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Definition: Refill |
RefillNoun1. A prescription drug that is provided again; "he got a refill of his prescription"; "the prescription specified only one refill". 2. A commercial product that refills a container with its appropriate contents; "he got a refill for his ball-point pen"; "he got a refill for his notebook". Verb1. Fill something that had previously been emptied; "refill my glass, please". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "refill" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1851. (references) |
Synonyms: RefillSynonyms: fill again (v), replenish (v). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Refill |
| English words defined with "refill": diastolic pressure. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "refill": acid changer, ACID DUMPER ♦ COOKER TENDER ♦ DEBUBBLIZER ♦ FEATHER RENOVATOR, FILLING-MACHINE OPERATOR, forming acid dumper ♦ INSPECTOR, FINAL ASSEMBLY ♦ OXYGEN-PLANT OPERATOR ♦ pillow cleaner ♦ recuperative test ♦ SEPTIC-TANK INSTALLER ♦ UTILITY OPERATOR III. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Refill" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses. Portuguese (refill), Swedish (refill). |
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Screenplays | Yo, bartender, Jobu needs a refill! (Major League; writing credit: David S. Ward) Can I refill your eggnog for you (Christmas Vacation; writing credit: John Hughes) | |
Movie/TV Titles | The Refill (1995) | |
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| "Water Break" by Kenn W. Kiser Commentary: "Taking a moment to refill water bottle during a mid-day hike. ." |
Source: photographs selected by the editor, with permission from the photographers. |
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Emo Philips | At my lemonade stand I used to give the first glass away free and charge five dollars for the second glass. The refill contained the antidote. |
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Health | However, with CCPD, you need a machine to drain and refill your abdomen. (references) | |
You then use the same catheter to refill your abdomen with fresh dialysis solution so the cleaning process can begin again. (references) | ||
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Refill" is generally used as a lexical verb (infinitive) -- approximately 52.00% of the time. "Refill" is used about 125 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 (infinitive) | 52% | 65 | 41,645 |
| Noun (singular) | 37.6% | 47 | 49,740 |
| Lexical Verb (base form) | 10.4% | 13 | 97,576 |
| Total | 100.00% | 125 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "refill": he wants another refill ♦ refill bag ♦ refill of fuel. Additional references. | |
| 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. |
| Language | Translations for "refill"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | rimbushje (replenishment), shtoj (add, add to, add up, advance, append, attach, augment, compound, count in, eke out, enclose, enhance, heighten, inclose, increase, intensify, intercalate, lend, multiply, propagate, put on, pyramid, raise, redouble, subjoin, superinduce, supplement), shtesë (accretion, addendum, additive, appendage, appendix, bonus, extension, extra, increment, insert, intercalation, makeweight, plus, supplement, weighting), plotësoj (amplify, appease, complement, complete, consummate, draw, fill, fill in, fill up, flesh, fulfil, fulfill, grant, gratify, indulge, make good, make out, make up, meet, perfect, perform, process, realize, replenish, satisfy, supplement, supply). (various references) | |
Arabic | ملأ ثانية (replenish), عبوه, إمتلأ ثانية. (various references) | |
Bulgarian | втора чаша, пълня (bowl up, fill, load, prime, stop, stuff, throng), пълнител (charger, clip), изпълнявам повторно (react). (various references) | |
Chinese | 筆心 (pencil lead), 替换物. (various references) | |
Czech | znovu naplnit, náhradní náplò, doplnit (amend, complete, fill in, piece out, recruit, replenish, stock, supply), dolít (fill up, replenish, top up). (various references) | |
Danish | ekstrastift (recharge, spare lead). (various references) | |
Dutch | reservestift (recharge, spare lead). (various references) | |
Farsi | یدکی (Extra, Reserve, Spare), تعویض (Replacement, Shift, Substitute, Switch, Turnover), دوباره پرکردن (Replenish, Replenishment). (various references) | |
Finnish | täyttää uudelleen (to refill, to regarnish, to reline, to repack), täydentää (complete, make complete, make up, replenish, supplement). (various references) | |
French | recharge (recharge). (various references) | |
German | nachfüllen (refilling, reload, reloading, to refill, top up). (various references) | |
Greek | ξαναγεμίζω. (various references) | |
Hebrew | מלוי (fill, filler, filling, fulfillment, stuffing), למלא שנית. (various references) | |
Hungarian | utántöltés, utánpótlás (after-growth, life-line, logistics, new supplies, resupply, second line, succour, supply), termoszbetét, termoszbelső, tartalékelem, púderdoboz-betét, hőpalack üvegbetétje, ceruzabél (graphite, lead). (various references) | |
Indonesian | pengisian kembali, mengisi ulang (recharge). (various references) | |
Italian | riempire di nuovo, ricaricare (buck up, recharge, reload), ricarica (recharge), ricambio (change, repair, replacement, turnover), mina di ricambio (recharge, spare lead). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 詰め替える (to refill, to repack). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | つめかえる (to refill, to repack). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | efillray.(various references) | |
Portuguese | refill, reabastecer (refuel, refurnish, replenish, restock), voltar a carregar (reload), mina sobresselente (recharge, spare lead), encher o depósito (refuel), encher novamente (replenish), encher de novo, carga (bulk, burden, charge, cloud-burst, downfall, fardel, freight, freightage, job, lading, load, loading, rush, task, weight), bateria ou pilha. (various references) | |
Romanian | rezervã (aloofness, budget, chill, condition, deposit, distance, exception, hoard, offishness, qualification, reservation, reserve, restraint, retention, side-room, stand by, standoffishness, stipulation, stock, store, substitute, supply), reumple, umple din nou, se umple din nou, piesã de schimb. (various references) | |
Russian | снова заполнять, наполнять (fill, fill up, impregnate, pervade, top up), пополнение (replacement, replenishment), дополнение (accompaniment, addition, app appendix, augmentability, augmenter, complement, object, obverse, rider, supplement, supplementation). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | ponovo napuniti (recharge, reload), ponovno punjenje (refilling, reloading). (various references) | |
Spanish | recambio (cartridge, inversion). (various references) | |
Swedish | refill, påtår, påfyllning (feed, replenishment, top up), fylla på (fuel, refresh, replenish, restock, stock up, take on), byt ut, åter fylla (replenish). (various references) | |
Thai | เติมใหม่. (various references) | |
Turkish | yeniden doldurmak (replenish, restock), yedek (backup, donkey, duplicate, jury, pilot, replacement, reserve, reserve service, reservist, spare, stand by, substitute), tekrar dolmak, iç (bowels, civil, core, domestic, endo-, guts, in, inland, inlying, inner, inside, interior, internal, intestine, inward, stuffing, within), doldurma (charging, filling, loading, springing). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | наповнювати знову, заправка, доповнення (accompaniment, addenda, adder, addition, adjunct, annex, annexe, appendage, codicil, complement, obverse, tail piece). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "refill": refillable, refilled, refilling, refills. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "refill": fibrefill. (additional references) | |
Words containing "refill": fibrefills, nonrefillable, prefilled. (additional references) | |
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"Refill" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: efil, Erfal, Jrfalla, mehfil, Pefull, pesfull, rafalo, Rafeill, Raffell, Rayful, rebill, refail, Refelt, refil, refile, refilm, retill, Reuil, Ruffili, Ruffilli, rufile. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "refill" (pronounced rēfi"l or rē"fil) |
| 3 | -f i" l | Fil, fill, fulfill. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: filler. | |
| Words within the letters "e-f-i-l-l-r" | |
-1 letter: filer, fille, flier, frill, iller, lifer, rifle, rille. | |
-2 letters: fell, file, fill, fire, lief, lier, life, lire, reif, riel, rife, rile, rill. | |
-3 letters: elf, ell, fer, fie, fil, fir, ill, ire, lei, lie, ref, rei, rif. | |
-4 letters: ef, el, er, if, li, re. | |
| Words containing the letters "e-f-i-l-l-r" | |
+1 letter: fillers, frilled, friller, refills. | |
+2 letters: fireball, firehall, firewall, freewill, frillers, frillier, hellfire, irefully, lowlifer, overfill, refilled. | |
+3 letters: direfully, fertilely, fiberfill, fibrefill, fibrillae, filtrable, fireballs, firehalls, firewalls, flatliner, fleshlier, flowerily, frilliest, frivolled, frivoller, fulfiller, fulleries, fullering, hellfires, lowlifers, nullifier, overfills, prefilled, refalling, refelling, refilling, shellfire. | |
+4 letters: alderflies, calciferol, ferrelling, fiberfills, fibrefills, fibrillate, filterable, fireballer, firewalled, flatliners, fleeringly, florilegia, flowerlike, fraxinella, friendlily, frivollers, fulfillers, infernally, mercifully, millefiori, millefleur, nullifiers, overfilled, painfuller, pilferable, pitifuller, pridefully, refillable, refuelling, shellfires, umbellifer, wearifully, wildflower, wildfowler. | |
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| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage: Modern | 5. Usage: Commercial 6. Images: Digital Art 7. Quotations: Familiar 8. Quotations: Non-fiction | 9. Usage Frequency 10. Expressions 11. Expressions: Internet 12. Translations: Modern | 13. Derivations 14. Rhymes 15. Anagrams 16. Bibliography |
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