fill
//fɪl//
Forms
- present (v1)
- fill
- past (v2)
- filled
- past participle (v3)
- filled
- present participle
- filling
- 3rd person singular
- fills
- Plural
- fills
Definitions
1.To make full
- The smell of spring filled the air.
- The doors opened and guests filled the auditorium.
- She continued to frown as she filled Bony's cup and added brandy to her own.
2.To become full.
- The room filled with thick smoke.
- My heart filled with joy.
3.To satisfy or obey (an order, request, or requirement).
- The pharmacist filled my prescription for penicillin.
- To qualify for a home loan, you need to fill a number of requirements.
- We can't let the library close! It fills a great need in the community.
4.To install someone, or be installed, in (a position or office), eliminating a vacancy.
- Sorry, no more applicants. The position has been filled.
- The board of supervisors called a specal election to fill the office, and at such special election Henry C. Andrews was elected judge of probate to fill out the said term.
1.A sufficient or more than sufficient amount.
- Don't feed him any more: he's had his fill.
2.Inexpensive material used to occupy empty spaces, especially in construction.
- The ruins of earlier buildings were used as fill for more recent construction.
- Strippage from a borrow area was first treated as waste, under the contract, but after passage of time was suitable for fill and was so used.
3.An amount that fills a container.
- The mixer returned to the plant for another fill.
4.The filling of a container or area.
- That machine can do 20 fills per minute.
- This paint program supports lines, circles, and textured fills.
Frequency
Overall
Common· #777
By learning goal
- Everyday conversation
- Uncommon
- General reading & writing
- Common
- Academic
- Rare
- Literature
- Uncommon
Etymology
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”).