whole thing
collocation in Englishmeaningsofwholeandthing
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whole
adjective
uk/həʊl/us/hoʊl/
complete or ...
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thing
noun
uk/θɪŋ/us/θɪŋ/
used to refer in an approximate way to an object or to avoid ...
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(Definition ofwholeandthingfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
Examplesofwhole thing
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This is really the crux of thewholething.
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Is thewholethingnow a piece of ancient history?
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Often thewholethingtakes no more than a minute.
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He must have done thewholethingin the train.
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By week five, when we set it, they all knew thewholething.
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Thewholethingtakes less than a month to be set right.
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And that she could make thewholethinghappen inside her mind.
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You can imagine thewholethingas a series of showerheads.
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I think truly thewholethingbetter worth coming to see than the jubilee.
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Thewholethingis incredibly complex and paradoxical.
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Thewholethingcomes together and this wonderful sound.
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And if there only had been some 'mistakes', thewholethingcould have been maintained.
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He was trying to think how thiswholethingworks and observed everything he could.
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Thewholethingof publishing is slightly embarrassing.
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Thewholethingwas unstructured, informal, almost feudal.
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A persistent pinkish noise sets in, along with throbbing echoes of the already echoed sounds, until thewholethingjust cuts out at 1457.
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Then thiswholethingdevelops a sort of poetry and is sensual and concrete and not abstract.
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