full
Pronunciation: /fʊl/
The English word “full” has 20 meanings listed here.
adjective
- Containing the maximum possible amount that can fit in the space available.
- Complete; with nothing omitted.
- Surjective as a map of morphisms
- Including all morphisms. Formally: Such that for every pairs of objects (X, Y) in S, the hom-sets operatorname Hom_S(X,Y) and operatorname Hom_C(X,Y) are equal.
- Total, entire.
- Completely empowered, authorized or qualified (in some role); not limited.
- Having eaten to satisfaction, having a "full" stomach; replete.
- Replete, abounding with.
- Carrying as much as possible.
- Plump, round.
- Having its entire face illuminated.
- Of a size that is ample, wide, or having ample folds or pleats to be comfortable.
- Having depth and body; rich.
- Having the mind filled with ideas; stocked with knowledge; stored with information.
- Having the attention, thoughts, etc., absorbed in any matter, and the feelings more or less excited by it.
- Filled with emotions.
- Impregnated; made pregnant.
- Said of the three cards of the same rank in a full house.
- Drunk, intoxicated.
adverb
- Fully; quite; very; thoroughly; completely; exactly; entirely.
Etymology
From Middle English ful, from Old English full (“full”), from Proto-West Germanic *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, Norwegian Bokmål, Norwegian Nynorsk, and Swedish full. Proto-Indo-European cognates include English plenty (via Latin, compare…
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