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Definition: Every Inch |
Every InchAdverb1. In every way; completely; "he was every inch a statesman". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Completeness | Throughout; from first to last, from beginning to end, from end to end, from one end to the other, from Dan to Beersheba, from head to foot, from top to toe, from top to bottom, de fond en comble; a fond, a capite ad calcem, ab ovo usque ad mala, fore and aft; every, whit, every inch; cap-a-pie, to the end of the chapter; up to the brim, up to the ears, up to the eyes; as.. as can be. |
Nobility | Personage of distinction, man of distinction, personage of rank, man of rank, personage of mark, man of mark; notables, notabilities; celebrity, bigwig, magnate, great man, star, superstar; big bug; big gun, great gun; gilded rooster; magni nominis umbra; " every inch a king ". |
Whole | Adverb: wholly, altogether; totally; (completely); entirely, all, all in all, as a whole, wholesale, in a body, collectively, all put together; in the aggregate, in the lump, in the mass, in the gross, in the main, in the long run; en masse, as a body, on the whole, bodily, en bloc, in extenso, throughout, every inch; substantially. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | Come at me. Every inch of me will resist you! (Batoru rowaiaru; writing credit: Kenta Fukasaku; Koshun Takami) | |
Lyrics | Let all of it out right now as and expose every inch in front of them (Crowded Elevator(Scream 3 Soundtrack,Make Yourself Import); performing artist: Incubus) I'm gonna give you every inch of my love, (Whole lotta love; performing artist: Led Zeppelin) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Every Inch a Hero (1915) | |
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Books | |
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| Author | Quotation |
Fuller | The frost is God's plough which he drives through every inch of ground in the world, opening each clod, and pulverizing the whole. |
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Absalom and Achitophel | John Dryden | For every inch that is not fool is rogue. |
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Expressions using "every inch": contest every inch of the ground ♦ every inch a solder. Additional references. | |
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| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
every inch lady | 2 |
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| Language | Translations for "every inch"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | në çdo mënyrë (anyhow, anyway, anywise, by all means, howsoever). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | كل بوصة. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | každý inè. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
French | chaque pouce. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | tetõtõl talpig (cap-a-pie), minden millimétere, ízig-vérig (out and out, to the core). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | everyay inchay complet (absolute, all out, broad, clear, collected, complement, complete, completely, comprehensive, dead, down to the ground, downright, entire, entirely, every bit, exhaustive, fairly, flat, full, fully, good, hollow, outright, perfect, purely, quite, stark, strict, suite, thorough, thoroughly, thoroughpaced, to the bone, total, unabridged, utter, utterly, whole). (various references) celom dužinom (full length, whole-length), cela dužina. (various references) todo (all, all in all, all of, all the, altogether, any, anything, each, entire, entirely, every, every one, everybody, everything, indiscreet, integral, overall, the lot, the whole bag of tricks, whole, works). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "c-e-e-h-i-n-r-v-y" | |
-2 letters: cervine. | |
-3 letters: cheery, chevre, enrich, envier, evince, herein, hyenic, inhere, reechy, richen, veiner, venery, venire, vinery. | |
-4 letters: cheer, chevy, chine, chive, chivy, every, eyrie, hence, henry, nerve, nervy, never, nicer, niche, niece, nieve, reive, riven, veery, veiny, vichy, yince. | |
-5 letters: cere, chin, cine, cire, eche, eery, envy, erne, even, ever, eyen, eyer, eyne, eyre. | |
| Words containing the letters "c-e-e-h-i-n-r-v-y" | |
+5 letters: hypervigilance. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
| 1. Definition 2. Usage: Modern 3. Usage: Commercial 4. Quotations: Familiar | 5. Quotations: Fiction 6. Expressions 7. Expressions: Internet 8. Translations: Modern | 9. Anagrams 10. Bibliography |
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