fill

Pronunciation: /fɪl/

The English word “fill” has 20 meanings listed here.

verb

To add contents to (a container, cavity, or the like) so that it is full.
To enter (something), making it full.
To occupy fully, to take up all of.
To become full.
To become pervaded with something.
To satisfy or meet (as, an order, request, or requirement).
To install someone, or be installed, in (a position or office), eliminating a vacancy.
To treat (a tooth) by adding a dental filling to it.
To block, obstruct
To supply fully with food; to feed; to satisfy.
To trim (a yard) so that the wind blows on the after side of the sails.
To have sexual intercourse with (a female).
To ejaculate inside someone or something.

noun

A sufficient or more than sufficient amount.
An amount that fills a container.
The filling of a container or area.
Inexpensive material used to occupy empty spaces, especially in 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.

Etymology

From Middle English fillen, fullen, from Old English fyllan (“to fill, fill up, replenish, satisfy; complete, fulfill”), from Proto-West Germanic *fullijan, from Proto-Germanic *fullijaną (“to make full, fill”), from *fullaz (“full”), from Proto-Indo-European *pl̥h₁nós (“full”). Cognate with Scots fill (“to fill”), West Frisian folje (“to fill”), Low German füllen (“to fill”), Dutch vullen (“to…

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