English Explanatory Dictionary

fill

English dictionary entry

Meanings

verb
  1. To make full
  2. To add contents to (a container, cavity, or the like) so that it is full.
  3. To enter (something), making it full.
  4. To occupy fully, to take up all of.
  5. To become full.
  6. To become pervaded with something.
  7. To satisfy or obey (an order, request, or requirement).
  8. To install someone, or be installed, in (a position or office), eliminating a vacancy.
  9. To treat (a tooth) by adding a dental filling to it.
  10. To block, obstruct
  11. To supply fully with food; to feed; to satisfy.
  12. To trim (a yard) so that the wind blows on the after side of the sails.
noun
  1. A sufficient or more than sufficient amount.
  2. An amount that fills a container.
  3. The filling of a container or area.
  4. Inexpensive material used to occupy empty spaces, especially in construction.
  5. Soil and/or human-created debris discovered within a cavity or cut in the layers and exposed by excavation; fill soil.
  6. An embankment, as in railroad construction, to fill a hollow or ravine; also, the place which is to be filled.
  7. A short passage, riff, or rhythmic sound that helps to keep the listener's attention during a break between the phrases of a melody.
  8. Ellipsis of fill light.
  9. The weft yarn.
  10. The answers in a crossword puzzle that are not part of the theme.
noun
  1. One of the thills or shafts of a carriage.
name
  1. A surname transferred from the given name.

Pronunciation

/fɪl/ [ˈfɪɫ] en-us-fill.ogg /fɪʊ̯/ [ˈfɪʊ̯]

Word forms

fill fills filling filled

Etymology

From Middle English fillen, fullen, from Old English fyllan (“to fill, fill up, replenish, satisfy; complete, fulfill”), from Proto-West Germanic *fullijan, from Proto-Germanic *fullijaną (“to make full, fill”), from *fullaz (“full”), from Proto-Indo-European *pl̥h₁nós (“full”). Cognate with Scots fill (“to fill”), West Frisian folje (“to fill”), Low German füllen (“to fill”), Dutch vullen (“to fill”), German füllen (“to fill”), Danish fylde (“to fill”), Swedish fylla (“to fill”), Norwegian fylle (“to fill”), Icelandic fylla (“to fill”) and Latin plenus (“full”)

Synonyms

get up in knob swive stop pervade dick

Antonyms

empty

Related words

full fill soil fill up

Derived words

autofill back and fill eye-filling fiberfill fibrefill fillable fill and flee fill and fly fill away fill-dike fill-dyke filler fillgap fill in filling filling gas filling station fill in the blank fill music fill one's boots fill one's face fill one's hand fill one's pants fill or kill fill out fillrate fill someone's boots fill someone's shoes fill the bill fillup fill up forthfill fulfill fulfil infill lakefill linefill loosefill microfill misfill overfill prefill rockfill underfill unfill upfill backfill clean fill drum fill eat one's fill February fill-dike fill dirt fill line fill site gap fill get one's fill have one's fill in-fill landfill one's fill

Translations

Arabic: اِمْتَلأَ Armenian: լցվել Azerbaijani: dolmaq Bulgarian: напълвам се Dutch: vollopen Finnish: täyttyä French: se remplir German: sich füllen Gothic: 𐍆𐌿𐌻𐌻𐌽𐌰𐌽 Hebrew: התמלא Hebrew: מָלֵא Hungarian: megtelik Icelandic: fyllast Irish: líon Japanese: 満ちる Japanese: 一杯になる Northern Kurdish: tijî bûn Malayalam: നിറയുക Middle English: fillen Portuguese: encher Russian: заполня́ться Russian: запо́лниться Russian: наполня́ться Russian: напо́лниться Slovak: naplniť sa Slovak: napĺňať sa Lower Sorbian: połniś se Swedish: fyllas Turkish: dolmak Ottoman Turkish: طولمق Volapük: fulikön Welsh: llenwi
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