Pronunciations (3)
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/fʊl/
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[fʊɫ]
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/fʉl/
Pronunciation notes
- Northern-Ireland
- Scotland
Adjective
Containing the maximum possible amount that can fit in the space available.
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The bus is full.
The jugs were full to the point of overflowing.
Complete; with nothing omitted.
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Please give me your full address.
Our book gives full treatment to the subject of angling.
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Anybody can cure a curable disease if he happens to have the right drug at hand, but the treatment of a condition for which there is no positive cure makes much greater demands on the doctor, who has to be practical pharmacologist, human being, psychiatrist, and father confessor—he has, in fact, to be a proper physician in the fullest sense of the word.
Virologist V. S. Kalyanaraman allegedly ordered the discarding of cultures of an AIDS-related virus isolated by French scientists. Some claim he wanted to substitute his own culture to insure fuller credit for the CDC in the event of a breakthrough.
Not long ago, it was difficult to produce photographs of tiny creatures with every part in focus.[…]A photo processing technique called focus stacking has changed that. Developed as a tool to electronically combine the sharpest bits of multiple digital images, focus stacking is a boon to biologists seeking full focus on a micron scale.
Complete; with nothing omitted. Surjective as a map of morphisms
Usage- of a functor between locally small categories
Complete; with nothing omitted. Including all morphisms. Formally: Such that for every pairs of objects (X, Y) in S, the hom-sets operatorname Hom_S(X,Y) and operatorname Hom_C(X,Y) are equal.
Usage- of a subcategory S of C
Total, entire.
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'Twas early June, the new grass was flourishing everywheres, the posies in the yard—peonies and such—in full bloom, the sun was shining, and the water of the bay was blue, with light green streaks where the shoal showed.
She had tattoos the full length of her arms. He was prosecuted to the full extent of the law.
Completely empowered, authorized or qualified (in some role); not limited.
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full member
full officer
Having eaten to satisfaction, having a "full" stomach; replete.
Usage- Informal
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I am full, thank you.
"I'm full," he said, pushing back from the table.
Replete, abounding with.
Usage- Informal
- with "of"
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This movie doesn't make sense; it's full of plot holes.
I prefer my pizzas full of toppings.
Carrying as much as possible.
Usage- in-plural
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- of hands
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Hang on - my hands are full; just let me put these down.
Plump, round.
Usage- of physical features
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full lips; a full face; a full figure
Having its entire face illuminated.
Usage- of the moon
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For on those evenings, when the moon is full and bright and clear, mothers and fathers in Siam tell their children to look up at the moon and then ask them what they see there.
Of a size that is ample, wide, or having ample folds or pleats to be comfortable.
Usage- of clothing
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a full pleated skirt; She needed her full clothing during her pregnancy.
Having depth and body; rich.
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a full singing voice
Having the mind filled with ideas; stocked with knowledge; stored with information.
Usage- Obsolete
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Reading maketh a full man.
Having the attention, thoughts, etc., absorbed in any matter, and the feelings more or less excited by it.
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She's full of her latest project.
Everyone is now full of the miracles done by cold baths on decayed and weak constitutions.
Filled with emotions.
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The heart is so full that a drop overfills it.
Impregnated; made pregnant.
Usage- Obsolete
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Ilia, the fair, […] full of Mars.
Said of the three cards of the same rank in a full house.
Usage- postpositional
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nines full of aces
I'll beat him with my kings full!
Drunk, intoxicated.
Usage- Australia
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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?
Adverb
Fully; quite; very; thoroughly; completely; exactly; entirely.
Usage- Archaic
- not-comparable
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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
You know full well what makes me look so pale.
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This cupboard[…] this other one, His true wife's charge, full oft to their abode Yielded for daily bread the martyr's stone,
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,[…]
I turned my head, and as I lay gasping in the throes of that awful struggle I could see that Leo was off the rock now, for the lamplight fell full upon him.
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,[…].
Noun
Utmost measure or extent; highest state or degree; the state, position, or moment of fullness; fill.
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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.
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I was fed to the full.
[…] he had tasted their food, and found it so palatable that he had eaten his full before he knew it.
Early next morning we were over at the elk carcass, and, as we expected, found that the bear had eaten his full at it during the night.
When he had eaten his full, they set to work again.
The phase of the moon when its entire face is illuminated, full moon.
Usage- of the moon
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It is like, that the brain of man waxeth moister and fuller upon the full of the moon: …
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a. 1656, Joseph Hall, Josiah Pratt (editor), Works, Volume VII: Practical Works, Revised edition, 1808 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 flip involving a complete turn in midair.
An aerialist maneuver consisting of a backflip in conjunction and simultaneous with a complete twist.
Verb
To become full or wholly illuminated.
Usage- of the moon
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The September moon fulls on the 20th at 24 minutes past midnight, and is called the harvest moon.
"By the black cave of Atropos, when the moon fulls, keep thy tryst!"
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"The moon fulls to-night, don't it?"
Verb
To baptise.
Usage- Transitive
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And thy diſciples fulleden men in thy name, in forgiueneſſe of her ſinnes.
Verb
To make cloth denser and firmer by soaking, beating and pressing; to waulk or walk.
Adjective
containing as much or as many as is possible or normal
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a full glass
a sky full of stars
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a full life
the auditorium was full to overflowing
constituting the full quantity or extent; complete
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an entire town devastated by an earthquake
gave full attention
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a total failure
complete in extent or degree and in every particular
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a full game
a total eclipse
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a total disaster
filled to satisfaction with food or drink
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a full stomach
(of sound) having marked deepness and body
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full tones
a full voice
having the normally expected amount
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gives full measure
gives good measure
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a good mile from here
being at a peak or culminating point
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broad daylight
full summer
having ample fabric
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the current taste for wide trousers
a full skirt
Noun
the time when the Moon is fully illuminated
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the moon is at the full
Adverb
to the greatest degree or extent; completely or entirely; (‘full’ in this sense is used as a combining form)
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fully grown
he didn't fully understand
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knew full well
full-grown
full-fledged
Verb
beat for the purpose of cleaning and thickening
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full the cloth
make (a garment) fuller by pleating or gathering
increase in phase
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the moon is waxing