full
Pronunciation Adjective
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Pronunciation Adjective
full (comparative fuller, superlative fullest)
- Containing the maximum possible amount that can fit in the space available.
- The jugs were full to the point of overflowing.
- Complete; with nothing omitted.
- Our book gives full treatment to the subject of angling.
- Total, entire.
- She had tattoos the full length of her arms. He was prosecuted to the full extent of the law.
- (informal) Having eaten to satisfaction, having a "full" stomach; replete.
- "I'm full," he said, pushing back from the table.
- (informal, with of) Replete, abounding with.
- This movie doesn't make sense; it's full of plot holes.
- I prefer my pizzas full of toppings.
- (of physical features) Plump, round.
- full lips; a full face; a full figure
- Of a garment, of a size that is ample, wide, or having ample folds or pleats to be comfortable.
- a full pleated skirt; She needed her full clothing during her pregnancy.
- Having depth and body; rich.
- a full singing voice
- (obsolete) Having the mind filled with ideas; stocked with knowledge; stored with information.
- 1625, Francis Bacon, Of Studies
- Reading maketh a full man.
- 1625, Francis Bacon, Of Studies
- Having the attention, thoughts, etc., absorbed in any matter, and the feelings more or less excited by it.
- She's full of her latest project.
- 1693, [John Locke], “§7”, in Some Thoughts Concerning Education, London: […] A[wnsham] and J[ohn] Churchill, […], OCLC 1161614482 ↗:
- Everyone is now full of the miracles done by cold baths on decayed and weak constitutions.
- Filled with emotions.
- The heart is so full that a drop overfills it.
- (obsolete) Impregnated; made pregnant.
- 1697, John Dryden translating Virgil, The Aeneid
- Ilia, the fair, […] full of Mars.
- 1697, John Dryden translating Virgil, The Aeneid
- (poker, postnominal) Said of the three cards of the same rank in a full house.
- Nines full of aces = three nines and two aces (999AA).
- I'll beat him with my kings full! = three kings and two unspecified cards of the same rank.
- (chiefly, AU) Drunk, intoxicated.
- 1925, United States House Committee on the Judiciary, Subcommittee No. 1, Charges Against William E. Baker, U.S. District Judge:
- Mr. Coniff: That is the only evidence you gave of his being intoxicated, that his hat was on the side? […] Mr. Coniff: That is the only indication you gave the committee when you were asked if the judge was full, that his hat was on the side of his head; is that right?
- 1925, United States House Committee on the Judiciary, Subcommittee No. 1, Charges Against William E. Baker, U.S. District Judge:
- (containing the maximum possible amount) abounding, brimful, bursting, chock-a-block, chock-full, full up, full to bursting, full to overflowing, jam full, jammed, jam-packed, laden, loaded, overflowing, packed, rammed, stuffed
- (complete) complete, thorough
- (total) entire, total
- (satisfied, in relation to eating) glutted, gorged, sated, satiate, satiated, satisfied, stuffed
- (of a garment) baggy, big, large, loose, outsized, oversized, voluminous
- (drunk) See Thesaurus:drunk
- (containing the maximum possible amount) empty
- (complete) incomplete
- (total) partial
- (satisfied, in relation to eating) empty, hungry, starving
- (of a garment) close-fitting, small, tight, tight-fitting
- French: complet
- German: komplett, vollständig
- Italian: completo
- Portuguese: completo
- Russian: по́лный
- Spanish: completo
- French: total, entier
- German: gesamt, ganz
- Italian: totale, intero
- Portuguese: total, inteiro
- Russian: по́лный
- Spanish: entero
- French: rassasier, repaitre
- German: satt, voll
- Italian: sazio, pieno, satollo
- Portuguese: cheio, satisfeito
- Russian: сы́тый
- Spanish: satisfecho, lleno
- Italian: confortevole
- Italian: intenso
- Russian: насы́щенный
full (not comparable)
- (archaic) Fully; quite; very; thoroughly; completely; exactly; entirely.
- circa 1610-11 William Shakespeare, The Tempest, Act I scene ii:
- smallcaps Prospero:
- I have done nothing but in care of thee,
- Of thee, my dear one, thee, my daughter, who
- Art ignorant of what thou art; naught knowing
- Of whence I am, nor that I am more better
- Than Prospero, master of a full poor cell,
- And thy no greater father.
- […] full in the centre of the sacred wood
- 1819, John Keats, Otho the Great, Act IV, Scene I, verse 112
- You know full well what makes me look so pale.
, Dante Gabriel Rosetti, William Blake, lines 9-12 - This cupboard […] / this other one, / His true wife's charge, full oft to their abode / Yielded for daily bread the martyr's stone,
- 1874, James Thomson, The City of Dreadful Night, IX
- It is full strange to him who hears and feels, / When wandering there in some deserted street, / The booming and the jar of ponderous wheels, […]
- 1910, Emerson Hough, chapter I, in The Purchase Price: Or The Cause of Compromise, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, OCLC 639762314 ↗, page 0045 ↗:
- Serene, smiling, enigmatic, she faced him with no fear whatever showing in her dark eyes. […] She put back a truant curl from her forehead where it had sought egress to the world, and looked him full in the face now, […].
- circa 1610-11 William Shakespeare, The Tempest, Act I scene ii:
full (plural fulls)
- Utmost measure or extent; highest state or degree; the state, position, or moment of fullness; fill.
- c. 1606–1607, William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Anthonie and Cleopatra”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First Folio), London: Printed by Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358 ↗, [Act III, scene ii]:
- The swan's-down feather, / That stands upon the swell at full of tide.
- Sicilian tortures and the brazen bull, / Are emblems, rather than express the full / Of what he feels.
- I was fed to the full.
- 1911, Berthold Auerbach, Bayard Taylor, The villa on the Rhine:
- […] he had tasted their food, and found it so palatable that he had eaten his full before he knew it.
- (of the moon) The phase of the moon when it is entire face is illuminated, full moon.
- a. 1622, Francis Bacon, Natural History, in The works of Francis Bacon, 1765, page [https://books.google.com/books?id=1KjGJV0UGgMC&pg=PA322&dq=%22It+is+like,+that+the+brain+of+man+waxeth+moister+and+fuller+upon+the+%27%27%27full%27%27%27+of+the+moon%22&hl=en&newbks=1&newbks_redir=0&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwiNlKzU_qnmAhWyrFkKHQSBBTUQ6AEwAHoECAEQAg#v=onepage&q=%22It%20is%20like%2C%20that%20the%20brain%20of%20man%20waxeth%20moister%20and%20fuller%20upon%20the%20full%20of%20the%20moon%22&f=false 322]
- It is like, that the brain of man waxeth moister and fuller upon the full of the moon: [...]
- a. 1656, Joseph Hall, Josiah Pratt (editor), Works, Volume VII: Practical Works, Revised edition, 1808 [http://books.google.com.au/books?id=wbMrAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA219&lpg=PA219&dq=This+earthly+moon,+the+Church,+hath+fulls+and+wanings,+and+sometimes+her+eclipses.+-intitle:%22%22+-inauthor:%22%22&source=bl&ots=SWZOrPjJsY&sig=4GKwMWA4MtrBMtG7JCqn_ajguQI&hl=en&sa=X&ei=hDEeUInNIcWZiQeboIC4Bg&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q=This%20earthly%20moon%2C%20the%20Church%2C%20hath%20fulls%20and%20wanings%2C%20and%20sometimes%20her%20eclipses.%20-intitle%3A%22%22%20-inauthor%3A%22%22&f=false page 219],
- This earthly moon, the Church, hath her fulls and wanings, and sometimes her eclipses, while the shadow of this sinful mass hides her beauty from the world.
- a. 1622, Francis Bacon, Natural History, in The works of Francis Bacon, 1765, page [https://books.google.com/books?id=1KjGJV0UGgMC&pg=PA322&dq=%22It+is+like,+that+the+brain+of+man+waxeth+moister+and+fuller+upon+the+%27%27%27full%27%27%27+of+the+moon%22&hl=en&newbks=1&newbks_redir=0&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwiNlKzU_qnmAhWyrFkKHQSBBTUQ6AEwAHoECAEQAg#v=onepage&q=%22It%20is%20like%2C%20that%20the%20brain%20of%20man%20waxeth%20moister%20and%20fuller%20upon%20the%20full%20of%20the%20moon%22&f=false 322]
- (freestyle skiing) An aerialist maneuver consisting of a backflip in conjunction and simultaneous with a complete twist.
full (fulls, present participle fulling; past and past participle fulled)
- (of the moon) To become full or wholly illuminated.
- 1888 September 20, "The Harvest Moon ↗," New York Times (retrieved 10 April 2013):
- The September moon fulls on the 20th at 24 minutes past midnight, and is called the harvest moon.
- 1905, Annie Fellows Johnston, The Little Colonel's Christmas Vacation, ch. 4:
- "By the black cave of Atropos, when the moon fulls, keep thy tryst!"
- 1918, Kate Douglas Wiggin, The Story Of Waitstill Baxter, ch. 29:
- "The moon fulls to-night, don't it?"
- 1888 September 20, "The Harvest Moon ↗," New York Times (retrieved 10 April 2013):
full (fulls, present participle fulling; past and past participle fulled)
- (transitive) To baptise.
full (fulls, present participle fulling; past and past participle fulled)
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