different between active vs full

English

Etymology

From Middle English actyf, from Old French actif, from Latin activus, from agere (“to do, to act”); see act.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?æk.t?v/
• Rhymes: -ækt?v

Adjective

active (comparative more active, superlative most active)

1. Having the power or quality of acting; causing change; communicating action or motion; acting;—opposed to passive, that receives.

   Synonym: acting

   Antonym: passive

2. Quick in physical movement; of an agile and vigorous body; nimble.

   Synonyms: agile, nimble

   Antonyms: passive, indolent, still

3. In action; actually proceeding; working; in force

   Synonyms: in action, working, in force

   Antonyms: quiescent, dormant, extinct

   1. (specifically, of certain geological features, such as volcano, geysers, etc) Emitting hot materials, such as lava, smoke, or steam, or producing tremors.
4. Given to action; constantly engaged in action; energetic; diligent; busy

   • This new-comer was a man who in any company would have seemed striking. […] He was smooth-faced, and his fresh skin and well-developed figure bespoke the man in good physical condition through active exercise, yet well content with the world's apportionment.

   Synonyms: busy, deedful, diligent, energetic

   Antonyms: dull, sluggish, indolent, inert

5. Requiring or implying action or exertion

   Synonym: operative

   Antonyms: passive, tranquil, sedentary

6. Given to action rather than contemplation; practical; operative

   Antonyms: theoretical, speculative

7. Brisk; lively.

8. Implying or producing rapid action.

   Antonyms: passive, slow

9. (heading, grammar) About verbs.
   1. Applied to a form of the verb; — opposed to passive. See active voice.
   2. Applied to verbs which assert that the subject acts upon or affects something else; transitive.
   3. Applied to all verbs that express action as distinct from mere existence or state.
10. (computing, of source code) Eligible to be processed by a compiler or interpreter.
11. (electronics) Not passive.
12. (gay sexual slang) (of a homosexual man) enjoying a role in anal sex in which he penetrates, rather than being penetrated by his partner.

    Synonym: top

    Antonyms: passive, bottom

Synonyms

• See also Thesaurus:active

Derived terms

Related terms

• act

Translations

See also

• versatile (in relation to sense 10)

Noun

active (plural actives)

1. A person or thing that is acting or capable of acting.
   • 1989, The Alcalde (volume 78, number 2, page 11)

     "Alumni could become more active in giving guidance and leadership to students. They act as sort of a 'maturity governor' on fraternities," notes Ratliff, citing surveys suggesting that fraternity actives presume mistakenly that alumni want hazing […]

2. (electronics) Any component that is not passive. See Passivity (engineering).
   • 2013, David Manners, Hitchhikers' Guide to Electronics in the '90s (page 36)

     Components are split into two broad segments: actives and passives. Active components like the vacuum tube and the transistor contain the power to generate and alter electrical signals.

Further reading

• active in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• active in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.

Anagrams

• Cavite

Asturian

Verb

active

1. first-person singular present subjunctive of activar
2. third-person singular present subjunctive of activar

French

Adjective

active

1. feminine singular of actif

Verb

active

1. first-person singular present indicative of activer
2. third-person singular present indicative of activer
3. first-person singular present subjunctive of activer
4. third-person singular present subjunctive of activer
5. second-person singular imperative of activer

Anagrams

• cavité

German

Alternative forms

• aktive

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Latin ?ct?v?.

Adverb

active

1. (grammar, obsolete) actively

Etymology 2

Adjective

active

1. inflection of activ:
   1. strong/mixed nominative/accusative feminine singular
   2. strong nominative/accusative plural
   3. weak nominative all-gender singular
   4. weak accusative feminine/neuter singular

Interlingua

Adjective

active (not comparable)

1. active

Related terms

• action
• activitate

Latin

Etymology 1

Adverb

?ct?v? (comparative ?ct?vius, superlative ?ct?vissim?)

1. (grammar) actively

Etymology 2

Adjective

?ct?ve

1. vocative masculine singular of ?ct?vus

References

• active in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• active in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
• Carl Meissner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book?^[2], London: Macmillan and Co.

Middle English

Adjective

active

1. Alternative form of actyf

Noun

active

1. Alternative form of actyf

Portuguese

Verb

active

1. first-person singular (eu) present subjunctive of activar
2. third-person singular (ele and ela, also used with você and others) present subjunctive of activar
3. third-person singular (você) affirmative imperative of activar
4. third-person singular (você) negative imperative of activar

Romanian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ak?ti.ve]

Adjective

active

1. nominative feminine plural of activ
2. accusative feminine plural of activ
3. nominative neuter plural of activ
4. accusative neuter plural of activ

Spanish

Verb

active

1. First-person singular (yo) present subjunctive form of activar.
2. Formal second-person singular (usted) present subjunctive form of activar.
3. Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted^?) present subjunctive form of activar.

English

Pronunciation

• enPR: fo?ol, IPA^(key): /f?l/, [f??]
• Rhymes: -?l

Etymology 1

From Middle English full, from Old English full (“full”), from Proto-West Germanic *full, from Proto-Germanic *fullaz (“full”), from Proto-Indo-European *pl?h?nós (“full”).

Germanic cognates include West Frisian fol, Low German vull, Dutch vol, German voll, Danish fuld, and Norwegian and Swedish full (the latter three via Old Norse). Proto-Indo-European cognates include English plenty (via Latin, compare pl?nus), Welsh llawn, Russian ??????? (pólnyj), Lithuanian pilnas, Persian ??? (por), Sanskrit ????? (p?r?a). See also fele.

Adjective

full (comparative fuller, superlative fullest)

1. Containing the maximum possible amount that can fit in the space available.

2. Complete; with nothing omitted.

3. Total, entire.

4. (informal) Having eaten to satisfaction, having a "full" stomach; replete.

5. (informal, with of) Replete, abounding with.

6. (of physical features) Plump, round.

7. Of a garment, of a size that is ample, wide, or having ample folds or pleats to be comfortable.

8. Having depth and body; rich.

   a full singing voice

9. (obsolete) Having the mind filled with ideas; stocked with knowledge; stored with information.
   • 1625, Francis Bacon, Of Studies

     Reading maketh a full man.

10. Having the attention, thoughts, etc., absorbed in any matter, and the feelings more or less excited by it.

    She's full of her latest project.

    • Everyone is now full of the miracles done by cold baths on decayed and weak constitutions.

11. Filled with emotions.
    • 1848, James Russell Lowell, The Vision of Sir Launfal

      The heart is so full that a drop overfills it.

12. (obsolete) Impregnated; made pregnant.

    • Ilia, the fair, […] full of Mars.

13. (poker, postnominal) Said of the three cards of the same rank in a full house.

    Nines full of aces = three nines and two aces (999AA).

    I'll beat him with my kings full! = three kings and two unspecified cards of the same rank.

14. (chiefly Australia) Drunk, intoxicated.
    • 1925, United States House Committee on the Judiciary, Subcommittee No. 1, Charges Against William E. Baker, U.S. District Judge:

      Mr. Coniff: That is the only evidence you gave of his being intoxicated, that his hat was on the side? […] Mr. Coniff: That is the only indication you gave the committee when you were asked if the judge was full, that his hat was on the side of his head; is that right?

Synonyms

• (containing the maximum possible amount): abounding, brimful, bursting, chock-a-block, chock-full, full up, full to bursting, full to overflowing, jam full, jammed, jam-packed, laden, loaded, overflowing, packed, rammed, stuffed
• (complete): complete, thorough
• (total): entire, total
• (satisfied, in relation to eating): glutted, gorged, sated, satiate, satiated, satisfied, stuffed
• (of a garment): baggy, big, large, loose, outsized, oversized, voluminous
• (drunk): See Thesaurus:drunk

Antonyms

• (containing the maximum possible amount): empty
• (complete): incomplete
• (total): partial
• (satisfied, in relation to eating): empty, hungry, starving
• (of a garment): close-fitting, small, tight, tight-fitting

Derived terms

Related terms

Descendants

• ? Gulf Arabic: ???? (ful)

Translations

• Sundanese: wareg

Adverb

full (not comparable)

1. (archaic) Fully; quite; very; thoroughly; completely; exactly; entirely.
   • c. 1610-11, William Shakespeare, The Tempest, Act I scene ii^[1]:

     Prospero:

     I have done nothing but in care of thee,

     Of thee, my dear one, thee, my daughter, who

     Art ignorant of what thou art; naught knowing

     Of whence I am, nor that I am more better

     Than Prospero, master of a full poor cell,

     And thy no greater father.

   • […] full in the centre of the sacred wood

   • 1819, John Keats, Otho the Great, Act IV, Scene I, verse 112

     You know full well what makes me look so pale.

   • 1880, Dante Gabriel Rosetti, William Blake, lines 9-12

     This cupboard […] / this other one, / His true wife's charge, full oft to their abode / Yielded for daily bread the martyr's stone,

   • 1874, James Thomson, The City of Dreadful Night, IX

     It is full strange to him who hears and feels, / When wandering there in some deserted street, / The booming and the jar of ponderous wheels, […]

   • Serene, smiling, enigmatic, she faced him with no fear whatever showing in her dark eyes. […] She put back a truant curl from her forehead where it had sought egress to the world, and looked him full in the face now, […].

Derived terms

• full-grown
• full well

Etymology 2

From Middle English fulle, fylle, fille, from Old English fyllu, fyllo (“fullness, fill, plenty”), from Proto-Germanic *full??, *fuln? (“fullness, filling, overflow”), from Proto-Indo-European *pl?no-, *plno- (“full”), from *pelh?-, *pleh?- (“to fill; full”). Cognate with German Fülle (“fullness, fill”), Icelandic fylli (“fulness, fill”). More at fill.

Noun

full (plural fulls)

1. Utmost measure or extent; highest state or degree; the state, position, or moment of fullness; fill.
   • Sicilian tortures and the brazen bull, / Are emblems, rather than express the full / Of what he feels.

   I was fed to the full.

   • 1911, Berthold Auerbach, Bayard Taylor, The villa on the Rhine:

     […] he had tasted their food, and found it so palatable that he had eaten his full before he knew it.
2. (of the moon) The phase of the moon when its entire face is illuminated, full moon.
   • a. 1622, Francis Bacon, Natural History, in The works of Francis Bacon, 1765, page 322

     It is like, that the brain of man waxeth moister and fuller upon the full of the moon: [...]

   • a. 1656, Joseph Hall, Josiah Pratt (editor), Works, Volume VII: Practical Works, Revised edition, 1808 page 219,

     This earthly moon, the Church, hath her fulls and wanings, and sometimes her eclipses, while the shadow of this sinful mass hides her beauty from the world.

3. (freestyle skiing) An aerialist maneuver consisting of a backflip in conjunction and simultaneous with a complete twist.

Derived terms

(freestyle skiing):

Translations

Verb

full (third-person singular simple present fulls, present participle fulling, simple past and past participle fulled)

1. (of the moon) To become full or wholly illuminated.
   • 1888 September 20, "The Harvest Moon," New York Times (retrieved 10 April 2013):

     The September moon fulls on the 20th at 24 minutes past midnight, and is called the harvest moon.

   • 1905, Annie Fellows Johnston, The Little Colonel's Christmas Vacation, ch. 4:

     "By the black cave of Atropos, when the moon fulls, keep thy tryst!"

   • 1918, Kate Douglas Wiggin, The Story Of Waitstill Baxter, ch. 29:

     "The moon fulls to-night, don't it?"

Etymology 3

From Middle English fullen, fulwen, from Old English fullian, fulwian (“to baptise”), from Proto-Germanic *fullaw?h?n? (“to fully consecrate”), from *fulla- (“full-”) + *w?h?n? (“to hallow, consecrate, make holy”). Compare Old English fulluht, fulwiht (“baptism”).

Verb

full (third-person singular simple present fulls, present participle fulling, simple past and past participle fulled)

1. (transitive) To baptise.

Derived terms

• fulling

Translations

Etymology 4

From Middle English [Term?], from Old French fuller, fouler (“to tread, to stamp, to full”), from Medieval Latin fullare, from Latin fullo (“a fuller”).

Verb

full (third-person singular simple present fulls, present participle fulling, simple past and past participle fulled)

1. To make cloth denser and firmer by soaking, beating and pressing, to waulk, walk

Synonyms

• to walk, waulk

Derived terms

Translations

Catalan

Etymology

From Latin folium (“leaf”). Compare French feuille, Spanish hoja, Italian foglio, Italian foglia (the latter from Latin folia, plural of folium). Doublet of the borrowing foli.

Pronunciation

• (Balearic, Central, Valencian) IPA^(key): /?fu?/
• Rhymes: -u?

Noun

full m (plural fulls)

1. sheet of paper

Related terms

• fulla

Further reading

• “full” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ful/

Etymology 1

Borrowed from English full.

Adjective

full (plural fulls)

1. (Quebec) full
2. (Quebec) overflowing, packed, crowded

Adverb

full

1. (Quebec) very, really

Etymology 2

From English full house.

Noun

full m (plural fulls)

1. (poker) full house

Further reading

• “full” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Italian

Etymology

From English full house.

Noun

full m (invariable)

1. (card games, poker) full house, boat

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From Old Norse fullr, from Proto-Germanic *fullaz, from Proto-Indo-European *pl?h?nós. Cognates include Danish fuld, Swedish full, Icelandic fullur, German voll, Dutch vol, English full, Gothic ???????????????????? (fulls), Lithuanian pilnas, Old Church Slavonic ????? (pl?n?), Latin pl?nus, Ancient Greek ?????? (pl?r?s) and ????? (plé?s), Old Irish lán, and Sanskrit ????? (p?r?a).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /f?l/

Adjective

full (neuter singular fullt, definite singular and plural fulle, comparative fullere, indefinite superlative fullest, definite superlative fulleste)

1. full (containing the maximum possible amount)
2. drunk

Derived terms

Related terms

• fylle

See also

• -full (Bokmål)

References

• “full” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From Old Norse fullr, from Proto-Germanic *fullaz, from Proto-Indo-European *pl?h?nós. Cognates include Danish fuld, Swedish full, Icelandic fullur, German voll, Dutch vol, English full, Gothic ???????????????????? (fulls), Lithuanian pilnas, Old Church Slavonic ????? (pl?n?), Latin pl?nus, Ancient Greek ?????? (pl?r?s) and ????? (plé?s), Old Irish lán, and Sanskrit ????? (p?r?a).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /f?l?/

Adjective

full (neuter singular fullt, definite singular and plural fulle, comparative fullare, indefinite superlative fullast, definite superlative fullaste)

1. full (containing the maximum possible amount)

2. drunk

3. complete, total

Derived terms

Related terms

• fylle

See also

• -full (Nynorsk)

References

• “full” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Old English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /full/, [fu?]

Etymology 1

From Proto-West Germanic *full, from Proto-Germanic *fullaz, from Proto-Indo-European *pl?h?nós (“full”), from *pleh?- (“to fill”).

Germanic cognates include Old Frisian ful, Old Saxon ful, full, Old High German foll, Old Norse fullr, and Gothic ???????????????????? (fulls).

Indo-European cognates include Old Church Slavonic ????? (pl?n?), Latin pl?nus, Ancient Greek ?????? (pl?r?s) and ????? (plé?s), Old Irish lán, and Sanskrit ????? (p?r?a).

Alternative forms

• ful

Adjective

full

1. full, filled, complete, entire

Declension

Derived terms

• full??e

Related terms

• fyllan

Descendants

• Middle English: full
  • English: full
  • Scots: fou

Etymology 2

From Proto-Germanic *full? (“vessel”), from Proto-Indo-European *p?l(w)- (“a kind of vessel”). Akin to Old Saxon full (“beaker”), Old Norse full (“beaker”).

Alternative forms

• ful

Noun

full n

1. a beaker
2. a cup, especially one with liquor in it

Declension

Swedish

Etymology

From Old Norse fullr, from Proto-Germanic *fullaz, from Proto-Indo-European *pl?h?nós

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /f?l/

Adjective

full

1. full (containing the maximum possible amount)
2. drunk, intoxicated

   Synonyms: berusad, dragen, drucken, packad, plakat, påverkad, rund under fötterna

Declension

Derived terms

• handfull

Related terms

• fylla