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verb (used with object)

to make full; put as much as can be held into: to fill a jar with water.

to occupy to the full capacity: Water filled the basin. The crowd filled the hall.

to supply to an extreme degree or plentifully: to fill a house with furniture; to fill the heart with joy.

to satisfy fully the hunger of; satiate: The roast beef filled the diners.

to put into a receptacle: to fill sand into a pail.

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to be plentiful throughout: Fish filled the rivers.

to extend throughout; pervade completely: The odor filled the room.

to furnish with an occupant: The landlord filled the vacancy yesterday.

to provide (an office or opening) with an incumbent: The company is eager to fill the controllership.

10.

to occupy and perform the duties of (a vacancy, position, post, etc.).

11.

to supply the requirements or contents of (an order), as for goods; execute.

12.

to supply (a blank space) with written matter, decorative work, etc.

13.

to meet satisfactorily, as requirements: This book fills a great need.

14.

to make up, compound, or otherwise provide the contents of (a medical prescription).

15.

to stop up or close (a cavity, hole, etc.): to fill a tooth.

16.

Cookery. to insert a filling into: to fill cupcakes with custard.

17.

Nautical.

to distend (a sail) by pressure of the wind so as to impart headway to a vessel.

to brace (a yard) so that the sail will catch the wind on its after side.

18.

to adulterate: to fill soaps with water.

19.

Civil Engineering, Building Trades. to build up the level of (an area) with earth, stones, etc.

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verb (used without object)

20.

to become full: The hall filled rapidly. Our eyes filled with tears.

21.

to increase in atmospheric pressure: a filling cyclone.

22.

to become distended, as sails with the wind.

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noun

23.

a full supply; enough to satisfy want or desire: to eat one's fill.

24.

an amount of something sufficient for filling; charge.

25.

Civil Engineering, Building Trades. a quantity of earth, stones, etc., for building up the level of an area of ground: These houses were built on fill. Compare backfill.

26.

the feed and water in the digestive tract of a livestock animal, especially that consumed before marketing.

Verb phrases

27.

fill away, Nautical.

to fall off the wind and proceed on a board.

to brace the yards, so that sails that have been aback will stand full.

28.

fill in,

to supply missing or desired information: Fill in the facts of your business experience.

to complete by adding detail, as a design or drawing: to fill in a sketch with shadow.

to substitute for: to fill in for a colleague who is ill.

to fill with some material: to fill in a crack with putty.

Informal. to supply (someone) with information: Please fill me in on the morning news.

29.

fill out,

to complete (a document, list, etc.) by supplying missing or desired information.

to become larger, fuller, or rounder, as the figure: The children have begun to fill out since I saw them last.

30.

fill up,

to fill completely: to fill up a glass; to fill up a fuel tank.

to become completely filled: The riverbed filled up as a result of the steady rains.

Idioms

31.

fill and stand on, Nautical. (of a sailing vessel) to proceed on a tack after being hove to or halted facing the wind; fill away.

32.

fill the bill. bill¹ (def. 16).

Origin:
before 900; Middle English fillen, Old English fyllan; cognate with German füllen, Gothic fulljan to make full; see full¹

Related forms

fill·a·ble, adjective

half-filled, adjective

un·filled, adjective

well-filled, adjective

Synonyms
2. crowd, pack, jam, cram. 13. satisfy, answer, fulfill.

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Fill in the blanks in this article about a dinner featuring edible insects.

During the next few weeks, hundreds of thousands of college students will fill out course-evaluation forms.

But there are too few people to fill the existing jobs.

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Fill in the blanks in this article about a dinner featuring edible insects.

During the next few weeks, hundreds of thousands of college students will fill out course-evaluation forms.

But there are too few people to fill the existing jobs.

Fill the gloves with the green-colored, sugar-free lemonade and tie them securely at the wrists with string or a rubber band.

Piles of studies fill the cavernous gap between the have and have-nots in this country.

Fill out the form and you will be emailed instruction on downloading your ticket.

Fill your home with natural light with these intriguing ideas for windows.

Build your own pasta machine, fill a buffet plate, and more.

Fill in the blanks with your own words, or choose from a scrambled list of the words.

Helping low- to moderate-income families fill out the.

Wikipedia relies on its users' generosity to fill its coffers as well as its pages.

Haiti's poorest can't afford even a daily plate of rice, and some must take desperate measures to fill their bellies.

As in atoms, the electrons fill the dot by taking up positions in successive orbitals around the center.

Take your fill of these stories from the underbelly.

Fill pots with native plants irresistible to birds, bees, and butterflies.

Manga club meetings and cram school fill up their free time, and there's no money for a gym membership after paying for cell.

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Technology companies struggle to fill vacant positions.

As out-of-town shopping centres have taken more business, so many town centres have had to fill up with shops run by charities.

Fill the jar almost to the top with vegetable oil and let the mixture separate.

Seemingly, any description of x could fill the space after the colon.

They fill shelves and boxes, embellish windowsills and walls.

Fill your kitchen with good smells and your table with rich, tender dinners.

It takes forever to fill the old-school guns with the t-shaped tab that retains the cap.

Fill in the blanks in the first several paragraphs of this article about pumpkin smashing.

Part-time professors, in demand, fill many distance-education faculties.

Voters, sick of the tales of graft that fill their newspapers, would have cheered swift action.

Give each student a copy of the turtle activity sheet and have them fill in information about their turles and their routes.

Some of the water will fill up this hole and the rest will spread out over the globe.

Sophisticated details fill this garden to the brim.

Lord knows what travelers in then olden-days found to fill their huge trunks.

Instead, make sure to also fill out the hotel feedback survey.

And every four years while on the campaign trail the media run short of stories about the candidates and fill in.

Do not fill in questionnaires or respond to telemarketers.

Students can work in small groups of three or four and help each other fill in their individual maps.

Uncover the magical wonders of the deep blue as you explore the many marine exhibits and wildlife that fill the aquarium.

Berry jam and lemon curd fill this easy butter cake.

Hits fill theaters, fly off shelves, and keep listeners and viewers from touching their dials and remotes.

They fill their blue books with disconnected strings of names and dates.

Last month people rushed to buy imported goods and fill their cars with petrol, expecting prices to rise as the rand.

Place the plant in the hole, then fill in the dirt around the roots.

Archaeological finds worldwide have helped researchers to fill out the story of human evolution and migration.

For a striking centerpiece to accompany the decor, fill a large pumpkin with flowers and foliage to brighten a party table.

The speakers emit enough sound to fill any bedroom or den.

Kerrey's announcement that he would fill the office on a temporary basis himself.

Moreover, if the supposed skill shortage affects a fifth of vacancies, that means four-fifths fill without difficulty.

The other six went with him, and as each of them wanted to be first to fill it, the jug fell into the well.

But wildlife experts say they fill a niche in the urban ecology.

Fill the space with favorite furnishings and garden art.

And it's going to fill the web with its sharing button, thanks to the power of its search engine.

On the other side are employers who have jobs they can't fill because they're unable to find skilled workers.

In good weeks more than a hundred stalls used to fill the town's auction ground.

Use a spoon to fill any empty spots with candy melt and make sure the cake is completely covered.

Hunters shot the plump birds for meat and for feathers to fill pillows and adorn women's hats.

If the bare patch doesn't fill in on its own, reseed it or replace it with a patch of sod.

They must fill out a form to print out a free shipping label.

We are paid by colleges and universities to help them identify the best possible candidates to fill their vacancies.

They fill up restaurants and drive up the prices of everything from apartments to art wherever they cluster.

And rhododendrons fill the undergrowth with their shiny leaves and large flowers.

But within the past decade, scientists have made a push to fill this void in understanding.

When summer- and fall-blooming perennials die down, cool-season annuals kick into gear to fill gaps between established plants.

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Failing to fill the learning-information deficit will have many consequences:.

The problem is the black hole the public sector will have to fill.

Mud and sand, originally pumped in to fill shallow waters, had not been properly compacted.

Just fill a spray bottle with three parts vinegar to one part water and spritz it on all your car windows at night.

Continue to fill the hole, firming the soil as you go.

Make sure you fill up all the way and record how many gallons you put in the tank, then perform some simple math.

Okay, now that you have your nine boxes, fill each space with a word or phrase for each of the main parts of your life.

Chicago's newly minted mayor, is determined to open a publicly-owned casino to help fill his empty coffers.

The best pictures have interesting elements that fill the whole photograph.

It takes the same amount of energy to run a full or a half load– so wait another day and fill up that machine.

They're ready to pick when their pods fill with sweet, plump peas.

Player and enemy each have spell meters that slowly fill with each move of the gems.

Fill it with state-of-the-art schools, hospitals, apartments.

Consumers may in any case have had their fill of borrowing.

Fill out facts about these creatures and trade them with your friends.

During a film of an actual nuclear test, a flash of white light and bursts of air fill the room as the floor vibrates.

Keep up with weeding, which should be almost nil once plants fill in.

And the leakproof nozzle and fill cap squeeze out every precious last drop of sniping potential.

Fill out a time sheet every two weeks to ensure the taxpayers are getting their fair share.

Those in between fill in the spectrum with colours such as green.

New technologies and sophisticated methods are also being used to fill out our understanding of dinosaur biology.

Fill it slightly more than halfway with rich, fast-draining potting soil.

But she never imagined he'd fill out credit card applications sent to his home in her name.

The verbiage devoted to the denigration of spell check could fill a dictionary.

Deserting for a few days the factories that make the goods that fill the world's shops, they surge back to their native villages.

Fliers advertising baskets of matsutake or chanterelles fill the community bulletin boards at organic groceries across the state.

Just fill out the fields in the online entry form and submit.

Now there's a bevy of sweet, new-fangled features to fill out that.

I've been on several campus visits in different states where the school asked me to fill out a criminal background check form.

European policymakers imported people to fill short-term job shortages.

He may be poised to fill stockings with toys and goodies-but he also looks as if he could be making off with the family silver.

In mild-winter areas, ornithogalums can fill many different roles.

All you have to do is take the caps off then fill them with warm water until the black line.

Chairs who care would be more likely to fill one out.

The next stage is to fill the gaps between the spheres with nickel.

Medellín is one of dozens of success stories, large and small, that fill the newly opened.

Large openable skylights that double as windows fill the area with natural light making it perfect for detail work.

The show itself has ballooned to fill four huge halls and several floors of nearby.

Or line the bulb basket with plastic, then fill it halfway with potting soil.

For the home cook, it's easier to toast the rolls first, then fill.

We fill the garden with drought-tolerant plants that attract birds and bees.

Branches of bittersweet holding red and yellow berries fill the rust-colored buckets behind.

Fold toffee candy into caramel crème fraîche to fill this chocolate cake.

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World English Dictionary

fill (fɪl)

—vb (often foll by up)
1.	(also intr) to make or become full: to fill up a bottle; the bath fills in two minutes
2.	to occupy the whole of: the party filled two floors of the house
3.	to plug (a gap, crevice, cavity, etc)
4.	to meet (a requirement or need) satisfactorily
5.	to cover (a page or blank space) with writing, drawing, etc
6.	to hold and perform the duties of (an office or position)
7.	to appoint or elect an occupant to (an office or position)
8.	building trades to build up (ground) with fill
9.	(also intr) to swell or cause to swell with wind, as in manoeuvring the sails of a sailing vessel
10.	to increase the bulk of by adding an inferior substance
11.	poker to complete (a full house, etc) by drawing the cards needed
12.	chiefly (US), (Canadian) to put together the necessary materials for (a prescription or order)
13.	informal fill the bill to serve or perform adequately

—n
14.	material such as gravel, stones, etc, used to bring an area of ground up to a required level
15.	one's fill the quantity needed to satisfy one: to eat your fill

[Old English fyllan; related to Old Frisian fella, Old Norse fylla, Gothic fulljan, Old High German fullen; see full¹, fulfil]

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Word Origin & History

fill

O.E. fyllan, from P.Gmc. *fullijan (cf. O.S. fulljan, O.N. fylla, O.Fris. fella, Du. vullen, Ger. füllen "to fill"), a derivative of adj. *fullaz "full." The related noun meaning "a full supply" is M.E. fille, from O.E. fylle. To fill the bill (1882) was originally U.S. theatrical slang, in reference

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to a star whose name would be the only one on a show's poster. Related: Filled; filling.

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American Heritage

Idioms & Phrases

fill

In addition to the idioms beginning with fill, also see back and fill; get one's fill of. Also see under full.