📖 E — The English dictionary · page 21

entire — Everyday, meaning 1: Whole; with every part included (the entire class, the entire day).↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Complete, total (with his entire attention).↗ Example: The entire class went on the trip.↗ · I read the entire book in one day.↗ · She spent her entire pocket money on sweets.↗ · It rained the entire weekend.↗ · The entire school came to watch.↗ · If you eat 3/8 of a pizza, 5/8 of the entire pizza is left.↗ · Next morning the king had the entire town searched for his daughter’s shoe.↗ · The entire Greek account of Pythagoras and his philosophy is unreliable and most likely is a forgery.↗ (Mordell, The Origin of Letters and Numerals according to Sefer Yetzirah (1914))↗ · 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' . . .↗ (Mordell, The Origin of Letters and Numerals according to Sefer Yetzirah (1914))↗

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

entirety — Everyday, meaning 1: (formal) The entirety of something is all of it, the whole thing.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: In its entirety means completely, from start to finish.↗ Example: Read the story in its entirety before answering.↗ · The entirety of the cake was eaten.↗ · He spent the entirety of the holiday reading.↗ · The film was shown in its entirety.↗ · The entirety of the class passed the test.↗ · She copied the poem in its entirety.↗ · The flood covered the entirety of the field.↗ · Listen to the song in its entirety.↗

entitle — Everyday, meaning 1: To entitle someone to something is to give them the right to have or do it.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: To entitle a book, film or poem is to give it a title.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: (adjective entitled) Someone who acts entitled thinks they deserve special treatment.↗ Example: This ticket entitles you to one free drink.↗ · Every child is entitled to go to school.↗ · You are entitled to a refund if it's broken.↗ · Her poem is entitled «The Sea».↗ · Being captain doesn't entitle you to boss others around.↗ · He acts so entitled, expecting everyone to wait for him.↗ · "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.↗

entitled — Everyday, meaning 1: If you are entitled to something, you have a right to have it or do it.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: If a book, song or film is entitled something, that is its title or name.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: (disapproving) Someone who is entitled acts as if they deserve special treatment when they do not.↗ Example: Everyone is entitled to their own opinion.↗ · If the toy is broken, you are entitled to a refund.↗ · She wrote a poem entitled «The Snow Fox».↗ · Each pupil is entitled to two free tickets, so 30 pupils get 60 tickets.↗ · He acts so entitled, pushing to the front of every queue.↗ · Children are entitled to an education.↗ · The film is entitled «Return to the Island».↗ · The ticket entitles you to one free drink.↗ · Gollancz informs me he remembers a version entitled “Pepper, Salt, and Mustard,” with the refrain just given.↗ · This passage is explained by Isaac Satanow in his Hebrew Dictionary entitled Sephath Emeth, p. 44, b: (Sefer Yetzirah, Kalisch 1877)↗ · Tom., I, Chap.↗ 1.)↗ Third, Rittangel published the book "Yezirah," 1642, at Amsterdam, entitled: "Liber Yezirah qui Abrahamo patriarchae adscribitur, una cum commentario (Sefer Yetzirah, Kalisch 1877)↗ · 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)↗

entitlement — Everyday, meaning 1: An entitlement is something you have a right to have or do, like holiday time or free meals.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Entitlement can mean the feeling that you deserve special treatment, even when you do not; this sense is disapproving.↗ Example: Workers have an entitlement of 25 days' holiday a year.↗ · Pupils from low-income families have an entitlement to free meals.↗ · His sense of entitlement annoyed everyone.↗ · Check your entitlement before you apply.↗ · She used all her holiday entitlement in summer.↗ · The spoiled prince acted with entitlement.↗

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.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: (formal) In law and business, an entity is an organisation treated as one unit, such as «a legal entity».↗ 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.↗ Example: The school and the nursery are separate entities.↗ · A company is a legal entity, like a person in the eyes of the law.↗ · Each country is an independent entity.↗ · In the game, every monster is an entity with its own health points.↗ · The ghost story was about a strange entity in the attic.↗ · The team works together as a single entity.↗ · 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.↗ (Sefer Yetzirah, Kalisch 1877)↗ · 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.↗ (Sefer Yetzirah, Sefaria community translation)↗ · 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.↗ (Sefer Yetzirah, Sefaria community translation)↗

entrails — Everyday, meaning 1: The entrails of an animal or person are the inside parts, such as the stomach and guts.↗ Example: The hunter cleaned the deer's entrails.↗ · In the story the old wolf asked for his entrails to be washed.↗ · The vet looked at the sheep's entrails.↗

entrance — Everyday, meaning 1: An entrance is a door, gate or opening where you go into a place.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: An entrance is the act of coming in, like an actor coming on stage.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: Entrance is the right to go in, as in an entrance fee.↗ Everyday, meaning 4: As a verb (stress on «TRANCE»), to entrance someone is to fill them with wonder.↗ Example: Meet me at the main entrance.↗ · The entrance to the cave was dark.↗ · The entrance fee is five dollars for children.↗ · The queen made a grand entrance.↗ · The school entrance is on the other side.↗ · The music entranced the audience.↗ · If the entrance fee is 3 pounds each, 4 children pay 12 pounds.↗ · The name glittered in gas-jets over the entrance.↗ · So they went up, and spied out the land from the wilderness of Zin unto Rehob, at the entrance to Hamath.↗ (Torah NUM.13.21, JPS 1917)↗ · 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)↗ · These twenty-two letters, the foundations, He arranged as on a sphere, with two hundred and thirty-one modes of entrance.↗ (Sefer Yetzirah, Westcott 1887)↗ · 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)↗ · And for the entrance of the Sanctuary he made doors of olive-wood, the door-posts within the frame having five angles.↗ (Prophets 1KI.6.31, JPS 1917)↗ · And Abimelech chased him, and he fled before him, and there fell many wounded, even unto the entrance of the gate.↗ (Prophets JDG.9.40, JPS 1917)↗

entrant — Everyday, meaning 1: A person, team or animal that enters a competition, race or exam.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: A person who joins a school, job or profession as a newcomer.↗ Example: There were forty entrants in the spelling bee.↗ · Each entrant gets a number to pin on their shirt.↗ · The youngest entrant in the race was only seven.↗ · All entrants must hand in their poems by Friday.↗ · The cake competition had more entrants than last year.↗ · New entrants to the school get a buddy for the first week.↗ · If each of 12 entrants pays £2, the prize fund is £24.↗

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

entreat — Everyday, meaning 1: To entreat someone is to beg them earnestly to do something; it is stronger than asking.↗ Early Modern English, meaning 1: to ask someone very earnestly, pleading with them to change their mind or grant something.↗ Example: I entreat you to forgive me.↗ · The girl entreated her father to let her go.↗ · He entreated the king for mercy.↗ · «Stay with us,» they entreated.↗ · And Moses went out from Pharaoh, and entreated the LORD.↗ (Torah EXO.8.30, JPS 1917)↗ · And he went out from Pharaoh, and entreated the LORD.↗ (Torah EXO.10.18, JPS 1917)↗ · 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.↗ (Torah GEN.25.21, JPS 1917)↗ · And after that God was entreated for the land.↗ (Prophets 2SA.21.14, JPS 1917)↗ · So the LORD was entreated for the land, and the plague was stayed from Israel.↗ (Prophets 2SA.24.25, JPS 1917)↗ · So we fasted and besought our God for this; and He was entreated of us.↗ (Writings EZR.8.23, JPS 1917)↗ · And Moses went out from Pharaoh, and entreated the LORD.↗ (Torah EXO.8.30, JPS 1917) · Then Koshchei entreated Prince Ivan, saying,--↗ (Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore) · And he went out from Pharaoh, and entreated the LORD.↗ (Torah EXO.10.18, JPS 1917)

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

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

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.».↗ Everyday, meaning 2: (church, Bible) Christians «entrust» themselves or the dead to God, meaning they put them into God's care.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: To entrust something to someone's ear is to say it to them quietly, in secret.↗ Example: The teacher entrusted me with the class hamster.↗ · The king entrusted the secret to his best knight.↗ · Parents entrust their children to the school each day.↗ · She entrusted her money to the bank.↗ · In the parable, the master entrusted his gold to his servants.↗ · We entrust our grandmother to God's loving care.↗

entry — Everyday, meaning 1: An entry is a way in, like a door or gate, or the act of going in.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: An entry is a piece written in a diary, dictionary, list or log.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: An entry is something you send into a competition.↗ Everyday, meaning 4: Entry means permission or the right to go in.↗ Example: The sign on the gate says No Entry.↗ · I wrote a diary entry about the trip.↗ · Look up the entry for "cat" in the dictionary.↗ · Our class sent 25 entries to the poetry competition.↗ · Entry to the museum is free.↗ · The thief gained entry through a window.↗ · Fill in the missing entries in the table.↗ · 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)↗ · 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)↗ · And a chamber with the entry thereof was by the posts at the gates; there was the burnt-offering to be washed.↗ (Prophets EZK.40.38, JPS 1917)↗

entwine — Everyday, meaning 1: To entwine things is to twist or wind them together so that they are joined or tangled.↗ Example: Ivy entwined itself around the old gate.↗ · The two girls entwined their fingers.↗ · Roses entwined the garden wall.↗ · The branches were entwined above the path.↗