full

• enPR: fo͝ol, IPA^(key): /fʊl/, [fʊɫ]

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• Rhymes: -ʊl

From Middle English full, from Old English full (“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, and Norwegian and Swedish full (the latter three via Old Norse). Proto-Indo-European cognates include English plenty (via Latin, compare plēnus), Welsh llawn, Russian по́лный (pólnyj), Lithuanian pilnas, Persian پر‎ (por), Sanskrit पूर्ण (pūrṇa). See also fele.

full (comparative fuller, superlative fullest)

1. Containing the maximum possible amount of that which can fit in the space available.
   • 1913, Joseph C. Lincoln, chapter 1, in Mr. Pratt's Patients:

     '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 showed.

   The jugs were full to the point of overflowing.

2. Complete; with nothing omitted.
   • 2013 July-August, Catherine Clabby, “Focus on Everything”, in American Scientist:

     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 sharpest bits of multiple digital images, focus stacking is a boon to biologists seeking full focus on a micron scale.

   Our book gives full treatment to the subject of angling.

3. Total, entire.

   She had tattoos the full length of her arms.   He was prosecuted to the full extent of the law.

4. (informal) Having eaten to satisfaction, having a "full" stomach; replete.

   "I'm full," he said, pushing back from the table.

5. Of a garment, 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.

6. Having depth and body; rich.

   a full singing voice

7. (obsolete) Having the mind filled with ideas; stocked with knowledge; stored with information.
   • Francis Bacon

     Reading maketh a full man.

8. Having the attention, thoughts, etc., absorbed in any matter, and the feelings more or less excited by it.

   She's full of her latest project.

   • John Locke

     Everyone is full of the miracles done by cold baths on decayed and weak constitutions.

9. Filled with emotions.
   • Lowell

     The heart is so full that a drop overfills it.

10. (obsolete) Impregnated; made pregnant.
    • Dryden

      Ilia, the fair, […] full of Mars.

11. (poker, postnominal) Said of the three cards of the same rank in a full house.

    Nines full of aces = three nines and two aces (999AA).

    I'll beat him with my kings full! = three kings and two unspecified cards of the same rank.

12. (Australia) Drunk, intoxicated

• (containing the maximum possible amount): 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
• (complete): complete, thorough
• (total): entire, total
• (satisfied, in relation to eating): glutted, gorged, sated, satiate, satiated, satisfied, stuffed
• (of a garment): baggy, big, large, loose, outsized, oversized, voluminous
• (drunk): See Thesaurus:drunk

• (containing the maximum possible amount): empty
• (complete): incomplete
• (total): partial
• (satisfied, in relation to eating): empty, hungry, starving
• (of a garment): close-fitting, small, tight, tight-fitting

full (not comparable)

1. (archaic) Fully; quite; very; thoroughly; completely; exactly; entirely.
   • c. 1610-11, William Shakespeare, The Tempest, Act I scene ii:

     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 poor cell,

     And thy no greater father.

   • (Can we date this quote?) Joseph Addison

     […] full in the centre of the sacred wood

   • 1819, John Keats, Otho the Great, Act IV, Scene I, verse 112

     You know full well what makes me look so pale.

   • (Can we date this quote?) Dante Gabriel Rosetti, William Blake, lines 9-12

     This cupboard […] / this other one, / His true wife's charge, full oft to their abode / Yielded for daily bread the martyr's stone,

   • 1874, James Thomson, The City of Dreadful Night, IX

     It is full strange to him who hears and feels, / When wandering there in some deserted street, / The booming and the jar of ponderous wheels, […]

   • 1910, Emerson Hough, chapter I, in The Purchase Price: Or The Cause of Compromise, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, OCLC 639762314, page 0045:

     Serene, smiling, enigmatic, she faced him with no fear whatever showing in her dark eyes. […] She put back a truant curl from her forehead where it had sought egress to the world, and looked him full in the face now, […].

• full well

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.

full (plural fulls)

1. Utmost measure or extent; highest state or degree; the state, position, or moment of fullness; fill.
   • Shakespeare

     The swan's-down feather, / That stands upon the swell at full of tide.

   • Dryden

     Sicilian tortures and the brazen bull, / Are emblems, rather than express the full / Of what he feels.

   I was fed to the full.

   • 1911, Berthold Auerbach, Bayard Taylor, The villa on the Rhine:

     […] he had tasted their food, and found it so palatable that he had eaten his full before he knew it.

   • 2008, Jay Cassell, The Gigantic Book Of Hunting Stories:

     Early next morning we were over at the elk carcass, and, as we expected, found that the bear had eaten his full at it during the night.

   • 2010, C. E. Morgan, All the Living: A Novel:

     When he had eaten his full, they set to work again.

2. (of the moon) The phase of the moon when it is entire face is illuminated, full moon.
   • 1765, Francis Bacon, The works of Francis Bacon:

     It is like, that the brain of man waxeth moister and fuller upon the full of the moon: [...]

   • 1808, Joseph Hall, Josiah Pratt (editor), Works, Volume VII: Practical Works, Revised edition, page 219,

     This earthly moon, the Church, hath her fulls and wanings, and sometimes her eclipses, while the shadow of this sinful mass hides her beauty from the world.

3. (freestyle skiing) An aerialist maneuver consisting of a backflip in conjunction and simultaneous with a complete twist.

• at full, at the full
• in full
• to the full

(freestyle skiing):

• double full
• lay-full
• full-full
• full-double full
• double full-full
• lay-full-full
• full-full-full
• lay-double full-full
• full-double full-full

full (third-person singular simple present fulls, present participle fulling, simple past and past participle fulled)

1. (of the moon) To become full or wholly illuminated.
   • 1888 September 20, "The Harvest Moon," New York Times (retrieved 10 April 2013):

     The September moon fulls on the 20th at 24 minutes past midnight, and is called the harvest moon.

   • 1905, Annie Fellows Johnston, The Little Colonel's Christmas Vacation, ch. 4:

     "By the black cave of Atropos, when the moon fulls, keep thy tryst!"

   • 1918, Kate Douglas Wiggin, The Story Of Waitstill Baxter, ch. 29:

     "The moon fulls to-night, don't it?"

From Middle English fullen, fulwen, from Old English fullian, fulwian (“to baptise”), from Proto-Germanic *fullawīhōną (“to fully consecrate”), from *fulla- (“full-”) + *wīhōną (“to hallow, consecrate, make holy”). Compare Old English fulluht, fulwiht (“baptism”).

full (third-person singular simple present fulls, present participle fulling, simple past and past participle fulled)

1. (transitive) To baptise.

• fulling

From Middle English [Term?], from Old French fuller, fouler (“to tread, to stamp, to full”), from Medieval Latin fullare, from Latin fullo (“a fuller”)

full (third-person singular simple present fulls, present participle fulling, simple past and past participle fulled)

1. To make cloth denser and firmer by soaking, beating and pressing, to waulk, walk

• to walk, waulk

• fuller
• fuller's earth

From Latin folium (“leaf”), probably from Proto-Indo-European *bʰolh₃yom (“leaf”), from *bʰleh₃- (“blossom, flower”). Compare French feuille, Spanish hoja, Italian foglio, Italian foglia (the latter from Latin folia, plural of folium). Doublet of the borrowing foli.

• (Balearic, Central, Valencian) IPA^(key): /ˈfuʎ/
• Rhymes: -uʎ

full m (plural fulls)

1. sheet of paper

• fulla

• IPA^(key): /ful/

Borrowed from English full.

full (plural fulls)

1. (Quebec) full
2. (Quebec) overflowing, packed, crowded

full

1. (Quebec) very, really

   C'est full poche, ça ! ― That really sucks!

From English full house.

full m (plural fulls)

1. (poker) full house

• “full” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

From English full house.

full m (invariable)

1. (card games, poker) full house, boat

From Old Norse fullr, from Proto-Germanic *fullaz, from Proto-Indo-European *pl̥h₁nós. Cognates include Danish fuld, Swedish full, Icelandic fullur, German voll, Dutch vol, English full, Gothic 𐍆𐌵𐌻𐌻𐍃 (fqlls), Lithuanian pilnas, Old Church Slavonic плънъ (plŭnŭ), Latin plēnus, Ancient Greek πλήρης (plḗrēs) and πλέως (pléōs), Old Irish lán, and Sanskrit पूर्ण (pūrṇa).

• IPA^(key): /fʉl/

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full (neuter singular fullt, definite singular and plural fulle, comparative fullere, indefinite superlative fullest, definite superlative fulleste)

1. full (containing the maximum possible amount)
2. drunk

• fylle

• -full (Bokmål)

• “full” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

From Old Norse fullr, from Proto-Germanic *fullaz, from Proto-Indo-European *pl̥h₁nós. Cognates include Danish fuld, Swedish full, Icelandic fullur, German voll, Dutch vol, English full, Gothic 𐍆𐌵𐌻𐌻𐍃 (fqlls), Lithuanian pilnas, Old Church Slavonic плънъ (plŭnŭ), Latin plēnus, Ancient Greek πλήρης (plḗrēs) and πλέως (pléōs), Old Irish lán, and Sanskrit पूर्ण (pūrṇa).

• IPA^(key): /fʉlː/

full (neuter singular fullt, definite singular and plural fulle, comparative fullare, indefinite superlative fullast, definite superlative fullaste)

1. full (containing the maximum possible amount)

   Glaset er fullt.

   The glass is full.

2. drunk

   Ho drakk seg full på raudvin.

   She got drunk on red wine.

3. complete, total

   Han har full kontroll.

   He is in total control.

• fylle

• -full (Nynorsk)

• “full” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

• IPA^(key): /ˈfull/, [fuɫɫ]

From Proto-Germanic *fullaz, from Proto-Indo-European *pl̥h₁nós (“full”), from *pleh₁- (“to fill”).

Germanic cognates include Old Frisian ful, Old Saxon ful, full, Old High German foll, Old Norse fullr, and Gothic 𐍆𐌵𐌻𐌻𐍃 (fulls).

Indo-European cognates include Old Church Slavonic плънъ (plŭnŭ), Latin plēnus, Ancient Greek πλήρης (plḗrēs) and πλέως (pléōs), Old Irish lán, and Sanskrit पूर्ण (pūrṇa).

• ful

full

1. full, filled, complete, entire

• fullīċe

• fyllan

• Middle English: full
  • English: full
  • Scots: fou

From Proto-Germanic *fullą (“vessel”), from Proto-Indo-European *pēl(w)- (“a kind of vessel”). Akin to Old Saxon full (“beaker”), Old Norse full (“beaker”).

• ful

full n

1. a beaker.
2. a cup, especially one with liquor in it.

From Old Norse fullr, from Proto-Germanic *fullaz, from Proto-Indo-European *pl̥h₁nós

• IPA^(key): /fɵl/

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full

1. full (containing the maximum possible amount)
2. drunk, intoxicated

• (drunk): berusad, dragen, drucken, packad, plakat, påverkad, rund under fötterna

• handfull

• fylla