Sanakirja
Tekoälykääntäjä

Synonyymit

KieliKäännökset
suomituulesta temmattu, tyhjä
venäjäцеликом (tselikom), подчистую (podtšistuju)

Määritelmät

Substantiivit

  1. A newly made textile which has not yet been cut.
  2. (figurative, used attributively or preceded by various prepositions) The fictitious material from which complete fabrications, lies with no basis in truth, are made.
  3. Something made completely new, with no history, and not based on anything else.

Adverbit

  1. (idiomatic) in full extent, wholesale, entirely, without changes or additions

Esimerkit

  • Mr. Doe's account of the accident was made from whole cloth.
  • All those tales that came clicking over the wireless of the capture of huge stores of grain and oil were fables out of whole cloth.
  • The plans for the widget were drawn from whole cloth.
  • And, mind you, emotions are among the toughest things in the world to manufacture out of whole cloth; it is easier to manufacture seven facts than one emotion.
  • Man makes his own history, but he does not make it out of the whole cloth; he does not make it out of conditions chosen by himself, but out of such as he finds close at hand.
  • The decisions made by judges, however, and the interpretations that they advance or accept must be plausibly inferable from something in the Charter. It is not for the courts to manufacture a constitutional right out of whole cloth.
  • Some are strangely detailed, like the hugely antlered white deer-creature-cum-forest-god seemingly stolen whole cloth from Princess Mononoke.

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