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full-term

/fool-turm/US // ˈfʊlˈtɜrm //

满期,足月期,足月,足期

Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : of or noting the entire duration of normal pregnancy.
    • : serving the complete designated term of office: He was not a full-term president.

Examples

  • To put it rather uncharitably, the USPHS practiced a major dental experiment on a city full of unconsenting subjects.

  • But on Thursday Boxer triggered a Golden State political earthquake, announcing that she would not seek a fifth term in 2016.

  • Term limits could be a prescription to speed change along.

  • Could the (thus far) timid trembling give way to a full-on, grand mal seizure?

  • So we know that boring down to the bedrock and pumping it full of fluid can cause earthquakes.

  • It ended on a complaint that she was 'tired rather and spending my time at full length on a deck-chair in the garden.'

  • As long as may be necessary, Sam,” replied Mr. Pickwick, “you have my full permission to remain.

  • So he bore down on the solemn declaration that she stood face to face with a prison term for perjury.

  • It is full of poetic feeling, and the flesh tints are unusually natural.

  • A small book, bound in full purple calf, lay half hidden in a nest of fine tissue paper on the dressing-table.