full

The jugs were full to the point of overflowing.

Containing the maximum possible amount that can fit in the space available.

(category theory, of a functor between locally small categories) Surjective as a map of morphisms

Complete; with nothing omitted.
Surjective as a map of morphisms

(category theory, of a subcategory S of C) 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.

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 the fullest sense of the word.

1976 March 27, F. Dudley Hart, “History of the treatment of rheumatoid arthritis”, in British Medical Journal, volume 1, number 6012, →DOI, →JSTOR, page 763:

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 seeking full focus on a micron scale.

2013 July-August, Catherine Clabby, “Focus on Everything”, in American Scientist:

Our book gives full treatment to the subject of angling.

'Twas early June, the new grass was flourishing everywheres, the posies in the yard—peonies and such—in full bloom, the sun was shining, and the water of the bay was blue, with light green streaks where the shoal showed.

1913, Joseph C[rosby] Lincoln, chapter I, in Mr. Pratt’s Patients, New York, N.Y., London: D[aniel] Appleton and Company, →OCLC:

She had tattoos the full length of her arms. He was prosecuted to the full extent of the law.

full member

full officer

Completely empowered, authorized or qualified (in some role); not limited.

"I'm full," he said, pushing back from the table.

(informal) Having eaten to satisfaction, having a "full" stomach; replete.

This movie doesn't make sense; it's full of plot holes.

I prefer my pizzas full of toppings.

(informal, with "of") Replete, abounding with.

Hang on - my hands are full; just let me put these down.

(informal, of hands, chiefly in the plural) Carrying as much as possible.

full lips; a full face; a full figure

For on those evenings, when the moon is full 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.

1969, Alan S. Feinstein, Folk tales from Siam, page 82:

(of the moon) Having its entire face illuminated.

a full pleated skirt; She needed her full clothing during her pregnancy.

(of clothing) Of a size that is ample, wide, or having ample folds or pleats to be comfortable.

a full singing voice

Reading maketh a full man.

1625, Francis [Bacon], “Of Studies”, in The Essayes […], 3rd edition, London: […] Iohn Haviland for Hanna Barret, →OCLC:

(obsolete) Having the mind filled with ideas; stocked with knowledge; stored with information.

She's full of her latest project.

Everyone is now full of the miracles done by cold baths on decayed and weak constitutions.

1693, [John Locke], “§7”, in Some Thoughts Concerning Education, London: […] A[wnsham] and J[ohn] Churchill, […], →OCLC:

Having the attention, thoughts, etc., absorbed in any matter, and the feelings more or less excited by it.

The heart is so full that a drop overfills it.

1848, James Russell Lowell, The Vision of Sir Launfal:

Ilia, the fair, […] full of Mars.

1697, Virgil, translated by John Dryden, The Works of Virgil: Containing His Pastorals, Georgics, and Æneis. […], London: […] Jacob Tonson, […], →OCLC:

nines full of aces (three nines and two aces)

I'll beat him with my kings full! (three kings and two unspecified cards of the same rank)

(poker, postnominal) Said of the three cards of the same rank in a full house.

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 was full, that his hat was on the side of his head; is that right?

1925, United States House Committee on the Judiciary, Subcommittee No. 1, Charges Against William E. Baker, U.S. District Judge

en-adj

full (comparative fuller or more full, superlative fullest or most full)

fuller (comparative)
more full (comparative)
fullest (superlative)
most full (superlative)

empty

antonym(s) of “containing the maximum possible amount”

empty

antonym(s) of “satisfied, in relation to eating”

nervous as a long-tailed cat in a room full of rocking chairs

→ Gulf Arabic: فُل (ful)

→ Japanese: フル

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, and Norwegian and Swedish full (the latter three via Old Norse). Proto-Indo-European cognates include English plenty (via Latin, compare plēnus), Welsh llawn, Russian по́лный (pólnyj), Lithuanian pilnas, Persian پر (por), Sanskrit पूर्ण (pūrṇá).
See also fele and Scots fou (whence the English doublet fou (“drunk”)). For the "drunk, intoxicated" sense, compare also Swedish full and other Scandinavian languages.

fool (accents with FOOT-GOOSE merger or full-fool merger)


full

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 a full poor cell,
And thy no greater father.

1610–1611 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tempest”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene ii]:

[…] full in the centre of the sacred wood

You know full well what makes me look so pale.

1819, John Keats, Otho the Great, act IV, scene I, verse 112:

This cupboard[…]
 this other one,
 His true wife's charge, full oft to their abode
 Yielded for daily bread the martyr's stone,

1880, Dante Gabriel Rosetti, William Blake, lines 9–12:

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,[…]

1874, James Thomson, The City of Dreadful Night, section IX:

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 fell full upon him.

1886 October – 1887 January, H[enry] Rider Haggard, She: A History of Adventure, London: Longmans, Green, and Co., published 1887, →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 him full in the face now,[…].

1910, Emerson Hough, chapter I, in The Purchase Price: Or The Cause of Compromise, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC:

(archaic) Fully; quite; very; thoroughly; completely; exactly; entirely.


full

The swan's-down feather,
 That stands upon the swell at full of tide.

c. 1606–1607 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Anthonie and Cleopatra”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene ii]:

Sicilian tortures and the brazen bull,
 Are emblems, rather than express the full
 Of what he feels.

1693, Decimus Junius Juvenalis, John Dryden, transl., “[The Satires of Decimus Junius Juvenalis.] The Third Satyr”, in The Satires of Decimus Junius Juvenalis. Translated into English Verse. […] Together with the Satires of Aulus Persius Flaccus. […], London: […] Jacob Tonson […], →OCLC:

I was fed to the full.

[…] he had tasted their food, and found it so palatable that he had eaten his full before he knew it.

1911, Berthold Auerbach, Bayard Taylor, The villa on the Rhine:

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.

2008, Jay Cassell, The Gigantic Book Of Hunting Stories:

When he had eaten his full, they set to work again.

2010, C. E. Morgan, All the Living: A Novel:

Utmost measure or extent; highest state or degree; the state, position, or moment of fullness; fill.

It is like, that the brain of man waxeth moister and fuller upon the full of the moon: …

a. 1622, Francis Bacon, Natural History, in The works of Francis Bacon, 1765, page 322

a. 1656, Joseph Hall, Josiah Pratt (editor), Works, Volume VII: Practical Works, Revised edition, 1808 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.

(of the moon) The phase of the moon when its entire face is illuminated, full moon.

(gymnastics) A flip involving a complete turn in midair.

(freestyle skiing) An aerialist maneuver consisting of a backflip in conjunction and simultaneous with a complete twist.

From Middle English fulle, fylle, fille, from Old English fyllu, fyllo (“fullness, fill, plenty”), from Proto-Germanic *fullį̄, *fulnō (“fullness, filling, overflow”), from Proto-Indo-European *plūno-, *plno- (“full”), from *pelh₁-, *pleh₁- (“to fill; full”). Cognate with German Fülle (“fullness, fill”), Icelandic fylli (“fulness, fill”). More at fill.


full

The September moon fulls on the 20th at 24 minutes past midnight, and is called the harvest moon.

1888 September 20, “The Harvest Moon”, in New York Times, retrieved 2013-04-10:

"By the black cave of Atropos, when the moon fulls, keep thy tryst!"

1905, Annie Fellows Johnston, chapter 4, in The Little Colonel's Christmas Vacation:

"The moon fulls to-night, don't it?"

1918, Kate Douglas Wiggin, chapter 29, in The Story Of Waitstill Baxter:

(of the moon) To become full or wholly illuminated.

en-verb

full (third-person singular simple present fulls, present participle fulling, simple past and past participle fulled)

fulls (present singular third-person)
fulling (participle present)
fulled (participle past)
fulled (past)


full

And thy diſciples fulleden men in thy name, in forgiueneſſe of her ſinnes.

1610 October, John Foxe, “An Old Ancient Writing Intituled, The Praier and Complaint of the Ploughman”, in Actes and Monuments of Matters Most Speciall and Memorable, Happening in the Church, with an Vniuersall Historie of the Same. […], 6th edition, volume I, London: […] [Humphrey Lownes] for the Company of Stationers, →OCLC, book V, page 373, column 2:

From Middle English fullen (“to baptise”), fulwen, from Old English fullian, fulwian (“to baptise”), from full- + *wīhan (later *wēon). Compare Old English fulluht, fulwiht (“baptism”).


full

To make cloth denser and firmer by soaking, beating and pressing; to waulk or walk.

From Middle English fullen (“to full”), from Middle French fouler, from Old French foler, fouler (“to tread, to stamp, to full”), from Medieval Latin fullare, from Latin fullo (“a fuller”).