Noun: fill
Sample Sentences
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Don't feed him any more: he's had his fill.
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Then they set somewhat of food before me, whereof I ate my fill, and gave me somewhat of clothes wherewith I clad myself anew and covered my nakedness; after which they took me up into the ship, […] [1885, Richard F. Burton, The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night:]
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The mixer returned to the plant for another fill.
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That machine can do 20 fills per minute.
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This paint program supports lines, circles, and textured fills.
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The ruins of earlier buildings were used as fill for more recent construction.
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Strippage from a borrow area was first treated as waste, under the contract, but after passage of time was suitable for fill and was so used. [1946, Digest of the Decisions of the Corps of Engineers Board of Contract Appeals, page 101:]
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bass fill
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The second part of recomposed Embroidering Golden Banner achieves the brightness and cheerfulness of music, and presents a cheerful passion through sanda playing methods such as left-hind octave fills, right-hand echo decoration, and encircled decoration. [2015, Dawei Zheng, Control, Mechatronics and Automation Technology, →ISBN:]
Nouns inflected like fill
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
From Middle English fille, vülle, fülle, from Old English fyllu, from Proto-West Germanic *fullī, from Proto-Germanic *fullį̄ (“fullness”). Cognate with German Fülle. See: Middle English Nouns '
fille', Old English Nouns '
fyllu', German Nouns '
Fülle'.