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fill

verb
/fɪl/

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”). 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”)

  1. derived from *pl̥h₁nós✻ — “full”
  2. inherited from *fullijaną✻ — “to make full, fill”
  3. inherited from *fullijan✻
  4. inherited from fyllan — “to fill, fill up, replenish, satisfy; complete, fulfill”
  5. inherited from fillen

Definitions

  1. To make full

    • She filled a glass with milk.
    • dreams filled with surreal imagery

  2. To become full.

    • The bucket filled with rain
    • The room filled with thick smoke.
    • The sails fill with wind

  3. To satisfy or obey (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 qualify for a home loan, you need to fill a number of requirements.
  4. ›+ 19 more definitions

    1. To install someone, or be installed, in (a position or office), eliminating a vacancy.

      • 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.
      • Sorry, no more applicants. The position has been filled.

    2. To treat (a tooth) by adding a dental filling to it.

      • Dr. Smith filled Jim's cavity with silver amalgam.
      • Be that as it may, had the disturbance continued after our having filled the molar, and presuming that nothing had been done to the bicuspid, we might have been still as far as ever from knowing where the trouble lay.

    3. To block, obstruct

      • The drains were filled with gunk and no water could flow off.

    4. To supply fully with food

      To supply fully with food; to feed; to satisfy.

      • Are all the children filled and ready for bed?
      • Whence should we have so much bread in the wilderness, as to fill so great a multitude?
      • Things that are sweet and fat are more filling.

    5. To trim (a yard) so that the wind blows on the after side of the sails.

    6. To have sexual intercourse with (a female).

      • Did you fill that girl last night?

    7. To ejaculate inside someone or something.

    8. A sufficient or more than sufficient amount.

      • Don't feed him any more: he's had his fill.
      • Then they set somewhat of food before me, whereof I ate my fill, and gave me somewhat of clothes wherewith I clad myself anew and covered my nakedness; after which they took me up into the ship, […]

    9. An amount that fills a container.

      • The mixer returned to the plant for another fill.

    10. The filling of a container or area.

      • That machine can do 20 fills per minute.
      • This paint program supports lines, circles, and textured fills.

    11. 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.

    12. Soil and/or human-created debris discovered within a cavity or cut in the layers and…

      Soil and/or human-created debris discovered within a cavity or cut in the layers and exposed by excavation; fill soil.

    13. An embankment, as in railroad construction, to fill a hollow or ravine

      An embankment, as in railroad construction, to fill a hollow or ravine; also, the place which is to be filled.

    14. A short passage, riff, or rhythmic sound that helps to keep the listener's attention…

      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

    15. Ellipsis of fill light.

    16. The weft yarn.

    17. The answers in a crossword puzzle that are not part of the theme.

    18. One of the thills or shafts of a carriage.

      • It was a challenge to learn to harness him, guide him slowly back between the fills of the carriage, then to fasten the right buckles and snaps, making the harness and buggy all ready for travel to church or to town.

    19. A surname transferred from the given name.

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Derived

autofill, back and fill, eye-filling, fiberfill, fibrefill, fillable, fill and flee, fill and fly, fill away, fill-dike, fill-dyke, filler, fillgap, fill in, filling, filling gas, filling station, fill in the blank, fill music, fill one's boots, fill one's face, fill one's hand, fill one's pants, fill or kill, fill out, fillrate, fill someone's boots, fill someone's shoes, fill the bill, fillup, fill up, forthfill, fulfill, fulfil, infill, lakefill, linefill, loosefill, microfill, misfill · +25 more

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at fill. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

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A definitional loop anchored at fill. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

7 hops · closes at fill

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA