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Definition of Fill

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Fill Fill, n. That which fills; filling; specif., an embankment, as in railroad construction, to fill a hollow or ravine; also, the place which is to be filled.
Fill
Fill Fill, n. [See Thill.] One of the thills or shafts of a carriage. --Mortimer. Fill horse, a thill horse. --Shak.
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Fill Fill, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Filled; p. pr. & vb. n. Filling.] [OE. fillen, fullen, AS. fyllan, fr. full full; akin to D. vullen, G. f["u]llen, Icel. fylla, Sw. fylla, Dan. fylde, Goth. fulljan. See Full, a.] 1. 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. The rain also filleth the pools. --Ps. lxxxiv. 6. Jesus saith unto them, Fill the waterpots with water. Anf they filled them up to the brim. --John ii. 7. 2. 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. And God blessed them, saying. Be fruitful, and multiply, and fill the waters in the seas. --Gen. i. 22. The Syrians filled the country. --1 Kings xx. 27. 3. To fill or supply fully with food; to feed; to satisfy. Whence should we have so much bread in the wilderness, as to fillso great a multitude? --Matt. xv. 33. Things that are sweet and fat are more filling. --Bacon. 4. 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. 5. To supply with an incumbent; as, to fill an office or a vacancy. --A. Hamilton. 6. (Naut.) (a) To press and dilate, as a sail; as, the wind filled the sails. (b) To trim (a yard) so that the wind shall blow on the after side of the sails. 7. (Civil Engineering) To make an embankment in, or raise the level of (a low place), with earth or gravel. 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.
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Fill Fill, v. i. 1. 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. 2. To fill a cup or glass for drinking. Give me some wine; fill full. --Shak. 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.

Meaning of Fill from wikipedia

- Look up fill in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Fill may refer to: Fill dirt, soil added to an area Fill (archaeology), material ac****ulated in a feature...
- Fill-in can refer to: A puzzle, see Fill-In (puzzle) In numerical analysis, the entries of a matrix which change from zero to a non-zero value in the execution...
- In the pharmaceutical industry, fill and finish (also referred to as fill finish, fill-finish or fill/finish) is the process of filling vials with vaccine...
- Flood fill, also called seed fill, is a flooding algorithm that determines and alters the area connected to a given node in a multi-dimensional array...
- A fill device or key loader is a module used to load cryptographic keys into electronic encryption machines. Fill devices are usually hand held and electronic...
- Look up fill in the blank in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Fill In the Blank may refer to: Cloze test, a language test in which blank spaces in the...
- Nathan Fillion (born March 27, 1971) is a Canadian-American actor. He pla**** the leading roles of Captain Malcolm "Mal" Reynolds on Firefly and its film...
- In po****r music, a fill is a short musical p****age, riff, or rhythmic sound which helps to sustain the listener's attention during a break between the...
- Fill dirt (also called cleanfill, or just fill) is earthy material which is used to fill in a depression or hole in the ground or create mounds or otherwise...
- Fill factor may refer to: Fill factor (solar cell), the ratio of maximum obtainable power to the product of the open-circuit voltage and short-circuit...