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IN FULL
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I. (adverb)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Referring to a quantity
Example:
the amount was paid in full
Synonyms:
fully; in full
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Context examples:
For then the Marches, Laurences, Brookes and Bhaers turned out in full force and made a day of it.
(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)
He had had no headaches for weeks, his eyes were clear blue as the sky, his bronze was beautiful with perfect health; life swelled through his veins in full and magnificent flood.
(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)
On one side the finest flowers were in full bloom, and on the other everything looked dreary and buried in the snow.
(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)
“This crew has tipped you the black spot in full council, as in dooty bound; just you turn it over, as in dooty bound, and see what's wrote there. Then you can talk.”
(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)
The first was a knight in full armor, mounted upon a brown horse with a white blaze upon breast and forehead.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
None dared arrest him until there should be due inquiry, but when the coroner’s court brought wilful murder against him, the constables came for him in full cry.
(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
In full eclipse, the atmosphere effectively collapses, as most of the sulfur dioxide gas settles as frost on the moon’s surface.
(New Research Reveals Fluctuating Atmosphere of Jupiter’s Volcanic Moon, NASA)
Last month’s new moon eclipse in Capricorn on December 25 set off the trend you are seeing in full bloom now.
(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)
Rhea, like many moons in the outer solar system, appears dazzlingly bright in full sunlight.
(Regarding Rhea, NASA)
She suspected that it had; that it would not have been so resolutely encountered but in full expectation of hearing from some one very dear, and that it had not been in vain.
(Emma, by Jane Austen)
