Fill In

Definition: Fill In

Fill In

Verb

1. Supply with information on a specific topic; "He filled me in on the latest developments".

2. Represent the effect of shade or shadow on.

3. Be a substitute.

4. Write all the required information onto a form; "fill out this questionnaire, please!"; "make out a form".

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

Synonyms: Fill In

Completeness

Render complete; Adjective: complete; (accomplish); fill, charge, load, replenish; make up, make good; piece out, eke out; supply deficiencies; fill up, fill in, fill to the brim, fill the measure of; saturate.

Crosswords: Fill In

You fill in all the spaces in the O's with your pencil. (Mr. Deeds Goes to Town; writing credit: Clarence Budington Kell; Robert Riskin)

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)

If you see a lovely field with a family having a picnic, and there's a nice pond in it, you fill in the pond with concrete, you plough the family into the field, you blow up the tree, and use the leaves to make a dress for your wife who's also your brother. (I'm Alan Partridge; writing credit: Peter Baynham; Steve Coogan)

Fill in the cracks and paint it (These Are the Days; performing artist: O-Town)

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

Books

• Assessments for Home Education Curriculum Weekly Tests and Recording Forms Fifth Grade: May Include Simple Illustration Matching Fill in the Blank Sen (reference)

• The Burn Your Anger Book: Fill in Your Ire and Set It on Fire (reference)

  (more book examples)

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

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.

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.

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

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Health

In timed voiding, you fill in a chart of voiding and leaking. (references)

Economic History

Pakistan

The GOP's key development priority in the highway sector is to upgrade and fill in gaps in the existing road network so the system can be more efficiently utilized. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Expressions using "fill in": fill in a form ♦ fill in a hole ♦ fill in one's coupons ♦ To fill in. Additional references.

Afrikaans

vol maak (fill, fill up), invul (fill, fill up). (various references)

Albanian

mbush (cement, charge, clog, close, cover in, cram, crowd, draw, fill, fill up, gorge, Grout, heap, imbue, impregnate, infest, inject, inspire, line, load, make out, meet, pad, pervade, pour out, pump, stop up, Stow, stuff, suffuse, tap, write out). (various references)

Arabic 

‏ملأ (cram, crowd, fill, fill out, stack, stuff, wind), ‏عبأ إستمارة, ‏أعطى معلومات (output). (various references)

Bulgarian 

натъпквам (bulge, bung, compress, cram, crush, imbed, impact, jam, lumber, pack, pack in, pump in, ram, stuff, tamp), напълням (fill out), зазиждам (brick, build up, embed, fill out, imbed, wall up), запълвам (engage, fill out, stop up, supply), попълвам (bridge, complete, fill up, make out, make up, replenish, supply). (various references)

Chinese 

窴 . (various references)

Czech

vyplnit (complete, fill, fill out, fulfil, fulfill), vepsat (inscribe), doplnit (amend, complete, piece out, recruit, refill, replenish, stock, supply). (various references)

Danish

fylde (fill, fill up). (various references)

Dutch

vullen (fill, fill up, pad, stuff, upholster), volschenken (fill, fill up), volmaken (fill, fill up, perfect), stoppen (block, cease, clog, come to a halt, constipate, fill, fill up, halt, lay down, mend, patch, patch up, place, plug up, put, put down, stop, stop up), spekken (accommodate, fill, fill up, provide, supply), invullen (fill, fill up), dempen (fill, fill up). (various references)

Esperanto

plenigi (fill, fill up). (various references)

Faeroese

fylla (fill, fill up). (various references)

Finnish

täyttää (carry out, execute, fill, fulfil, fulfill, stop, stuff, up). (various references)

French

remplir (fill, fill out, fill up). (various references)

Frisian

folje (fill, fill up). (various references)

German

ausfüllen (complete, fill, fill out, fill up, filled, make out, to fill out, write). (various references)

Greek 

συμπληρώνω (complement, complete, eke out, fill out, supplement, top off). (various references)

Hawaiian

mbush (fill, fill up). (various references)

Hebrew 

למלא מקום (relieve, replace, spell, sub, substitute). (various references)

Hungarian

kitölt (fill out, to fill in, to fill out, to fill up, to put in, to write out), helyettes (acting, alternate, assistant, deputy, lieutenant, locum tenens, proxy, stand-in, substitute, supply, surrogate, vicar, vice), betölt (infuse, to fill in, to fill up, to load, to pour out). (various references)

Icelandic

fylla (fill, fill up). (various references)

Italian

riempire (be filled, cram, fill, Grout, replenish, stuff, top up). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

書き込む (to fill in). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

かき�"む (to carry under the arm, to fill in, to rake in). (various references)

Malay

mengisi (fill, fill up), isi (fill, fill up). (various references)

Manx

lhieeney (billow, blow up, charge, charge as battery, cover in, fill, fill out, flood tide, flow, fuel, inset, load, make, make of tide, pad, rise, saturate, spasm, wax, wax as moon). (various references)

Papiamen

yena (fill, fill up). (various references)

Pig Latin

illfay inay

Polish

wypełnić. (various references)

Portuguese

encher (charge, clog, close, deluge, distend, fill, fill up, flood, full, heap, impregnate, occupy, overspread, pad, pelt, people, perfuse, saturate, stuff, stuffing, suffuse, to fill up), completar (accomplish, cap, complement, complete, fill, fill up, finish off, fulfil, fulfill, implement, integrate, piece, round, supplement). (various references)

Russian 

заполнять (brim with, brimming, brimming with, fill, fill out, fill up, fill with, filling, pack, pad, populate, populated, populating). (various references)

Scottish

lìon (a net, become full, fill, fill up, fishing net, flax, how many?, lint, net, network, replenish, satiate). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

zatrpati (cover, overwhelm), zasuti (bestrew, fire, overwhelm, pour, shower), zameniti (commute, exchange, mistake, replace, substitute, supersede, supplant, switch, switch over), zamenik (assistant, associate, deputy, lieutenant, locum tenens, nizam, stand in, standby, substitute, substitution, vicar), uneti (bring in, carry in, draw in, enter, import, inscribe, introduce, take in), popuniti (fill, fill out), obavestiti (advise, brief, inform, let know, notify, tip off), izveštaj (account, notice, release, report, statement, write up). (various references)

Spanish

llenar (beset, complete, cover, crowd, encumber, equate, fill, fill out, fill up, load, make out, occupy, pack, stuff, take up). (various references)

Sranan

furu (complete, fill, fill up, full, integral). (various references)

Swedish

fylla ut (flesh out), fylla igen (pack), fylla i (charge, fill out, fill up, make out, pour in), fylla (booze, drunkenness, fill, fill up, heap, inspire, intoxicate, jag, jagg, jam, line, possess, saturate, stock, strike, stuff, supply, write), vikarie (deputy, locum tenens, pinch hitter, secondary, substitute, supply, supply teacher, understudy), uppfylla (answer, carry out, comply with, discharge, fill, fill up, fulfil, fulfill, imbue, live up to, meet, perform, satisfy), slå sönder och samman, skotta igen, kort upplysning (line), ifylla (fill, fill up), hoppa in, avlösare (successor). (various references)

Turkmen 

plomwalamak (r), gцmmek. (various references)

Ukrainian

вставляти (interpose, nest, parenthesize, throw in), наповнювати (charge, cram, fill, fill up, resound, sprinkle, suffuse), заміщати (substitute), заливати (bathe, overflow, overwhelm, steep, suffuse, swamp, wash, wash down). (various references)

Yucatec

chupsik (fill, fill up), chupik (fill, fill up). (various references)

Zulu

-gcwalisa (fill, fill up). (various references)

opplere. (various references)

Misspellings

"Fill In" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: fillin. (additional references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-2 letters: fill, nill.

-3 letters: fil, fin, ill, lin, nil.

-4 letters: if, in, li.

+1 letter: filling.

+2 letters: fillings, flailing, flintily, frilling, lifeline, tefillin, unfilial.

+3 letters: failingly, filleting, filliping, finically, flintlike, frillings, infalling, lifelines, nullified, nullifier, nullifies, refilling.

+4 letters: flatlining, friendlily, frivolling, fulfilling, infallible, infallibly, inflexible, inflexibly, jellifying, jollifying, mollifying, nullifiers, nullifying, stiflingly, unfilially.

+5 letters: alkalifying, backfilling, fictionally, financially, fireballing, firewalling, helilifting, influential, millionfold, nonfamilial, overfilling, stellifying, trifluralin, unfailingly, wildfowling.