{
  "id": "plate-is-full.capacity",
  "term": "plate is full",
  "sense": "capacity",
  "pos": "noun",
  "status": "review",
  "level": 14,
  "arena": "emergence",
  "domain": "everyday",
  "style": "folk",
  "definition": "A container that can hold no further items because its boundary has been reached, though the container itself persists.",
  "folk_gloss": "I don't have room for any more tasks or responsibilities.",
  "emergence": {
    "components": [
      "capacity.size",
      "boundary.limit",
      "container.object",
      "persist.continue"
    ],
    "interaction": "add",
    "novel_properties": [
      "full.state"
    ]
  },
  "examples": [
    {
      "text": "The 2021 Facebook outage left its servers unable to process login requests after the DNS system hit maximum capacity.",
      "domain": "computing"
    },
    {
      "text": "Tokyo's Haneda Airport reached its hourly flight limit of 84 operations, halting further takeoff and landing clearances.",
      "domain": "engineering"
    },
    {
      "text": "The U.S. debt ceiling was hit in January 2023, preventing additional Treasury borrowing until Congress acted.",
      "domain": "institutions"
    }
  ],
  "relations": [],
  "used_by": [],
  "forms": [
    "plate is full"
  ],
  "closed": true,
  "provenance": {
    "author": "phrases:qwen/qwen3-235b-a22b-2507",
    "date": "2026-07-29",
    "confidence": 0.7,
    "sources": [
      "folk phrase — capacity and burnout"
    ]
  },
  "canonical": "https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-plate-is-full.capacity"
}