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—fillable, adj./fil/, v.t.1. to make full; put as much as can be held into: to fill a jar with water.2. to occupy to the full capacity: Water filled the basin. The crowd filled the hall.3. to supply to an extreme degree or plentifully: to fill a house with furniture; to fill the heart with joy.4. to satisfy fully the hunger of; satiate: The roast beef filled the diners.5. to put into a receptacle: to fill sand into a pail.6. to be plentiful throughout: Fish filled the rivers.7. to extend throughout; pervade completely: The odor filled the room.8. to furnish with an occupant: The landlord filled the vacancy yesterday.9. to provide (an office or opening) with an incumbent: The company is eager to fill the controllership.11. to supply the requirements or contents of (an order), as for goods; execute.12. to supply (a blank space) with written matter, decorative work, etc.13. to meet satisfactorily, as requirements: This book fills a great need.14. to make up, compound, or otherwise provide the contents of (a medical prescription).16. Cookery. to insert a filling into: to fill cupcakes with custard.17. Naut.a. to distend (a sail) by pressure of the wind so as to impart headway to a vessel.b. to brace (a yard) so that the sail will catch the wind on its after side.18. to adulterate: to fill soaps with water.19. Civ. Engin., Building Trades. to build up the level of (an area) with earth, stones, etc.v.i.20. to become full: The hall filled rapidly. Our eyes filled with tears.21. to increase in atmospheric pressure: a filling cyclone.22. to become distended, as sails with the wind.23. fill and stand on, Naut. (of a sailing vessel) to proceed on a tack after being hove to or halted facing the wind; fill away.a. to fall off the wind and proceed on a board.b. to brace the yards, so that sails that have been aback will stand full.25. fill in,a. to supply missing or desired information: Fill in the facts of your business experience.b. to complete by adding detail, as a design or drawing: to fill in a sketch with shadow.c. to substitute for: to fill in for a colleague who is ill.d. to fill with some material: to fill in a crack with putty.26. fill out,b. to become larger, fuller, or rounder, as the figure: The children have begun to fill out since I saw them last.28. fill up,a. to fill completely: to fill up a glass; to fill up a fuel tank.b. to become completely filled: The riverbed filled up as a result of the steady rains.n.29. a full supply; enough to satisfy want or desire: to eat one's fill.30. an amount of something sufficient for filling; charge.31. Civ. Engin., Building Trades. a quantity of earth, stones, etc., for building up the level of an area of ground: These houses were built on fill. Cf. backfill.32. the feed and water in the digestive tract of a livestock animal, esp. that consumed before marketing.[bef. 900; ME fillen, OE fyllan; c. G füllen, Goth fulljan to make full; see FULL1]
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Universalium. 2010.