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FULLER

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Overview

FULLER (noun)
  The noun FULLER has 3 senses:

1. United States jurist and chief justice of the United States Supreme Court (1833-1910)play

2. United States architect who invented the geodesic dome (1895-1983)play

3. a workman who fulls (cleans and thickens) freshly woven cloth for a livingplay

  Familiarity information: FULLER used as a noun is uncommon.


English dictionary: Word details


FULLER (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

United States jurist and chief justice of the United States Supreme Court (1833-1910)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

Fuller; Melville W. Fuller; Melville Weston Fuller

Instance hypernyms:

chief justice (the judge who presides over a supreme court)


Sense 2

Meaning:

United States architect who invented the geodesic dome (1895-1983)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

Buckminster Fuller; Fuller; R. Buckminster Fuller; Richard Buckminster Fuller

Instance hypernyms:

applied scientist; engineer; technologist (a person who uses scientific knowledge to solve practical problems)

architect; designer (someone who creates plans to be used in making something (such as buildings))


Sense 3

Meaning:

A workman who fulls (cleans and thickens) freshly woven cloth for a living

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Hypernyms ("fuller" is a kind of...):

working man; working person; workingman; workman (an employee who performs manual or industrial labor)

Derivation:

full (beat for the purpose of cleaning and thickening)


 Context examples 


Wolf Larsen was unaffected by the drink, yet he drank glass for glass, and if anything his glasses were fuller.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

I was fortunate enough to discover that there was a deposit of fuller’s-earth in one of my fields.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Give him my name, good sir, the name of Peter the fuller, of Lymington, and ask him for a change of raiment, that I may pursue my journey without delay.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

They need to be looked after, Fuller said.

(Pollution is the World’s No. 1 Killer, VOA)

Then, with our mission accomplished and possessing a fuller knowledge of the secrets of Maple White Land, we should turn our whole thoughts to the vital problem of our escape and return.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

She thought he was often looking at her, and trying for a fuller view of her face than it suited her to give.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

I forge a shoe, and I fuller it, and I clip it, and I caulken it, and I knock five holes in it, and there it is finished.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Buckyballs, named because they resemble the geodesic domes built by architect Buckminster Fuller, were discovered in 1985 among the byproducts of laser vaporization of graphite in which the carbon atoms are arranged in sheets.

(Buckyball, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

The reader may please to observe, that the following extract of many conversations I had with my master, contains a summary of the most material points which were discoursed at several times for above two years; his honour often desiring fuller satisfaction, as I farther improved in the Houyhnhnm tongue.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

There lay the Count, but looking as if his youth had been half renewed, for the white hair and moustache were changed to dark iron-grey; the cheeks were fuller, and the white skin seemed ruby-red underneath; the mouth was redder than ever, for on the lips were gouts of fresh blood, which trickled from the corners of the mouth and ran over the chin and neck.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)



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