Chock-full
(a.) Quite full |
Choke-full
(a.) Full to the brim |
Full
(Compar.) Filled up, having within its limits all that it can contain |
Full
(Compar.) Abundantly furnished or provided |
Full
(Compar.) Not wanting in any essential quality |
Full
(Compar.) Sated |
Full
(Compar.) Having the mind filled with ideas |
Full
(Compar.) Having the attention, thoughts, etc., absorbed in any matter, and the feelings more or less excited by it, as, to be full of some project. |
Full
(Compar.) Filled with emotions. |
Full
(Compar.) Impregnated |
Full
(n.) Complete measure |
Full
(adv.) Quite |
Full
(v. i.) To become full or wholly illuminated |
Full
(n.) To thicken by moistening, heating, and pressing, as cloth |
Full
(v. i.) To become fulled or thickened |
Full-blooded
(a.) Having a full supply of blood. |
Full-blooded
(a.) Of pure blood |
Full-bloomed
(a.) Like a perfect blossom. |
Full-blown
(a.) Fully expanded, as a blossom |
Full-blown
(a.) Fully distended with wind, as a sail. |
Full-bottomed
(a.) Full and large at the bottom, as wigs worn by certain civil officers in Great Britain. |
Full-bottomed
(a.) Of great capacity below the water line. |
Full-butt
(adv.) With direct and violentop position |
Full-drive
(adv.) With full speed. |
Full-formed
(a.) Full in form or shape |
Full-grown
(a.) Having reached the limits of growth |
Full-hearted
(a.) Full of courage or confidence. |
Full-hot
(a.) Very fiery. |
Full-manned
(a.) Completely furnished wiith men, as a ship. |
Full-orbed
(a.) Having the orb or disk complete or fully illuminated |
Full-sailed
(a.) Having all its sails set, |
Full-winged
(a.) Having large and strong or complete wings. |
Full-winged
(a.) Beady for flight |
Gunter's scale
() A scale invented by the Rev. Edmund Gunter (1581-1626), a professor of astronomy at Gresham College, London, who invented also Gunter's chain, and Gunter's quadrant. |
Scale
(n.) The dish of a balance |
Scale
(n.) The sign or constellation Libra. |
Scale
(v. t.) To weigh or measure according to a scale |
Scale
(n.) One of the small, thin, membranous, bony or horny pieces which form the covering of many fishes and reptiles, and some mammals, belonging to the dermal part of the skeleton, or dermoskeleton. See Cycloid, Ctenoid, and Ganoid. |
Scale
(n.) Hence, any layer or leaf of metal or other material, resembling in size and thinness the scale of a fish |
Scale
(n.) One of the small scalelike structures covering parts of some invertebrates, as those on the wings of Lepidoptera and on the body of Thysanura |
Scale
(n.) A scale insect. (See below.) |
Scale
(n.) A small appendage like a rudimentary leaf, resembling the scales of a fish in form, and often in arrangement |
Scale
(n.) The thin metallic side plate of the handle of a pocketknife. See Illust. of Pocketknife. |
Scale
(n.) An incrustation deposit on the inside of a vessel in which water is heated, as a steam boiler. |
Scale
(n.) The thin oxide which forms on the surface of iron forgings. It consists essentially of the magnetic oxide, Fe3O4. Also, a similar coating upon other metals. |
Scale
(v. t.) To strip or clear of scale or scales |
Scale
(v. t.) To take off in thin layers or scales, as tartar from the teeth |
Scale
(v. t.) To scatter |
Scale
(v. t.) To clean, as the inside of a cannon, by the explosion of a small quantity of powder. |
Scale
(v. i.) To separate and come off in thin layers or laminae |
| economy of scale | the saving in cost of production that is due to mass production |
gainer
full gainer | a dive in which the diver throws the feet forward to complete a full backward somersault and enters the water feet first and facing away from the diving board |
| full nelson | a wrestling hold in which the holder puts both arms under the opponent's arms and exerts pressure on the back of the neck (illegal in amateur wrestling) |
| Binet-Simon Scale | the first intelligence test |
| scale | a flattened rigid plate forming part of the body covering of many animals |
| fish scale | scale of the kind that covers the bodies of fish |
| scale insect | small homopterous insect that usually lives and feeds on plants and secretes a protective waxy covering |
| soft scale | an insect active in all stages |
brown soft scale
Coccus hesperidum | pest on citrus trees |
| armored scale | insect having a firm covering of wax especially in the female |
San Jose scale
Aspidiotus perniciosus | small east Asian insect naturalized in the United States that damages fruit trees |
dress suit
full dress
tailcoat
tail coat
tails white tie white tie and tails | formalwear consisting of full evening dress for men |
| full-dress uniform | the naval or military uniform that is specified by regulations to be worn on ceremonial occasions |
| full metal jacket | a lead bullet that is covered with a jacket of a harder metal (usually copper) |
| full skirt | a long skirt gathered at the waist |
| full-wave rectifier | rectifier that converts the negative half wave of an alternating current into a positive half wave |
| plate scale shell | a metal sheathing of uniform thickness (such as the shield attached to an artillery piece to protect the gunners) |
| scale | an indicator having a graduated sequence of marks |
| scale weighing machine | a measuring instrument for weighing, shows amount of mass |
spring balance
spring scale | a balance that measure weight by the tension on a helical spring |
steelyard
lever scale
beam scale | a portable balance consisting of a pivoted bar with arms of unequal length |
vernier scale
vernier | a small movable scale that slides along a main scale, the small scale is calibrated to indicate fractional divisions of the main scale |
| full blood | descent from parents both of one pure breed |
pH
pH scale | (from potential of Hydrogen) the logarithm of the reciprocal of hydrogen-ion concentration in gram atoms per liter, provides a measure on a scale from
to of the acidity or alkalinity of a solution (where is neutral and greater than is more basic and less than is more acidic), |
| scale value | a value on some scale of measurement |
| full page | something that covers an entire page, the ad took up a full page |
| full faith and credit | a guarantee to pay interest and principal on debt, usually issued by the United States Treasury |
period
point
full stop
stop full point | a punctuation mark (.) placed at the end of a declarative sentence to indicate a full stop or after abbreviations, in England they call a period a stop |
scale
musical scale | (music) a series of notes differing in pitch according to a specific scheme (usually within an octave) |
| diatonic scale | a scale with eight notes in an octave, all but two are separated by whole tones |
major scale
major diatonic scale | a diatonic scale with notes separated by whole tones except for the rd and th and th and th |
minor scale
minor diatonic scale | a diatonic scale with notes separated by whole tones except for the nd and rd and th and th |
| chromatic scale | a -note scale including all the semitones of the octave |
| gapped scale | a musical scale with fewer than seven notes |
pentatonic scale
pentatone | a gapped scale with five notes, usually the fourth and seventh notes of the diatonic scale are omitted |
C major
C major scale
scale of C major | (music) the major scale having no sharps or flats |
| full house | a poker hand with of a kind and a pair |
complement
full complement | number needed to make up a whole force, a full complement of workers |
commercial bank
full service bank | a financial institution that accepts demand deposits and makes loans and provides other services for the public |
black body
blackbody
full radiator | a hypothetical object capable of absorbing all the electromagnetic radiation falling on it, a black body maintained at a constant temperature is a full radiator at that temperature because the radiation reaching and leaving it must be in equilibrium |
scale
scurf exfoliation | a thin flake of dead epidermis shed from the surface of the skin |
admiral
full admiral | the supreme commander of a fleet, ranks above a vice admiral and below a fleet admiral |
cousin
first cousin
cousin-german
full cousin | the child of your aunt or uncle |
| full professor | a professor of the highest rank |
general
full general | a general officer of the highest rank |
leafy liverwort
scale moss | moss-like liverwort with tiny scalelike leaves, usually epiphytic |
Japanese maple full moon maple
Acer japonicum | leaves deeply incised and bright red in autumn, Japan |
scale
scale leaf | a specialized leaf or bract that protects a bud or catkin |
scale fern
scaly fern
Asplenium ceterach
Ceterach officinarum | small European fern with chaffy leathery fronds |
| Brix scale | a system for measuring the concentration of sugar solutions |