VERB + WHOLE
- cover, embrace, encompass, involve, span
- The project involved the whole of the university
- fill, occupy, take up
- The library takes up the whole of the first floor
- permeate, pervade
- Technology permeates the whole of our lives
ADJ
- coherent, cohesive, harmonious, homogeneous, integrated, organized, seamless
- She was struggling to organize her ideas into a coherent whole
- single
- complex
- The author examines each aspect of Roman society, then attempts to summarize the complex whole
- meaningful
- At this age, babies do not yet combine sounds into a meaningful whole
- organic
VERB + WHOLE
- form, make (up)
- He tried to fit the pieces of evidence together to make a coherent whole
PHRASES
- as a whole
- Unemployment is higher in the north than in the country as a whole