all

all

Language: EN · Kind: word · Transcription: [/ɔːl/]

Senses

1. all (det) — sense 1

Definition: Every individual or anything of the given class, with no exceptions (the noun or noun phrase denoting the class must be plural or uncountable).

Example: All contestants must register for the footrace: we've arranged numbers for them all.

Concept: Всё

Polarities of the concept

2. all (det) — sense 2

Definition: Throughout the whole of (a stated period of time; generally used with units of a day or longer).

Example: The store is open all day and all night.

3. all (det) — sense 3

Definition: Only; alone; nothing but.

Example: He's all talk; he never puts his ideas into practice.

4. all (pron) — sense 1

Definition: Everything.

Example: Some gave all they had.

5. all (pron) — sense 2

Definition: Everyone.

Example: A good time was had by all (of you/us/them).

6. all (pron) — sense 3

Definition: The only thing(s).

Example: All that was left was a small pile of ash.

7. all (adv) — sense 1

Definition: Wholly; entirely; completely; totally.

Example: She was sitting all alone.
It suddenly went all quiet.
I'm all done, Mommy! I did it all by myself.

8. all (adv) — sense 2

Definition: Apiece; each.

Example: The score was 30 all when the rain delay started.

9. all (adv) — sense 3

Definition: So much; used with "the" and a comparative.

Example: Don't want to go? All the better since I lost the tickets.

10. all (noun) — sense 1

Definition: Everything that one is capable of.

Example: She gave her all, and collapsed at the finish line.

11. all (noun) — sense 2

Definition: The totality of one's possessions.

Example: she therefore ordered Jenny to pack up her alls and begone, for that she was determined she should not sleep that night within her walls. […] I packed up my little all as well as I could, and went off.

12. all (noun) — sense 3

Definition: Everything in general; all that matters.

Example: I will die fighting for my people, because my people are all.

13. all (conj) — sense 1

Definition: Although.

Example: And those two froward sisters, their faire loves, / Came with them eke, all they were wondrous loth.

14. all (adj) — sense 1

Definition: All gone; dead.

Example: The butter is all.

Structure of the word

Roots:

Polarities

Whole ↔ Part — concept «Всё»

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