fill
from
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006)
fill
n 1: a quantity sufficient to satisfy; "he ate his fill of
potatoes"; "she had heard her fill of gossip"
2: any material that fills a space or container; "there was not
enough fill for the trench" [syn: {filling}, {fill}]
v 1: make full, also in a metaphorical sense; "fill a
container"; "fill the child with pride" [syn: {fill}, {fill
up}, {make full}] [ant: {empty}]
2: become full; "The pool slowly filled with water"; "The
theater filled up slowly" [syn: {fill}, {fill up}] [ant:
{discharge}, {empty}]
3: occupy the whole of; "The liquid fills the container" [syn:
{occupy}, {fill}]
4: 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"
[syn: {fill}, {take}, {occupy}]
5: fill or meet a want or need [syn: {meet}, {satisfy}, {fill},
{fulfill}, {fulfil}]
6: appoint someone to (a position or a job)
7: eat until one is sated; "He filled up on turkey" [syn: {fill
up}, {fill}]
8: fill to satisfaction; "I am sated" [syn: {satiate}, {sate},
{replete}, {fill}]
9: plug with a substance; "fill a cavity"
from
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Fill \Fill\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Filled}; p. pr. & vb. n.
{Filling}.] [OE. fillen, fullen, AS. fyllan, fr. full full;
akin to D. vullen, G. f["u]llen, Icel. fylla, Sw. fylla, Dan.
fylde, Goth. fulljan. See {Full}, a.]
1. To make full; to supply with as much as can be held or
contained; to put or pour into, till no more can be
received; to occupy the whole capacity of.
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The rain also filleth the pools. --Ps. lxxxiv.
6.
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Jesus saith unto them, Fill the waterpots with
water. Anf they filled them up to the brim. --John
ii. 7.
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2. To furnish an abudant supply to; to furnish with as mush
as is desired or desirable; to occupy the whole of; to
swarm in or overrun.
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And God blessed them, saying. Be fruitful, and
multiply, and fill the waters in the seas. --Gen. i.
22.
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The Syrians filled the country. --1 Kings xx.
27.
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3. To fill or supply fully with food; to feed; to satisfy.
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Whence should we have so much bread in the
wilderness, as to fillso great a multitude? --Matt.
xv. 33.
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Things that are sweet and fat are more filling.
--Bacon.
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4. To possess and perform the duties of; to officiate in, as
an incumbent; to occupy; to hold; as, a king fills a
throne; the president fills the office of chief
magistrate; the speaker of the House fills the chair.
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5. To supply with an incumbent; as, to fill an office or a
vacancy. --A. Hamilton.
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6. (Naut.)
(a) To press and dilate, as a sail; as, the wind filled
the sails.
(b) To trim (a yard) so that the wind shall blow on the
after side of the sails.
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7. (Civil Engineering) To make an embankment in, or raise the
level of (a low place), with earth or gravel.
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{To fill in}, to insert; as, he filled in the figures.
{To fill out}, to extend or enlarge to the desired limit; to
make complete; as, to fill out a bill.
{To fill up}, to make quite full; to fill to the brim or
entirely; to occupy completely; to complete. "The bliss
that fills up all the mind." --Pope. "And fill up that
which is behind of the afflictions of Christ." --Col. i.
24.
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from
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Fill \Fill\, v. i.
1. To become full; to have the whole capacity occupied; to
have an abundant supply; to be satiated; as, corn fills
well in a warm season; the sail fills with the wind.
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2. To fill a cup or glass for drinking.
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Give me some wine; fill full. --Shak.
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{To back and fill}. See under {Back}, v. i.
{To fill up}, to grow or become quite full; as, the channel
of the river fills up with sand.
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from
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Fill \Fill\, n. [AS. fyllo. See {Fill}, v. t.]
1. A full supply, as much as supplies want; as much as gives
complete satisfaction. "Ye shall eat your fill." --Lev.
xxv. 19.
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I'll bear thee hence, where I may weep my fill.
--Shak.
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2. That which fills; filling; filler; specif., an embankment,
as in railroad construction, to fill a hollow or ravine;
also, the place which is to be filled.
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from
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
307 Moby Thesaurus words for "fill":
abide by, accommodate, act up to, adhere to, admit, advise, afford,
allay, answer, assimilate, attend to, bag, bar, barrel,
battologize, be enfeoffed of, be faithful to, be possessed of,
be seized of, bellyful, bespread, bind, bloat, block, block up,
blockade, blow up, boast, bottle, box, brim, bumper, bung, burden,
can, capacity, carry out, caulk, ceil, charge, chink, chock, choke,
choke off, choke up, claim, clog, clog up, close, clothe, cloy,
command, complement, complete, comply with, comprehend, comprise,
conform to, congest, constipate, contain, contribute, cork,
count in, cover, cram, crate, crawl with, creep with, crowd, crush,
dam, dam up, diffuse, discharge, distend, do, do justice to,
donate, embody, embrace, encircle, enclose, encompass, endow,
engorge, engorgement, enjoy, enough, envisage, execute, expand,
extend throughout, face, fatten, feather, fill in, fill out,
fill to overflowing, fill up, find, flood, follow, foul, freight,
fulfill, full house, full measure, fullness, fund, fur, furnish,
give, give an encore, glut, go over, go through, gorge, grow, have,
have and hold, have in hand, have tenure of, heap, heap up, heed,
hold, hold by, honeycomb, imbue, include, incorporate, increase,
inflate, inform, inlay, interline, invest, iterate, jade, jam,
jam up, jam-pack, keep, keep faith with, know no bounds, lade,
lading, leave no void, leaven, let in on, line, live up to, load,
luxuriate, maintain, make available, make good, make out,
make provision for, mass, meet, more than enough, mouthful, notify,
number among, observe, obstipate, obstruct, occlude, occupy,
overabound, overbrim, overdose, overfeed, overfill, overflow,
overgorge, overgrow, overrun, oversaturate, overspill, overspread,
overstuff, overswarm, pack, pack away, pad, pall, penetrate,
permeate, pervade, pile, plenty, plug, plug up, pocket, possess,
practice, prepare, present, provide, provide for, pug, pullulate,
ram in, reaffirm, reassert, recapitulate, receive, recite,
reckon among, reckon in, reckon with, recount, recruit, regard,
rehash, rehearse, reissue, reiterate, replenish, repletion,
reprint, respect, restate, resume, retail, retell, review, reword,
run over, run riot, run through, sack, sate, satiate, satiation,
satiety, satisfaction, satisfy, saturate, saturatedness,
saturation, saturation point, say over, say over again, seal,
share, ship, skinful, slake, snootful, spile, spill over, squat,
squat on, squeeze, stack, stall, stanch, stand in, stay, stench,
stock, stodge, stop, stop up, stopper, stopple, store, stow,
stretch, stuff, stuff up, subsidize, substitute, sufficiency,
suffuse, sum up, summarize, superabound, supercharge,
supersaturate, supersaturation, supply, support, surfeit, swarm,
swarm with, swell, take in, take into account,
take into consideration, take over, take up, tautologize, teem,
teem with, tell, top off, transfuse, usucapt, wad, wainscot,
weight, yield
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