Fill

Verb

 * 1)  To occupy fully, to take up all of.
 * 2) * c. 1761 Tobias Smollett, translator, Don Quixote, part 2, book 5, chapter 4:
 * 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
 * 1) * c. 1860 Charles Dickens, Great Expectations, chapter 38:
 * And now that I have given the one chapter to the theme that so filled my heart, and so often made it ache and ache again, I pass on, unhindered, to the event that had impended over me longer yet.
 * 1)  To add contents to (a container, cavity, or the like) so that it is full.
 * 2) * 1950, Arthur W. Upfield, The Bachelors of Broken Hill, chapter 11:
 * She continued to frown as she filled Bony's cup and added brandy to her own.
 * 1) * 2005, Wendy Coakley-Thompson, What You Won't Do for Love, 2006 edition, ISBN 0758207484, page 10 :
 * She forgave him the pain as he filled the cavity in her back molar. Three weeks later, she let him fill a more intimate cavity.
 * 1) * 2006, Gilbert Morris, Sante Fe Woman, B&H, page 95 :
 * Grat Herendeen was the first man, a huge man with his bull whip coiled and over his shoulder seeming almost a part of him. He grinned at her as she filled his plate with the eggs and motioned toward the bacon. "Help yourself, Grat."
 * 1) To enter (something), making it full.
 * 2) * 1910 May 13, John C. Sherwin, opinion, Delashmutt et al. v. Chicago, B. & Q. R. Co. et al., reprinted in volume 126, Northwestern Reporter, page 359, at 360:
 * 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.
 * 1) * 2004, Peter Westen, The Logic of Consent, Ashgate, ISBN 0754624072, page 322 :
 * As the crowd filled the aisles, S repeated loudly what he had announced upon entering the stadium: 'I don't want anyone to touch me, and I will call the police if anyone does.'
 * 1)  To become full of contents.
 * The bucket filled with rain.
 * 1)  To become pervaded with something.
 * My heart filled with joy.
 * 1)  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.
 * 1)  To install someone, or be installed, in (a position or office), eliminating a vacancy.
 * Sorry, no more applicants. The position has been filled.
 * 1) * 1866, Bedford Pim, The Negro, pages 18–19 :
 * It is impossible to resist the conclusion, which experience and history tend to prove, that, the continuous movement of such a vast body of mankind has been influenced by natural laws, that, the negro has filled the position for which he is fitted by nature, and, that, his services were brought into use when the emergency arose necessitating his employment.
 * 1) * 1891 January 23, Allen Morse, opinion, Lawrence v. Hanley, reprinted in volume 47, Northwestern Reporter, page 753, at 755:
 * The board of supervisors called a specal [sic] 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)  To treat (a tooth) by adding a dental filling to it.
 * 2) * "Intimate Diagnosis of Diseased Teeth", in Items of Interest: A Monthly Magazine of Dental Art, Science and Literature, volume 13, number 11, November 1891, page 657 :
 * 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.

Noun

 * 1)  A sufficient or more than sufficient amount.
 * Don't feed him anymore, he's had his fill.
 * 1) An amount that fills a container.
 * ''The mixer returned to the plant for another fill.
 * 1) The filling of a container.
 * That machine can do 20 fills a minute.
 * 1) Inexpensive material used to occupy empty spaces, especially in construction.
 * The ruins of earlier buildings were used as fill for more recent construction.
 * 1)  Soil and/or human-created debris discovered within a cavity and exposed by excavation; fill soil.

Adverbs for Fill
adequately; creditably; efficiently; generously; amply; faultlessly; cleverly; partially; greedily; graciously; constantly; skillfully; exclusively; scantily; systematically.

Synonyms for Fill

 * pervade
 * pack, pad, stuff, put, pour, load, swell, distend, feed, satisfy, complete, saturate, permeate, occupy, engage.

Antonyms for Fill

 * empty
 * empty
 * discharge, void, deplete, exhaust, drain, draw, use, remove, expend, waste, vacate, leave, scatter

Derived terms

 * backfill
 * filler
 * fill in
 * filling


 * filling station
 * fill in the blank
 * fill one's hand
 * fill out


 * fill someone's shoes
 * fill the bill
 * fill up
 * refill

Derived terms

 * fill soil
 * backfill
 * fill up


 * landfill
 * refill

Related terms

 * fulfil, fulfill

Thesaurus
abide by, accommodate, act up to, adhere to, admit, advise, afford, allay, answer, assimilate, attend to, bag, bar, barrel, battologize, be enfeoffed of, be faithful to, be possessed of, be seized of, bellyful, bespread, bind, bloat, block, block up, blockade, blow up, boast, bottle, box, brim, bumper, bung, burden, can, capacity, carry out, caulk, ceil, charge, chink, chock, choke, choke off, choke up, claim, clog, clog up, close, clothe, cloy, command, complement, complete, comply with, comprehend, comprise, conform to, congest, constipate, contain, contribute, cork, count in, cover, cram, crate, crawl with, creep with, crowd, crush, dam, dam up, diffuse, discharge, distend, do, do justice to, donate, embody, embrace, encircle, enclose, encompass, endow, engorge, engorgement, enjoy, enough, envisage, execute, expand, extend throughout, face, fatten, feather, fill in, fill out, fill to overflowing, fill up, find, flood, follow, foul, freight, fulfill, full house, full measure, fullness, fund, fur, furnish, give, give an encore, glut, go over, go through, gorge, grow, have, have and hold, have in hand, have tenure of, heap, heap up, heed, hold, hold by, honeycomb, imbue, include, incorporate, increase, inflate, inform, inlay, interline, invest, iterate, jade, jam, jam up, jam-pack, keep, keep faith with, know no bounds, lade, lading, leave no void, leaven, let in on, line, live up to, load, luxuriate, maintain, make available, make good, make out, make provision for, mass, meet, more than enough, mouthful, notify, number among, observe, obstipate, obstruct, occlude, occupy, overabound, overbrim, overdose, overfeed, overfill, overflow, overgorge, overgrow, overrun, oversaturate, overspill, overspread, overstuff, overswarm, pack, pack away, pad, pall, penetrate, permeate, pervade, pile, plenty, plug, plug up, pocket, possess, practice, prepare, present, provide, provide for, pug, pullulate, ram in, reaffirm, reassert, recapitulate, receive, recite, reckon among, reckon in, reckon with, recount, recruit, regard, rehash, rehearse, reissue, reiterate, replenish, repletion, reprint, respect, restate, resume, retail, retell, review, reword, run over, run riot, run through, sack, sate, satiate, satiation, satiety, satisfaction, satisfy, saturate, saturatedness, saturation, saturation point, say over, say over again, seal, share, ship, skinful, slake, snootful, spile, spill over, squat, squat on, squeeze, stack, stall, stanch, stand in, stay, stench, stock, stodge, stop, stop up, stopper, stopple, store, stow, stretch, stuff, stuff up, subsidize, substitute, sufficiency, suffuse, sum up, summarize, superabound, supercharge, supersaturate, supersaturation, supply, support, surfeit, swarm, swarm with, swell, take in, take into account, take into consideration, take over, take up, tautologize, teem, teem with, tell, top off, transfuse, usucapt, wad, wainscot, weight, yield

Etymology 1
fyllan:.

Etymology 2
fyllu:, from. Cognate with German Fülle:.

Verb

 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto: enspaci
 * Finnish: täyttää
 * French:


 * German: füllen, ausfüllen
 * Irish: líon
 * Russian: заполнять, ; наполнять , наполнить


 * Azeri: doldurmaq
 * Bengali: ভরা
 * Dutch: ,
 * Esperanto: plenigi
 * Finnish:
 * French:


 * Irish: líon
 * Polish: napełniać / napełnić
 * Romanian: umple
 * Russian: заполнять, ; наполнять , наполнить
 * Scottish Gaelic:


 * Dutch:
 * Irish: líon


 * Russian: заполнять ,
 * Scottish Gaelic:


 * Dutch:
 * Finnish:
 * French:


 * Irish: líon
 * Russian: заполняться, заполниться ; наполняться , наполниться


 * Dutch:
 * Russian: заполняться, заполниться ; наполняться , наполниться


 * Dutch:


 * Dutch:


 * French:


 * Dutch:
 * Finnish:


 * Romanian: plomba


 * : mbush
 * : ملأ
 * : 填裝, 填装 (tián zhuāng)
 * : xe
 * : (gemízo)
 * : भरना (bʰaranā)
 * : xe
 * : (gemízo)
 * : भरना (bʰaranā)
 * : भरना (bʰaranā)


 * : 満たす (みたす, mitasu)
 * :, , پر کردن
 * : angaṉi
 * : puluín
 * : (bʰaranā)
 * : sự làm đầy
 * : puluín
 * : (bʰaranā)
 * : sự làm đầy
 * : sự làm đầy

Noun

 * Finnish: (adverb)


 * Scottish Gaelic:


 * Dutch:


 * Finnish:


 * Finnish:


 * Dutch: vulsel,


 * Finnish:

Noun

 * 1) thread, yarn.

Adverb

 * 1) at once, immediately.

Etymology
From filius:. Cognate to French fils:.

Noun

 * 1) son

Etymology
From fillid: <  < ; compare German walzen:, Latin volvo:

Verb

 * 1) to turn back
 * 2) to return
 * 3) to fold
 * 4)  to plicate
 * 5)  to recur