TO FILL

Definition: FILL

FILL

Noun

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".

Verb

1. Make full; "fill a container," "fill the child with pride".

2. Become full; "The pool slowly filled with water"; "The theater filled up slowly".

3. Occupy the whole of; "The liquid fills the container".

4. Assume, as of positions or roles; "She took the job as director of development".

5. Fill or meet a want or need.

6. Appoint someone to (a position or a job).

7. Eat until one is sated; "He filled up on turkey".

8. Fill to satisfaction; "I am sated".

9. Plug with a substance; "fill a cavity".

10. : fill or stop up; "Can you close the cracks with caulking?".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Metallurgy

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Crosswords: TO FILL

You seem to be trying to fill mine with rotten apples. (North by Northwest; writing credit: Ernest Lehman)

I just didn't want to fill out the forms. (Father Ted; writing credit: Graham Linehan; Arthur Mathews)

The enemies of the state are known, arrests are being made, the prisons begin to fill. (Spartacus; writing credit: Howard Fast; Dalton Trumbo)

We're both having an experience that requires each of our minds to fill in the blank. (VR.5; writing credit: Jacquelyn Blain; Toni Graphia)

He's got a quota to fill. (Everybody Loves Raymond; writing credit: Joe Bolster)

Nothing seems to fill this place (Loser; performing artist: 3 Doors Down)

Designed to fill your mind ("Fight the Power"; performing artist: Public Enemy)

To fill your heart like no three words Could ever do. (I Just Called to Say I Love You; performing artist: Stevie Wonder)

I got a little space to fill (YOU DON'T KNOW HOW IT FEELS; performing artist: Tom Petty)

It take many nails to build crib, but one screw to fill it. (references; author: unknown)

Life just gives you time and space. It's up to you to fill it. (references; author: unknown)

If I want your opinion, I'll ask you to fill out the necessary forms. (references; author: unknown)

Adult Education Topic: How to fill up the ice cube trays. Step by step, with slide presentation. (references; author: unknown)

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Books

• How to fill out a Freddie Mac-Fannie Mae appraisal report, individual condominium unit, FHLMC form 465-FNMA form 1073 (reference)

• Help! I'm Laughing And I Can't Get Up Fall-down Funny Stories To Fill Your Heart And Lift Your Spirit (reference)

• For God's Sake Grow Up: Filling the Shoes God Called You to Fill (reference)

• Harrison's Illustrated Guide How to Fill Out a Fannie Mae-Freddie Mac Appraisal Report Small Residental Income Property (1990, 4th Ed, 4th Printing,93 (reference)

• Debbie Mumm's Country Inspirations: More Than 40 Bright and Beautiful Quilt Projects and Accessories to Fill Your Home With Joy (reference)

  (more book examples)

Music

• Eight By Eight-Music to Fill a (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

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Seen is the drug Reserpine in tablet form being counted out to fill a prescription in a pharmacy. Credit: Linda Bartlett (photographer).

Beginning of the Alaska King Crab fishery. Meat from one crab is sufficient to fill several cans. Scientists of the Fish and Wildlife Service, a forerunner of today's NMFS, showed where to catch crabs and helped develop satisfactory canning methods. King crab being shown by Captain Trafton on the ship DOROTHY. F&W - 12,476. Credit: Fisheries.

This is an image that shows Barren Island after the restoration work was completed. Dredge material was placed to support the planting. The planting was conducted to allow the marsh to fill in and establish itself before the geotube disintegrated. Prior to the restoration, this area was a high-energy shallow water environment. Credit: NOAA Restoration Center.

Marsh fragmentation. The mud was pumped in to fill the fragmented marsh. The marsh was then planted as part of the restoration. Credit: NOAA Restoration Center.

Figure 47. Sprengel pycnometer, first described by the German chemist Hermann Sprengel in 1873. He had used this instrument for a number of years. It had great precision and was easy to fill. Later the German chemist Wilhelm Ostwald partially modified it, replacing the original U tube with a single-sided one. Credit: Sailing for Science - the NOAA Fleet Then and Now.

A big contract to fill / Bart. Credit: Library of Congress.

Trying to fill the gap. Credit: Library of Congress.

Herman Gerling dipping water from a spring to fill the barrels on his truck. North Dakota. Credit: Library of Congress.

Corner of grocery store with man taking bottled drinks from supplies to fill ice box. Near New Iberia, Louisiana. Credit: Library of Congress.

Blood donors at San Quentin line up to fill in donor applications upon arrival of the Red Cross mobile unit. Medical histories are checked by Red Cross workers before blood can be given. Credit: Library of Congress.

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Clause 4: When vacancies happen in the Representation from any State, the Executive Authority thereof shall issue Writs of Election to fill such Vacancies. (reference)

When vacancies happen in the representation of any State in the Senate, the executive authority of such State shall issue writs of election to fill such vacancies: Provided, That the legislature of any State may empower the executive thereof to make temporary appointments until the people fill the vacancies by election as the legislature may direct. (reference)

In particular, it shall at once provide for filling the places of the evacuated German authorities, and if necessary shall itself give orders for their evacuation, and proceed to fill the places of such local authorities as may be required. (reference)

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Her face was still flooded with tears, but her eyes began to fill, like the sky in the breaking of the dawn, with strange radiations of joy.

And above all it had pleased him to fill the second place in those dim scenes of his imagining.

They tied them to the running boards and carried water in buckets to fill them.

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Health

If insulin injections are necessary, you will be taught how to fill the syringe and how to do the injections yourself. (references)

CCPD uses a machine called a cycler to fill and empty your abdomen three to five times during the night while you sleep. (references)

Hypertrophic cardiomyopathy--Heart muscle disease that leads to thickening of the heart walls, interfering with the heart's ability to fill with and pump blood. (references)

Business

However, the current economic situation of the country makes it extremely difficult to fill this enormous potential. (references)

The chain of sandwich bars was created to fill the group's void in a major portion of the Belgian restaurant market. (references)

It is essential that exporters take care to fill out documents properly to avoid costly delays in customs clearance. (references)

Children

Angola

Private religious, community, or corporate groups have been unable to fill this vacuum. (references)

Iraq

Sources in the opposition report that the army found it difficult to recruit enough children to fill all of the vacancies in the program. (references)

Mauritius

The law does not require that work sites be accessible to persons with disabilities, making it difficult for persons with disabilities to fill many jobs. (references)

Economic History

Honduras

Therefore, Honduras depends strictly on imports to fill its wheat demand. (references)

Estonia

As the ECP waned, other political movements, groupings, and parties moved to fill the power vacuum. (references)

Guyana

Many ships avoided Port Georgetown, and foreign buyers turned to other markets to fill their orders. (references)

Human Rights

Panama

As a result, regular PNP officers still are used to fill staffing gaps. (references)

Venezuela

The Government held competitive examinations to fill judicial vacancies, beginning in Miranda and Vargas states in January. (references)

Dominican Republic

During the year, the CNM met for only the second time since it was established in 1994 to fill three vacant seats on the Supreme Court. (references)

Political Economy

Azerbaijan

Parliamentary byelections held in November in Tovuz and Adjabedi to fill vacant parliament seats also were marred by election fraud and ballot box-stuffing. (references)

Kuwait

A by-election was held in December 2000 to fill the seat of a deceased MP. In both cases, the election campaigns were generally considered to be free and fair; however, there were some problems. (references)

Political Rights

Ukraine

In June 2000, by-elections were held to fill 10 vacant parliament seats. (references)

Trade

Mexico

The mission of development banks is to fill financing shortfalls in the commercial banking sector. (references)

Argentina

For more information and to get on their mailing list, log on to www.exim.gov to fill out an information form. (references)

Kenya

The Central Bank has streamlined the paperwork requirements by abolishing the requirement to fill out export forms. (references)

Travel

Philippines

The Philippine Bureau of Customs requires a traveler to fill out a Re-export Commitment Form and imposes a corresponding cash bond for exhibit materials; articles brought into the Philippines for repair, processing or reconditioning; software; and laptop computers (in commercial quantity). (references)

Worker Rights

United Arab Emirates

There are reports that some hotels bring young women, particularly from Uzbekistan and Kazakhstan, to fill low-paying jobs as dancers. (references)

Dominican Republic

Most teams are unable to fill the quota to receive the benefits and are not paid overtime pay for the extra time they put in to attempt to fill the quota. (references)

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Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Expressions using "TO FILL": To fill in ♦ To fill out ♦ To fill the ranks ♦ To fill up. Additional references.

Arabic 

ملا (to fill out). (various references)

Aymara

phoqayaña. (various references)

Chinese 

補 (lined, to make up for, to mend, to patch, to repair, to supplement), 滿 (filled, Manchurian, packed, to fulfill), 彌 (full). (various references)

Danish

chargering (burdening, charging, filling, to burden, to charge). (various references)

Dutch

vullen (fill, fill in, fill up, pad, stuff, upholster), laden (burden, charge, load), belading (cargo, charging, filling, freight, lading, load, loading, on-loading, to charge), beladen (burden, load). (various references)

Finnish

pinomuisti (again only from the top register, each word in turn enters the top register and is then "pushed down" the column from register to register to make room for subsequent words as they arrive.As a word is transferred out of the store, i.e.last-in-first-out(LIFO);2)a store that works as though it comprised a number of registers arranged in a column, other data in the store move back up the column from register to register to fill the space vacated, pushdown storage, pushdown store, stack, with only the register at the top of the column connected to the rest of the system.As data is transferred into the store). (various references)

French

enfourner (to charge), enfournement (to charge), charger (to burden, to charge, to load, to open), chargement (to charge). (various references)

German

füllen (brimmed, fill, fillies, fills, filly, foal, occupy, pad, stuff). (various references)

Greek 

φόρτιση υψικαμίνου (charging, filling, to charge). (various references)

Hungarian

telik (go by, gone, to elapse, to go, to lapse away, to pass, to roll on, went), töm (fill, stuff, to clog, to cram, to gorge, to pad, to ram, to wad), tölt (fed, fill, load, pour, spend, to charge, to feed, to line, to pass, to recharge), megtelik (become full, fill, to be being filled, to become full, to expand), megtölt (shot, throng, to charge, to expand, to fill up, to line, to prime, to refill, to shot), dagad (hove, swell, to expand, to get up, to heave, to surge, to swell out). (various references)

Italian

infornare (bake), infornamento (charging, feeding, filling, ladle, to charge), caricare (accuse, burden, cargo, charge, download, fill, freight, Lade, load, load up, prime, strech, tackle, take on, upload, weigh down, weight, wind up), caricamento (loading). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

満たす (to fulfill, to ingratiate, to satisfy), 注ぐ (to feed, to irrigate, to pay, to pour). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

たたえる (to extol, to give praise), そそぐ (to feed, to irrigate, to pay, to pour), うめる (to bury, to fill up), つぐ (to come after, to feed, to graft, to irrigate, to join, to pay, to piece together, to pour, to rank next to, to set, to succeed), �"みあ�'る (to experience a welling up of feelings or sensations, to feel nauseous), みたす (to fulfill, to ingratiate, to satisfy). (various references)

Maya

thoh. (various references)

Pig Latin

otay illfay

Portuguese

processo de carga (charging, filling, to charge), preencher (fill, fill in, occupy), carregamento (ammunition, burden, cargo, draught, freight, load, loading, shipment). (various references)

Portuguese Brazilian

preencher. (various references)

Spanish

proceso de carga (charging, filling, to charge). (various references)

Swazi

kú-gcwába. (various references)

Swedish

stackminne (again only from the top register, each word in turn enters the top register and is then "pushed down" the column from register to register to make room for subsequent words as they arrive.As a word is transferred out of the store, i.e.last-in-first-out(LIFO);2)a store that works as though it comprised a number of registers arranged in a column, other data in the store move back up the column from register to register to fill the space vacated, pushdown storage, pushdown store, stack, with only the register at the top of the column connected to the rest of the system.As data is transferred into the store). (various references)

expleo explevi expletum, implere, saturo. (various references)

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Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: fillo.

-2 letters: fill, filo, flit, foil, lift, lilt, loft, loti, till, toil, toll.

-3 letters: fil, fit, ill, lit, lot, oft, oil, til.

-4 letters: if, it, li, lo, of, ti, to.

+1 letter: loftily, toilful.

+2 letters: fellatio, floodlit, flotilla, foothill, loftlike.

+3 letters: fellation, fellatios, flintlock, flotillas, foothills, multifold, toilfully.

+4 letters: fellations, feuilleton, flintlocks, floodlight, folklorist, multifocal, toploftily.

+5 letters: bountifully, conflictful, conflictual, factionally, feuilletons, fictionally, floodlights, folklorists, foretelling, patelliform, toploftical.