», «whole number», «on the whole» (mostly)

### examples

- Read the whole problem first, then choose. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/whole/#x1)
- Ben ate the whole cake. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/whole/#x2)
- The whole class has 28 children. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/whole/#x3)
- Two halves make one whole. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/whole/#x4)
- 7 is a whole number, but 7.5 is not. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/whole/#x5)
- It rained the whole day. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/whole/#x6)
- The snake swallowed the egg whole. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/whole/#x7)
- On the whole, I like school. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/whole/#x8)
- Here they stay a whole day. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/whole/#x9)

### note

Read everything before deciding. «the whole» is the total of all the parts. Trap: «whole» and «hole» (an opening) sound the same. «whole» goes with countable things (the whole cake); «all» goes with both (all the milk).

### In the corpora

- [It means grown-ups are steering the money so it lasts the whole month.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/6-paying-for-a-home-and-the-bills/7/)
- [A newborn baby changes a whole house.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/19-a-new-baby-in-the-house/0/)
- [Crime is on the news a lot, but most people live their whole lives without serious crime touching them.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/30-police-courts-and-prison/3/)
- [If the wrong things go in a recycling bin, a whole load can be spoiled.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/33-neighbours-the-council-rules-and-fairness/15/)
- [A reputation can grow from one small moment repeated as «always»; one bad week is not a whole reputation.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/43-our-street-when-a-guess-becomes-a-reputation/13/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «whole» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/whole/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.