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Full

adjective

(compar. fuller; superl. fullest)

1.

Containing as much or as many as is possible or normal. "A sky full of stars" , "A full life" , "The auditorium was full to overflowing"

2.

Constituting the full quantity or extent; complete. Synonyms: entire, total. "Gave full attention" , "A total failure"

3.

Complete in extent or degree and in every particular. Synonym: total. "A total eclipse" , "A total disaster"

4.

Filled to satisfaction with food or drink. Synonym: replete.

5.

(of sound) having marked deepness and body. "A full voice"

6.

Having the normally expected amount. Synonym: good. "Gives good measure" , "A good mile from here"

7.

Being at a peak or culminating point. Synonym: broad. "Full summer"

8.

Having ample fabric. Synonyms: wide, wide-cut. "A full skirt"

adverb

1.

To the greatest degree or extent; completely or entirely; ('full' in this sense is used as a combining form). Synonyms: fully, to the full. "He didn't fully understand" , "Knew full well" , "Full-grown" , "Full-fledged"

noun

1.

The time when the Moon is fully illuminated. Synonyms: full-of-the-moon, full moon, full phase of the moon.

verb

(past & past part. fulled; pres. part. fulling)

1.

Beat for the purpose of cleaning and thickening.

2.

Make (a garment) fuller by pleating or gathering.

3.

Increase in phase. Synonym: wax.

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"Full" Quotes from Famous Books

... the island has been fretted by the waves into detached tower-like masses of rock of very remarkable appearance. In the Channel the sea was green, and opposite Ushant it was a brighter green. On Wednesday evening we committed ourselves to the Bay of Biscay. The roll of the Atlantic was full, but not violent. There had been scarcely a gleam of sunshine throughout the day, but the cloud-forms were fine, and their apparent solidity impressive. On Thursday morning the green of the sea was displaced by a deep indigo blue. The whole of Thursday we steamed across the bay. We had little blue ...

— Fragments of science, V. 1-2 • John Tyndall

... my guards' evident doubt, and willing to let Dave enjoy to the full this joke at my expense, and after a moment's hesitation ...

— Against Odds - A Detective Story • Lawrence L. Lynch

... had seen a dream also; so he desired that Joseph would tell him what the visions he had seen the night before might mean. They were these that follow:—"Methought," says he, "I carried three baskets upon my head; two were full of loaves, and the third full of sweetmeats and other eatables, such as are prepared for kings; but that the fowls came flying, and eat them all up, and had no regard to my attempt to drive them away." And he expected a prediction like to that of the cupbearer. But Joseph, considering and reasoning ...

— The Antiquities of the Jews • Flavius Josephus

... perplexed by the contrast between the semi-barbarism of the country and the old-fashioned apathy of its rulers; we have no more descriptions, serious or sarcastic, of rakish subalterns and disorderly regiments under ancient, incapable colonels; we are introduced to a reformed Anglo-India, full of hard-working, efficient officers, civil and military, and sufficiently decorous, except where hill-stations foster flirting and the ordinary dissipation of any garrison town. It is, however, still a characteristic of the post-Mutiny stories that they find very little room for natives; the secret ...

— Studies in Literature and History • Sir Alfred Comyn Lyall

... had told the Earl of Cork that Marcombes kept the brothers shabbily dressed, the governor unfolded his opinion of the rising dramatist as "one that speakes ill of his own mother and of all his friends and that plays ye foole allwayes through ye streets like a Schoole Boy, having Allwayes his mouth full of whoores and such discourses, and braging often of his getting mony from this or ye other merchant without any good intention to pay."[350] His company fomented in Mr Francis a boastful spirit, "never speaking of any thing but what he should doe when he should once more ...

— English Travellers of the Renaissance • Clare Howard

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