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Etymology 1

Template:PIE root From Template:Inh, from Template:Inh, from Template:Inh, from Template:Der.

Germanic cognates include Template:Cog, Template:Cog, Template:Cog, Template:Cog, Template:Cog, and Template:Cog and Template:Cog (the latter three via Old Norse). Proto-Indo-European cognates include Template:Cog (via Latin, compare Template:M), Template:Cog, Template:Cog, Template:Cog, Template:Cog, Template:Cog. See also Template:M.

Adjective

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Containing the maximum possible amount of that which can fit in the space available.
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Complete; with nothing omitted.
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Total, entire.
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Template:Lb Having eaten to satisfaction, having a "full" stomach; replete.
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Of a garment, of a size that is ample, wide, or having ample folds or pleats to be comfortable.
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Having depth and body; rich.
a full singing voice
Template:Lb Having the mind filled with ideas; stocked with knowledge; stored with information.
- Francis Bacon
  Reading maketh a full man.
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.
Filled with emotions.
- Lowell
  The heart is so full that a drop overfills it.
Template:Lb Impregnated; made pregnant.
- Dryden
  Ilia, the fair, Template:... full of Mars.
Template:Lb 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.
Template:Lb Drunk, intoxicated

Synonyms

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Antonyms

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Manx: Template:T
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Middle Persian: Template:T
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Neapolitan: Template:T
Norman: Template:T
North Frisian: Template:T, Template:T
Norwegian: Template:T+
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Old Church Slavonic: Template:T
Old Frisian: Template:T
Old Norse: Template:T
Old Persian: Template:T
Pashto: Template:T+
Persian: Template:T+
Polish: Template:T+
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Quechua: Template:T
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Romansch: Template:T, Template:T, Template:T
Russian: Template:T+
Sardinian: Template:T, Template:T, Template:T
Scottish Gaelic: Template:T, Template:T
Serbo-Croatian:
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Slovak: Template:T
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Sorbian:
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Tajik: Template:T+
Telugu: Template:T
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Udmurt: Template:T
Ukrainian: Template:T
Venetian: Template:T
Vietnamese: Template:T+
Walloon: Template:T+
Welsh: Template:T+
West Frisian: Template:T
Yagnobi: Template:T

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Afrikaans: Template:T+
Armenian: Template:T+
Bashkir: Template:T
Bulgarian: Template:T+
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Chinese:
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Czech: Template:T+, Template:T+
Danish: Template:T, Template:T
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Georgian: Template:T
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Ido: Template:T+, Template:T+
Indonesian: Template:T+
Irish: Template:T, Template:T

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Italian: Template:T+
Japanese: Template:T+
Kurdish:
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Kyrgyz: Template:T+
Manx: Template:T
Norwegian: Template:T, Template:T+
Old Church Slavonic: Template:T
Pashto: Template:T+
Polish: Template:T+
Portuguese: Template:T+
Romanian: Template:T+, Template:T+
Russian: Template:T+
Scottish Gaelic: Template:T, Template:T
Spanish: Template:T+
Swedish: Template:T+, Template:T+
Telugu: Template:T+
Vietnamese: Template:T+, Template:T+
Welsh: Template:T+

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Armenian: Template:T+
Bashkir: Template:T
Bulgarian: Template:T+, Template:T+
Catalan: Template:T+, Template:T
Chinese:
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Czech: Template:T+
Danish: Template:T+
Dutch: Template:T+, Template:T+
Esperanto: Template:T
Finnish: Template:T+, Template:T+
French: Template:T+, Template:T+
Galician: Template:T
Georgian: Template:T
German: Template:T+, Template:T+
Ido: Template:T+
Indonesian: Template:T+
Irish: Template:T, Template:T

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Japanese: Template:T+, Template:T
Kurdish:
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Manx: Template:T
Norwegian: Template:T+
Old Church Slavonic: Template:T
Pashto: Template:T+
Polish: Template:T+, Template:T+
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Romanian: Template:T+, Template:T+
Russian: Template:T+, Template:T+
Scottish Gaelic: Template:T, Template:T
Spanish: Template:T+
Telugu: Template:T+
Vietnamese: Template:T+, Template:T+
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Bashkir: Template:T, Template:T
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Bulgarian: Template:T+, Template:T+
Burmese: Template:T+
Catalan: Template:T+, Template:T+
Chinese:
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Mandarin: Template:T+, Template:T+
Czech: Template:T+, Template:T+, Template:T, Template:T
Dalmatian: Template:T
Danish: Template:T+, Template:T
Dutch: Template:T+, Template:T+, Template:T+
Esperanto: Template:T+
Faroese: Template:T
Finnish: Template:T+, Template:T+
French: Template:T+, Template:T+
Galician: Template:T
Georgian: Template:T
German: Template:T+, Template:T+
Gothic: Template:T
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Icelandic: Template:T
Indonesian: Template:T+
Sundanese: Template:T
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Japanese: Template:T+
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Korean: Template:T+
Kurdish:
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Sorani: Template:T+
Lao: Template:T
Macedonian: Template:T
Manx: Template:T
Maori: Template:T
Northern Thai: Template:T, Template:T
Norwegian: Template:T+
Old Church Slavonic: Template:T
Pashto: Template:T+, Template:T+
Persian: Template:T+
Polish: Template:T+
Portuguese: Template:T+, Template:T+
Romanian: Template:T+, Template:T+
Russian: Template:T+, Template:T+
Scottish Gaelic: Template:T, Template:T
Serbo-Croatian:
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Roman: Template:T+
Slovak: Template:T
Slovene: Template:T
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Telugu: Template:T+
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Kurdish:
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Danish: Template:T
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Adverb

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Template:Lb Quite; thoroughly; completely; exactly; entirely.
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  master of a full poor cell
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  full in the centre of the sacred wood
- 1819, Template:W, Otho the Great, Act IV, Scene I, verse 112
  You know full well what makes me look so pale.
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  This cupboardTemplate:.../ this other one, / His true wife's charge, full oft to their abode / Yielded for daily bread the martyr's stone,
- 1874, James Thomson, Template:W, 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,Template:Nb...
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  Serene, smiling, enigmatic, she faced him with no fear whatever showing in her dark eyes.Template:...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,Template:Nb....

Derived terms

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Etymology 2

From Template:Inh, Template:M, Template:M, from Template:Inh, Template:M, from Template:Inh, Template:M, from Template:Der, Template:M, from Template:M, Template:M. Cognate with Template:Cog, Template:Cog. More at Template:M.

Noun

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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:
  Template:... 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.
Template:Lb 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.
Template:Lb An aerialist maneuver consisting of a backflip in conjunction and simultaneous with a complete twist.

Derived terms

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Translations

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Verb

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Template:Lb 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?"