Meaning of fill in English | Powered by Free Dictionary API

verb

• To occupy fully, to take up all of.

• To add contents to (a container, cavity or the like) so that it is full.

• To enter (something), making it full.

• To become full.

  Example: the bucket filled with rain;  the sails fill with wind

• To become pervaded with something.

  Example: My heart filled with joy.

• To satisfy or obey (an order, request or requirement).

  Example: The pharmacist filled my prescription for penicillin.

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

  Example: Sorry, no more applicants. The position has been filled.

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

  Example: Dr. Smith filled Jim's cavity with silver amalgam.

• To fill or supply fully with food; to feed; to satisfy.

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

• (of a male) To have sexual intercourse with (a female).

  Example: Did you fill that girl last night?

noun

• (after a possessive) A sufficient or more than sufficient amount.

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

• An amount that fills a container.

  Example: The mixer returned to the plant for another fill.

• The filling of a container or area.

  Example: That machine can do 20 fills a minute.

• Inexpensive material used to occupy empty spaces, especially in construction.

  Example: The ruins of earlier buildings were used as fill for more recent construction.

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

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

• A short passage, riff, or rhythmic sound that helps to keep the listener's attention during a break between the phrases of a melody.

  Example: bass fill

noun

• One of the thills or shafts of a carriage.