Fill

• POS: Noun, Verb (usu participle)

CIDE DICTIONARY

Fill, n. [See Thill.].

 One of the thills or shafts of a carriage.  Mortimer.  [1913 Webster]

Fill horse, a thill horse. Shak.

Fill, v. t. [OE. fillen, fullen, AS. fyllan, fr. full full; akin to D. vullen, G. fÜllen, Icel. fylla, Sw. fylla, Dan. fylde, Goth. fulljan. See Full, a.].

•  To make full; to supply with as much as can be held or contained; to put or pour into, till no more can be received; to occupy the whole capacity of.  [1913 Webster]

  "The rain also filleth the pools."  [1913 Webster]

  "Jesus saith unto them, Fill the waterpots with water. Anf they filled them up to the brim."  [1913 Webster]
•  To furnish an abudant supply to; to furnish with as mush as is desired or desirable; to occupy the whole of; to swarm in or overrun.  [1913 Webster]

  "And God blessed them, saying. Be fruitful, and multiply, and fill the waters in the seas."  [1913 Webster]

  "The Syrians filled the country."  [1913 Webster]
•  To fill or supply fully with food; to feed; to satisfy.  [1913 Webster]

  "Whence should we have so much bread in the wilderness, as to fillso great a multitude?"  [1913 Webster]

  "Things that are sweet and fat are more filling."  [1913 Webster]
•  To possess and perform the duties of; to officiate in, as an incumbent; to occupy; to hold; as, a king fills a throne; the president fills the office of chief magistrate; the speaker of the House fills the chair.  [1913 Webster]
•  To supply with an incumbent; as, to fill an office or a vacancy.  A. Hamilton.  [1913 Webster]
•  To press and dilate, as a sail; as, the wind filled the sails.  [1913 Webster]
•  To make an embankment in, or raise the level of (a low place), with earth or gravel.  [1913 Webster]

To fill in, to insert; as, he filled in the figures. -- To fill out, to extend or enlarge to the desired limit; to make complete; as, to fill out a bill. -- To fill up, to make quite full; to fill to the brim or entirely; to occupy completely; to complete. “The bliss that fills up all the mind.” Pope. “And fill up that which is behind of the afflictions of Christ.” Col. i. 24.

Fill, v. i. 

•  To become full; to have the whole capacity occupied; to have an abundant supply; to be satiated; as, corn fills well in a warm season; the sail fills with the wind.  [1913 Webster]
•  To fill a cup or glass for drinking.  [1913 Webster]

  "Give me some wine; fill full."  [1913 Webster]

To back and fill. See under Back, v. i. -- To fill up, to grow or become quite full; as, the channel of the river fills up with sand.

Fill, n. [AS. fyllo. See Fill, v. t.].

•  A full supply, as much as supplies want; as much as gives complete satisfaction.  Lev. xxv. 19.  [1913 Webster]

  "I'll bear thee hence, where I may weep my fill."  [1913 Webster]
•  That which fills; filling; filler; specif., an embankment, as in railroad construction, to fill a hollow or ravine; also, the place which is to be filled.  [Webster 1913 Suppl.]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

Fill, v. & n.
--v.
1 tr. & intr. (often foll. by with) make or become full.
2 tr. occupy completely; spread over or through; pervade.
3 tr. block up (a cavity or hole in a tooth) with cement, amalgam, gold, etc.; drill and put a filling into (a decayed tooth).
4 tr. appoint a person to hold (a vacant post).
5 tr. hold (a position); discharge the duties of (an office).
6 tr. carry out or supply (an order, commission, etc.).
7 tr. occupy (vacant time).
8 intr. (of a sail) be distended by wind.
9 tr. (usu. as filling adj.) (esp. of food) satisfy, satiate.
10 tr. Poker etc. complete (a holding) by drawing the necessary cards.
11 tr. stock abundantly.
--n.
1 (prec. by possessive) as much as one wants or can bear (eat your fill).
2 enough to fill something (a fill of tobacco).
3 earth etc. used to fill a cavity.

Idiom

fill the bill be suitable or adequate. fill in
1 add information to complete (a form, document, blank cheque, etc.).
2 a complete (a drawing etc.) within an outline. b fill (an outline) in this way.
3 fill (a hole etc.) completely.
4 (often foll. by for) act as a substitute.
5 occupy oneself during (time between other activities).
6 colloq. inform (a person) more fully.
7 sl. thrash, beat.
fill out
1 enlarge to the required size.
2 become enlarged or plump.
3 US fill in (a document etc.).
fill up
1 make or become completely full.
2 fill in (a document etc.).
3 fill the petrol tank of (a car etc.).
4 provide what is needed to occupy vacant parts or places or deal with deficiencies in.
5 do away with (a pond etc.) by filling. fill-up n. a thing that fills something up.

Etymology

OE fyllan f. Gmc, rel. to FULL(1)

THESAURUS

Fill

abide by, accommodate, act up to, adhere to, admit, advise, afford, allay, answer, assimilate, attend to, bag, bar, barrel, battologize, be enfeoffed of, be faithful to, be possessed of, be seized of, bellyful, bespread, bind, bloat, block, block up, blockade, blow up, boast, bottle, box, brim, bumper, bung, burden, can, capacity, carry out, caulk, ceil, charge, chink, chock, choke, choke off, choke up, claim, clog, clog up, close, clothe, cloy, command, complement, complete, comply with, comprehend, comprise, conform to, congest, constipate, contain, contribute, cork, count in, cover, cram, crate, crawl with, creep with, crowd, crush, dam, dam up, diffuse, discharge, distend, do, do justice to, donate, embody, embrace, encircle, enclose, encompass, endow, engorge, engorgement, enjoy, enough, envisage, execute, expand, extend throughout, face, fatten, feather, fill in, fill out, fill to overflowing, fill up, find, flood, follow, foul, freight, fulfill, full house, full measure, fullness, fund, fur, furnish, give, give an encore, glut, go over, go through, gorge, grow, have, have and hold, have in hand, have tenure of, heap, heap up, heed, hold, hold by, honeycomb, imbue, include, incorporate, increase, inflate, inform, inlay, interline, invest, iterate, jade, jam, jam up, jam-pack, keep, keep faith with, know no bounds, lade, lading, leave no void, leaven, let in on, line, live up to, load, luxuriate, maintain, make available, make good, make out, make provision for, mass, meet, more than enough, mouthful, notify, number among, observe, obstipate, obstruct, occlude, occupy, overabound, overbrim, overdose, overfeed, overfill, overflow, overgorge, overgrow, overrun, oversaturate, overspill, overspread, overstuff, overswarm, pack, pack away, pad, pall, penetrate, permeate, pervade, pile, plenty, plug, plug up, pocket, possess, practice, prepare, present, provide, provide for, pug, pullulate, ram in, reaffirm, reassert, recapitulate, receive, recite, reckon among, reckon in, reckon with, recount, recruit, regard, rehash, rehearse, reissue, reiterate, replenish, repletion, reprint, respect, restate, resume, retail, retell, review, reword, run over, run riot, run through, sack, sate, satiate, satiation, satiety, satisfaction, satisfy, saturate, saturatedness, saturation, saturation point, say over, say over again, seal, share, ship, skinful, slake, snootful, spile, spill over, squat, squat on, squeeze, stack, stall, stanch, stand in, stay, stench, stock, stodge, stop, stop up, stopper, stopple, store, stow, stretch, stuff, stuff up, subsidize, substitute, sufficiency, suffuse, sum up, summarize, superabound, supercharge, supersaturate, supersaturation, supply, support, surfeit, swarm, swarm with, swell, take in, take into account, take into consideration, take over, take up, tautologize, teem, teem with, tell, top off, transfuse, usucapt, wad, wainscot, weight, yield

ROGET THESAURUS

Fill

Provision

VB provide, make provision, make due provision for, lay in, lay in a stock, lay in a store, supply, suppeditate, furnish, find, find one in, arm, cater, victual, provision, purvey, forage, beat up for, stock, stock with, make good, replenish, fill, fill up, recruit, feed, have in store, have in reserve, keep, keep by one, keep on foot, keep on hand, have to fall back upon, store, provide against a rainy day.

Sufficiency

N sufficiency, adequacy, enough, withal, satisfaction, competence, no less, quantum sufficit, Q, S, mediocrity, fill, fullness, plenitude, plenty, abundance, copiousness, amplitude, galore, lots, profusion, full measure, good measure pressed down and running, over, luxuriance, affluence, fat of the land, a land flowing with milk and honey, cornucopia, horn of plenty, horn of Amalthaea, mine, outpouring, flood, tide, repletion, satiety, sufficient, enough, adequate, up to the mark, commensurate, competent, satisfactory, valid, tangible, measured, moderate, full, ample, plenty, plentiful, plenteous, plenty as blackberries, copious, abundant, abounding, replete, enough and to spare, flush, choke-full, chock-full, well-stocked, well- provided, liberal, unstinted, unstinting, stintless, without stint, unsparing, unmeasured, lavish, wholesale, rich, luxuriant, affluent, wantless, big with, unexhausted, unwasted, exhaustless, inexhaustible, sufficiently, amply Adj, full, in abundance, with no sparing hand, to one's heart's content, ad libitum, without stint, cut and come again, das Beste ist gut genug.

Completeness

N completeness, completion, integration, allness, entirety, perfection, solidity, solidarity, unity, all, ne plus ultra, ideal, limit, complement, supplement, make-weight, filling, up, impletion, saturation, saturity, high water, high tide, flood tide, spring tide, fill, load, bumper, bellyful, brimmer, sufficiency, complete, entire, whole, perfect, full, good, absolute, thorough, plenary, solid, undivided, with all its parts, all- sided, exhaustive, radical, sweeping, thorough-going, dead, regular, consummate, unmitigated, sheer, unqualified, unconditional, free, abundant, brimming, brimful, topful, topfull, chock full, choke full, as full as an egg is of meat, as full as a vetch, saturated, crammed, replete, fraught, laden, full-laden, full-fraught, full-charged, heavy laden, completing, supplemental, supplementary, ascititious, completely, altogether, outright, wholly, totally, in toto, quite, all out, over head and ears, effectually, for good and all, nicely, fully, through thick and thin, head and shoulders, neck and heel, neck and crop, in all respects, in every respect, at all points, out and out, to all intents and purposes, toto coelo, utterly, clean, clean as a whistle, to the full, to the utmost, to the backbone, hollow, stark, heart and soul, root and branch, down to the ground, to the top of one's bent, as far as possible, a outrance, throughout, from first to last, from beginning to end, from end to end, from one end to the other, from Dan to Beersheba, from head to foot, from top to toe, from top to bottom, de fond en comble, a fond, a capite ad calcem, ab ovo usque ad mala, fore and aft, every, whit, every inch, cap-a-pie, to the end of the chapter, up to the brim, up to the ears, up to the eyes, as a as can be, on all accounts, sous tous les rapports, with a vengeance, with a witness, falsus in uno falsus in omnibus, false in one thing, false in everything, omnem movere lapidem, una scopa nuova spazza bene.

VB be complete, come to a head, render complete, complete, 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, go the whole hog, go the whole length, go all lengths.

Presence

VB exist in space, be present, assister, make one of, make one at, look on, attend, remain, find oneself, present oneself, show one's face, fall in the way of, occur in a place, lie, stand, occupy, be there, people, inhabit, dwell, reside, stay, sojourn, live, abide, lodge, nestle, roost, perch, take up one's abode, tenant, resort to, frequent, haunt, revisit, fill, pervade, permeate, be diffused, be disseminated, be through, over spread, overrun, run through, meet one at every turn.

Lining

VB line, stuff, incrust, wad, pad, fill.