filling

[หˆfษชษซlษชล‹]

IPA: /F IH1 L IH0 NG/

verb
  1. 1

    To occupy fully, to take up all of.

  2. 2

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

  3. 3

    To enter (something), making it full.

  4. 4

    To become full.

    โ€œthe bucket filled with rain;ย  the sails fill with windโ€

  5. 5

    To become pervaded with something.

    โ€œMy heart filled with joy.โ€

  6. 6

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

    โ€œThe pharmacist filled my prescription for penicillin.โ€

  7. 7

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

    โ€œSorry, no more applicants. The position has been filled.โ€

  8. 8

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

    โ€œDr. Smith filled Jim's cavity with silver amalgam.โ€

  9. 9

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

  10. 10

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

  11. 11

    (of a male) To have sexual intercourse with (a female).

    โ€œDid you fill that girl last night?โ€

noun
  1. 1

    Anything that is used to fill something.

  2. 2

    The contents of a pie, etc.

  3. 3

    Any material used to fill a cavity in a tooth or the result of using such material.

    โ€œI will be using a rapid-setting cement filling.โ€

  4. 4

    The woof in woven fabrics.

  5. 5

    Prepared wort added to ale to cleanse it.

  6. 6

    A religious experience attributed to the Holy Ghost "filling" a believer.

adjective
  1. 1

    Of food, that satisfies the appetite by filling the stomach.

    โ€œa filling mealโ€

Source: https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/fill, https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/filling