TO THE FULL

IPA (US):

 Dictionary entry overview: What does to the full mean? 

• TO THE FULL (adverb)
  The adverb TO THE FULL has 1 sense:

1. to the greatest degree or extent; completely or entirely; ('full' in this sense is used as a combining form)

  Familiarity information: TO THE FULL used as an adverb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• TO THE FULL (adverb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

To the greatest degree or extent; completely or entirely; ('full' in this sense is used as a combining form)

Synonyms:

full; fully; to the full

Context example:

full-fledged

Domain usage:

combining form (a bound form used only in compounds)

 Context examples 

Pluto and Saturn will be in perfect angle to the full moon and Sun, so you have powerful forces behind you.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

Phosphorylation of STAT-4 on serine 721 by p38 contributes to the full transcriptional activation of genes by STAT-4.

(IL12 Signaling Pathway, NCI Thesaurus/BIOCARTA)

To a complete degree or to the full or entire extent.

(ALL, NCI Thesaurus)

Could you look, sir, into my heart, you would approve to the full the sentiments which animate me.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

Inspector Martin and I had listened with the utmost interest to the full and clear account of how my friend had produced results which had led to so complete a command over our difficulties.

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

Such is the imperfect nature of man! such spots are there on the disc of the clearest planet; and eyes like Miss Scatcherd's can only see those minute defects, and are blind to the full brightness of the orb.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

She had never been tormented by womanhood, and she had lived in a dreamland of Tennysonian poesy, dense even to the full significance of that delicate master's delicate allusions to the grossnesses that intrude upon the relations of queens and knights.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

Now let’s turn to the full moon in Taurus at 20 degrees.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

We both understood what that meant—that she had realised to the full her mother's death; so we tried what we could to comfort her.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

Uranus will be in perfect angle to the full moon, and Uranus comes with surprises (this time most likely welcome ones).

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)