fully charged
- adjective
- All right, now that they are fully charged, let's put them to the test.
- a fully charged battery
So the Magsafe cable thinks that the device is fully charged and good to go, which seems normal.
- So the Magsafe cable thinks that the device is fully charged and good to go, which seems normal.
- It was fully, fully charged and he played on it for a lot of the flights.
- Bill had his big camera and Sarah had a small camera and they were fully charged and on at all times.
- We'll come back to these once they've been fully charged up and I'm ready to dispatch those pesky Jedis.
Examples
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The batteries last for 35 minutes of continuous use and are fully charged in 80 minutes.
Blog text (25) -
Make sure your battery is fully charged.
Blog text (22) -
Batteries are fully charged, Mike.
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The solar panels are fully charged.
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The couple did expect to lose power and had fully charged all of their electronic gadgets.
Blog text (31) -
The range of a power wheelchair provides an estimate of the total distance that the wheelchair can be driven on a new, fully charged set of batteries.
Academic text (1995) -
And the light on it is green—fully charged.
Fiction book (2001) -
Before heading out, she always makes sure her phone is fully charged for the ride.
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The electric car can be fully charged in under an hour at the fast-charging station.
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To avoid interruptions, he checked that his laptop was fully charged before the meeting.
Synonyms
A device with a full battery ready to use
How Charged
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning 'charged to maximum capacity' is directly and predictably derived from combining 'fully' (completely) with 'charged' (having electrical charge). This compositional adjective phrase follows ordinary modifier + adjective patterns and is cross-linguistically common, so a B1 learner who knows both constituents will understand it.
Etymology
Fully charged comes from the image of filling a 'battery' with electricity like filling a cup with water; when it is full—fully—it is charged. So, fully charged means the device or 'battery' has the most power and does not need more charging.