fill
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: fĭl
ipa: /fɪl/
ipa: [fɪɫ]
rhymes: -ɪl
homophone: Phil
Forms: form: fills
form: filling
form: filled
form: filled
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 fill”), German füllen (“to fill”), Danish fylde (“to fill”), Swedish fylla (“to fill”), Norwegian fylle (“to fill”), Icelandic fylla (“to fill”) and Latin plenus (“full”)
Senses: examples: text: She filled a glass with milk.
text: 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, take 'em with me to Wellmouth, and peddle 'em out. Clams was fairly scarce over that side of the bay and ought to fetch a fair price.
ref: 1913, Joseph C[rosby] Lincoln, chapter III, in Mr. Pratt’s Patients, New York, N.Y.; London: D[aniel] Appleton and Company, →OCLC:
text: She continued to frown as she filled Bony's cup and added brandy to her own.
ref: 1950, Arthur W. Upfield, chapter 11, in The Bachelors of Broken Hill:
text: 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.
ref: 2005, Wendy Coakley-Thompson, What You Won't Do for Love, published 2006, →ISBN, page 10:
text: 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."
ref: 2006, Gilbert Morris, Sante Fe Woman, B&H, page 95:
glosses: To make full
To add contents to (a container, cavity, or the like) so that it is full.
synonyms: stop
examples: text: The doors opened and guests filled the auditorium.
text: 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 […] .
ref: 1910 May 13, John C. Sherwin, opinion, Delashmutt et al. v. Chicago, B. & Q. R. Co. et al., reprinted in volume 126, North Western Reporter, page 359, at 360
text: 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.'
ref: 2004, Peter Westen, The Logic of Consent, Ashgate, →ISBN, page 322:
glosses: To make full
To enter (something), making it full.
examples: text: The smell of spring filled the air.
text: […]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[…]
ref: c. 1761, Tobias Smollett, transl., Don Quixote, part 2, book 5, chapter 4:
text: 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[…].
ref: 1860 December – 1861 August, Charles Dickens, chapter XXXVIII, in Great Expectations […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), London: Chapman and Hall, […], published October 1861, →OCLC:
glosses: To make full
To occupy fully, to take up all of.
examples: text: The bucket filled with rain
text: The room filled with thick smoke.
text: The sails fill with wind
glosses: To become full.
qualifier: cavities; or the like; cavities; or the like
raw_tags: of containers
examples: text: My heart filled with joy.
glosses: To become full.
To become pervaded with something.
examples: text: The pharmacist filled my prescription for penicillin.
text: We can't let the library close! It fills a great need in the community.
text: To qualify for a home loan, you need to fill a number of requirements.
glosses: To satisfy or obey (an order, request, or requirement).
examples: text: The board of supervisors called a specal election to fill the office, and at such special election Henry C. Andrews was elected judge of probate to fill out the said term.
ref: 1891 January 23, Allen Morse, opinion, Lawrence v. Hanley, reprinted in volume 47, Northwestern Reporter, page 753, at 755
text: Sorry, no more applicants. The position has been filled.
glosses: To install someone, or be installed, in (a position or office), eliminating a vacancy.
examples: text: Dr. Smith filled Jim's cavity with silver amalgam.
text: 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.
ref: a. 1891, "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 http://google.com/books?id=eS21AAAAIAAJ&pg=PA657&dq=%22filled+the+molar%22
glosses: To treat (a tooth) by adding a dental filling to it.
examples: text: The drains were filled with gunk and no water could flow off.
glosses: To block, obstruct
examples: text: Are all the children filled and ready for bed?
text: Whence should we have so much bread in the wilderness, as to fill so great a multitude?
ref: 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Matthew 15:33:
text: Things that are sweet and fat are more filling.
ref: 1627 (indicated as 1626), Francis [Bacon], “(please specify the page, or |century=I to X)”, in Sylua Syluarum: Or A Naturall Historie. In Ten Centuries. […], London: […] William Rawley […]; [p]rinted by J[ohn] H[aviland] for William Lee […], →OCLC:
glosses: To supply fully with food; to feed; to satisfy.
topics: nautical
transport
glosses: To trim (a yard) so that the wind blows on the after side of the sails.
examples: text: Did you fill that girl last night?
glosses: To have sexual intercourse with (a female).
raw_tags: of a male
glosses: To ejaculate inside someone or something.
raw_tags: of a male
Synonyms: sense: occupy fully, take up all of
word: pervade
sense: have sexual intercourse with a female
word: dick
word: get up in
word: knob
word: swive
word: copulate with
Hyponyms: backfill
polyfill
refill
Derived terms: autofill
back and fill
backfill
eye-filling
fiberfill
fibrefill
fillable
fill and flee
fill and fly
fill away
fill-dike
fill-dyke
filler
fillgap
fill in
filling
filling gas
filling station
fill in the blank
fill music
fill one's boots
fill one's face
fill one's hand
fill one's pants
fill or kill
fill out
fillrate
fill someone's boots
fill someone's shoes
fill the bill
fillup
fill up
forthfill
fulfill
fulfil
infill
lakefill
linefill
loosefill
microfill
misfill
overfill
prefill
rockfill
underfill
unfill
upfill
Related terms: full