fill
To make full
Verb 4 meanings
To make full
“She filled a glass with milk.”
To become full.
“The bucket filled with rain”
To satisfy or meet (as, an order, request, or requirement).
“The pharmacist filled my prescription for penicillin.”
To install someone, or be installed, in (a position or office), eliminating a vacancy.
“Sorry, no more applicants. The position has been filled.”
Noun 4 meanings
A sufficient or more than sufficient amount.
“Don't feed him any more: he's had his fill.”
An amount that fills a container.
“The mixer returned to the plant for another fill.”
The filling of a container or area.
“That machine can do 20 fills per minute.”
Inexpensive material used to occupy empty spaces, especially in construction.
“The ruins of earlier buildings were used as fill for more recent construction.”
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”).
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FILL at a glance
FILL has 4 letters and scores 7 points in Scrabble (F 4 + I 1 + L 1 + L 1) and 9 in Words With Friends, before board bonuses. It ranks #2,242 by how often it appears in everyday English. It is valid in ENABLE, NWL2023, Collins/SOWPODS.
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