all
awl
- a 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 - s completely given to or absorbed by
became all attention - r to a complete degree or to the full or entire extent (`whole' is often used informally for `wholly')
a totally new situation
the directions were all wrong
- In France, although the snail is an item on all good menus, Jean Cadart, snail lover and onetime snail merchant, discovered a serious lack: there was no up-to-date book on edible .
- Worst of all was Rosie herself.