full
part of speech
adjective (full, fuller, fullest); adverb; noun (in full)
meaning for a pupil
1) Full means holding as much as it can hold: «a full cup». tree →
2) Full means having eaten enough: «I'm full». tree →
3) Full means complete, whole: «your full name», «a full hour». tree →
4) Full of means having a lot of something: «full of mistakes». tree →
5) (casual) «Stuffed», «I'm done» mean very full of food; «full-on» means very intense; «full marks» means every answer right. tree →
6) (rude) «Full of yourself» means too proud; «full of it» or «full of crap» means talking nonsense or lying. tree →
7) (formal) Exams say «filled to capacity», «at maximum capacity», «complete», «in full», «in its entirety» and «payment in full». tree →
sense in the lessons
a box or bag holding all it can: N things into boxes of K make N ÷ K full boxes; a full moon is round; phrases: «full of», «full up», «full moon», «full name», «full stop», «in full», «full marks», «full time»; in casual talk «I'm stuffed», «full-on», «chocka» (Australia, NZ: very full); in rough talk «you're full of it», «he's so full of himself»; in the exam voice «filled to capacity», «the number of complete containers», «settled in full»
examples
- How many full boxes are there? tree →
- A full box holds 6 eggs. tree →
- The bus is full with 40 people. tree →
- I'm full; I can't eat any more. tree →
- Write your full name at the top. tree →
- Tonight there is a full moon. tree →
- The garden is full of flowers. tree →
- I'm stuffed, I had 3 burgers! tree →
- You're full of it, you never scored 10 goals. tree →
- The car park's chocka, every space is taken. tree →
- Seventeen eggs are placed in containers each having a capacity of 6. Determine the number of containers filled to capacity. tree →
- She got full marks: 20 out of 20. tree →
- Every heart was full of fear. tree →
note
N things into boxes of K make N ÷ K full boxes; the remainder is left over and is not a full box. Trap: «how many boxes are needed» counts a part-filled box too. «filled to capacity» in an exam means full. «full of it» is a rude way to say someone is lying. A «full stop» is the dot at the end of a sentence (period in the USA).
In the corpora
- Let's wait for the full story."
- Sam got full marks on bot homework and then failed the test.
- Never share your full name, address or school with a bot or an app.
- Focused practice means practising with full attention on one goal; watching the clock while repeating easy parts changes very little.
- Playing slowly first lets fingers learn the right moves; fast practice full of mistakes trains the mistakes.
Trees and pragmatics
Every meaning and example of «full» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.