Full
[fʊl]
Definition
(verb.) make (a garment) fuller by pleating or gathering.
(verb.) beat for the purpose of cleaning and thickening; 'full the cloth'.
(adj.) having the normally expected amount; 'gives full measure'; 'gives good measure'; 'a good mile from here' .
(adj.) complete in extent or degree and in every particular; 'a full game'; 'a total eclipse'; 'a total disaster' .
(adj.) containing as much or as many as is possible or normal; 'a full glass'; 'a sky full of stars'; 'a full life'; 'the auditorium was full to overflowing' .
(adj.) (of sound) having marked deepness and body; 'full tones'; 'a full voice' .
(adj.) filled to satisfaction with food or drink; 'a full stomach' .
Typed by Geoffrey--From WordNet
Definition
(Compar.) Filled up, having within its limits all that it can contain; supplied; not empty or vacant; -- said primarily of hollow vessels, and hence of anything else; as, a cup full of water; a house full of people.
(Compar.) Abundantly furnished or provided; sufficient in. quantity, quality, or degree; copious; plenteous; ample; adequate; as, a full meal; a full supply; a full voice; a full compensation; a house full of furniture.
(Compar.) Not wanting in any essential quality; complete, entire; perfect; adequate; as, a full narrative; a person of full age; a full stop; a full face; the full moon.
(Compar.) Sated; surfeited.
(Compar.) Having the mind filled with ideas; stocked with knowledge; stored with information.
(Compar.) Having the attention, thoughts, etc., absorbed in any matter, and the feelings more or less excited by it, as, to be full of some project.
(Compar.) Filled with emotions.
(Compar.) Impregnated; made pregnant.
(n.) Complete measure; utmost extent; the highest state or degree.
(adv.) Quite; to the same degree; without abatement or diminution; with the whole force or effect; thoroughly; completely; exactly; entirely.
(v. i.) To become full or wholly illuminated; as, the moon fulls at midnight.
(n.) To thicken by moistening, heating, and pressing, as cloth; to mill; to make compact; to scour, cleanse, and thicken in a mill.
(v. i.) To become fulled or thickened; as, this material fulls well.
Inputed by Jarvis
Synonyms and Synonymous
a. [1]. Filled, replete.[2]. Abounding, well stocked or provided.[3]. Satiated, sated, glutted, cloyed, saturated.[4]. Complete, entire, perfect.[5]. Abundant, plentiful, copious, plenteous, sufficient, ample.[6]. Loud, deep, strong, clear, distinct.[7]. Comprehensive, capacious, broad, large, extensive.
ad. [1]. Quite, to the same degree.[2]. Completely, fully.[3]. Exactly, precisely, directly.
v. a. Thicken and cleanse (cloth).
Checker: Rowena
Definition
adj. having all it can contain: having no empty space: abundantly supplied or furnished: abounding: containing the whole matter: complete: perfect: strong: clear: (coll.) drunk: at poker consisting of three of a kind and a pair.—n. completest extent as of the moon: highest degree: the whole: time of full-moon.—v.t. to draw up or pucker the cloth on one side more than on the other.—adv. quite: to the same degree: with the whole effect: completely.—adjs. Full′-ā′corned (Shak.) full-fed with acorns; Full′-aged having reached one's majority.—n. Full′-blood an individual of pure blood.—adjs. Full′-blood′ed; Full′-bloomed in perfect bloom; Full′-blown blown or fully expanded as a flower; Full′-bott′omed having a full or large bottom as a wig.—n. Full′-dress the dress worn on occasions of state or ceremony.—adjs. Full′-eyed with large prominent eyes; Full′-faced having a full or broad face; Full′-fed fed to plumpness; Full′-fraught (Shak.) full-stored; Full′-grown grown to maturity; Full′-hand′ed bearing something valuable as a gift; Full′-heart′ed full of heart or courage: elated; Full′-hot (Shak.) heated to the utmost; Full′-length extending the whole length (n. a portrait showing such); Full-manned (Shak.) having a full crew.—ns. Full′-moon the moon with its whole disc illuminated when opposite the sun; Full′ness Ful′ness the state of being filled so as to have no part vacant: the state of abounding in anything: completeness: satiety: largeness: force and volume as of sound: (Shak.) plenty wealth.—adjs. Full′-orbed having the orb or disc fully illuminated as the full-moon: round; Full′-sailed unbounded absolute: moving onwards under full sail; Full-split (slang) with all one's might or speed; Full′-summed complete in all its parts.—n. Full′-swing the full extent or utmost limit.—adj. Full′-winged (Shak.) having perfect or strong wings.—adv. Full′y completely: entirely.—Full back (football) see Back.—At the full at the height as of one's good fortune &c.; In full without reduction; In the fullness of time at the proper or destined time.—To the full in full measure completely.
v.t. to press or pound cloth in a mill: to scour and thicken in a mill.—ns. Full′age the charge for fulling cloth; Full′er a bleacher or cleanser of cloth; Fuller's-earth a soft earth or clay capable of absorbing grease used in fulling or bleaching cloth; Fuller's-thistle -weed the teasel; Full′ery the place or works where fulling of cloth is carried on; Full′ing-mill a mill in which woollen cloth is fulled.
Typist: Sanford
Examples
- Not but what myself and Micawber have our hands pretty full, in general, on account of Mr. Wickfield's being hardly fit for any occupation, sir. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- North and west, the emperor's hands were full. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Dorothea spoke in a full cordial tone, half caressing, half explanatory. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- To Gudrun this day was full of a promise like spring. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- In most families there comes, now and then, a year full of events. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
- The troops engaged in them will have to look to the detailed reports of their individual commanders for the full history of those deeds. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- Brass tubes can easily be bent by ramming full of sand, stopping the ends, and bending them over a curved surface. William K. David. Secrets of Wise Men, Chemists and Great Physicians.
- It was very funny, full of amusing and absurd situations; but Gould never smiled once. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- The Colonel had his office full of people, mostly from the neighboring States of Missouri and Kentucky, making complaints or asking favors. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- I will have my hands full keeping your neck from beneath the guillotine. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
- Language gives a fuller image, which is all the better for beings vague. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- I was surprised to find myself so much fuller of faults than I had imagined; but I had the satisfaction of seeing them diminish. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
- He felt his limbs growing fuller and flexible with life, his body gained an unknown strength. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- Here, therefore, promises come naturally in play, and are often required for fuller satisfaction and security. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
- As for Rosamond, she was in the water-lily's expanding wonderment at its own fuller life, and she too was spinning industriously at the mutual web. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- With the invention of writing, which developed out of pictorial record, human tradition was able to become fuller and much more exact. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Her eyes were bright, their pupils dilated, her cheeks seemed rosier, and fuller than usual. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- I wish I had space here to give a fuller abstract of Mr. Agassiz's interesting observations on the development of the pedicellariae. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
- A little older she looks; her form a little fuller; her air more matronly than of yore; but evidently contented and happy as woman need be. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- He is fuller of boredom than a steer drawing a cart on the highroad. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- Of this confidence the fullest advantage had been taken. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Touch that--and trust to the consequences for the fullest disclosures that can flow from a woman's lips! Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- Well, my love, I consider him a trump, in the fullest sense of that expressive word, but I do wish he was a little younger and a good deal richer. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
- In my child's name, if not in my own, I make the admission in the fullest manner, at the same time reserving--ha--shall I say my personal dignity? Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- He is too bonny to be false, said Jessy, looking up to her tall sweetheart with the fullest confidence in his faith. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- The laboratory records bear the fullest witness that he has consistently followed out this prescription to the utmost. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- He was dressed in the very fullest and completest travelling trim. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- By way of 'going in' to the fullest extent, Mr. Harthouse rejoined, 'Mr. Bounderby, I assure you I am entirely and completely of your way of thinking. Charles Dickens. Hard Times.
- If we are to be in that position it will be entirely your own doing, Tertius, said Rosamond, turning round to speak with the fullest conviction. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- Dr. Prosper Lucas' treatise, in two large volumes, is the fullest and the best on this subject. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
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