New York Post: Turkey or chicken? Dietitian reveals which one is healthier With the possible exception of the chicken versus egg debate, no poultry parley is more persistent than the health value of turkey versus chicken. Now, a registered dietitian nutritionist is settling ...

Understanding the Context

While we often assume that chicken is the pinnacle of protein, there are actually several cuts of meat that contain more of the macronutrient. Roasting a whole turkey can be difficult to do well, as evidenced by the large number of people who claim to dislike the bird because it’s dry and bland. It is not the poultry’s fault, though. Turkey ...

Key Insights

perfect, whole, entire, intact mean not lacking or faulty in any particular. perfect implies the soundness and the excellence of every part, element, or quality of a thing frequently as an unattainable or theoretical state. Whole is a determiner. We use whole before nouns and after other determiners (my, the, a/an, their) to talk about quantity. We use it to describe the completeness of something: … The seeds can be eaten whole or ground in a coffee grinder.

Final Thoughts

Now he's arrived, it's a whole different situation. Whole, total mean the entire or complete sum or amount. The whole is all there is; every part, member, aspect; the complete sum, amount, quantity of anything, not divided; the entirety: the whole of one's property, family. Entire; complete; without omission, reduction, diminution, etc.: as, a whole apple; the whole duty of man; to serve the Lord with one's whole heart; three whole days; the whole body. Something that exists in its entirety is whole. If there are eight slices of pizza and you eat half, you've eaten four of them.

If you eat the whole pizza, you've somehow managed to eat all eight slices.