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fill English

Meaning fill meaning

What does fill mean?
Definitions in simple English

fill Verb

— If you fill something, you put something in it until there is no space left. She added some games to fill the gap in the schedule. His eyes filled with tears as he watched her walk away. She filled the car up with gas. He's so mean, he just fills me with anger every time I think of him. Suddenly, the screen was filled with light. I fill up the dog's new dish to the top and stick it on the floor. Instead of eating a good dinner she just fills up on bread. — If you fill in something, you give the missing information, especially personal information on a form. She gave me another form to fill in for housing benefit. When I got back, she filled me in on what had been happening. — If you fill out, your body reaches its adult shape, especially women's breasts and men's shoulders.

fill Noun

— The full amount of food or drink that a person can eat or drink. Don't feed him any more, he's had his fill. I've had my fill of alcohol for tonight. — Fill is extra material, often of low quality, used to give something more volume. They used the rocks as fill under the new house.

fill

— verb (= make full) make full, also in a metaphorical sense fill a container fill the child with pride — verb (= fill up) become full The pool slowly filled with water The theater filled up slowly — verb (= occupy) occupy the whole of The liquid fills the container — verb (= take, occupy) assume, as of positions or roles She took the job as director of development he occupies the position of manager the young prince will soon occupy the throne — verb (= meet) fill or meet a want or need — noun a quantity sufficient to satisfy he ate his fill of potatoes she had heard her fill of gossip — verb plug with a substance fill a cavity — verb appoint someone to (a position or a job) — verb (= fill up) eat until one is sated He filled up on turkey — verb (= sate) fill to satisfaction I am sated — noun (= filling) any material that fills a space or container there was not enough fill for the trench

Synonyms fill synonyms

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fill English » English

fill up stuff load satisfy pour pack complete fill in occupy make full fulfill fulfil charge satiate filling replenish cram flood cover stop pervade meet full take plug imbue fill out crowd congest block top off tamp stuff into stopper stop up serve sate replete put into put in pad overwhelm line keep hold go extend clog choke take possession

Topics fill topics

What do people use fill to talk about?
States Quantity

Full
Universe, creation Water

Movement of water
Person Healthy Disease

Tooth decay
Physical actions Arrange

Multiple things moving
Physical actions Arrange Put

Fill, cover
States Location Area

Occupy an area
Person Body Internal organs

Stomach
Work and occupation Working with buildings Infrastructure

Road
States Quantity Enough

Need
States Big Thick

Fat person

Conjugation fill conjugation

How do you conjugate fill?

fill · verb

Examples fill examples

How do I use fill in a sentence?

Simple sentences

Find an empty bottle and fill it with water.
Fill the bucket with water.
Fill in your name and address.
Fill it up.
Fill the pot with water.
Please fill out these forms.
Can you help me fill out this form?
Fill in the blanks.
Please fill in the application form and send it back by November 2nd.
Fill it with regular, please.
Please fill out this form first.
Please fill the teapot with boiling water.
Fill out the form in ballpoint.
Fill the tires with air.
Then you just have to fill out this card.
Fill the bottle with water.
Fill in the blanks with suitable words.
Who will fill in for Tom when he is away?

Movie subtitles

These radio, radar, and television signals fill a sphere nearly 1 00 light years in diameter, so any civilisation within 1 00 light years of Earth might be hearing our voices or watching our television shows.
We just need to fill in the blanks.
We're trying to fill in a few blanks.
Had I better go and fill a couple more?
Well, hopefully not, but in any case, we're gonna fill my house to capacity.
I'll throw the eggs while you fill their mailbox with shaving cream.
Now, earth, drink your fill!
Why don't you let Satan fill up your empty suck?
Then you'll have to fill out one of these forms, you know.
That's all right. We'll fill it up before we leave.
Fill it up! - Fill it up!
Fill them up, will you?
Fill it with gas.
You'll have your fill. This is North Africa.
Eats her fill and then she's off. - What did he come looking for?
Now, fill the whole page with it.
We'll fill in something later.
All we have to do is fill them.
Now. when I fill this with wine, I'll hand it to you.
Come on, fill her up.
Fill the glasses and get out.
Break out those sails. and watch them fill with the wind that's carrying us all to freedom.
But I've had my fill of revenge.
Hurry, I'm chasing some bandits, and I forgot to fill up the tank.
You'll fill this ship with breadfruit trees. You'll recondition her for sea.
There's a demand, so I fill that demand.
He could fill like 50 balloons a day.
A driving licence form and some other ID stuff you'll need to fill in.
We'll fill it up before we leave.
Fill it up. - And hurry up.
Fill it up!
Fill 'em up again.
They fill their sacks with the precious leaves.
Hmm. I should think it might anger a man to fill him full of holes!
Come on, fill 'er up.
With his parents in the group there was enough to fill the rooms.
Miss Miller's husband is taking her to Europe, and she's leaving a hole that we won't be able to fill very easily.
Fill it up.

News and current affairs

In recent years, other ideologies have also emerged to fill the human need for collective ideals.
The problem, as in 1991, is the absence of a suitable government to fill the vacuum, one acceptable to the region and to the US.
Like the bear that learned to fill his stomach comfortably, they feel satisfied to be entertained without having to exert themselves.
Now they are in rapid retreat from that market, creating a worrying gap that Asian banks are seeking to fill.
Indeed, at its current pace, anthropogenic soil erosion would fill the Grand Canyon in 50 years.
Global power must be allocated somewhere; if the US would not fill its leading role on the international stage, an understudy would have to step in.
With the US economy yet to recover fully from the global economic crisis, and American politics increasingly dysfunctional, there is a global power vacuum that China, with shrewd diplomacy and economic might, hopes to fill - beginning in Asia.
Fortunately, the American Red Cross and other organizations have been following the Rotary model, using private donations and private volunteers to fill the gap left by our political leaders.
They advocate slashing government spending, naively believing that the private sector will somehow magically fill the void.
New donor countries like China can fill the financing gap left by the traditional donor countries.
It is important to analyze carefully whether the new regulations are actually needed and, if yes, to foresee and fill regulatory gaps with rules that ensure the smooth flow of savings to new and existing projects.
These countries need immigrants with youthful energy and skills to fill jobs that locals, for whatever reason, are unable or unwilling to take.
In this simplified system, legislation will be called legislation, and executive regulations, as in most legal systems, will fill in the gaps in primary legislation.
Europe's leaders have tried to fill this institutional lacuna with complex, non-credible rules that often fail to bind, and that, despite this failure, end up suffocating member states in need.
Arafat's departure will leave a vacuum that no other institution or leader will be able to fill.
Can Thailand's Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra fill the regional leadership vacuum?
Analogies with pigs, snouts, and troughs fill the pages of British newspapers.
Credit can also temporarily fill consumer budget gaps.
And, like China and Russia, Iran has no desire to see the US fill any security vacuum that could emerge as a result of leadership changes in Central Asia.
Given the staggering amount of programming needed to fill the time slots, content monitoring must be implemented with maximum efficiency.
These limits on state-level budget deficits are a logical implication of the fact that US states cannot create money to fill fiscal gaps.
The dismantling of Colombia's Cali and Medellin cartels in the 1990's created a vacuum that Mexico's cartels were able to fill, ultimately consolidating their position in the drug trade.
Furthermore, most drugs have not even been studied yet, so there is a long way to go fill in the holes.
To fill a prescription for a drug with a known pharmacogenomic profile, a customer can get rapid genotyping to determine appropriate dose, drug, or predilection for serious side-effects.
The European Parliament will not be able to fill the emerging vacuum, as it lacks fiscal sovereignty, which still lies with national parliaments and will remain there indefinitely.

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