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See also:Full,full-,fúll,and-full

English

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Etymology 1

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FromMiddle Englishful, fromOld Englishfull(“full”), fromProto-West Germanic*full, fromProto-Germanic*fullaz(“full”), fromProto-Indo-European*pl̥h₁nós(“full”).

Germanic cognates includeWest Frisianfol,Low Germanvull,Dutchvol,Germanvoll,Danishfuld, andNorwegian andSwedishfull (the latter three via Old Norse). Proto-Indo-European cognates includeEnglishplenty (via Latin, compareplēnus),Welshllawn,Russianпо́лный(pólnyj),Lithuanianpilnas,Persianپر(por),Sanskritपूर्ण(pūrṇá).

See alsofele andScotsfou (whence the Englishdoubletfou(“drunk”)). For the "drunk, intoxicated" sense, compare also Swedishfull and other Scandinavian languages.

Adjective

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full (comparativefullerormorefull,superlativefullestormostfull)

  1. Containing themaximum possible amount that can fit in thespace available.
    The jugs werefull to the point of overflowing.
  2. Complete; with nothing omitted.
    Our book givesfull treatment to the subject of angling.
    • 1976 March 27, F. Dudley Hart, “History of the treatment of rheumatoid arthritis”, inBritish Medical Journal, volume 1, number6012,→DOI,→JSTOR, page763:
      Anybody can cure a curable disease if he happens to have the right drug at hand, but the treatment of a condition for which there is no positive cure makes much greater demands on the doctor, who has to be practical pharmacologist, human being, psychiatrist, and father confessor—he has, in fact, to be a proper physician in thefullest sense of the word.
    • 2013 July-August,Catherine Clabby, “Focus on Everything”, inAmerican 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 seekingfull focus on a micron scale.
    1. (category theory, of afunctor betweenlocally smallcategories)Surjective as a map ofmorphisms
      Coordinate terms:faithful,fully faithful
    2. (category theory, of asubcategory S of C) Including all morphisms.Formally: Such that for every pairs ofobjects (X, Y) in S, thehom-setsHomS⁡(X,Y){\displaystyle \operatorname {Hom} _{S}(X,Y)} andHomC⁡(X,Y){\displaystyle \operatorname {Hom} _{C}(X,Y)} are equal.
      Coordinate terms:embedding,replete,strictly full
  3. Total, entire.
    • 1913,Joseph C[rosby] Lincoln, chapter I, inMr. Pratt’s Patients, New York, N.Y.; London:D[aniel] Appleton and Company,→OCLC:
      'Twas early June, the new grass was flourishing everywheres, the posies in the yard—peonies and such—infull bloom, the sun was shining, and the water of the bay was blue, with light green streaks where the shoal showed.
    She had tattoos thefull length of her arms.   He was prosecuted to thefull extent of the law.
  4. Completelyempowered,authorized orqualified (in some role); notlimited.
    full member
    full officer
  5. (informal) Having eaten tosatisfaction, having a "full" stomach;replete.
    "I'mfull," he said, pushing back from the table.
  6. (informal, with "of")Replete,abounding with.
    This movie doesn't make sense; it'sfull of plot holes.
    I prefer my pizzasfull of toppings.
  7. (informal, of hands, chiefly in theplural)Carrying asmuch aspossible.
    Hang on - my hands arefull; just let me put these down.
  8. (of physical features)Plump,round.
    full lips; afull face; afull figure
  9. (of the moon) Having its entire faceilluminated.
    • 1969, Alan S. Feinstein,Folk tales from Siam, page82:
      For on those evenings, when the moon isfull and bright and clear, mothers and fathers in Siam tell their children to look up at the moon and then ask them what they see there.
  10. (of clothing) Of a size that is ample, wide, or havingample folds or pleats to becomfortable.
    afull pleated skirt; She needed herfull clothing during her pregnancy.
  11. Having depth and body; rich.
    afull singing voice
  12. (obsolete) Having the mind filled with ideas; stocked with knowledge; stored with information.
  13. Having the attention, thoughts, etc., absorbed in any matter, and the feelings more or less excited by it.
    She'sfull of her latest project.
  14. Filled with emotions.
  15. (obsolete) Impregnated; made pregnant.
    • 1697,Virgil, “(please specify the book number)”, inJohn Dryden, transl.,The Works of Virgil: Containing His Pastorals, Georgics, and Æneis. […], London: […] Jacob Tonson, […],→OCLC:
      Ilia, the fair,[…]full of Mars.
  16. (poker, postnominal) Said of the three cards of the same rank in afull house.
    ninesfull of aces(three nines and two aces)
    I'll beat him with my kingsfull!(three kings and two unspecified cards of the same rank)
  17. (chiefly Australia)Drunk,intoxicated.
    • 1925, United States House Committee on the Judiciary, Subcommittee No. 1,Charges Against William E. Baker, U.S. District Judge:
      Mr. Coniff: That is the only evidence you gave of his being intoxicated, that his hat was on the side? […] Mr. Coniff: That is the only indication you gave the committee when you were asked if the judge wasfull, that his hat was on the side of his head; is that right?
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containing the maximum possible amount
complete
total, entire
satisfied, in relation to eating
of a garment: ample, wide
having depth and body
of a night in reference to the moon
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Adverb

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full (notcomparable)

  1. (archaic)Fully;quite;very;thoroughly;completely;exactly;entirely.
    • 1610–1611 (date written),William Shakespeare, “The Tempest”, inMr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, andEd[ward] Blount, published1623,→OCLC,[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 afull poor cell,
      And thy no greater father.
    • 1697,Virgil, “(please specify the book number)”, inJohn Dryden, transl.,The Works of Virgil: Containing His Pastorals, Georgics, and Æneis. […], London: […] Jacob Tonson, […],→OCLC:
      […]full in the centre of the sacred wood
    • 1819,John Keats,Otho the Great, act IV, scene I, verse 112:
      You knowfull well what makes me look so pale.
    • 1880,Dante Gabriel Rosetti,William Blake, lines9–12:
      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, section IX:
      It isfull strange to him who hears and feels,
      When wandering there in some deserted street,
      The booming and the jar of ponderous wheels, […]
    • 1886 October –1887 January,H[enry] Rider Haggard,She: A History of Adventure, London:Longmans, Green, and Co., published1887,→OCLC:
      I turned my head, and as I lay gasping in the throes of that awful struggle I could see that Leo was off the rock now, for the lamplight fellfull upon him.
    • 1910,Emerson Hough, chapter I, inThe Purchase Price: Or The Cause of Compromise, Indianapolis, Ind.:The Bobbs-Merrill Company,→OCLC:
      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 himfull in the face now, […].
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Etymology 2

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FromMiddle Englishfulle,fylle,fille, fromOld Englishfyllu,fyllo(“fullness, fill, plenty”), fromProto-Germanic*fullį̄,*fulnō(“fullness, filling, overflow”), fromProto-Indo-European*plūno-,*plno-(“full”), from*pelh₁-,*pleh₁-(“to fill; full”). Cognate withGermanFülle(“fullness, fill”),Icelandicfylli(“fulness, fill”). More atfill.

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full (pluralfulls)

  1. Utmostmeasure orextent; higheststate ordegree; the state, position, or moment offullness;fill.
    I was fed to thefull.
    • 1911, Berthold Auerbach, Bayard Taylor,The villa on the Rhine:
      […] he had tasted their food, and found it so palatable that he had eaten hisfull 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 hisfull at it during the night.
    • 2010, C. E. Morgan,All the Living: A Novel:
      When he had eaten hisfull, they set to work again.
  2. (of the moon) The phase of the moon when its entire face is illuminated,full moon.
    • a.1622,Francis Bacon,Natural History, inThe works of Francis Bacon, 1765, page322
      It is like, that the brain of man waxeth moister and fuller upon thefull of the moon: [...]
    • a.1656,Joseph Hall,Josiah Pratt (editor),Works, Volume VII: Practical Works, Revised edition, 1808page 219,
      This earthly moon, the Church, hath herfulls and wanings, and sometimes her eclipses, while the shadow of this sinful mass hides her beauty from the world.
  3. (gymnastics) Aflip involving a completeturn in midair.
  4. (freestyle skiing) An aerialist maneuver consisting of abackflip in conjunction and simultaneous with a completetwist.
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utmost measure or extent
phase of the moon—seefull moon

Verb

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full (third-person singular simple presentfulls,present participlefulling,simple past and past participlefulled)

  2. (of the moon) To become full orwhollyilluminated.
    • 1888 September 20, “The Harvest Moon”, inNew York Times, retrieved10 April 2013:
      The September moonfulls on the 20th at 24 minutes past midnight, and is called the harvest moon.
    • 1905,Annie Fellows Johnston, chapter 4, inThe Little Colonel's Christmas Vacation:
      "By the black cave of Atropos, when the moonfulls, keep thy tryst!"
    • 1918,Kate Douglas Wiggin, chapter 29, inThe Story Of Waitstill Baxter:
      "The moonfulls to-night, don't it?"

Etymology 3

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FromMiddle Englishfullen,fulwen(“to baptise”), fromOld Englishfullian,fulwian(“to baptise”), fromfull- +*wīhan (later*wēon(“to make holy”)). CompareOld Englishfulluht,fulwiht(“baptism”).

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full (third-person singular simple presentfulls,present participlefulling,simple past and past participlefulled)

  1. (transitive) Tobaptise.
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to baptise—seebaptise

Etymology 4

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FromMiddle Englishfullen(“to full”), fromAnglo-Normanfuller,fuler,Middle Frenchfoller,fouler, fromOld Frenchfoler,fouler(“to tread, stamp, full”), fromMedieval Latinfullāre, fromLatinfullō(“a fuller”). CompareOld Englishfullian(“to full”).

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full (third-person singular simple presentfulls,present participlefulling,simple past and past participlefulled)

  2. To makeclothdenser andfirmer bysoaking,beating andpressing; towaulk orwalk.
    Synonyms:tuck,walk,waulk
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to make cloth denser

Catalan

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Etymology

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Inherited fromLatinfolium(“leaf”). CompareFrenchfeuille,Spanishhoja,Italianfoglio,Italianfoglia (the latter fromLatinfolia, plural offolium). Doublet of the borrowingfoli.

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Noun

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full m (pluralfulls)

  1. sheet of paper

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  • “full” inDiccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

French

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Etymology 1

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Borrowed fromEnglishfull.

Adjective

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full (pluralfulls)

  1. (North America)full
  2. (North America)overflowing,packed,crowded

Adverb

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full

  1. (North America)very,really
    C'estfull poche, ça ! ―Thatreally sucks!

Etymology 2

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FromEnglishfull house.

Noun

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full m (pluralfulls)

  1. (poker)full house

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Italian

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Etymology

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FromEnglishfull house.

Noun

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full m (invariable)

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

Middle English

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Etymology 1

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full

  1. alternative form offul

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Verb

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full

  1. alternative form offullen(“to full”)

Norwegian Bokmål

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Etymology

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FromDanishfuld, fromOld Norsefullr, fromProto-Germanic*fullaz, fromProto-Indo-European*pl̥h₁nós. Cognates includeSwedishfull,Norwegian Nynorskfull,Icelandicfullur,Germanvoll,Dutchvol,Englishfull,Gothic𐍆𐌿𐌻𐌻𐍃(fulls),Lithuanianpilnas,Old Church Slavonicплънъ(plŭnŭ),Latinplēnus,Ancient Greekπλήρης(plḗrēs) andπλέως(pléōs),Old Irishlán, andSanskritपूर्ण(pūrṇa).

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full (neuter singularfullt,definite singular and pluralfulle,comparativefullere,indefinite superlativefullest,definite superlativefulleste)

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

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Norwegian Nynorsk

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Etymology

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FromOld Norsefullr, fromProto-Germanic*fullaz, fromProto-Indo-European*pl̥h₁nós. Cognates includeDanishfuld,Swedishfull,Icelandicfullur,Germanvoll,Dutchvol,Englishfull,Gothic𐍆𐌿𐌻𐌻𐍃(fulls),Lithuanianpilnas,Old Church Slavonicплънъ(plŭnŭ),Latinplēnus,Ancient Greekπλήρης(plḗrēs) andπλέως(pléōs),Old Irishlán, andSanskritपूर्ण(pūrṇa).

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full (neuter singularfullt,definite singular and pluralfulle,comparativefullare,indefinite superlativefullast,definite superlativefullaste)

  1. full(containing the maximum possible amount)
    Glaset erfullt. ―The glass isfull.
  2. drunk
    Ho drakk segfull på raudvin. ―She gotdrunk on red wine.
  3. complete,total
    Han harfull kontroll. ―He is intotal control.

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Old English

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Etymology 1

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FromProto-West Germanic*full, fromProto-Germanic*fullaz, fromProto-Indo-European*pl̥h₁nós(“full”), from*pleh₁-(“to fill”).

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Adjective

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full

  1. full
  2. filled
  3. complete
  4. entire
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Declension offull — Strong
SingularMasculineFeminineNeuter
Nominativefullfullfull
Accusativefulnefullefull
Genitivefullesfulrefulles
Dativefullumfulrefullum
Instrumentalfullefulrefulle
PluralMasculineFeminineNeuter
Nominativefullefulla,fullefull
Accusativefullefulla,fullefull
Genitivefulrafulrafulra
Dativefullumfullumfullum
Instrumentalfullumfullumfullum
Declension offull — Weak
SingularMasculineFeminineNeuter
Nominativefullafullefulle
Accusativefullanfullanfulle
Genitivefullanfullanfullan
Dativefullanfullanfullan
Instrumentalfullanfullanfullan
PluralMasculineFeminineNeuter
Nominativefullanfullanfullan
Accusativefullanfullanfullan
Genitivefulra,fullenafulra,fullenafulra,fullena
Dativefullumfullumfullum
Instrumentalfullumfullumfullum
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Etymology 2

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FromProto-Germanic*fullą(“vessel”), fromProto-Indo-European*pēl(w)-(“a kind of vessel”). Akin toOld Saxonfull(“beaker”),Old Norsefull(“beaker, toast”).

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full n

  1. abeaker
  2. acup, especially one with liquor in it
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Stronga-stem:

singularplural
nominativefullfull
accusativefullfull
genitivefullesfulla
dativefullefullum

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full

  1. inflection offullr:
    1. strongfemininenominativesingular
    2. strongneuternominative/accusativeplural

Polish

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Etymology

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Unadapted borrowing fromEnglishfull.

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full (notcomparable,no derived adverb)

  1. (colloquial)alternative spelling offul

Noun

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full m inan

  1. (colloquial)alternative spelling offul

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Declension offull
singularplural
nominativefullfulle
genitivefullufulli
dativefullowifullom
accusativefullfulle
instrumentalfullemfullami
locativefullufullach
vocativefullufulle

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full

  1. (colloquial)alternative spelling offul

Further reading

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  • full inWielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
  • full in Polish dictionaries at PWN

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Etymology

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Unadapted borrowing fromEnglishfull.

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full

  1. (slang)completely,absolutely,fully,super
    Ele estáfull lixado.
    He'ssuper screwed.

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This word is slang used almost exclusively by the youth, partially satirically (though it has come to be used in serious informal contexts).

Spanish

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Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /ˈful/[ˈful]
  • Rhymes:-ul
  • Syllabification:full

Noun

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full m (pluralfull)

  1. (poker)full house

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Swedish

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Etymology

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FromOld Norsefullr, fromProto-Germanic*fullaz, fromProto-Indo-European*pl̥h₁nós.

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full

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

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Inflection offull
Indefinitepositivecomparativesuperlative1
common singularfullfullarefullast
neuter singularfulltfullarefullast
pluralfullafullarefullast
masculine plural2fullefullarefullast
Definitepositivecomparativesuperlative
masculine singular3fullefullarefullaste
allfullafullarefullaste

1 The indefinite superlative forms are only used in the predicative.
2 Dated or archaic.
3 Only used, optionally, to refer to things whose natural gender is masculine.

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