Word Finder - filling

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To occupy fully, to take up all of.

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

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To enter (something), making it full.

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To become full.

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the bucket filled with rain;  the sails fill with wind

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To become pervaded with something.

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My heart filled with joy.

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

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The pharmacist filled my prescription for penicillin.

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

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Sorry, no more applicants. The position has been filled.

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

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Dr. Smith filled Jim's cavity with silver amalgam.

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

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

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

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Did you fill that girl last night?

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Anything that is used to fill something.

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The contents of a pie, etc.

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

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I will be using a rapid-setting cement filling.

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The woof in woven fabrics.

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Prepared wort added to ale to cleanse it.

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

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• enduement
• second baptism

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

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a filling meal

She returned to the fire and found the men filling their bowls.

After a silent grace, they began filling their plates.

Both inched toward her, the inhuman growling filling the hall.

It wasn't much, but with the cold cuts it made a filling meal.

He watched, sorrow and then fury filling him.

The place was a long way off, and while they were judging, what with one thing and another, filling in the papers all in due form--the authorities I mean--time passed.

She focused hard on the clasp, her senses filling with him.

She dragged the two suitcases from under her bed and began filling them with clothes from the closet.

He spoke to Harrigan, who was filling out a report on a daylight burglary.

Jessi staggered under the grocery bags filling her arms.

It seems Viney had attempted to take a glass, which Helen was filling with stones, fearing that she would break it.

Her eyes were filling with tears and she didn't want him to see.

I'm just filling in.

She lifted the tiny hand and kissed it, tears filling her eyes again.

She purposely kept her thoughts of what was to come—and her fear for Jule—at the back of her mind, instead filling it with her willingness to learn her trade.

Then he took off when the well ran dry— and his girlfriend started filling out.

Each spoke to him as he swam, filling his head with visions as they told him their stories.

After filling the coffee pot and setting the timer, he began turning out the lights.

Daily the beans saw me come to their rescue armed with a hoe, and thin the ranks of their enemies, filling up the trenches with weedy dead.

Clara identified some of the bushes - all the while filling Megan in on the goings on in town.

She listened joyfully (as though she had not expected it) to the charm of the notes reverberating, filling the whole empty ballroom, and slowly dying away; and all at once she felt cheerful.

She returned to her bunk and lay down, cold fear filling her.

Ustilago, and filling a greenhouse with hydrocyanic acid gas when young insects are commencing their ravages, e.g.

Vegetation of all sorts acts in a similar way, either in forming soil and assisting in breaking up rocks, in filling up shallow lakes, and even, like the mangrove, in reclaiming wide stretches of land from the sea.

A very large quantity of sediment is rapidly filling the gulf.

The right and left lobes themselves are rent asunder (so to speak), so that they are freely visible from above, filling the corners formed by the hemispheres and the cerebellum.

These are always printed in the editions on the same page as the Mishnah and Gemara, the whole, with various other matter, filling generally about 12 folio volumes.

This gives a new and moral filling to the conception of " supernatural revelation."

By this time the alteration of the coast-line and the filling up of the lagoons had probably commenced, and no historical importance attaches to its subsequent fortunes.

In the restoration of the outlines of ancient and medieval geography in Asia Sven Hedin's discoveries of the actual remains of cities which have long been buried under the advancing waves of sand in the Takla Makan desert, cities which flourished in the comparatively recent period of Buddhist ascendancy in High Asia, is of the very highest interest, filling up a blank in the identification of sites mentioned by early geographers and illustrating more fully the course of old pilgrim routes.

In order to reach water sufficiently deep for the steamers, the railway tracks have been carried by earth filling about seven-eighths of a mile into the bay.

The result is that the tracery itself has to support the structure above it - is, in fact, constructional - whereas in most other countries the tracery is merely, as it were, a pierced screen filling in a constructional arch.

There is a Cid of history and a Cid of romance, differing very materially in character, but each filling a large space in the annals of his country, and exerting a singular influence in the development of the national genius.

Sand bars keep filling up the mouths of these channels, necessitating frequent dredging and extension of the breakwaters, work undertaken by the Federal government, which also maintains a most comprehensive and completeystem of aids to navigation, including lighthouses and lightships, fog alarms, gas and other buoys, life-saving, storm signal and weather report stations.

The Stadium, in which the Panathenaic Games were held, was first laid out by the orator Lycurgus about 330 B.C. It was an oblong structure filling a natural depression near the left bank of the Ilissus beneath the eastern de clivity of the Ardettus hill, the parallel sides and semicircular end, or acev50vn, around the arena being partially excavated from the adjoining slopes.

It can be shown that a more efficient washing results from alternately filling and emptying the funnel than by endeavouring to keep the funnel full.

In 1484 he went to Michael House, Cambridge, where he took his degrees in arts in 1487 and 1491, and, after filling several offices in the university, became master of his college in 1499.

Next, proceeding from this region in an easterly direction, are the Neogene freshwater formations, filling up the greatest part of the north-east of Bosnia, as also a zone of flysch intermingled with several strips of eruptive rock.

Those who were thus excluded from the tribes and centuries had no vote, were incapable of filling Roman magistracies and could not serve in the army.

He was knighted in 1897, and received the Royal (1875), Davy (1888), and Copley (1904) medals of the Royal Society, besides filling the offices of president of the Chemical Society and of the Institution of Electrical Engineers.

After filling clerical posts in Leipzig, he became Prediger (preacher) in Vienna in 1856.

The simple siphon is used by filling it with the liquid to be decanted, closing the longer limb with the finger and plunging the shorter into the liquid; and it must be filled for each time of using.

Innumerable forms have been devised adapted for all purposes, and provided with arrangements for filling the tube, or for keeping it full and starting it into action automatically when required.

Maxwell explained electric and magnetic forces, not by the action at a distance assumed by the earlier mathematicians, but by stresses in a medium filling all space, and possessing qualities like those attributed to the old luminiferous ether.

South of the Amazon valley and filling a great part of the eastern projection of the continent, is another arid, semi-barren plateau, lying within the southeast trade winds belt, and extending from Piauhy southward to southern Bahia.

The vomiting may take place every two or three days, enormous quantities of undigested food mixed with frothy, yeast-like mucous being thrown up. And whilst the stomach is slowly filling up again after one of these uncontrollable emptyings, sudden and violent movements of the individual may cause the fluid to give rise to audible "splashings."

In 1812 he became first professor in the newly established Presbyterian Theological Seminary at Princeton, New Jersey, where he remained until his death at Princeton on the 22nd of October 1851, filling successively the chairs of didactic and polemic theology (1812-1840), and pastoral and polemic theology (1840-1851).

This is accomplished by a twofold agency, for while numbers of them are seized upon by the granulation phagocytes, others are broken up and dissolved by the liquid filling the granulation interspaces (Afanassieff).

Albert Nyanza, on the other hand, is threatened in the distant future with destruction from another cause - the filling of its bed by the alluvium poured into it by the Semliki, the Victoria Nile and, in a lesser degree, by other streams. The Semliki receives directly or indirectly the whole of the drainage of Ruwenzori, and also that of the eastern face of the Congo mountains as well as the drainage basin of Albert Edward Nyanza.

The coinage had not only been seriously debased during the closing years of the Tokugawa regime, but large quantities of paper currency had been issued and circulated, both by many of the feudal lords, and by the central government itself, as a temporary expedient for filling an impoverished exchequer.