whole idea
collocation in Englishmeaningsofwholeandidea
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whole
adjective
uk/həʊl/us/hoʊl/
complete or ...
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idea
noun
uk/aɪˈdɪə/us/aɪˈdiː.ə/
a suggestion or plan for ...
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(Definition ofwholeandideafrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
Examplesofwhole idea
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He is dismissive of thewholeideaof globalisation.
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The second point concerns thewholeideaof defective displayed language and its inherent dangers.
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That, in fact, is thewholeideabehind public-private partnerships: they provide a means of breaking the compromise.
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Thewholeideaof political theatre must be that life is about much more than what happens on the domestic front.
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The living proof that thewholeideaof purity in music was an embarrassing failure lies in its manifest lack of communication with audiences.
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This assumption underlies thewholeideaof developing municipal connections, whether within a country or internationally.
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Even if the current proposal does not work, we cannot conclude that thewholeideaof functional space as such has no explanatory power.
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Thewholeideaof generating an image in short term memory from stored descriptive information takes that for granted.
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Over the past ten years there have been significant technological developments which have the potential to alter radically thewholeideaof the architectural guide.
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A number of organisations rejected thewholeideaof criminalisation.
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More basically, one can question thewholeideaof a multi-dimensional schema.
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This all deserves much more research, for it challenges ourwholeideaof what a town is and does.
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It removed thewholeideaof ethical conflict by subordinating the whole of ethics to the superior authority of the state and law.
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Thewholeideaof the worker/wrapper transformation is that it moves just a little of the function's computation from the function definition to its call sites.
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Furthermore, thewholeideaof patience formation faces certain conceptual difficulties, but these difficulties are of no consequence for a theory of investments in the quality of future consumption.
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Thewholeideaof sensory "states" is a relic of a long-superseded static view of the nervous system, a view that survives only in some corners of philosophy.
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We are opposed to a ban on thewholeideaof nuclear power.
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And if a large number of transition periods are agreed, then we can forget thewholeideaof the internal market for years to come.
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Thewholeideaof opt-in has been put forward as the solution to end spam.
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That is thewholeideabehind the delay.
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