fill
/fɪl/ noun C2- A sufficient or more than sufficient amount. · Don't feed him any more: he's had his fill.
- An amount that fills a container. · The mixer returned to the plant for another fill.
- The filling of a container or area. · That machine can do 20 fills per minute.· This paint program supports lines, circles, and textured fills.
- Inexpensive material used to occupy empty spaces, especially in construction. · The ruins of earlier buildings were used as fill for more recent construction.
- Soil and/or human-created debris discovered within a cavity or cut in the layers and exposed by excavation; fill soil.
- An embankment, as in railroad construction, to fill a hollow or ravine; also, the place which is to be filled.
- A short passage, riff, or rhythmic sound that helps to keep the listener's attention during a break between the phrases of a melody. · bass fill
- The weft yarn.
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And in the door of the hardware store the man who had come a thousand miles to fill an appointment, uncertain almost to absurdity, with the friend of his youth, smoked his cigar and waited.
Now you must be content to skip ten or eleven whole years, and only guess at all the wonderful life that Mowgli led among the wolves, because if it were written out it would fill ever so many books.
And when the morning came and the mists were all white and cold, he saw the man’s child pick up a wicker pot plastered inside with earth, fill it with lumps of red-hot charcoal, put it under his blanket, and go out to tend the cows in the byre.
Nag waved to and fro, and then Rikki-tikki heard him drinking from the biggest water-jar that was used to fill the bath.
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