Luster vs Full - What's the difference?
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Shine, polish or sparkle.
* Addison
By extension, brilliance, attractiveness or splendor.
* Sir H. Wotton
Refinement, polish or quality.
A candlestick, chandelier, girandole, etc. generally of an ornamental character.
A substance that imparts lustre to a surface, such as plumbago or a glaze.
A fabric of wool and cotton with a lustrous surface, used for women's dresses.
To gleam, have luster.
To give luster, distinguish.
To give a coating or other treatment to impart physical luster.
A lustrum, quinquennium, a period of five years, originally the interval between Roman censuses.
* , II.4.2.ii:
One who lusts.
* Bible, Paul
Containing the maximum possible amount of that which can fit in the space available.
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(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 a noun luster
is chandelier.As an adjective full is
foul, rotten.luster
English
Alternative forms
* (l) (Commonwealth)Etymology 1
From (etyl) .Noun
(en noun)- ''He polished the brass doorknob to a high luster .
- The scorching sun was mounted high, / In all its lustre , to the noonday sky.
- ''After so many years in the same field, the job had lost its luster .
- His ancestors continued about four hundred years, rather without obscurity than with any great lustre .
- ''He spoke with all the lustre a seasoned enthusiast should have.
- (Alexander Pope)
Antonyms
* (brilliance) (l)Derived terms
* (l) * (l)Verb
(en verb)Etymology 2
From (etyl) lustrum, from lustrare, cognate with the aboveNoun
(en noun)- Mesue and some other Arabians began to reject and reprehend it; upon whose authority, for many following lusters , it was much debased and quite out of request […].
Etymology 3
.Noun
(en noun)- Neither fornicators, nor those who serve idols, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor the lusters after mankind shall obtain the kingdom of God.
Anagrams
* ----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?"