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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
full-size
adjective
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ The new IBM laptop features a full-size keyboard.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ But this is in a different league from a full-size Pressurized Water Reactor.
▪ It combines a pocket guide featuring color photos and hundreds of detailed listings with a full-size map for $ 10.
▪ Mr Roberts also confirmed that Ford is launching a full-size sport-utility vehicle this fall called the Expedition.
▪ Some seeds are difficult or very slow to germinate, and grow only slowly into full-size plants.
▪ The four-bedroom Crest home which Melinda bought for £146,000 came complete with a full-size study.
▪ The payload is 2, 000 pounds, and that is close competition for full-size trucks.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
full-size

full-size \full-size\ adj. Being of the same size as an original.

Syn: life-size, life-sized.

Wiktionary
full-size

a. 1 Being the normal or standard size for its type 2 (context arts English) (''of a representational artwork'') Being the same size as the original

WordNet
full-size

adj. being of the same size as an original; "a life-size sculpture" [syn: life-size, lifesize, life-sized]

Usage examples of "full-size".

The American Civil War Centennial had bred a thriving market for shooting reproductions of nineteenth-century caplock weaponsranging up from Philadelphia derringers to full-size field cannonand his firm had sent him over to try to strike a deal with certain of his contacts in the Italian arms manufactories involving production of these reproduction weapons at a cost less than that charged to them by American arms companies, with their millstones of higher overheads and production costs, and grasping, predatory unions.

Houston, but final fittings for Mars excursion suits, microgravity practice in water tanks, and drills in a full-size mock-up of the Mars Shuttle, take place at the Kennedy Space Center.

The tour ended in a game room equipped with a dart board, a foosball and pool table and four full-size classic arcade games.

A section big enough to pass a full-size man had been lifted clean out of it, and the steel astragals round the panes had been cut through as if they had been strips of cheese.

He pretended ill humor and then they laughed together in the huge room, the vast lights low over the full-size billiard table, the rest of the room dark and intimate but for the shaft of light from the open door.

Nothing less than a full-size Union Pacific diesel locomotive could crush these links.

Suites 2350 through 2390 comprised a full-size golf driving range.

Their wrist-band personal computers were hooked up to two full-size laser printers that seemed to run non-stop.

Full-size turnpike cruisers no longer earn much of a market share, and for those die-hards who still want one from the Ford Motor Company, the Mercury Grand Marquis is the same car in fancier clothes for about the same money, so it mops up the private sales.

Penfold had made sure that our advertising sheets, full-size, half-size, and folio, were well displayed and that our little flyers, with pictures of Sir John in some of his most popular roles, were on the reception desks of all the good hotels.

Ridcully's study was dominated by a full-size snooker table, on which he'd piled papers until there was no room for any more and no sign of green felt.

Crystal goblets and vases adorned marbleplaz tables, and on each side of a blackite reception desk were full-size lapisjade statuaries of Earl Dominic Vernius and his Lady Shando Vernius.

White and gray and black and brown and rust-red and golden, dogs of all sizes and descriptions: mostly mutts but also beagles, toy poodles, full-size poodles, German shepherds, spaniels, two Great Danes, a couple of Airedales, a schnauzer, a pair of coal-black Dobermans with brown-trimmed muzzles.

Large steel junction boxes provided a makeshift hiding place, protecting them from the view of the two full-size velociraptors that stood directly before them, not five feet away.

He had never met Exedore full-size, as it were, but perhaps detested him even more in his Micronized state, especially since Terran cosmologists had gone to work on him, styling his hair with a widow's peak, and concealing the clone's dwarfish anatomy beneath specially-tailored uniforms.