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fills

/fɪlz/
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verb

  • To occupy fully, to take up all of.
  • To add contents to (a container, cavity or the like) so that it is full.
  • To enter (something), making it full.
  • To become full.

    "the bucket filled with rain;  the sails fill with wind"

  • To become pervaded with something.

    "My heart filled with joy."

  • To satisfy or obey (an order, request or requirement).

    "The pharmacist filled my prescription for penicillin."

  • To install someone, or be installed, in (a position or office), eliminating a vacancy.

    "Sorry, no more applicants. The position has been filled."

  • To treat (a tooth) by adding a dental filling to it.

    "Dr. Smith filled Jim's cavity with silver amalgam."

  • To fill or supply fully with food; to feed; to satisfy.
  • To trim (a yard) so that the wind blows on the after side of the sails.
  • (of a male) To have sexual intercourse with (a female).

    "Did you fill that girl last night?"

noun

  • (after a possessive) A sufficient or more than sufficient amount.

    "Don't feed him any more: he's had his fill."

  • An amount that fills a container.

    "The mixer returned to the plant for another fill."

  • The filling of a container or area.

    "That machine can do 20 fills a minute."

  • Inexpensive material used to occupy empty spaces, especially in construction.

    "The ruins of earlier buildings were used as fill for more recent 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.

    "bass fill"

noun

  • One of the thills or shafts of a carriage.

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