Dictionary Entry
fill
fill is a 4-letter English word with 23 senses as noun, adjective, intransitive verb, transitive verb, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: One of the thills or shafts of a carriage. Face value is 7 in Scrabble and 9 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
4 letters · Scrabble 7 · Words With Friends 9 · 23 senses
Definitions
- 1noun
One of the thills or shafts of a carriage.
- 2adjective
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.
- 3adjective
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.
- 4adjective
To fill or supply fully with food; to feed; to satisfy.
- 5adjective
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.
- 6adjective
To supply with an incumbent; as, to fill an office or a vacancy.
- 7adjective
To press and dilate, as a sail; as, the wind filled the sails.
- 8adjective
To trim (a yard) so that the wind shall blow on the after side of the sails.
- 9adjective
To make an embankment in, or raise the level of (a low place), with earth or gravel.
- 10intransitive verb
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.
- 11intransitive verb
To fill a cup or glass for drinking.
- 12transitive verb
A full supply, as much as supplies want; as much as gives complete satisfaction.
- 13noun
a quantity sufficient to satisfy
"he ate his fill of potatoes"
"she had heard her fill of gossip"
- 14noun
any material that fills a space or container
"there was not enough fill for the trench"
Synonyms
- 15verb
plug with a substance
"fill a cavity"
- 16verb
become full
"The pool slowly filled with water"
"The theater filled up slowly"
- 17verb
make full, also in a metaphorical sense
"fill a container"
"fill the child with pride"
- 18verb
fill or meet a want or need
- 19verb
fill to satisfaction
"I am sated"
- 20verb
eat until one is sated
"He filled up on turkey"
- 21verb
appoint someone to (a position or a job)
- 22verb
assume, as of positions or roles
"She took the job as director of development"
"he occupies the position of manager"
- 23verb
occupy the whole of
"The liquid fills the container"
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