full
Containing the maximum possible amount that can fit in the space available.
Adjective
- 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.
- 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...
- 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...
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(category theory, of a functor between locally small categories) Surjective as a map of morphisms
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(category theory, of a subcategory S of C) 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.
- Total, entire.
- '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...
- 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.
- full member
- full officer
- Having eaten to satisfaction, having a "full" stomach; replete.
- "I'm full," he said, pushing back from the table.
- Replete, abounding with.
- This movie doesn't make sense; it's full of plot holes.
- I prefer my pizzas full of toppings.
- Carrying as much as possible.
- Hang on - my hands are full; just let me put these down.
- Plump, round.
- full lips; a full face; a full figure
- Having its entire face illuminated.
- 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. - 1969, Alan S. Feinstein, Folk tales from...
- 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
- Having the mind filled with ideas; stocked with knowledge; stored with information.
- Reading maketh a full man. - 1625, Francis [Bacon], “Of Studies”, in The Essayes […], 3rd edition, London: […] Iohn Haviland for Hanna Barret, →OCLC:
Origin
From Middle English ful, from Old English full (“full”), from Proto-West Germanic *full, from Proto-Germanic *fullaz (“full”), from Proto-Indo-European *pl̥h₁nós (“full”). Germanic cognates include West Frisian fol, Low German vull, Dutch vol, German voll, Danish fuld, Norwegian Bokmål, Norwegian Nynorsk, and Swedish full. Proto-Indo-European cognates include English plenty (via Latin, compare plēnus), Welsh llawn, Russian по́лный (pólnyj), Lithuanian pilnas, Persian پر (por), Sanskrit पूर्ण (pūrṇá). See also fele and Scots fou (whence the English doublet fou (“drunk”)). For the "drunk, intoxicated" sense, compare also Swedish full and other Scandinavian languages.
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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 pregnant complete thorough entire total glutted gorged
Antonyms
empty incomplete partial hungry starving close-fitting small tight tight-fitting
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at full pelt at full stretch at full throttle at full tilt bankfull bowl full bowl-full bung-full chock-a-block full chocked full chock full choke-full choke full chuck full chuck-full come full circle cram-full double-full few cards short of a full deck few cards shy of a full deck fouth full adder full agricultural tenancy full AI
Adverb
- Fully; quite; very; thoroughly; completely; exactly; entirely.
- 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...
- […] full in the centre of the sacred wood - 1697, Virgil, “(please specify the book number)”, in John Dryden, transl., The Works of Virgil: Containing His Pastorals, Georgics, and Æneis. […], London: […] Jacob Tonson,...
- You know full well what makes me look so pale. - 1819, John Keats, Otho the Great, act IV, scene I, verse 112:
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Noun
- Utmost measure or extent; highest state or degree; the state, position, or moment of fullness; fill.
- The swan's-down feather, That stands upon the swell at full of tide. - c. 1606–1607 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Anthonie and Cleopatra”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, &...
- Sicilian tortures and the brazen bull, Are emblems, rather than express the full Of what he feels. - 1693, Decimus Junius Juvenalis, John Dryden, transl., “[The Satires of Decimus Junius Juvenalis.] The Third Satyr”, in...
- I was fed to the full.
- The phase of the moon when its entire face is illuminated, full moon.
- It is like, that the brain of man waxeth moister and fuller upon the full of the moon: … - a. 1622, Francis Bacon, Natural History, in The works of Francis Bacon, 1765, page 322
- 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...
- A flip involving a complete turn in midair.
- An aerialist maneuver consisting of a backflip in conjunction and simultaneous with a complete twist.
Origin
From Middle English fulle, fylle, fille, from Old English fyllu, fyllo (“fullness, fill, plenty”), from Proto-Germanic *fullį̄, *fulnō (“fullness, filling, overflow”), from Proto-Indo-European *plūno-, *plno- (“full”), from *pelh₁-, *pleh₁- (“to fill; full”). Cognate with German Fülle (“fullness, fill”), Icelandic fylli (“fulness, fill”). More at fill.
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at full at the full in full to the full double full double full-full full-double full full-double full-full full-full full-full-full lay-double full-full lay-full lay-full-full
Verb Entry 4
- To become full or wholly illuminated.
- The September moon fulls on the 20th at 24 minutes past midnight, and is called the harvest moon. - 1888 September 20, “The Harvest Moon”, in New York Times, retrieved 10 Apr 2013:
- "By the black cave of Atropos, when the moon fulls, keep thy tryst!" - 1905, Annie Fellows Johnston, chapter 4, in The Little Colonel's Christmas Vacation:
- "The moon fulls to-night, don't it?" - 1918, Kate Douglas Wiggin, chapter 29, in The Story Of Waitstill Baxter:
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Verb Entry 5
- To baptise.
- And thy diſciples fulleden men in thy name, in forgiueneſſe of her ſinnes. - 1610 October, John Foxe, “An Old Ancient Writing Intituled, The Praier and Complaint of the Ploughman”, in Actes and Monuments of Matters Most...
Origin
From Middle English fullen, fulwen (“to baptise”), from Old English fullian, fulwian (“to baptise”), from full- + *wīhan (later *wēon (“to make holy”)). Compare Old English fulluht, fulwiht (“baptism”).
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Verb Entry 6
- To make cloth denser and firmer by soaking, beating and pressing; to waulk or walk.
Origin
From Middle English fullen (“to full”), from Anglo-Norman fuller, fuler, Middle French foller, fouler, from Old French foler, fouler (“to tread, stamp, full”), from Medieval Latin fullāre, from Latin fullō (“a fuller”). Compare Old English fullian (“to full”).