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Definition: Fulfilled |
FulfilledAdjective1. Completed to perfection. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "fulfilled" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1010. (references) |
Crosswords: Fulfilled |
| English words defined with "fulfilled": Ecbatic ♦ hope, House of assignation ♦ nativity ♦ preterist ♦ virgin birth. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "fulfilled": Amateur ♦ Chimes ♦ Damask Rose, Dowry ♦ Havering ♦ indefinite loop, intentional homicide ♦ Lance ♦ Religion ♦ Seraiah, supplementary schemes ♦ Terms of Sale, to ignore a loop portion, to skip a loop portion ♦ voluntary manslaughter ♦ WHILE loop. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "fulfilled": fulfill. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | And the treacherous Dr Goodhead; your desire to become America's first woman in space will shortly be fulfilled. (Moonraker; writing credit: Christopher Wood) | |
Movie/TV Titles | His Trust Fulfilled (1911) Fantasy Fulfilled (1975) | |
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| Author | Quotation |
C.c. Buxton | You have not fulfilled every duty unless you have fulfilled that of being cheerful and pleasant. |
Ovid | How little is the promise of the child fulfilled in the man. |
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| Author | Date | Quotation |
Treaty of Versailles | 1919 | In case of any such aggression or in case of any threat or danger of such aggression the Council shall advise upon the means by which this obligation shall be fulfilled. (reference) |
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| Title | Author | Quote |
Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | He fulfilled his duties as mayor, but beyond that his life was isolated. |
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man | Joyce, James | A glow of desire kindled again his soul and fired and fulfilled all his body. |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Business | Whi1e in the first tender neither of the two bidders fulfilled the tender conditions, no party applied for the second tender. (references) | |
The CNC's evaluation of the targets showed that the telecommunications companies had largely fulfilled them, but that certain shortcomings existed. (references) | ||
In exceptional cases, in which special prerequisites are fulfilled, the contracting entity contacts and negotiates with the pre-qualified suppliers of its choice. (references) | ||
Children | Slovak Republic | The Commission provides information to children regarding their rights and performs the duties traditionally fulfilled by an ombudsman. (references) |
Civil Liberties | Mexico | Of those only 10 fulfilled all the requirements to initiate an investigation which includes verifying that authorities or public servants were involved in the facts. (references) |
Burkina Faso | National and international observers reported that the CSI effectively fulfilled its responsibilities under the Electoral Code to assure equal media treatment of the candidates during the period prior to the 1998 presidential election. (references) | |
Economic History | El Salvador | This recommendation was fulfilled in 1994 when an entirely new court was elected. (references) |
El Salvador | El Salvador does not produce any soybean meal, thus, all soybean meal demand must be fulfilled with imports. (references) | |
Israel | In May 2000, Barak fulfilled one of his major campaign promises by withdrawing Israeli forces from Southern Lebanon. (references) | |
Human Rights | Croatia | Only a handful of claims by ethnic Serbs for reconstruction assistance have been fulfilled; however, during the year the Government took several positive administrative steps. (references) |
Chad | Although the establishment of these bodies fulfilled the Constitution's mandate for a judicial branch, some of the members of the Supreme Court and the Constitutional Court were appointed by the Government and not elected by citizens as required by the law, which weakened the independence of the courts. (references) | |
Indigenous People | Sri Lanka | In August 1998, the Government fulfilled a long-standing Vedda demand when the President issued an order granting Veddas the right to hunt and gather in specific protected forest areas. (references) |
Political Economy | CZECH REPUBLIC | This requirement can be fulfilled by a Czech partner, but this can be burdensome and involves additional risks. (references) |
SOUTH AFRICA | The Industrial Participation obligation must be fulfilled within seven years of the effective date of the IP agreement. (references) | |
Guatemala | In May the Government reached an amicable settlement with victims of the Dos Erres massacre and in December fulfilled its agreement to make a 1.87 million payment (14.5 million quetzals) to the families of the victims. (references) | |
Political Rights | Mozambique | During the year, the Political Commission and Central Committee fulfilled this mandate. (references) |
Honduras | The National Party candidates for mayorships in the general elections fulfilled this requirement. (references) | |
Eritrea | The PFDJ still has not fulfilled the ambitious program that it initially outlined for a transition to a democratically elected government by 1997. Elections, originally scheduled for 1997, never have been held. (references) | |
Trade | Ireland | This decision followed confirmation by the European Commission and the European Monetary Institute (the forerunner to the European Central Bank) that Ireland had fulfilled the Maastricht criteria necessary for EMU entry with regard to control of government finances, inflation, interest rates and the exchange rate. (references) |
Barbados | In June 2001, Barbados fulfilled the requirements for preferences under the Caribbean Basin Economic Recovery Act (CBERA -- "CBI Enhancement") which provides that additional products will be allowed to enter the United States duty-free, including certain textile products, canned tuna, footwear, handbags, luggage, watches, and petroleum and derivatives. (references) | |
Worker Rights | Laos | Employers are responsible for all expenses for a worker injured or killed on the job, a requirement generally fulfilled by employers in the formal economic sector. (references) |
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Celine Dion | Well, I didn't need it. I did it a lot. And my family and friends and Rene and the pregnancy fulfilled me with so much love and things that I didn't even have a second to think about it. |
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| Speaker | Term | Phrase(s) |
George Washington | 1789-1797 | So far as we have already formed engagements let them be fulfilled with perfect good faith. |
James Madison | 1809-1817 | Reasonable and universal as this expectation was, it also has not been fulfilled. |
Andrew Jackson | 1829-1837 | With all, the engagements which have been entered into are fulfilled with good faith on both sides. |
George Bush | 1989-1993 | In our recent discussions with the Soviet leadership we have been given representations, which, if fulfilled, would result in the withdrawal of some Soviet forces, a re-opening of dialogue with the republics, and a move away from violence. |
George W. Bush | 2001-2005 | Yet his purpose is achieved in our duty, and our duty is fulfilled in service to one another. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| "Fulfilled" is generally used as a lexical verb (past participle) -- approximately 68.13% of the time. "Fulfilled" is used about 727 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Lexical Verb (past participle) | 68.13% | 495 | 12,127 |
| Lexical Verb (past tense) | 28.85% | 210 | 20,939 |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 2.88% | 21 | 76,261 |
| Noun (proper) | 0.14% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 727 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expression using "fulfilled": be fulfilled. Additional references. | |
| Hypenated Usage | |
Ending with "fulfilled": half-fulfilled. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
fulfilled prophecy | 14 |
bible fulfilled prophecy | 10 |
wishmaster the prophecy fulfilled | 7 |
fulfilled promise | 5 |
fulfilled | 3 |
fulfilled prophecy solana | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "fulfilled"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | realizohet (be fulfilled, be realized). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 履行 (fulfil, fulfill, Fulfilling, fulfillment). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | splnit se (be fulfilled, come true). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | forpligtelserne er blevet overholdt (the obligations have been fulfilled), man undersoeger saavel overfoeringsmekanismerne for luftforureningen til planterne som den luftrensende virkning af laeplanter (attention is focused on the mechanisms involved in the transfer ( transfer mechanisms ) of pollutants between air and plants and on the air-cleaning function fulfilled by windscreen plants), betingelserne er opfyldt (the conditions are fulfilled). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | ten aanzien de schuldenaar vervulde voorwaarde (condition fulfilled on the part of the debtor), er is aan de voorwaarden voldaan (the conditions are fulfilled), de verplichtingen zijn nagekomen (the obligations have been fulfilled), basisarts (someone who has completed his theoretical medical studies but who is not qualified to practice medecine until specific practical training requirements have been fulfilled), aandacht wordt gewijd aan de door verontreinigers tussen lucht en plant gevolgde overdrachtswegen en aan de luchtzuivering door als windscherm aangeplante gewassen (attention is focused on the mechanisms involved in the transfer ( transfer mechanisms ) of pollutants between air and plants and on the air-cleaning function fulfilled by windscreen plants). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | toteutua (be fulfilled, be realized, come off, come true, materialize, work out), täyttyä (be fulfilled, be realized, come true, fill, get filled), mennä täytäntöön (be fulfilled, be realized, come true), käydä toteen (be fulfilled, come to pass, come true). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | réalisé. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | erfüllte (complied, imbued, prepossessed), abgeleistet. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | μελέτες γύρω από τους μηχανισμούς που διέπουν τη μεταφορά των ρυπαντών από τον αέρα στα φυτά και τον καθαρισμό του αέρα από φυτά ανεμοφρακτ (attention is focused on the mechanisms involved in the transfer ( transfer mechanisms ) of pollutants between air and plants and on the air-cleaning function fulfilled by windscreen plants), οι προϋποθέσεις πληρούνται (the conditions are fulfilled), οι αναληφθείσες υποχρεώσεις έχουν εκπληρωθεί (the obligations have been fulfilled). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | מו'שם (realized). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Indonesian | terpuaskan (met, satiated, satisfied), tercukupi, rampung (complete), makbul (accepted, answered, granted). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | si studiano i processi di trasferimento degli agenti inquinanti dall'aria alle piante e la depurazione dell'aria da parte delle piante piantate a paravento (attention is focused on the mechanisms involved in the transfer ( transfer mechanisms ) of pollutants between air and plants and on the air-cleaning function fulfilled by windscreen plants), le condizioni sono soddisfatte (the conditions are fulfilled), gli impegni sono stati tenuti (the obligations have been fulfilled), condizione concernente il debitore (condition fulfilled on the part of the debtor). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Korean | 성취하". (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | coilleenit. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | ulfilledfay realizado (accomplished, realized). (various references) coimhlionta (come to man's estate, mature). (various references) cumplió, completó. (various references) förpliktelserna har uppfyllts (the obligations have been fulfilled). (various references) bitmek (be fulfilled). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Language | Date | Source | Matthew Chapter 26, Verse 54 |
| Greek (transliterated) | 250 BC | Septuagint | PwV oun plhrwqwsin ai grafai oti outwV dei genesqai |
| Latin | 405 | Vulgate | Quomodo ergo implebuntur scripturae quia sic oportet fieri |
| Old English | 990 | West Saxon | Hu magen beon gefylde þa halgengewrite. þe be me awritene synde. for-ðanþus hit byrað to beonne. |
| Middle English | 1395 | Wyclif | Hou thanne schulen the scriptures be fulfilled? for so it bihoueth to be doon. |
| Renaissance English | 1526 | Tyndale | But how then shuld the scriptures be fulfylled: for so must it be. |
| Jacobean English | 1611 | King James | But how then shall the scriptures be fulfilled, that thus it must be? |
| Victorian English | 1833 | Webster | But how then shall the scriptures be fulfilled, that thus it must be? |
| Basic English | 1964 | Ogden | But how then would the Writings come true, which say that so it has to be? |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Language | Matthew Chapter 26, Verse 54 |
| Cebuano | Apan unsaon na man unya pagkatuman sa kasulatan, nga sa ingon niini mahitabo gayud kini?" |
| Chinese | 若 是 這 樣 、 " 上 所 說 、 事 情 必 如 此 的 話 、 怎 麼 應 驗 呢 。 |
| Croatian | No kako bi se onda ispunila Pisma da tako mora biti?" |
| Danish | Hvorledes skulde da Skrifterne opfyldes, at det bør gå således til?" |
| Dutch | Hoe zouden dan de Schriften vervuld worden, die zeggen, dat het alzo geschieden moet? |
| Finnish | Mutta kuinka silloin kävisivät toteen kirjoitukset, jotka sanovat, että näin pitää tapahtuman?" |
| French | Comment donc s`accompliraient les Écritures, d`après lesquelles il doit en être ainsi? |
| German | Wie würde aber die Schrift erfüllet? Es muß also gehen. |
| Haitian Creole | Men lè sa a, ki jan sa ki ekri nan Liv la ta ka rive vre? Paske Liv la di: Se konsa pou sa pase. |
| Indonesian-Bahasa Sehari-hari | Tetapi kalau begitu, mana mungkin terjadi seperti yang sudah dinubuatkan dalam Alkitab bahwa memang harus terjadi seperti yang sekarang ini?" |
| Indonesian-Terjemahan Lama | Jikalau begitu, bagaimanakah dapat disampaikan isi Alkitab yang mengatakan, bahwa tak dapat tiada akan jadi demikian?" |
| Italian | Ma come allora si adempirebbero le Scritture, secondo le quali così deve avvenire?». |
| Latvian | Kâ tad lai izpildîtos Raksti, ka tam tâ jânotiek? |
| Manx Gaelic | Agh kys eisht vees ny scriptyryn er nyn gooilleeney, dy nee shoh myr te dy ve? |
| Maori | Nei ra, ma te aha ka rite ai ta nga karaipiture, ara ko tenei kia meatia? |
| Norwegian | Hvorledes skulde da skriftene opfylles, at så må skje? |
| Portuguese | Como, pois, se cumpririam as Escrituras, que dizem que assim convém que aconteça? |
| Rumanian | Dar cum se vor kmplini Scripturile, cari zic cq awa trebuie sq se kntkmple?`` |
| Russian | ЛБЛ ЦЕ У'Х"ХФУС рЙУБОЙС, ЮФП ФБЛ "ПМЦОП 'ЩФШ? |
| Shuar | Tura nuna Túramtainkia Yus-Chichamnum tana nu uminkiachainti" Tímiayi. |
| Swahili | Lakini yatatimiaje Maandiko Matakatifu yasemayo kwamba ndivyo inavyopaswa kuwa?" |
| Swedish | Men huru bleve då skrifterna fullbordade, som säga att så måste ske?" |
| Ukrainian | Але як ма" збутись Писання, що так статися мусить? |
| Uma | Aga ane ta'ewa-ra to mpohoko' -a toi-e, uma mpai' madupa' lolita to te'uki' hi rala Buku Tomoroli' owi to mpo'uli' hawe'ea toe lau kana majadi' hi Aku'." |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Derivations | |
Words ending with "fulfilled": overfulfilled, unfulfilled. (additional references) | |
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"Fulfilled" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: fufilled, fulfiled, Fulfulde, fulifilled, fullfiled, fullfilled. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "fulfilled" (pronounced fuhlfi"ld) |
| 7 | f uh l f i" l d | unfulfilled. |
| 4 | -f i" l d | filled, refilled, unfilled. |
| 3 | -i" l d | billed, build, Childe, chilled, distilled, drilled, gild, grilled, guild, instilled, killed, milled, rebuild, skilled, spilled, stilled, thrilled, unskilled, willed. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "d-e-f-f-i-l-l-l-u" | |
-2 letters: fulfill, lifeful. | |
-3 letters: duelli, duffel, duffle, filled, fulfil, fulled, luffed, lulled. | |
-4 letters: felid, field, fifed, filed, fille, flied, flued, fluid. | |
-5 letters: defi, deil, delf, deli, dell, diel, dill, duel, duff, dull, fell, feud, fief, fife, file, fill, fled, flue, fuel, full, idle, leud, lied, lief, lieu, life, lude, luff, lull. | |
| Words containing the letters "d-e-f-f-i-l-l-l-u" | |
+2 letters: unfulfilled. | |
+4 letters: overfulfilled. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)46 75 6C 66 69 6C 6C 65 64 |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000110 01110101 01101100 01100110 01101001 01101100 01101100 01100101 01100100 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)F u l f i l l e d |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0046 0075 006C 0066 0069 006C 006C 0065 0064 |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)408778727578787170 |
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