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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
full-length
I.adjective
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▪ Generous, full-length curtains look rich, graceful and generally room-enhancing.
▪ How to turn a tightly compressed event into a full-length book?
▪ It has both size drives, two free half-length 16-bit slots, and a further three empty full-length slots.
▪ Next the unrealized plan for a full-length novel, Confession, which got switched to the shod Notes from Underground.
▪ On a platform nearby, another man jumps rope before a full-length mirror while a fourth pounds a speed bag.
▪ Sir Walter Raleigh trails his comforter about the muddy garden, a full-length Hilliard in miniature hose and padded pants.
▪ Suzanne Myers' full-length debut film.
▪ The full-length work is written and performed by Puerto Rican actress Wilma Bonet, who portrays all nine of its characters.
II.adverb
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▪ He hit her, catching her so hard on the side of the head that she went down full-length on the sand.
▪ I was stretched full-length upon the bodies, my battered hand resting on the rim of the tub.
▪ It clung slightly to her still-damp skin and again she surveyed her image in the mirror, this time full-length.
▪ Once, I dived full-length across the court in a vain attempt to retrieve the ball.
▪ The low-flying plane stretched its sound full-length across the hard ice.
▪ There was George - dull, dreary George - sprawled full-length on the settee, his nose deep in a book as usual.
▪ Though the huge armchair reclined almost full-length, it still was not a bed.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
full-length

full-length \full-length\ adj.

  1. accommodating the full height of the human figure; as, a full-length mirror.

  2. representing the full height of the human figure; as, a full-length portrait.

  3. unabridged; as, the full-length play. Opposite of abridged.

    Syn: complete, uncut.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
full-length

1709, from adverbial phrase at full length; see full (adj.) + length.

Wiktionary
full-length

a. 1 Not shortened; complete and uncut 2 (context of clothing English) covering the full height of the body 3 (context arts English) (''of a painting or sculpture'') representing the full height of the body 4 At full stretch, requiring the whole body.

WordNet
full-length

  1. adj. accommodating the full height of the human figure; "a full-length mirror"

  2. representing the full height of the human figure; "a full-length portrait"

  3. complete; "the full-length play" [syn: uncut]

Usage examples of "full-length".

Lawyers arranged for Sid to work off the beef with community service, namely by using his great talents and influence to make an antidrug movie, preferably full-length and for theatrical release.

I have assumed that a sketch of affinities falls somewhere between the catalogue of misreadings and the precise map of influences, that it is a necessary preliminary to the full-length study of the properties of the Chekhovian mode, of its full literary pedigree, and of the actual routes by which it entered modern literature and moved around within it.

The wall of polished marble crypts reflects me full-length among the epitaphs.

Fred Astaire always insisted his dances be shot full-length and one continuous take.

I will therefore say that of the lower circle of twenty full-length figures the only two entirely new figures are the sixth to the left of the door on entering, which represents a man holding an open book by his left hand and resting it on his thigh, and the sixth figure to the right of the door on entering.

Cotton strings from the hairnet straggled down her nape, and she wore a flowered housedress and a full-length flowered apron.

He sympathized particularly with a fat woman writer of whodunits, whose extremely unrealistic yet amazingly popular Gray Lensman hero had lived through ten full-length novels and twenty million copies.

Without delay, Sugar and Sophie are shown into a small room with a wash-basin, two full-length mirrors, and an ornamental queensware watercloset.

She invariably responded with affectionate rubs and scratches, and occasionally a full-length hug rolling with him on the ground.

Striding along in their midst was Zatcheka, wearing the same leather cap but a full-length straight-cut dress of doeskin, decorated with beads and metal disks, that left her hairless arms bare.

After Eragon finished breakfast, he hauled the bundle of clothes onto his bed and carefully unfolded them, finding two full-length tunics of russet trimmed with thimbleberry green, a set of creamy leggings to wrap his calves in, and three pairs of socks so soft, they felt like liquid when he pulled them through his hands.

But the evap watchkeeper, MEM2 Jock Dark, had gone on down inside it by two full-length ladders, into the very base of the compartment.

There, not twenty yards in front of me, placed in a charming situation, under the shade of a species of fig-tree, and facing to the stream, was a cosy hut, built more or less on the Kafir principle with grass and withes, but having a full-length door instead of a bee-hole.

Miller was in a corner, stretched out full-length on the straw, humming a Bix Beiderbecke tune.

He tried to understand what he had seen: a large dark figure in a full-length coat, black gloves, and no fuckin' head!