fill
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: nautical
transport
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”)
Inflected forms:
form: fills
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: filling
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: filled
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: filled
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To make full
pos: verb
tags: ergative
transitive
examples: She filled a glass with milk.
dreams filled with surreal imagery
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.
She continued to frown as she filled Bony's cup and added brandy to her own.
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.
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."
gloss: To make full
pos: verb
tags: ergative
transitive
examples: The doors opened and guests filled the auditorium.
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 […] .
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.'
gloss: To make full
pos: verb
tags: ergative
transitive
examples: The smell of spring filled the air.
[…]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[…]
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[…].
gloss: To become full.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: The bucket filled with rain
The room filled with thick smoke.
The sails fill with wind
gloss: To become full.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: My heart filled with joy.
gloss: To satisfy or obey (an order, request, or requirement).
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: The pharmacist filled my prescription for penicillin.
We can't let the library close! It fills a great need in the community.
To qualify for a home loan, you need to fill a number of requirements.
gloss: To install someone, or be installed, in (a position or office), eliminating a vacancy.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: 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.
Sorry, no more applicants. The position has been filled.
gloss: To treat (a tooth) by adding a dental filling to it.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: Dr. Smith filled Jim's cavity with silver amalgam.
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.
gloss: To block, obstruct
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: The drains were filled with gunk and no water could flow off.
gloss: To supply fully with food; to feed; to satisfy.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: Are all the children filled and ready for bed?
Whence should we have so much bread in the wilderness, as to fill so great a multitude?
Things that are sweet and fat are more filling.
gloss: To trim (a yard) so that the wind blows on the after side of the sails.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: To have sexual intercourse with (a female).
pos: verb
tags: slang
transitive
vulgar
examples: Did you fill that girl last night?
gloss: To ejaculate inside someone or something.
pos: verb
tags: slang
transitive
vulgar
Synonyms: get up in
knob
swive
Antonyms: empty
empty
Related words: full
Derived words: autofill
back and fill
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
backfill
Translations:
lang: Arabic
word: اِمْتَلأَ
lang: Armenian
word: լցվել
roman: lcʻvel
lang: Azerbaijani
word: dolmaq
lang: Bulgarian
word: напълвам се
roman: napǎlvam se
lang: Dutch
word: vollopen
lang: Finnish
word: täyttyä
lang: French
word: se remplir
lang: German
word: sich füllen
lang: Gothic
word: 𐍆𐌿𐌻𐌻𐌽𐌰𐌽
roman: fullnan
lang: Hebrew
word: התמלא
roman: hitmalé
lang: Hebrew
word: מָלֵא
roman: malé
lang: Hungarian
word: megtelik
lang: Icelandic
word: fyllast
lang: Irish
word: líon
lang: Japanese
word: 満ちる
roman: michiru
lang: Japanese
word: 一杯になる
roman: ippai ni naru
lang: Northern Kurdish
word: tijî bûn
lang: Malayalam
word: നിറയുക
roman: niṟayuka
lang: Middle English
word: fillen
lang: Portuguese
word: encher
lang: Russian
word: заполня́ться
roman: zapolnjátʹsja
lang: Russian
word: запо́лниться
roman: zapólnitʹsja
lang: Russian
word: наполня́ться
roman: napolnjátʹsja
lang: Russian
word: напо́лниться
roman: napólnitʹsja
lang: Slovak
word: naplniť sa
lang: Slovak
word: napĺňať sa
lang: Lower Sorbian
word: połniś se
lang: Swedish
word: fyllas
lang: Turkish
word: dolmak
lang: Ottoman Turkish
word: طولمق
roman: dolmak
lang: Volapük
word: fulikön
lang: Welsh
word: llenwi