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(end)
(rfc-sense) The final point of something in space or time.
* 1908: (Kenneth Grahame), (The Wind in the Willows)
* , chapter=4
, title= The cessation of an effort, activity, state, or motion.
Death, especially miserable.
* (rfdate) Shakespeare
* (rfdate) Alexander Pope
Result.
* (rfdate) Shakespeare
A purpose, goal, or aim.
* (rfdate) Dryden
* (rfdate) Coleridge
* 1946 , (Bertrand Russell), History of Western Philosophy , I.21:
(cricket) One of the two parts of the ground used as a descriptive name for half of the ground.
(American football) The position at the end of either the offensive or defensive line, a tight end, a split end, a defensive end.
* 1926 , , (The Great Gatsby) , Penguin 2000, p. 11:
(curling) A period of play in which each team throws eight rocks, two per player, in alternating fashion.
(mathematics) An ideal point of a graph or other complex.
That which is left; a remnant; a fragment; a scrap.
* (rfdate) Shakespeare
One of the yarns of the worsted warp in a Brussels carpet.
(ergative) To finish, terminate.
* Bible, (w) ii. 2
* (William Shakespeare) (1564-1616)
* 1896 , , (A Shropshire Lad), XLV, lines 7-8:
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, title= 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:
Ended is a related term of full.
As a verb ended
is (end).As an adjective full is
foul, rotten.ended
English
Verb
(head)end
English
Noun
(en noun)- they followed him... into a sort of a central hall; out of which they could dimly see other long tunnel-like passages branching, passages mysterious and without apparent end .
Mr. Pratt's Patients, passage=I told him about everything I could think of; and what I couldn't think of he did. He asked about six questions during my yarn, but every question had a point to it. At the end he bowed and thanked me once more. As a thanker he was main-truck high; I never see anybody so polite.}}
- Is there no end to this madness?
- He met a terrible end in the jungle.
- I hope the end comes quickly.
- Confound your hidden falsehood, and award / Either of you to be the other's end .
- unblamed through life, lamented in thy end
- O that a man might know / The end of this day's business ere it come!
- Losing her, the end of living lose.
- When every man is his own end , all things will come to a bad end.
- There is a long argument to prove that foreign conquest is not the end of the State, showing that many people took the imperialist view.
- Her husband, among various physical accomplishments, had been one of the most powerful ends that ever played football at New Haven [...].
- odds and ends
- I clothe my naked villainy / With old odd ends stolen out of holy writ, / And seem a saint, when most I play the devil.
Usage notes
* Adjectives often used with "end": final, ultimate, deep, happy, etc.Synonyms
* (final point in space or time) conclusion, limit, terminus, termination * See alsoAntonyms
* (final point of something) beginning, startDerived terms
* at the end of the day * big end * bitter end * dead-end * East End * -ended * endless * endlike * endly * End of Days * end of the line * end of the road * endpaper * end piece, endpiece * end product * endsay * end times * end-to-end * endward * endways, endwise * high-end * know which end is up * living end * loose end * low-end * make ends meet * off the deep end * on end * rear end * short end of the stick * split end * The End * tight end * to this end * up-end * West End * week-end, weekend * without endVerb
(en verb)- On the seventh day God ended his work.
- I shall end this strife.
- But play the man, stand up and end you
- When your sickness is your soul.
How to stop the fighting, sometimes, passage=Ending civil wars is hard. Hatreds within countries often run far deeper than between them. The fighting rarely sticks to battlefields, as it can do between states. Civilians are rarely spared. And there are no borders to fall back behind.}}
Derived terms
* ending * end up * never-ending * unendingStatistics
*full
English
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?"