Results for full

Definitions of full:

part of speech: noun

Complete measure: highest degree: the whole: time of full- moon.

part of speech: adjective

Filled; having no empty space; well supplied; saturated; satiated; copious; plump; expressing much; clear; distinct; sonorous; having the whole disk illuminated; as, a full moon.

part of speech: adverb

Completely; quite: used in composition to express full extent or degree; as, full- armed, full- fledged, etc.

part of speech: verb transitive

To press or pound cloth in a mill: to scour and thicken in a mill.

part of speech: adjective

Well supplied; holding all that can be contained; stored; stuffed; sated; complete; clear; distinct; mature.

part of speech: noun

FULLER.

part of speech: verb intransitive

To pucker.

part of speech: noun

FULLNESS or FULNESS.

part of speech: adverb

Without abatement; with the whole effect; completely; exactly, as, full in the face; placed before adj., ad., and other words, to strengthen their significations, as, full many a flower.

part of speech: noun

The highest state, extent, or measure.

part of speech: verb transitive

To scour and thicken, as cloth; to give fulness to.

part of speech: verb transitive

( obs.) To bleach or whiten cloth.

part of speech: adverb

Quite: to the same degree: with the whole effect: completely.

part of speech: adjective

Having all it can contain: having no empty space: abundantly supplied or furnished: abounding: containing the whole matter: complete: perfect: strong: clear.

part of speech: noun

State of being satiated, as, fed to the full.

part of speech: verb

To scour or cleanse; to make compact, or to thicken in a mill.

Usage examples for full:

• For a full minute, Bansemer did not speak. "Jane Cable", George Barr McCutcheon

• They are full of it. "Manners and Social Usages", Mrs. John M. E. W. Sherwood

• I think you would better wait till after breakfast for the full story, so far as it is known to us. "Castle Craneycrow", George Barr McCutcheon

• " I tell you," the Marquis explained, " that he has his hands full that man in Paris. "The Last Hope", Henry Seton Merriman