Every Inch

Definition: Every Inch

Every Inch

Adverb

1. In every way; completely; "he was every inch a statesman".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Completeness

Throughout; from first to last, from beginning to end, from end to end, from one end to the other, from Dan to Beersheba, from head to foot, from top to toe, from top to bottom, de fond en comble; a fond, a capite ad calcem, ab ovo usque ad mala, fore and aft; every, whit, every inch; cap-a-pie, to the end of the chapter; up to the brim, up to the ears, up to the eyes; as.. as can be.

Nobility

Personage of distinction, man of distinction, personage of rank, man of rank, personage of mark, man of mark; notables, notabilities; celebrity, bigwig, magnate, great man, star, superstar; big bug; big gun, great gun; gilded rooster; magni nominis umbra; " every inch a king ".

Whole

Adverb: wholly, altogether; totally; (completely); entirely, all, all in all, as a whole, wholesale, in a body, collectively, all put together; in the aggregate, in the lump, in the mass, in the gross, in the main, in the long run; en masse, as a body, on the whole, bodily, en bloc, in extenso, throughout, every inch; substantially.

Come at me. Every inch of me will resist you! (Batoru rowaiaru; writing credit: Kenta Fukasaku; Koshun Takami)

Let all of it out right now as and expose every inch in front of them (Crowded Elevator(Scream 3 Soundtrack,Make Yourself Import); performing artist: Incubus)

I'm gonna give you every inch of my love, (Whole lotta love; performing artist: Led Zeppelin)

Every Inch a Hero (1915)

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Books

• Christopher Lowell's You Can Do It! Small Spaces: Decorating to Make Every Inch Count (reference)

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For every inch that is not fool is rogue.

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Expressions using "every inch": contest every inch of the ground ♦ every inch a solder. Additional references.

Albanian

në çdo mënyrë (anyhow, anyway, anywise, by all means, howsoever). (various references)

Arabic 

‏كل بوصة. (various references)

Czech

každý inè. (various references)

French

chaque pouce. (various references)

Hungarian

tetõtõl talpig (cap-a-pie), minden millimétere, ízig-vérig (out and out, to the core). (various references)

Pig Latin

everyay inchay

Romanian

complet (absolute, all out, broad, clear, collected, complement, complete, completely, comprehensive, dead, down to the ground, downright, entire, entirely, every bit, exhaustive, fairly, flat, full, fully, good, hollow, outright, perfect, purely, quite, stark, strict, suite, thorough, thoroughly, thoroughpaced, to the bone, total, unabridged, utter, utterly, whole). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

celom dužinom (full length, whole-length), cela dužina. (various references)

Spanish

todo (all, all in all, all of, all the, altogether, any, anything, each, entire, entirely, every, every one, everybody, everything, indiscreet, integral, overall, the lot, the whole bag of tricks, whole, works). (various references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-2 letters: cervine.

-3 letters: cheery, chevre, enrich, envier, evince, herein, hyenic, inhere, reechy, richen, veiner, venery, venire, vinery.

-4 letters: cheer, chevy, chine, chive, chivy, every, eyrie, hence, henry, nerve, nervy, never, nicer, niche, niece, nieve, reive, riven, veery, veiny, vichy, yince.

-5 letters: cere, chin, cine, cire, eche, eery, envy, erne, even, ever, eyen, eyer, eyne, eyre.

+5 letters: hypervigilance.