full-length

English

Etymology

full +‎ length

Adjective

full-length (not comparable)

1. Not shortened; complete and uncut.
2. (of clothing) Covering the full height of the body.
3. (art, of a painting, a sculpture or a photograph) Representing the full height of the body.

   Coordinate term: half-length

4. At full stretch, requiring the whole body.

   The goalkeeper made a full-length save to deny the United attacker.

Translations

not shortened; complete and uncut

• Finnish: kokopitkä, kokopituinen, täyspitkä, täyspituinen
• Irish: lánfhada
• Polish: nieskracany, pełnometrażowy (pl) (of movies)

(arts) representing the full height of the body

• Finnish: kokovartalo-
• French: en pied (fr)
• Irish: lánfhada
• Polish: pokazujący całe ciało

Noun

full-length (plural full-lengths)

1. (art) A full-length portrait.
   • 1837, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], “An Interview”, in Ethel Churchill: Or, The Two Brides. […], volume II, London: Henry Colburn, […], →OCLC, page 212:

     Below was a full-length of James II., at whose feet was a sort of throne, on which the duchess was placed.