fullとは

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語源 1

From Middle English ful, from 古期英語 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 (pūrṇa). See also fele.

形容詞

full (comparative fuller, superlative fullest)

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

   The jugs were full to the point of overflowing.

2. Complete; with nothing omitted.
   • 2013 July-August, Catherine Clabby, “Focus on Everything”, in American Scientist:

     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.

   Our book gives full treatment to the subject of angling.

3. Total, entire.
   • 1913, Joseph C. Lincoln, chapter 1, in Mr. Pratt's Patients:

     '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.

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

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

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

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

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

   I prefer my pizzas full of toppings.

6. (of physical features) Plump, round.

   full lips; a full face; a full figure

7. Of a garment, of a size that is ample, wide, or having ample folds or pleats to be comfortable.

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

8. Having depth and body; rich.

   a full singing voice

9. (obsolete) Having the mind filled with ideas; stocked with knowledge; stored with information.
   • 1625, Francis Bacon, Of Studies

     Reading maketh a full man.

10. 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.

    • 1693, [John Locke], “§7”, in Some Thoughts Concerning Education, London: […] A[wnsham] and J[ohn] Churchill, […], OCLC 1161614482:

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

11. Filled with emotions.
    • 1848, James Russell Lowell, The Vision of Sir Launfal

      The heart is so full that a drop overfills it.

12. (obsolete) Impregnated; made pregnant.
    • 1697, “(please specify the book number)”, in John Dryden, transl., The Works of Virgil: Containing His Pastorals, Georgics, and Æneis. […], London: […] Jacob Tonson, […], OCLC 403869432:

      Ilia, the fair, […] full of Mars.

13. (poker, postnominal) 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.

14. (chiefly Australia) Drunk, intoxicated.
    • 1925, United States House Committee on the Judiciary, Subcommittee No. 1, Charges Against William E. Baker, U.S. District Judge:

      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?

同意語

• (containing the maximum possible amount): abounding, brimful, bursting, chock-a-block, chock-full, full up, full to bursting, full to overflowing, jam full, jammed, jam-packed, laden, loaded, overflowing, packed, rammed, stuffed
• (complete): complete, thorough
• (total): entire, total
• (satisfied, in relation to eating): glutted, gorged, sated, satiate, satiated, satisfied, stuffed
• (of a garment): baggy, big, large, loose, outsized, oversized, voluminous
• (drunk): See Thesaurus:drunk

反意語

• (containing the maximum possible amount): empty
• (complete): incomplete
• (total): partial
• (satisfied, in relation to eating): empty, hungry, starving
• (of a garment): close-fitting, small, tight, tight-fitting

派生語

関連する語

派生した語

• → Gulf Arabic: فُل‎ (ful)

副詞

full (not comparable)

1. (archaic) Fully; quite; very; thoroughly; completely; exactly; entirely.
   • c. 1610-11, William Shakespeare, The Tempest, Act I scene ii^[1]:

     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.

   • 1697, “(please specify the book number)”, in John Dryden, transl., The Works of Virgil: Containing His Pastorals, Georgics, and Æneis. […], London: […] Jacob Tonson, […], OCLC 403869432:

     […] full in the centre of the sacred wood

   • 1819, John Keats, Otho the Great, Act IV, Scene I, verse 112

     You know full well what makes me look so pale.

   • 1880, Dante Gabriel Rosetti, William Blake, lines 9-12

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

   • 1874, James Thomson, The City of Dreadful Night, 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, […]

   • 1887, H. Rider Haggard, She: A History of Adventure‎^[2]:

     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.

   • 1910, Emerson Hough, chapter I, in The Purchase Price: Or The Cause of Compromise, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, OCLC 639762314, page 0045:

     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, […].

派生語

• full-grown
• full well

語源 2

From Middle English fulle, fylle, fille, from 古期英語 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.

名詞

full (複数形 fulls)

1. Utmost measure or extent; highest state or degree; the state, position, or moment of fullness; fill.
   • c. 1606–1607, William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Anthonie and Cleopatra”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358, [Act III, scene ii]:

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

   • 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: Printed for Jacob Tonson […], OCLC 80026745:

     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:

     […] 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.

2. (of the moon) The phase of the moon when its entire face is illuminated, full moon.
   • a. 1622, Francis Bacon, Natural History, in The works of Francis Bacon, 1765, page 322

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

   • 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.

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

派生語

(freestyle skiing):

動詞

full (三人称単数 現在形 fulls, 現在分詞 fulling, 過去形および過去分詞形 fulled)

1. (of the moon) 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?"

語源 3

From Middle English fullen, fulwen, from 古期英語 fullian, fulwian (“to baptise”), from Proto-Germanic *fullawīhōną (“to fully consecrate”), from *fulla- (“full-”) + *wīhōną (“to hallow, consecrate, make holy”). Compare 古期英語 fulluht, fulwiht (“baptism”).

動詞

full (三人称単数 現在形 fulls, 現在分詞 fulling, 過去形および過去分詞形 fulled)

1. (transitive) To baptise.

派生語

• fulling

語源 4

From Middle English [Term?], from Old French fuller, fouler (“to tread, to stamp, to full”), from Medieval Latin fullare, from Latin fullo (“a fuller”).

動詞

full (三人称単数 現在形 fulls, 現在分詞 fulling, 過去形および過去分詞形 fulled)

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

同意語

• to walk, waulk

派生語

発音

• IPA^(key): /full/, [fuɫ]

語源 1

From Proto-West Germanic *full, from Proto-Germanic *fullaz, from Proto-Indo-European *pl̥h₁nós (“full”), from *pleh₁- (“to fill”).

Germanic cognates include Old Frisian ful, Old Saxon ful, full, Old High German foll, Old Norse fullr, and Gothic ���������� (fulls).

Indo-European cognates include Old Church Slavonic плънъ (plŭnŭ), Latin plēnus, Ancient Greek πλήρης (plḗrēs) and πλέως (pléōs), Old Irish lán, and Sanskrit पूर्ण (pūrṇa).

別の表記

• ful

形容詞

full

1. full, filled, complete, entire

語形変化

派生語

• fullīċe

関連する語

• fyllan

派生した語

• Middle English: full
  • English: full
  • Scots: fou

語源 2

From Proto-Germanic *fullą (“vessel”), from Proto-Indo-European *pēl(w)- (“a kind of vessel”). Akin to Old Saxon full (“beaker”), Old Norse full (“beaker”).

別の表記

• ful

名詞

full n

1. a beaker
2. a cup, especially one with liquor in it

語形変化

語源

From full (“full, complete”).

接頭辞

full-

1. full, fully, completely, entirely

   fulhār (“completely hoary”)

   fullcuman (“to attain”)

   fullġearwian (“to finish, complete”)

2. very

   fullclǣne (“very clean, very pure”)

派生語

派生した語

• Middle English: ful-
  • English: ful-; fulfill