All

6 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  All \All\, a. [OE. al, pl. alle, AS. eal, pl. ealle,
     Northumbrian alle, akin to D. & OHG. al, Ger. all, Icel.
     allr. Dan. al, Sw. all, Goth. alls; and perh. to Ir. and
     Gael. uile, W. oll.]
     1. The whole quantity, extent, duration, amount, quality, or
        degree of; the whole; the whole number of; any whatever;


        every; as, all the wheat; all the land; all the year; all
        the strength; all happiness; all abundance; loss of all
        power; beyond all doubt; you will see us all (or all of
        us).
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              Prove all things: hold fast that which is good. --1
                                                    Thess. v. 21.
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     2. Any. [Obs.] "Without all remedy." --Shak.
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     Note: When the definite article "the," or a possessive or a
           demonstrative pronoun, is joined to the noun that all
           qualifies, all precedes the article or the pronoun; as,
           all the cattle; all my labor; all his wealth; all our
           families; all your citizens; all their property; all
           other joys.
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     Note: This word, not only in popular language, but in the
           Scriptures, often signifies, indefinitely, a large
           portion or number, or a great part. Thus, all the
           cattle in Egypt died, all Judea and all the region
           round about Jordan, all men held John as a prophet, are
           not to be understood in a literal sense, but as
           including a large part, or very great numbers.
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     3. Only; alone; nothing but.
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              I was born to speak all mirth and no matter. --Shak.
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     {All the whole}, the whole (emphatically). [Obs.] "All the
        whole army." --Shak.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  All \All\, adv.
     1. Wholly; completely; altogether; entirely; quite; very; as,
        all bedewed; my friend is all for amusement. "And cheeks
        all pale." --Byron.
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     Note: In the ancient phrases, all too dear, all too much, all
           so long, etc., this word retains its appropriate sense
           or becomes intensive.
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     2. Even; just. (Often a mere intensive adjunct.) [Obs. or
        Poet.]
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              All as his straying flock he fed.     --Spenser.
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              A damsel lay deploring
              All on a rock reclined.               --Gay.
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     {All to}, or {All-to}. In such phrases as "all to rent," "all
        to break," "all-to frozen," etc., which are of frequent
        occurrence in our old authors, the all and the to have
        commonly been regarded as forming a compound adverb,
        equivalent in meaning to entirely, completely, altogether.
        But the sense of entireness lies wholly in the word all
        (as it does in "all forlorn," and similar expressions),
        and the to properly belongs to the following word, being a
        kind of intensive prefix (orig. meaning asunder and
        answering to the LG. ter-, HG. zer-). It is frequently to
        be met with in old books, used without the all. Thus
        Wyclif says, "The vail of the temple was to rent:" and of
        Judas, "He was hanged and to-burst the middle:" i. e.,
        burst in two, or asunder.
  
     {All along}. See under {Along}.
  
     {All and some}, individually and collectively, one and all.
        [Obs.] "Displeased all and some." --Fairfax.
  
     {All but}.
        (a) Scarcely; not even. [Obs.] --Shak.
        (b) Almost; nearly. "The fine arts were all but
            proscribed." --Macaulay.
  
     {All hollow}, entirely, completely; as, to beat any one all
        hollow. [Low]
  
     {All one}, the same thing in effect; that is, wholly the same
        thing.
  
     {All over}, over the whole extent; thoroughly; wholly; as,
        she is her mother all over. [Colloq.]
  
     {All the better}, wholly the better; that is, better by the
        whole difference.
  
     {All the same}, nevertheless. "There they [certain phenomena]
        remain rooted all the same, whether we recognize them or
        not." --J. C. Shairp. "But Rugby is a very nice place all
        the same." --T. Arnold. -- See also under {All}, n.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  All \All\, n.
     The whole number, quantity, or amount; the entire thing;
     everything included or concerned; the aggregate; the whole;
     totality; everything or every person; as, our all is at
     stake.
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           Death, as the Psalmist saith, is certain to all.
                                                    --Shak.
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           All that thou seest is mine.             --Gen. xxxi.
                                                    43.
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     Note: All is used with of, like a partitive; as, all of a
           thing, all of us.
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     {After all}, after considering everything to the contrary;
        nevertheless.
  
     {All in all}, a phrase which signifies all things to a
        person, or everything desired; (also adverbially) wholly;
        altogether.
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              Thou shalt be all in all, and I in thee,
              Forever.                              --Milton.
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              Trust me not at all, or all in all.   --Tennyson.
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     {All in the wind} (Naut.), a phrase denoting that the sails
        are parallel with the course of the wind, so as to shake.
        
  
     {All told}, all counted; in all.
  
     {And all}, and the rest; and everything connected. "Bring our
        crown and all." --Shak.
  
     {At all}.
     (a) In every respect; wholly; thoroughly. [Obs.] "She is a
         shrew at al(l)." --Chaucer.
     (b) A phrase much used by way of enforcement or emphasis,
         usually in negative or interrogative sentences, and
         signifying in any way or respect; in the least degree or
         to the least extent; in the least; under any
         circumstances; as, he has no ambition at all; has he any
         property at all? "Nothing at all." --Shak. "If thy father
         at all miss me." --1 Sam. xx. 6.
  
     {Over all}, everywhere. [Obs.] --Chaucer.
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     Note: All is much used in composition to enlarge the meaning,
           or add force to a word. In some instances, it is
           completely incorporated into words, and its final
           consonant is dropped, as in almighty, already, always:
           but, in most instances, it is an adverb prefixed to
           adjectives or participles, but usually with a hyphen,
           as, all-bountiful, all-glorious, allimportant,
           all-surrounding, etc. In others it is an adjective; as,
           allpower, all-giver. Anciently many words, as, alabout,
           alaground, etc., were compounded with all, which are
           now written separately.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  All \All\, conj. [Orig. all, adv., wholly: used with though or
     if, which being dropped before the subjunctive left all as if
     in the sense although.]
     Although; albeit. [Obs.]
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           All they were wondrous loth.             --Spenser.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  all
       adj 1: quantifier; used with either mass or count nouns to indicate
              the whole number or amount of or every one of a class;
              "we sat up all night"; "ate all the food"; "all men
              are mortal"; "all parties are welcome" [syn: {all(a)}]
              [ant: {some(a)}, {no(a)}]
       2: completely given to or absorbed by; "became all attention"
       adv : to a complete degree or to the full or entire extent
             (`whole' is often used informally for `wholly'); "he
             was wholly convinced"; "entirely satisfied with the
             meal"; "it was completely different from what we
             expected"; "was completely at fault"; "a totally new
             situation"; "the directions were all wrong"; "it was
             not altogether her fault"; "an altogether new
             approach"; "a whole new idea" [syn: {wholly}, {entirely},
              {completely}, {totally}, {altogether}, {whole}] [ant:
             {partially}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  149 Moby Thesaurus words for "all":
     A to Z, A to izzard, Copernican universe, Einsteinian universe,
     Newtonian universe, Ptolemaic universe, acme, across the board,
     aggregate, all and some, all and sundry, all being, all creation,
     all hands, all in all, all put together, all the world,
     all-embracing, all-inclusive, allness, alpha and omega, altogether,
     any, apogee, as a body, as a whole, aside, assemblage, at large,
     be-all, be-all and end-all, beginning and end, bodily, ceiling,
     climax, collectively, complement, complete, comprehensive,
     corporately, cosmos, created nature, created universe, creation,
     crown, each, each and all, each and every, each one, en bloc,
     en masse, end, entire, entirely, entirety, every, every man Jack,
     every one, everybody, everyman, everyone, everything,
     everything that is, exactly, exhaustive, expanding universe,
     extreme, extremity, full, gross, highest degree, holistic,
     in a body, in all, in all respects, in bulk, in its entirety,
     in the aggregate, in the gross, in the lump, in the mass, in toto,
     inclusive, integral, integrated, just, length and breadth, limit,
     macrocosm, macrocosmos, maximum, megacosm, metagalaxy, nature,
     ne plus ultra, nth degree, omneity, omnibus, on all counts, one,
     one and all, one and indivisible, outright, package, package deal,
     peak, per, per capita, pinnacle, plenary, plenum,
     pulsating universe, purely, quite, set, sidereal universe,
     steady-state universe, stick, sum, sum of things, sum total,
     summit, system, the corpus, the ensemble, the entirety, the lot,
     the whole, the whole range, top, total, totality,
     totality of being, totally, tote, tout ensemble, tout le monde,
     universal, universe, utmost, utmost extent, utterly, uttermost,
     whole, whole wide world, wholly, wide world, world,
     world without end