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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

... a sketch of the principal situations in the opera. The first act opens in the great banquet-hall of the King with a flowing and stately chorus ("Dem Frieden Heil") alternating between female and male voices and finally taken by the full chorus. Then follows Adolar's lovely and tender romanza ("Unter bluehenden Mandelbaeumen"). The next number, a chorus ("Heil! Euryanthe"), with recitatives for Adolar, Lysiart, and the King leads up to a vigorous trio ...

— The Standard Operas (12th edition) • George P. Upton

... it looked as if even the powerful current would be useless, but when the doctor turned it on full strength there was a convulsive shudder of the body. Then, suddenly the eyes opened, and the voice of the ...

— Frank and Andy Afloat - The Cave on the Island • Vance Barnum

... central space. And behind there were, he knew, many desolate fields, wild as common, untrodden, unvisited. He was utterly alone. He still grew hotter as he sat on the stump, and at last lay down at full length on the soft grass, and more at his ease felt the waves of heat pass ...

— The Hill of Dreams • Arthur Machen

... and you discover years after that they have chosen to foist on you their idea of your idea at the moment; and they have the astounding presumption to account this misreading of your look to the extent of a full justification, nothing short of righteous, for their treachery and ...

— The Shaving of Shagpat • George Meredith

... the millions to whom "Robinson Crusoe" has brought pleasure, who know that the composition of that work was only one event in a long life of ceaseless labor, political and literary, and that its author's fame among his contemporaries was assured independently of it. Defoe's career was so full that both his chief biographers[155] have found three large volumes to be necessary to do it justice. And yet it was not until near the end of that busy life, when the author was fifty-eight years old, feeling the approach of age and infirmity, and looking about for means to provide for a large ...

— A History of English Prose Fiction • Bayard Tuckerman

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