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Từ điển Oxford Learners Wordfinder Dictionary
full/empty
1 full
2 empty
see also CONTAINER, LIQUID
1 full
- holding or containing as much or as many of sth as possible: full (of sth)
a full bottle of milk ◎ The fridge is full of food. ◎ I feel too full (= of food) to move.
- completely full: full up (not before a noun)
The car's full up - there's really no room for anyone else.
- to make sth full: fill sth (up)
Fill it to the top. ◎ Fill up your plates. ◎ Don't forget to fill up your car with petrol before you leave. ◎ She has filled her house with beautiful things.
- to fill sth with liquid right to the top: fill sth to the brim
- completely full of a liquid: full to the brim
- if a container already has some liquid in and you then fill it right to the top, you top it up; noun: top-up
Can you top up my glass, please? ◎ I'd like a top-up (= give me some more drink) .
- to make sth full again: refill sth; a container that holds a substance which refills sth else: refill
Please refill the tank before you return the car. ◎ My biro's running out of ink - I wonder if it's possible to buy a refill.
- full of people: crowded
a crowded bus/train/bar
- full of a lot of people or things: packed/crammed (with sb/sth), packed/crammed full (of sb/sth)
It was so packed, we could hardly move. ◎ The box was packed full of clothes.
- when all the places or seats in a restaurant, theatre, train, etc are used, it is booked up, fully booked
'I'd like to book a table for four for tonight, please.' 'I'm sorry, we're fully booked.'
※ more on crowds CROWD
2 empty
- the opposite of full: empty
an empty bottle/suitcase/house/stomach
- to make sth empty: empty sth (out)
Can you empty the rubbish bin? ◎ She emptied out all the contents of my bag onto the table and checked them.
- empty; without its usual contents: bare
The room was bare - all the furniture had gone. ◎ a bare cupboard
- empty because all the people have left: deserted
The streets were deserted.
- not completely empty and not completely full: half full, half empty
The sweet jar was only half full. ◎ a half-empty bottle
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