fill

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/fɪl/

noun 6verb 5name 1

Collocations

(verb.)

ADV

fast, quickly, rapidly

The bathtub filled quickly when we turned on the hot water tap.

gradually, slowly | up

VERB + FILL

begin to

When the wind picked up, the balloon began to fill with hot air.

seem to

The new employee seemed to fill the leadership gap that the company had struggled with for months.

PREP

with

She filled her backpack with books and notebooks before heading to school.

PHRASES

be filled to capacity

The concert venue was filled to capacity, so they turned away late arrivals at the door.

be filled to the brim (with sth)

Her backpack was filled to the brim with books and notebooks for the school trip.

Definitions

verb

To make full

She filled a glass with milk.

dreams filled with surreal imagery

To make full

The doors opened and guests filled the auditorium.

In the evening of the 14th of July, there was a rainfall of 3 or 3½ inches in that locality. The water filled the ditch so full that it overflowed the levees on both sides in many places […] .

To make full

The smell of spring filled the air.

[…]the drums began to thunder, the sound of trumpets filled the air, the earth trembled beneath their feet, and the hearts of the gazing multitude throbbed with suspense and expectation[…]

To become full.

The bucket filled with rain

The room filled with thick smoke.

To become full.

My heart filled with joy.

noun

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, […]

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.

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.

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

noun

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.

Thesaurus

Synonyms

noun — any material that fills a space or container

filling

verb — fill, satisfy or meet a want or need or condtion ro restrict

verb — fill to satisfaction

verb — assume, as of positions or roles

verb — occupy the whole of

occupy

Antonyms

Idioms & Phrases

fill in

To fill; to replace material that is absent or has been removed.

After you're done laying the pipe, fill in the trench.

fill someone's shoes

To do (somebody's) job; to perform or assume (somebody's) role.

I don't think anyone could ever fill her shoes, doing all she does.

fill up

To make (something) completely full.

fill in the blank

A language exercise in which one or more words are replaced with a blank line and the reader is tasked with supplying a valid replacement.

The test consisted of fill-in-the-blank sentences.

get one's fill

to be satisfied, to have enough of something.

Example Bank

She filled a glass with milk.

Wiktionary

dreams filled with surreal imagery

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My hopes wa'n't disappointed. I never saw clams thicker than they was along them inshore flats. I filled my dreener in no time, and then it come to me that 'twouldn't be a bad idee to get a lot more,

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Don't feed him any more: he's had his fill.

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The mixer returned to the plant for another fill.

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