English Dictionary

fill

/fɪl/

verb

(transitive) To occupy fully, to take up all of. / (transitive) To add contents to (a container, cavity, or the like) so that it is full. / To enter (something), making it full.

She used a spoon to fill the cup with water.

意味（1）

(transitive) To occupy fully, to take up all of.

[…] the drums began to thunder, the sound of trumpets filled the air, the earth trembled beneath their feet, and the hearts of the gazing multitude throbbed with suspense and expectation […]

意味（2）

(transitive) To add contents to (a container, cavity, or the like) so that it is full.

My hopes wa'n't disappointed. I never saw clams thicker than they was along them inshore flats. I filled my dreener in no time, and then it come to me that 'twouldn't be a bad idee to get a lot more, take 'em with me to Wellmouth, and peddle 'em out. Clams was fairly scarce over that side of the bay and ought to fetch a fair price.

意味（3）

To enter (something), making it full.

In the evening of the 14th of July, there was a rainfall of 3 or 3½ inches in that locality. The water filled the ditch so full that it overflowed the levees on both sides in many places […] .

意味（4）

(intransitive) To become full.

the bucket filled with rain; the sails fill with wind

意味（5）

(intransitive) To become pervaded with something.

My heart filled with joy.

意味（6）

(transitive) To satisfy or obey (an order, request, or requirement).

The pharmacist filled my prescription for penicillin.

意味（7）

(transitive) To install someone, or be installed, in (a position or office), eliminating a vacancy.

The board of supervisors called a specal election to fill the office, and at such special election Henry C. Andrews was elected judge of probate to fill out the said term.

意味（8）

(transitive) To treat (a tooth) by adding a dental filling to it.

Be that as it may, had the disturbance continued after our having filled the molar, and presuming that nothing had been done to the bicuspid, we might have been still as far as ever from knowing where the trouble lay.

意味（9）

(transitive) To fill or supply fully with food; to feed; to satisfy.

Whence should we have so much bread in the wilderness, as to fill so great a multitude?

意味（10）

(transitive, nautical) To trim (a yard) so that the wind blows on the after side of the sails.

意味（11）

(transitive, slang, vulgar, of a male) To have sexual intercourse with (a female).

Did you fill that girl last night?