Full

8 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Full \Full\ (f[.u]l), a. [Compar. {Fuller} (f[.u]l"[~e]r);
     superl. {Fullest}.] [OE. & AS. ful; akin to OS. ful, D. vol,
     OHG. fol, G. voll, Icel. fullr, Sw. full, Dan. fuld, Goth.
     fulls, L. plenus, Gr. plh`rhs, Skr. p[=u][.r]na full, pr[=a]
     to fill, also to Gr. poly`s much, E. poly-, pref., G. viel,
     AS. fela. [root]80. Cf. {Complete}, {Fill}, {Plenary},


     {Plenty}.]
     1. 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.
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              Had the throne been full, their meeting would not
              have been regular.                    --Blackstone.
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     2. 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.
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     3. 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.
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              It came to pass, at the end of two full years, that
              Pharaoh
              dreamed.                              --Gen. xii. 1.
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              The man commands
              Like a full soldier.                  --Shak.
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              I can not
              Request a fuller satisfaction
              Than you have freely granted.         --Ford.
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     4. Sated; surfeited.
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              I am full of the burnt offerings of rams. --Is. i.
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     5. Having the mind filled with ideas; stocked with knowledge;
        stored with information.
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              Reading maketh a full man.            --Bacon.
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     6. 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.
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              Every one is full of the miracles done by cold baths
              on decayed and weak constitutions.    --Locke.
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     7. Filled with emotions.
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              The heart is so full that a drop overfills it.
                                                    --Lowell.
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     8. Impregnated; made pregnant. [Obs.]
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              Ilia, the fair, . . . full of Mars.   --Dryden.
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     {At full}, when full or complete. --Shak.
  
     {Full age} (Law) the age at which one attains full personal
        rights; majority; -- in England and the United States the
        age of 21 years. --Abbott.
  
     {Full and by} (Naut.), sailing closehauled, having all the
        sails full, and lying as near the wind as poesible.
  
     {Full band} (Mus.), a band in which all the instruments are
        employed.
  
     {Full binding}, the binding of a book when made wholly of
        leather, as distinguished from half binding.
  
     {Full bottom}, a kind of wig full and large at the bottom.
  
     {Full brother} or {Full sister}, a brother or sister having
        the same parents as another.
  
     {Full cry} (Hunting), eager chase; -- said of hounds that
        have caught the scent, and give tongue together.
  
     {Full dress}, the dress prescribed by authority or by
        etiquette to be worn on occasions of ceremony.
  
     {Full hand} (Poker), three of a kind and a pair.
  
     {Full moon}.
        (a) The moon with its whole disk illuminated, as when
            opposite to the sun.
        (b) The time when the moon is full.
  
     {Full organ} (Mus.), the organ when all or most stops are
        out.
  
     {Full score} (Mus.), a score in which all the parts for
        voices and instruments are given.
  
     {Full sea}, high water.
  
     {Full swing}, free course; unrestrained liberty; "Leaving
        corrupt nature to . . . the full swing and freedom of its
        own extravagant actings." South (Colloq.)
  
     {In full}, at length; uncontracted; unabridged; written out
        in words, and not indicated by figures.
  
     {In full blast}. See under {Blast}.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Full \Full\, v. i.
     To become full or wholly illuminated; as, the moon fulls at
     midnight.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Full \Full\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Fulled}; p. pr. & vb. n.
     {Fulling}.] [OE. fullen, OF. fuler, fouler, F. fouler, LL.
     fullare, fr. L. fullo fuller, cloth fuller, cf. Gr. ?
     shining, white, AS. fullian to whiten as a fuller, to
     baptize, fullere a fuller. Cf. {Defile} to foul, {Foil} to
     frustrate, {Fuller}. n. ]
     To thicken by moistening, heating, and pressing, as cloth; to
     mill; to make compact; to scour, cleanse, and thicken in a
     mill.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Full \Full\, n.
     Complete measure; utmost extent; the highest state or degree.
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           The swan's-down feather,
           That stands upon the swell at full of tide. --Shak.
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     {Full of the moon}, the time of full moon.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Full \Full\, v. i.
     To become fulled or thickened; as, this material fulls well.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Full \Full\, adv.
     Quite; to the same degree; without abatement or diminution;
     with the whole force or effect; thoroughly; completely;
     exactly; entirely.
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           The pawn I proffer shall be full as good. --Dryden.
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           The diapason closing full in man.        --Dryden.
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           Full in the center of the sacred wood.   --Addison.
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     Note: Full is placed before adjectives and adverbs to
           heighten or strengthen their signification. "Full sad."
           --Milton. "Master of a full poor cell." --Shak. "Full
           many a gem of purest ray serene." --T. Gray. Full is
           also prefixed to participles to express utmost extent
           or degree; as, full-bloomed, full-blown, full-crammed
           full-grown, full-laden, full-stuffed, etc. Such
           compounds, for the most part, are self-defining.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  full
       adj 1: 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" [ant: {empty}]
       2: constituting the full quantity or extent; complete; "an
          entire town devastated by an earthquake"; "gave full
          attention"; "a total failure" [syn: {entire}, {total}]
       3: complete in extent or degree and in every particular; "a
          full game"; "a total eclipse"; "a total disaster" [syn: {total}]
       4: filled to satisfaction with food or drink; "a full stomach"
          [syn: {replete(p)}]
       5: (of sound) having marked depth and body; "full tones"; "a
          full voice" [ant: {thin}]
       6: having the normally expected amount; "gives full measure";
          "gives good measure"; "a good mile from here" [syn: {good}]
       7: being at a peak or culminating point; "broad day"; "full
          summer"; "high noon" [syn: {broad(a)}, {full(a)}]
       8: not separated into parts or shares; constituting an
          undivided unit; "an undivided interest in the property";
          "a full share" [syn: {undivided}]
       9: having ample fabric; "the current taste for wide trousers";
          "a full skirt" [syn: {wide}, {wide-cut}]
       adv : to the greatest degree or extent; completely or entirely;
             (`full' in this sense is used as a combining form);
             "fully grown"; "he didn't fully understand"; "knew full
             well"; "full-grown"; "full-fledged" [syn: {fully}, {to
             the full}]
       v 1: beat for the purpose of cleaning and thickening; "full the
            cloth"
       2: make (a garment) fuller by pleating or gathering
       3: increase in phase; "the moon is waxing" [syn: {wax}] [ant: {wane}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  462 Moby Thesaurus words for "full":
     SRO, a great deal, abounding, absolute, absorbed, abundant, addled,
     adipose, affluent, all-encompassing, all-inclusive, all-sufficing,
     allayed, altogether, ample, amplitude, aplenty, awash, bang, beefy,
     beery, bemused, besotted, big, big-bellied, blazing, blind drunk,
     blinding, bloated, blocked, blow-by-blow, blowzy, booming, bosomy,
     bottomless, bound, bounteous, bountiful, brawny, bright, brilliant,
     brimful, brimming, bristling, broad, broad-bodied, built, bulging,
     bulky, bullnecked, burly, bursting, busty, buxom, capacity,
     chock-full, choked, choked up, chubby, chuck-full, chunky, clogged,
     clogged up, close, cloyed, coarse, colored, compact, complete,
     completely, comprehensive, concerned, congested, congestion,
     consequential, considerable, constipated, consumed, copious,
     corpulent, costive, cram-full, crammed, crapulent, crapulous,
     crass, crawling, crowded, curvaceous, damned, dazzling, deafening,
     deep, deep-colored, dense, detailed, developed, diffuse, directly,
     disgusted, distended, dizzy, drenched, drunk, drunken, dumpy, dyed,
     ear-piercing, ear-rending, ear-splitting, earthshaking, effuse,
     emotional, engaged, engorged, engrossed, enormously, entire,
     entirely, epidemic, exact, exactly, exceedingly, exhaustive,
     exhaustless, expansive, extensive, extravagant, extreme, exuberant,
     far-gone, farci, fat, fattish, fed-up, fertile, filled, filled out,
     finicky, firm, fleshy, flood tide, flush, flustered, forte,
     fortissimo, fou, foul, fouled, full of, full to bursting,
     full-bodied, full-colored, full-fledged, full-grown, full-scale,
     fullness, fully, fussy, galore, gay, generous, giddy, glaring,
     global, glorious, glutted, gorged, grand, grave, great, greatest,
     greatly, gross, happy, harsh, heavy, heavyset, hefty, high tide,
     high water, highest, hippy, hued, hugely, illimitable, imbued,
     immersed, impletion, imposing, in Technicolor, in color, in full,
     in its entirety, in liquor, in plenty, in quantity, in toto,
     inebriate, inebriated, inebrious, inexhaustible, infarcted, intact,
     integral, intense, intoxicated, irresistible, itemized, jaded,
     jam-packed, jammed, jolly, kerplunk, lavish, liberal, limitless,
     loaded, loud, loud-sounding, loudish, lusty, luxuriant, main, many,
     massive, mature, matured, maudlin, maximal, maximum, meaty, mellow,
     merry, meticulous, mighty, minute, much, muddled, nappy, nice,
     no strings, numerous, obese, obsessed, obstipated, obstructed,
     occupied, open, opulent, overfed, overflowing, overfull,
     overfullness, overgorged, oversaturated, overstuffed, overweight,
     packed, packed like sardines, particular, particularized, paunchy,
     pealing, perfect, perfectly, picayune, piercing, plangent, plenary,
     plenitude, plenitudinous, plenteous, plentiful, plenty, plethora,
     plop, plugged, plugged up, plumb, plump, plunk, podgy, point-blank,
     populous, portly, potbellied, powerful, precise, precisely,
     preoccupied, prevailing, prevalent, prodigal, productive, profuse,
     profusive, pudgy, puffy, pulsing, pursy, quite, rampant,
     ready to burst, reeling, replete, repletion, resonant, resonating,
     resounding, revealing, rich, rife, right, ringing, riotous, ripe,
     robust, rolling, roly-poly, roomy, rotund, round, rounded out,
     running over, sated, satiate, satiated, satiety, satisfied,
     saturated, saturation, saturation point, sentimental, serious,
     serried, shapely, shikker, shining, sick of, slaked, slap, smack,
     smack-dab, soaked, sodden, solid, sonorous, sotted, sound,
     spacious, spang, special, specific, spring tide, square, squarely,
     squat, squatty, stacked, stained, stalwart, standing room only,
     stentoraphonic, stentorian, stentorious, stocky, stopped,
     stopped up, stout, straight, strapping, strong, stuffed,
     stuffed up, superabundant, supersaturated, surfeit, surfeited,
     swarming, swollen, teeming, thick, thick-bodied, thickset,
     thorough, thoroughly, three-dimensional, throbbing, thunderous,
     tiddly, tinct, tinctured, tinged, tinted, tipsy, tired of,
     to the full, to the utmost, toned, tonitruant, tonitruous, top,
     top-heavy, topful, total, totally, trig, tubby, unabbreviated,
     unabridged, unbound, unbounded, uncensored, uncircumscribed,
     unconditional, unconditioned, uncut, under the influence,
     undiminished, undimmed, unequivocal, unexpurgated, unlimited,
     unmeasured, unobscured, unqualified, unrestricted, unshaded,
     unshortened, utmost, utter, very, vibrant, vibrating, viscous,
     vivid, voluptuous, wash-colored, wealthy, well-built, well-fed,
     well-found, well-furnished, well-proportioned, well-provided,
     well-rounded, well-shaped, well-stacked, well-stocked, whole,
     wholesale, wholly, wide, wide-open, widespread, window-rattling,
     with a bellyful, with a snootful, with enough of, without strings,
     zaftig