fill.
To make full
Meaning & usage
To make full To add contents to (a container, cavity, or the like) so that it is full.
She filled a glass with milk.
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To make full To enter (something), making it full.
The doors opened and guests filled the auditorium.
To make full To occupy fully, to take up all of.
The smell of spring filled the air.
To become full.
The bucket filled with rain
The room filled with thick smoke.
To become full. To become pervaded with something.
My heart filled with joy.
To satisfy or meet (as, an order, request, or requirement).
The pharmacist filled my prescription for penicillin.
We can't let the library close! It fills a great need in the community.
To install someone, or be installed, in (a position or office), eliminating a vacancy.
Sorry, no more applicants. The position has been filled.
To treat (a tooth) by adding a dental filling to it.
Dr. Smith filled Jim's cavity with silver amalgam.
To block, obstruct
The drains were filled with gunk and no water could flow off.
To supply fully with food; to feed; to satisfy.
Are all the children filled and ready for bed?
To trim (a yard) so that the wind blows on the after side of the sails.
To have sexual intercourse with (a female).
Did you fill that girl last night?
To ejaculate inside someone or something.
Where this word comes from
From Middle English fillen, fullen, from Old English fyllan (“to fill, fill up, replenish, satisfy; complete, fulfill”), from Proto-West Germanic *fullijan, from Proto-Germanic *fullijaną (“to make full, fill”), from *fullaz (“full”), from Proto-Indo-European *pl̥h₁nós (“full”). Cognate with Scots fill (“to fill”), West Frisian folje (“to fill”), Low German füllen (“to fill”), Dutch vullen (“to fill”), German füllen (“to fill”), Danish fylde (“to fill”), Swedish fylla (“to fill”), Norwegian fylle (“to fill”), Icelandic fylla (“to fill”) and Latin plenus (“full”)
A sufficient or more than sufficient amount.
Don't feed him any more: he's had his fill.
An amount that fills a container.
The mixer returned to the plant for another fill.
The filling of a container or area.
That machine can do 20 fills per minute.
This paint program supports lines, circles, and textured fills.
Inexpensive material used to occupy empty spaces, especially in construction.
The ruins of earlier buildings were used as fill for more recent construction.
Soil and/or human-created debris discovered within a cavity or cut in the layers and exposed by excavation; fill soil.
An embankment, as in railroad construction, to fill a hollow or ravine; also, the place which is to be filled.
A short passage, riff, or rhythmic sound that helps to keep the listener's attention during a break between the phrases of a melody.
bass fill
Ellipsis of fill light.
The weft yarn.
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Where this word comes from
From Middle English fille, vülle, fülle, from Old English fyllu, from Proto-West Germanic *fullī, from Proto-Germanic *fullį̄ (“fullness”). Cognate with German Fülle.
One of the thills or shafts of a carriage.
Where this word comes from
See thill.
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