Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • adjective Showing or fitted to the entire length, especially of the human body.
  • adjective Of a normal or standard length.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Embracing the whole; extending the whole length: as, a full-length portrait.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective accommodating the full height of the human figure.
  • adjective representing the full height of the human figure.
  • adjective unabridged. Opposite of abridged.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • adjective Not shortened; complete and uncut
  • adjective of clothing Covering the full height of the body
  • adjective art (of a painting or sculpture) Representing the full height of the body
  • adjective At full stretch, requiring the whole body.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • adjective representing or accommodating the entire length
  • adjective complete

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Examples

  • The 10 tracks on Delay Trees' recent self-titled full-length are models of concision, each stuffing a Sigur Ros epic's worth of buildup into four or so minutes at a time.

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  • In public he often wore a full-length white mink coat draped over European suits, and at home he liked to relax in satin slippers and a flowing robe decorated with sequins and an Elizabethan collar.

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  • As for all the "designer" obsession, let me just report that my cat Dinah chose to wear full-length tortoiseshell to her Top Of The Bookshelf Inaugural Ball.

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  • Holly stared at herself in the full-length mirror in the condo she rented in Nashville.

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  • As for all the "designer" obsession, let me just report that my cat Dinah chose to wear full-length tortoiseshell to her Top Of The Bookshelf Inaugural Ball.

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  • Standing naked in front of my full-length mirror, I like…no, love, what I see: full, luscious lips; perky, C-cup tits; small, tight waist; firm, plump ass; and smooth, shapely legs.

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  • OK, fine: the Pope despite the full-length resplendent robes and the tiara-on-testosterone headdress will never be a queen.

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  • The output of brilliant miniatures – Jack the Bear, Ko-Ko, A Portrait of Bert Williams, Prelude to a Kiss, Concerto for Cootie – continued as he entered the 1940s with perhaps the greatest line-up he ever assembled, and in 1941 his first full-length Broadway show, Jump for Joy, introduced Just Squeeze Me and I Got It Bad and That Ain't Good.

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  • OK, fine: the Pope despite the full-length resplendent robes and the tiara-on-testosterone headdress will never be a queen.

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  • I give myself the once-over in my full-length mirror, admiring myself.

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