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# fully

«fully» in Mova's school dictionary: **Completely; in every way: "fully charged", "fully grown"** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

adverb (fully)

### meaning for a pupil

1) Completely; in every way: "fully charged", "fully grown". [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/fully/#m1)

2) At least; as much as: "Fully half the class was ill." [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/fully/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

In science and everyday life, "fully" means completely, as in a fully charged battery or a fully grown plant. In safety, rules ask you to stop fully at the kerb and to be fully awake before driving. In maths, "fully" can mean the whole amount, 100%. Phrases: fully charged, fully grown, fully dressed, fully understand, fully booked.

### examples

- My tablet is fully charged. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/fully/#x1)
- The puppy will be fully grown in a year. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/fully/#x2)
- Make sure the food is fully cooked. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/fully/#x3)
- The hotel is fully booked. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/fully/#x4)
- I don't fully understand the question. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/fully/#x5)
- Wait until the bus has fully stopped before you get up. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/fully/#x6)
- He fully realized the truth of this. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/fully/#x7)

### note

Adverb from "full"; spelt with double l: f-u-l-l-y. In maths, "fully" filled means 100% or the whole amount; "half full" means 50%.

### In the corpora

- [Many dogs nibble grass and it is usually normal; scientists are not fully sure why, and wolves eat some plants too.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/193-how-a-dog-thinks-smells-sounds-and-faces/19/)
- [Young gulls are brown and speckled; a herring gull takes about four years to look fully grown up.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/223-gulls-chip-thieves-rain-dances-and-salty-water/13/)
- [Toad apologises fully and promises to do nothing without the Rat's advice; the Rat says they must wait for Mole and Badger.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/66-willows-ch11-part2-the-wild-wooders-take-toad-hall/12/)
- [Instant coffee is coffee liquid that was dried; ground coffee does not fully dissolve, so it needs a filter.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chemistry/6-mixing-and-dissolving/15/)
- [Common exception words are frequent words whose spelling does not fully match their sounds; the National Curriculum lists them for each year.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/english/3-tricky-words-and-common-exception-words/15/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «fully» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/fully/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.