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Collocations for whole - noun

1. all of sth

VERB + whole

comprise, cover, embrace, encompass, involve, span
The project involved the whole of the university.
fill, occupy, take up
The library takes up the whole of the first floor.
permeate, pervade
Technology permeates the whole of our lives.

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2. complete thing

ADJECTIVE

coherent, cohesive, harmonious, homogeneous, integrated, organized, seamless
She was struggling to organize her ideas into a coherent whole.
one, single
larger
The text must be seen as part of a larger whole.
complex
The author examines each aspect of Roman society, then attempts to summarize the complex whole.
meaningful, satisfying
At this age, babies do not yet combine sounds into a meaningful whole.
organic
collective, social

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VERB + whole

form, make, make up
He tried to fit the pieces of evidence together to make a coherent whole.

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PHRASES

as a whole
Unemployment is higher in the north than in the country as a whole.

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Collocations for whole - adj.

Whole is used with these nouns:
affair, almond, array, atmosphere, basis, batch, battery, body, building, business, charade, concept, continent, crowd, cycle, decade, document, earth, evening, existence, experience, face, family, food, fortnight, future, gamut, generation, grain, herd, idea, incident, issue, length, life, lifetime, lot, mess, milk, minute, month, mystery, nation, neighbourhood, night, note, number, oats, ordeal, package, picture, point, purpose, range, realm, region, saga, self, semester, sentence, sequence, series, set, situation, society, soul, spectrum, story, succession, tenor, thing, thrust, truth, universe, wardrobe, wealth, week, wheat, width, workforce, world, year

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