Fill
[fɪl]
Definition
(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.) become full; 'The pool slowly filled with water'; 'The theater filled up slowly'.
(verb.) make full, also in a metaphorical sense; 'fill a container'; 'fill the child with pride'.
(verb.) appoint someone to (a position or a job).
(verb.) 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'.
Edited by Ervin--From WordNet
Definition
(n.) One of the thills or shafts of a carriage.
(a.) 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.
(a.) 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.
(a.) To fill or supply fully with food; to feed; to satisfy.
(a.) 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.
(a.) To supply with an incumbent; as, to fill an office or a vacancy.
(a.) To press and dilate, as a sail; as, the wind filled the sails.
(a.) To trim (a yard) so that the wind shall blow on the after side of the sails.
(a.) To make an embankment in, or raise the level of (a low place), with earth or gravel.
(v. i.) 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.
(v. i.) To fill a cup or glass for drinking.
(v. t.) A full supply, as much as supplies want; as much as gives complete satisfaction.
Typist: Nelly
Synonyms and Synonymous
v. a. [1]. Make full, fill up.[2]. Store, supply, furnish, replenish, stock.[3]. Satisfy, content, GLUT.[4]. Occupy (as a place of trust), hold.
v. n. [1]. Fill a glass or cup.[2]. Become full, be filled, fill up.
n. Full supply.
Editor: Monica
Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Replenish, content, supply, satisfy, gorge, glut, occupy, appoint, stuff,store, rise, swell, grow, expand, increase
ANT:Exhaust, deprive, drain, dissatisfy, stint, vacate, misappoint, subside,shrink, ebb, evaporate, diminish
Editor: Priscilla
Definition
n. (Shak.) the thill or shaft of a cart or carriage.
v.t. to make full: to put into until all the space is occupied: to supply abundantly: to satisfy: to glut: to perform the duties of: to supply a vacant office.—v.i. to become full: to become satiated.—n. as much as fills or satisfies: a full supply: a single charge of anything.—ns. Fill′er he who or that which fills: a vessel for conveying a liquid into a bottle; Fill′ing anything used to fill up stop a hole to complete &c. as the woof in weaving: supply.
Checked by Elaine
Examples
- It will fill up the joining and form a perfect solder. William K. David. Secrets of Wise Men, Chemists and Great Physicians.
- Yes, let us eat our fill of the vain thing and be thankful therefor. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- Is it not, by its noble cares and sublime results, the one best calculated to fill the void left by uptorn affections and demolished hopes? Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- I told you Munden's day was over, and that he would not fill the house, before you engaged him for to-night, said George Lamb. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
- When I missed understanding a word, there was no time to think what it was, so I made an illegible one to fill in, trusting to the printers to sense it. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- Mr. Snagsby, having said this in a very plaintive manner, throws in a cough of general application to fill up all the blanks. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- I have not seen a man who, if he turns his talents that way, was more calculated to fill the gap left by the illustrious Moriarty. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
- Every vestige of the gentler thoughts which had filled her mind hardly a minute since seemed to be swept from it now. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- With perfect coolness Holmes slipped across to the safe, filled his two arms with bundles of letters, and poured them all into the fire. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
- They were merry and social, but they each knew that a gap, never to be filled, had been made in their circle. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- Adrian sat at the helm; I attended to the rigging, the breeze right aft filled our swelling canvas, and we ran before it over the untroubled deep. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- The grounds were more than an acre and a quarter in extent, and they were filled with people! Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- To this plunger is attached a weighted case filled with one or many tons of metal or other coarse material. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- The news that Dejah Thoris had promised her hand to Sab Than filled him with dismay. Edgar Rice Burroughs. A Princess of Mars.
- The system of filling adopted consists of a culvert in each side wall feeding laterals from which are openings upward into the lock chamber. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- Now, this is filling at the price. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
- Free chlorine is heavier than air, and hence when it leaves the exit tube it settles at the bottom of the jar, displacing the air, and finally filling the bottle. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- Like as Tom might have been, miss, if Emma and me had died after father, said Charley, her round eyes filling with tears. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- Ten minutes after it touched at the palace a message called me to the council chamber, which I found filling with the members of that body. Edgar Rice Burroughs. A Princess of Mars.
- Mrs. Bagnet forgets the day to the extent of filling a pipe and a glass for Mr. Bucket and waiting upon him hospitably. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- The room was filling. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- It fills me with hopes. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
- Yet America has not so far reached the intense enthusiasm over flying that fills the lands of Europe. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- Of close kin to the elevator are the _fire escape_, _dumb waiter_ and _grain elevator_, each of which fills a more or less important function in the life of to-day. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- Consequently he fills and empties his glass with a smack of his lips and is proceeding with his refreshment when an idea enters his mind. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- This mixture descends by gravity, and gradually fills the entire space between the two sets of molds. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- He may be too proud to let any one take him out of a place that he is competent to fill, and fills well and with respect. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
- And there are many blanks left in the weeks of courtship which a loving faith fills with happy assurance. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
Typed by Floyd