fill

Bedeutung

Verb

1. To make full
2. To make full
3. To make full
4. To become full.
5. To become full.
6. To satisfy or obey (an order, request, or requirement).
7. To install someone, or be installed, in (a position or office), eliminating a vacancy.
8. To treat (a tooth) by adding a dental filling to it.
9. To block, obstruct
10. To supply fully with food; to feed; to satisfy.
11. To trim (a yard) so that the wind blows on the after side of the sails.
12. (slang) To have sexual intercourse with (a female).

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.

Noun

One of the thills or shafts of a carriage.

Ausgesprochen als (IPA)

/fɪl/

Etymologie

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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”)