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refill

noun
/ˈɹiː.fɪl//ˌɹiːˈfɪl/

Etymology

From re- (“again”) + fill (noun).

  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
  6. formed as refill — “re- + fill”

Definitions

  1. That which serves to refill or replace something.

    • Today it is $2 for a coffee, with free refills throughout the day.
    • "Oh, gosh," he groaned, "and I'd have given anything for a refill of that suet! It was the wizardest muck we've had this week."
    • Ippudo, which operates 50 ramen shops across the country, is offering endless free noodle refills for a fortnight from election day on Sunday until 24 July, the Mainichi Shimbun said, provided they could show proof that they had voted.

  2. An act or process of refilling.

    • capillary refill
    • […] the modified UHI correlation captures 80 percent of the total data and thus provides a conservative estimate of the heat transfer during UHI refill.
    • After refill, start engine and observe installed fittings and valve to make certain there are no leaks.

  3. To fill up once again.

    • Can you refill my cup please? I've finished my coffee.
  4. ›+ 1 more definition

    1. To repeat a prescription.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

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

8 hops · closes at refill

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