Definition of All

Babylon English
all
pron. everything; total, whole
adv. totally; completely
adj. each; every; whole of
n. every one, whole, total

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All Definition from Language, Idioms & Slang Dictionaries & Glossaries

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
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.
  
(conj.)
Although; albeit.
  
(adv.)
Wholly; completely; altogether; entirely; quite; very; as, all bedewed; my friend is all for amusement.
  
(adv.)
Even; just. (Often a mere intensive adjunct.)
  
(a.)
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).
  
(a.)
Only; alone; nothing but.
  
(a.)
Any.
  

WordNet 2.0
all

Adjective
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"
(synonym) all(a)
(antonym) some(a)
(similar) each(a)
2. completely given to or absorbed by; "became all attention"
(similar) complete

Adverb
1. 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"
(synonym) wholly, entirely, completely, totally, altogether, whole
(classification) colloquialism

The Phrase Finder
Abandon all hope ye who enter here
Origin
The supposed inscription at the entrance to Hell. From Dante's Divine Comedy. The translation into English by H.F.Cary is the origin for this English phrase, although he gave it as the less commonly used 'All hope abandon ye who enter here'.
Through me you pass into the city of woe:
Through me you pass into eternal pain:
Through me among the people lost for aye.
Justice the founder of my fabric mov'd:
To rear me was the task of power divine,
Supremest wisdom, and primeval love.
Before me things create were none, save things
Eternal, and eternal I endure.
All hope abandon ye who enter here.
Such characters in colour dim I mark'd
Over a portal's lofty arch inscrib'd:
Whereat I thus: Master, these words import
Hard meaning. ...

All agog
Meaning
Excited.
Origin
From the French 'en gogues' = 'in mirth'.

All corners of the world
Meaning
Everywhere.
Origin
From Shakespeare's Cymbeline.
PISANIO:
What shall I need to draw my sword? the paper
Hath cut her throat already. No, 'tis slander,
Whose edge is sharper than the sword, whose tongue
Outvenoms all the worms of Nile, whose breath
Rides on the posting winds and doth belie
All corners of the world: kings, queens and states,
Maids, matrons, nay, the secrets of the grave
This viperous slander enters. What cheer, madam?
Shakespeare also used the phrase 'the four corners of the earth' in The Merchant of Venice and, somewhat confusing, in King John, 'the three corners of the world'.
BASTARD:
O, let us pay the time but needful woe,
Since it hath been beforehand with our griefs.
This England never did, nor never shall,
Lie at the proud foot of a conqueror,
But when it first did help to wound itself.
Now these her princes are come home again,
Come the three corners of the world in arms,
And we shall shock them. Nought shall make us rue,
If England to itself do rest but true.

All good things come to he who waits
Origin
Used, but probably not originated by, Violet Fane (1843-1905) in her poem - Tout vient ß qui sait attendre. 'Ah, 'all things come to those who wait,' (I say these words to make me glad), But something answers soft and sad, 'They come, but often come too late.'

All one to me
Origin
From Shakespeare's Troilus and Cressida.
PANDARUS: Because she's kin to me, therefore she's not so fair
as Helen: an she were not kin to me, she would be as
fair on Friday as Helen is on Sunday. But what care
I? I care not an she were a black-a-moor; 'tis all one to me.


All present and correct
Meaning
Everything is as it should be.
Origin
Traditionally the phrase used by sergeants when reporting to an officer that the rollcall was successfully completed. One of the numerous, and in this case probably spurious, candidates for the explanation of the word 'okay'. OK = Orl Korrect.

All singing, all dancing
Meaning
Full-featured, with many attributes.
Origin
From the advertising posters used to promote the 1929 film Broadway Melody, which proclaimed the film to be 'All talking All singing All dancing'.

All that glitters is not gold
Meaning
A showy article may not necessarily be valuable.
Origin
The 12th century French thelogian Alain de Lille wrote 'Do not hold everything gold that shines like gold'.
Shakespeare and others have expressed the same notion. Shakespeare version is sometimes transcribed as 'all the glisters is not gold'.
From Shakespeare's Merchant of Venice.
MOROCCO:
O hell! what have we here?
A carrion Death, within whose empty eye
There is a written scroll! I'll read the writing.
All that glitters is not gold;
Often have you heard that told:
Many a man his life hath sold
But my outside to behold:
Gilded tombs do worms enfold.
Had you been as wise as bold,
Young in limbs, in judgment old,
Your answer had not been inscroll'd:
Fare you well; your suit is cold.
Cold, indeed; and labour lost:
Then, farewell, heat, and welcome, frost!
Portia, adieu. I have too grieved a heart
To take a tedious leave: thus losers part.
ref:Encyclopedia of Word and Phrase Origins, 1997 edition, Facts on File Inc.


All the world's a stage, and all the men and women merely players
Origin
From Shakespeare's As You Like It.
JAQUES:
All the world's a stage,
And all the men and women merely players:
They have their exits and their entrances;
And one man in his time plays many parts,
His acts being seven ages. At first the infant,
Mewling and puking in the nurse's arms.
And then the whining school-boy, with his satchel
And shining morning face, creeping like snail
Unwillingly to school. And then the lover,
Sighing like furnace, with a woeful ballad
Made to his mistress' eyebrow. Then a soldier,
Full of strange oaths and bearded like the pard,
Jealous in honour, sudden and quick in quarrel,
Seeking the bubble reputation
Even in the cannon's mouth. And then the justice,
In fair round belly with good capon lined,
With eyes severe and beard of formal cut,
Full of wise saws and modern instances;
And so he plays his part. The sixth age shifts
Into the lean and slipper'd pantaloon,
With spectacles on nose and pouch on side,
His youthful hose, well saved, a world too wide
For his shrunk shank; and his big manly voice,
Turning again toward childish treble, pipes
And whistles in his sound. Last scene of all,
That ends this strange eventful history,
Is second childishness and mere oblivion,
Sans teeth, sans eyes, sans taste, sans everything.


All things must pass
Origin
From the Bible. Matthew 24:6-8:
And ye shall hear of wars and rumours of wars: see that ye be not troubled: for all these things must come to pass, but the end is not yet.
For nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom: and there shall be famines, and pestilences, and earthquakes, in divers places.
All these are the beginning of sorrows.

All things to all men
Origin
From the Bible - Corinthians 9:22.'To the weak became I as weak, that I might gain the weak: I am made All things to all men, that I might by all means save some.'

All you need is love
Origin
From The Bealtes' eponymous song.

All's well that ends well
Origin
From Shakespeare's play All's Well That Ends Well. Used not only as the title of the play, the line appears in the text too.
HELENA:
Yet, I pray you:
But with the word the time will bring on summer,
When briers shall have leaves as well as thorns,
And be as sweet as sharp. We must away;
Our wagon is prepared, and time revives us:
All's well that ends well; still the fine's the crown;
Whate'er the course, the end is the renown.


Better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all
Origin
From Alfred Tennyson's poem 'In Memoriam:21', 1850.
I hold it true, whate'er befall;
I feel it, when I sorrow most;
'Tis better to have loved and lost
Than never to have loved at all.


It beggar'd all description
Origin
From Shakespeare's Antony and Cleopatra.

It's all grist to the mill
Meaning
Every little helps to move toward a conclusion.
Origin
Grist was the abrasive grit which was added to wheat when it was ground between grinding stones to help the flour grind more quickly.

Life's not all beer and skittles
Meaning
'Beer and skittles' is shorthand for a life of indulgence spent in the pub.
Origin
Skittles, aka ninepins, has been a popular English pub game since the 17th century. The pins are set up in a square pattern and players attempt to knock them down with a ball. Still played but not so much as before.

Pull out all the stops
Meaning
Try your very best.
Origin
Pipe organs have stops which control the air flow - pulling them out increases the volume.

Ring aring of roses, a pocketfull of posies, atishoo, atishoo, all fall down
Meaning
Verse from a nursery rhyme.
Origin
From the playground rhyme. Often reported as referring to the Black Death (the bubonic plague in mediaeval Europe). The plausible-sounding theory has it that the 'ring' is the ring or sores around the mouth of plague victims, who subsequently sneeze and fall down dead. In fact the rhyme doesn't appear in print until 1881, six centuries too late. It is stretching credibility to think that it lasted for that length of time in common playground use but was never recorded.
More likely to have originated during the 19th century ban on dancing in the UK and USA, and that the words are mostly playful nonesense.

That's all folks
Origin
Banner shown at the end of Bugs Bunny cartoons.

The love of money is the root of all evil
Origin
From the Bible. Often misquoted as 'money is the root of all evil'. Timothy 6:10. 'For the love of money is the root of all evil: which while some coveted after, they have erred from the faith, and pierced themselves through with many sorrows.'

Australian Slang
All Greek
(of someone's speech) unintelligible

All ears
listening attentively

All over
with great affection towards; excessively attentive to: “She was all over him as soon as he entered the room”

All smiles
very happy

All stations
an Alsatian (dog)

All the go
something is right with it; popular

Not to do bugger all
to do absolutely nothing

Not to have all oars in the water
not to have full intelligence; be stupid or moronic

Sod all
nothing


Sweet fuck all
not much, an insultingly small quantity

Warts and all
including all defects

Shakespeare Words
all
thing in every way

English Slang Dictionary v1.2
all
to say
Notes: Can only be used in the present, past, and future simple tenses and the past conditional tense. (Present simple:"He's all,'I don't know.” Past simple:"She was all, 'I can't go.” Future simple:"They're going to be all,'You were right.” Past conditional:"We would have been all, “Why don't you go?”)

hEnglish - advanced version
all

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). prove all things: hold fast that which is good. v. 21.
2. any. [obs.] "without all remedy."
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.
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.
3. only; alone; nothing but. i was born to speak all mirth and no matter.
all
the whole, the whole (emphatically). [obs.] "all the whole army."
all
\all\, adv. 1. wholly; completely; altogether; entirely; quite; very; as, all bedewed; my friend is all for amusement. "and cheeks all pale."
note: in the ancient phrases, all too dear, all too much, all so long, etc., this word retains its appropriate sense or becomes intensive.
2. even; just. (often a mere intensive adjunct.) [obs. or poet.] all as his straying flock he fed. a damsel lay deploring all on a rock reclined.
all
to, or


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 heal all 
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Concise English-Irish Dictionary v. 1.1
all
adj., uilig, uile
é ar fad
at all: ar chor ar bith
all the: gach

English Phonetics

JM Welsh <=> English Dictionary
Adymweled
Adymweled = v. see ad. and ymweled, and the same with all words, prefixed with ad. not mentioned here

Ailadeiladu
Ailadeiladu, see Ail and Adeiladu, and other words prefixed with Ail

Amddilladu
Amddilladu = v. to clothe all round

Amddrych
Amddrych = a. shewy on all sides

Amgyffroi
Amgyffroi = v. to agitate all round

Amgynnulliad
Amgynnulliad = sub. a collection from all sides

Amlew
Amlew = a. devouring on all sides

Amrygar
Amrygar = a. loved on all sides

Amrysedd
Amrysedd = n. excess on all sides

Amwniad
Amwniad = n. a stiching all reund

Arfogai
Arfogai = n. m. one armed at all points; the palmer

Bonffaglu
Bonffaglu = v. to burn all round

Dim
Dim = n. nothing; anything; something; everything, trifle, a. no; any,
adv. in no degree, not at all

Ermoed
Ermoed = adv. in all my life

Goload
Goload = n. all enveloping

Heinio
Heinio = v. to pervade; to make all alive, to swarm

Holl
Holl = a. all, every one

Hollallu
Hollallu = n. all power

Hollgyfoethog
Hollgyfoethog = a. all-powerful, possessing all things

Oll
Oll = a. all, whole, everyone

Pawb
Pawb = pron. every body, all persons

Tryfol
Tryfol = n. what is all belly


All Definition from Medicine Dictionaries & Glossaries

NCI Dictionary of Cancer Terms
ALL
Acute lymphoblastic leukemia. A quickly progressing disease in which too many immature white blood cells called lymphoblasts are found in the blood and bone marrow. Also called acute lymphocytic leukemia. 

Dictionary of Medicine (Shahram)
all
all or none law
noun
rule that the heart muscle either contracts fully or does not contract at all

Labtests Abbreviations KÖRFEZLAB
ALL
acute lymphoblastic leukemia; acute lymphocytic leukemia

A Basic Guide to ASL
All
Both hands are held in the right angle position, palms facing the body, and the right hand in front of the left. The right hand makes a sweeping movement around the left, and comes to rest with the back of the right hand resting in the left palm,


All Definition from Science & Technology Dictionaries & Glossaries

Bureau of Labor Statistics Glossary
All other occupational illnesses
Examples: Anthrax, brucellosis, infectious hepatitis, malignant and benign tumors, food poisoning, histoplasmosis, coccidioidomycosis.


All Definition from Religion & Spirituality Dictionaries & Glossaries

Rakefet
All
All, The The Boundless, the Ineffable. To our physical ideas, the All appears as a vast aggregation of separate parts, but here the contrasted notions of unity and multiplicity merge. Infinitely great and infinitely small, as said in Hindu writings, the All is at once the emptiness of utter plenitude, and the shoreless fullness of kosmic space.

Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary
Chelluh
all
  


All Definition from Computer & Internet Dictionaries & Glossaries

Computer Abbreviations v1.5
ALL
Arts & Letters Symbols and Characters
WordPerfect Printer Info
Steinberg Cubase or VST Song File
Always Working Page Format File


All Definition from Arts & Humanities Dictionaries & Glossaries

English-Latin Online Dictionary
all
totus, quislibet, omnis, cunctus


All Definition from Entertainment & Music Dictionaries & Glossaries

English to Federation-Standard Golic Vulcan
All
ek; ek'

English - Klingon
all
n. Hoch


All Definition from Social Science Dictionaries & Glossaries

Phobia
Panophobia
Fear of everything
Also known as Pantophobia


All Definition from Business & Finance Dictionaries & Glossaries

Company Info: Ticker, Name, Description
ALL
ALLSTATE CORP
Exchange: NYSE
Holding company with subsidiaries which provide private passenger automobile and homeowners insurance, including motorcycles, motor homes, renters, condominiums, residential and landlord, comprehensive personal liability, fire, personal umbrella, recreational vehicle, mobile home and boat owners; Operate motor club which aids members

AASP
ALL AMERICAN SPORTPARK IN
Exchange: OTCBB
Not Available

AAT
ALL AMERICAN TERM TR INC
Exchange: NYSE
Not Available

ALDI
ALL CANADIAN DIVIDEND FUN
Exchange: OTCBB
Not Available

SEMI
All American Semiconductor, Inc.
Exchange: Nasdaq
Distributes high technology electronic components, including semiconductors products such as transistors, diodes, memory devices and other integrated circuits and passive products including resistors, inductors and electromechanical products such as cable switches, connectors, filters and sockets; And designs and


All Definition from Encyclopedia Dictionaries & Glossaries

Wikipedia English - The Free Encyclopedia
ALL
ALL or All is a word, or an acronym - a three-letter abbreviation with multiple meanings, which include:
The word:

The acronym:


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Carlo Allioni
Carlo Allioni (23 September 1728 in Turin - 30 July 1804 in Turin) was an Italian physician and botanist. His most important work was Flora Pedemontana, sive enumeratio methodica stirpium indigenarum Pedemontii[1], a study of the plant world in Piedmont, in which he listed 2813 species of plants, of which 237 were previously unknown. In 1766, he released the Manipulus Insectorum Tauriniensium.

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