[hohl] 
| 1. | comprising the full quantity, amount, extent, number, etc., without diminution or exception; entire, full, or total: He ate the whole pie. They ran the whole distance. |
| 2. | containing all the elements properly belonging; complete: We have a whole set of antique china. |
| 3. | undivided; in one piece: to swallow a thing whole. |
| 4. | Mathematics. integral, or not fractional. |
| 5. | not broken, damaged, or impaired; intact: Thankfully, the vase arrived whole. |
| 6. | uninjured or unharmed; sound: He was surprised to find himself whole after the crash. |
| 7. | pertaining to all aspects of human nature, esp. one's physical, intellectual, and spiritual development: education for the whole person. |
| 8. | the whole assemblage of parts or elements belonging to a thing; the entire quantity, account, extent, or number: He accepted some of the parts but rejected the whole. |
| 9. | a thing complete in itself, or comprising all its parts or elements. |
| 10. | an assemblage of parts associated or viewed together as one thing; a unitary system. |
| 11. | as a whole, all things included or considered; altogether: As a whole, the relocation seems to have been beneficial. |
| 12. | on or upon the whole,
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| 13. | out of whole cloth, without foundation in fact; fictitious: a story made out of whole cloth. |
whole (hōl)
adj.
Not wounded, injured, or impaired; sound or unhurt.
Having been restored; healed.
out of whole cloth
From pure fabrication or fiction. This expression is often put as cut (or made) out of whole cloth, as in That story was cut out of whole cloth. In the 15th century this expression referred to something fabricated from cloth that ran the full length of the loom. However, by the 1800s it was common practice for tailors to deceive their customers and, instead of using whole cloth, actually make garments from pieced goods. Their advertising slogan, "cut out of whole cloth," thus came to mean "made up, false."