Definition, Meaning & Synonyms | English word FULL

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Definitions of FULL

1. Containing the maximum possible amount that can fit in the space available.
2. Complete; with nothing omitted.
3. Total, entire.
4. Having depth and body; rich.
5. Having the attention, thoughts, etc., absorbed in any matter, and the feelings more or less excited by it.
6. Filled with emotions.
7. Utmost measure or extent; highest state or degree; the state, position, or moment of fullness; fill.
8. Completely empowered, authorized or qualified (in some role); not limited.
9. To make cloth denser and firmer by soaking, beating and pressing; to waulk or walk.
10. (informal) Having eaten to satisfaction, having a "full" stomach; replete.
11. (informal, with of) Replete, abounding with.
12. (of physical features) Plump, round.
13. (of the moon) Having its entire face illuminated.
14. (of garments) Of a size that is ample, wide, or having ample folds or pleats to be comfortable.
15. (obsolete) Having the mind filled with ideas; stocked with knowledge; stored with information.
16. (obsolete) Impregnated; made pregnant.
17. (poker, postnominal) Said of the three cards of the same rank in a full house.
18. (chiefly, AU) Drunk, intoxicated.
19. (archaic) Fully; quite; very; thoroughly; completely; exactly; entirely.
20. (of the moon) The phase of the moon when its entire face is illuminated, full moon.
21. (freestyle skiing) An aerialist maneuver consisting of a backflip in conjunction and simultaneous with a complete twist.
22. (of the moon) To become full or wholly illuminated.
23. (transitive) To baptise.
24. A German surname from German.

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Examples of Using FULL in a Sentence

• This contrasts with a full alphabet, in which vowels have status equal to consonants, and with an abjad, in which vowel marking is absent, partial, or optional – in less formal contexts, all three types of the script may be termed "alphabets".
• Formally founded in 1867 in London, the communion has more than 85 million members within the Church of England and other autocephalous national and regional churches in full communion.
• It has full membership status in a number of international organizations, such as the Council of Europe and the Eurasian Economic Union, and observer status, etc.
• Aeneas receives full treatment in Roman mythology, most extensively in Virgil's Aeneid, where he is cast as an ancestor of Romulus and Remus.
• It is in adapted ottava rima and is full of elaborate use of literary devices, particularly alliteration.
• Alfonso's mother, Maria Christina of Austria, served as regent until he assumed full powers on his sixteenth birthday in 1902.
• Flown in low Earth orbit, it was the second crewed Apollo mission that the United States launched via a Saturn V rocket, and was the first flight of the full Apollo spacecraft: the command and service module (CSM) with the Lunar Module (LM).
• In computer graphics, alpha compositing or alpha blending is the process of combining one image with a background to create the appearance of partial or full transparency.
• Also, in the case of legacies when the funds or assets out of which they are payable are not sufficient to pay them in full, the legacies abate in proportion, unless there is a priority given specially to any particular legacy.
• The offspring that arise by asexual reproduction from either unicellular or multicellular organisms inherit the full set of genes of their single parent and thus the newly created individual is genetically and physically similar to the parent or an exact clone of the parent.
• Brunei maintains diplomatic relations with 170 out of 193 countries, joined ASEAN on 7 January 1984, one week after resuming full independence, and gives its ASEAN membership the highest priority in its foreign relations.
• The size of the top and bottom can vary, from bikinis that offer full coverage of the breasts, pelvis, and buttocks, to more revealing designs with a thong or G-string bottom that covers only the mons pubis, but exposes the buttocks, and a top that covers only the areolae.
• However, breathy and aspirated stops are acoustically similar in that in both cases there is a delay in the onset of full voicing.
• He was the most important northern European sculptor of his age and is considered a pioneer of the "northern realism" of the Early Netherlandish painting that came into full flower with the work of Jan van Eyck and others in the next generation.
• CycL has a publicly released specification, and dozens of HL modules were described in Lenat and Guha's textbook, but the Cyc inference engine code and the full list of HL modules are Cycorp-proprietary.
• On 3 December 1967, Barnard transplanted the heart of accident victim Denise Darvall into the chest of 54-year-old Louis Washkansky who regained full consciousness and was able to talk easily with his wife, before dying eighteen days later of pneumonia, largely brought on by the anti-rejection drugs that suppressed his immune system.
• Concubinage is an interpersonal and sexual relationship between two people in which the couple does not want to, or cannot, enter into a full marriage.
• Although a chemical formula may imply certain simple chemical structures, it is not the same as a full chemical structural formula.
• Called to Common Mission (CCM) is an agreement between The Episcopal Church (ECUSA) and the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA) in the United States, establishing full communion between them.
• However, these paralinguistic sounds in English are not full click consonants, as they only involve the front of the tongue, without the release of the back of the tongue that is required for clicks to combine with vowels and form syllables.
• After the Exxon Valdez oil spill disaster in Alaska in 1989, the US government required all new oil tankers built for use between US ports to be equipped with a full double hull.
• During the Scramble for Africa, Ethiopia had maintained its full sovereignty over European colonial power and fought the First Italo-Ethiopian War in 1895–96.
• Along with Aeschylus and Sophocles, he is one of the three ancient Greek tragedians for whom any plays have survived in full.
• Member parties advocate either for full political independence and sovereignty, or some form of devolution or self-governance for their country or region.
• The Eastern Caribbean dollar (symbol: EC$; code: XCD) is the currency of all seven full members and one associate member of the Organisation of Eastern Caribbean States (OECS).

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