Dulled vs Fulled - What's the difference?
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(dull)
Lacking the ability to cut easily; not sharp.
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Boring; not exciting or interesting.
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Not shiny; having a matte finish or no particular luster or brightness.
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:a dull''' fire or lamp; a '''dull''' red or yellow; mirror
*(Henry Wadsworth Longfellow) (1807-1882)
*:As turning the logs will make a dull fire burn, so changes of study a dull brain.
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*:A great bargain also had been the excellent Axminster carpet which covered the floor; as, again, the arm-chair in which Bunting now sat forward, staring into the dull , small fire. In fact, that arm-chair had been an extravagance of Mrs. Bunting. She had wanted her husband to be comfortable after the day's work was done, and she had paid thirty-seven shillings for the chair.
Not bright or intelligent; stupid; slow of understanding.
*(William Shakespeare) (c.1564–1616)
*:She is not bred so dull but she can learn.
*(William Makepeace Thackeray) (1811-1863)
*:dull at classical learning
*{{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham), title=(The China Governess)
, chapter=15 Sluggish, listless.
*(Bible), (w) xiii. 15
*:This people's heart is waxed gross, and their ears are dull of hearing.
*(Edmund Spenser) (c.1552–1599)
*:O, help my weak wit and sharpen my dull tongue.
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, title= Cloudy, overcast.
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Insensible; unfeeling.
*(Beaumont and Fletcher) (1603-1625)
*:Think me not / So dull a devil to forget the loss / Of such a matchless wife.
Heavy; lifeless; inert.
*(William Shakespeare) (c.1564–1616)
*:the dull earth
*(Henry Wadsworth Longfellow) (1807-1882)
*:As turning the logs will make a dull fire burn, so changes of study a dull brain.
(of pain etc) Not intense; felt indistinctly or only slightly.
To render dull; to remove or blunt an edge or something that was sharp.
* Francis Bacon
To soften, moderate or blunt; to make dull, stupid, or sluggish; to stupefy.
* Shakespeare
* Trench
To lose a sharp edge; to become dull.
To render dim or obscure; to sully; to tarnish.
* Francis Bacon
(full) To make cloth denser and firmer.
Containing the maximum possible amount of that which can fit in the space available.
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, title= Complete; with nothing omitted.
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, magazine=(American Scientist), title= Total, entire.
(informal) Having eaten to satisfaction, having a "full" stomach; replete.
Of a garment, of a size that is ample, wide, or having ample folds or pleats to be comfortable.
Having depth and body; rich.
(obsolete) Having the mind filled with ideas; stocked with knowledge; stored with information.
* Francis Bacon
Having the attention, thoughts, etc., absorbed in any matter, and the feelings more or less excited by it.
* John Locke
Filled with emotions.
* Lowell
(obsolete) Impregnated; made pregnant.
* Dryden
(lb) Quite; thoroughly; completely; exactly; entirely.
*(William Shakespeare) (1564-1616)
*:master of a full poor cell
*(Joseph Addison) (1672-1719)
*: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.
*(rfdate) (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 , , (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,
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*:Serene, smiling, enigmatic, she faced him with no fear whatever showing in her dark eyes..
Utmost measure or extent; highest state or degree; the state, position, or moment of fullness; fill.
* Shakespeare
* Dryden
* 1911 , Berthold Auerbach, Bayard Taylor, The villa on the Rhine :
* 2008 , Jay Cassell, The Gigantic Book Of Hunting Stories :
* 2010 , C. E. Morgan, All the Living: A Novel :
(of the moon) The phase of the moon when it is entire face is illuminated, full moon.
* 1765 , Francis Bacon, The works of Francis Bacon :
* 1808 , (editor), Works , Volume VII: Practical Works, Revised edition,
(label) an aerialist maneuver consisting of a backflip in conjunction and simultaneous with a complete twist
(of the moon) To become full or wholly illuminated.
* 1888 September 20, "
* 1905 , , The Little Colonel's Christmas Vacation , ch. 4:
* 1918 , , The Story Of Waitstill Baxter , ch. 29:
As verbs the difference between dulled and fulled
is that dulled is (dull) while fulled is (full) to make cloth denser and firmer.dulled
English
Verb
(head)dull
English
Alternative forms
* dul, dulleAdjective
(er)citation, passage=She paused and took a defiant breath. ‘If you don't believe me, I can't help it. But I'm not a liar.’ ¶ ‘No,’ said Luke, grinning at her. ‘You're not dull enough! […] What about the kid's clothes? I don't suppose they were anything to write home about, but didn't you keep anything? A bootee or a bit of embroidery or anything at all?’}}
The Mirror and the Lamp, passage=[…] St.?Bede's at this period of its history was perhaps the poorest and most miserable parish in the East End of London. Close-packed, crushed by the buttressed height of the railway viaduct, rendered airless by huge walls of factories, it at once banished lively interest from a stranger's mind and left only a dull oppression of the spirit.}}
- Pressing on the bruise produces a dull pain.
Synonyms
* See also * See also * (not shiny) lackluster, matteAntonyms
* bright * intelligent * sharpVerb
(en verb)- Years of misuse have dulled the tools.
- This dulled their swords.
- He drinks to dull the pain.
- Those [drugs] she has / Will stupefy and dull the sense a while.
- Use and custom have so dulled our eyes.
- A razor will dull with use.
- dulls the mirror
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* *fulled
English
Verb
(head)full
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Etymology 1
From (etyl) full, from (etyl) . Germanic cognates include West Frisian fol, Low German vull, Dutch vol, German voll, Danish fuld, and Swedish and Norwegian .Adjective
(er)Mr. Pratt's Patients, chapter=1 , passage='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.}}
Catherine Clabby
Focus on Everything, passage=Not long ago, it was difficult to produce photographs of tiny creatures with every part in focus.
- a full singing voice
- Reading maketh a full man.
- She's full of her latest project.
- Everyone is full of the miracles done by cold baths on decayed and weak constitutions.
- The heart is so full that a drop overfills it.
- Ilia, the fair, full of Mars.
Synonyms
* (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 * glutted, gorged, sated, satiate, satiated, satisfied, stuffed * (of a garment) baggy, big, large, loose, outsized, oversized, voluminousAntonyms
* (containing the maximum possible amount) empty * (complete) incomplete * (total) partial * empty, hungry, starving * (of a garment) close-fitting, small, tight, tight-fittingDerived terms
* full as a goog * full as a tick * full beam * fullblood, full-blood, full blood * full-blown * full-bodied * full-dress * full house * fully * full marks * full moon * full name * fullness * fullscale * full stop * to the fullAdverb
(-)Derived terms
* full wellEtymology 2
From (etyl) fulle, fylle, fille, from (etyl) fyllu, . More at fill.Noun
(en noun)- The swan's-down feather, / That stands upon the swell at full of tide.
- Sicilian tortures and the brazen bull, / Are emblems, rather than express the full / Of what he feels.
- 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.
- 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.
- When he had eaten his full , they set to work again.
- It is like, that the brain of man waxeth moister and fuller upon the full of the moon: [...]
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- 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.
Derived terms
* at full, at the full * in full * to the full (freestyle skiing) * double full * lay-full * full-full * full-double full * double full-full * lay-full-full * full-full-full * lay-double full-full * full-double full-fullVerb
(en verb)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.
- "By the black cave of Atropos, when the moon fulls , keep thy tryst!"
- "The moon fulls to-night, don't it?"