in every practical sense
a noisy fight in a crowd
concerned with actual use or practice
guided by practical experience and observation rather than theory
having or put to a practical purpose or use
being actually such in almost every respect
hypothetical remedy for all ills or diseases; once sought by the alchemists
quantifier; used with either mass or count nouns to indicate the whole number or amount of or every one of a class
to a complete degree or to the full or entire extent (`whole' is often used informally for `wholly')
completely given to or absorbed by
