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FULLER
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A workman who fulls (cleans and thickens) freshly woven cloth for a living
Classified under:
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)
Sense 2
Meaning:
United States architect who invented the geodesic dome (1895-1983)
Synonyms:
Buckminster Fuller; Fuller; R. Buckminster Fuller; Richard Buckminster Fuller
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
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:
United States jurist and chief justice of the United States Supreme Court (1833-1910)
Synonyms:
Fuller; Melville W. Fuller; Melville Weston Fuller
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
Instance hypernyms:
chief justice (the judge who presides over a supreme court)
Context examples:
For now the sun seemed to have gone in as suddenly as it came out, and the world grew muddy and miserable again, and for the first time she discovered that her feet were cold, her head ached, and that her heart was colder than the former, fuller of pain than the latter.
(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)
What an amazing place London was to me when I saw it in the distance, and how I believed all the adventures of all my favourite heroes to be constantly enacting and re-enacting there, and how I vaguely made it out in my own mind to be fuller of wonders and wickedness than all the cities of the earth, I need not stop here to relate.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
The fuller looked sadly and gravely at him; but finding that he still laughed, he bowed with much mock politeness and stalked onwards in his borrowed clothes.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
‘What, you dig fuller’s-earth in the house?’
(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
But one of the study’s authors, Richard Fuller, said pollution is tied to slow economic development in wealthy and poor nations.
(Pollution is the World’s No. 1 Killer, VOA)
From my fuller knowledge of the creature I now know that the posture was unconscious.
(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)
Some day, when I have a better desk than a meat-tin and more helpful tools than a worn stub of pencil and a last, tattered note-book, I will write some fuller account of the Accala Indians—of our life amongst them, and of the glimpses which we had of the strange conditions of wondrous Maple White Land.
(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
And having gone through what immediately followed of the basis of their disagreement, and his persisting to act in direct opposition to Jane Fairfax's sense of right, he made a fuller pause to say, This is very bad.
(Emma, by Jane Austen)
“Peter the fuller!” she kept repeating.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
You are probably aware that fuller’s-earth is a valuable product, and that it is only found in one or two places in England?
(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
