fill [ fil] vt.装满，盛满；占满
fill [ fil] vt.担任(职务)；填补
fill in 填充，填写，临时代替
fill out 填好，填写；使长大
fill up 填补；装满
fill in /out 填充，填写
fill in /out
填充，填写
fill [fil] vt. 填空,装满
fill [fil] 填充
金玉满堂 Treasures fill the home
温饱工程 bring-warmth fill-bellies project
Liquid Filling Machine 液体充填机
Oil Filled Radiator 电热油汀
May the season's joy fill you all the year round.
愿节日的愉快伴你一生。
Would you please fill in the depositing form, giving the sum of money you're to deposit as well as your name, address and professional unit?
请填张存款单，写明要存的数额以及你的姓名，地址和工作的单位，好吗？
Fill our a withdrawal form, please.
请填写取款单。
to fill in the receipt in duplicate 一式两份填这张收据
Filling Station 加油站
fill in for 代替
fill out 填表
May the season's joy fill you all the year round.
愿节日的愉快伴你一生。
Fill in your selection here and take to a pay point. 在此选购商品填单，然后到收款台付款。
爱情就象一个砂漏，当脑子倒空的时候心就被填满了。
Love is like an hourglass, with the heart filling up as the brain empties.
金玉满堂 Treasures fill the home
line filling 产品线填充
填写支票数额 to fill up a cheque
FISU Fill-In Signal Unit 填充信令单元
钠冷却气门
sodium filled valve(natrium cooled valve)
注油控制装置
fill control system
Fill it up.
加满油。
He was filled with envy at my success.
他非常羡慕我的成功。
His eyes filled with tears as he looked with love at her.
他深情地看着她，眼眶里充满了泪水。
The box was filled with gifts.
盒子里装满了礼物。
Teachers should try to fill students' needs.
教师应该尽力满足学生的需要。
Mother filled my plate with food.
母亲在我盘子里放满了食物。
He is the only child in the family, so the parents are trying their best to fill his needs.
他是家里的独生子，所以父母想方设法满足他的需要。
The sound of the music fills me with memories.
那段音乐唤起了我许多回忆。
I admired my father, and his work filled me with wonder and curiosity.
我非常敬佩我的父亲，我对他的工作充满了惊讶和好奇。
I admired my father and his work filled me with curiosity.
我敬慕我的父亲，我对他的工作充满了好奇。
He looked at me without speaking, and for the first time I could see that his eyes were filled with pride.
他一声不响地看着我，我第一次发现他的眼神中充满了骄傲。
To sign up for membership, please fill in the form.
要申请会员的话，请填表。
All glass bottles which can't be filled again can be recycled.
凡是不能再装东西的瓶子都可再加以再生利用。
Fill in each of the blanks with an appropriate word.
在每个空白处填入一个恰当的词。
This ship was filled to capacity with goods.
该船满载货物。
The hall is filled to capacity.
大厅挤得满满的。
He was filled with despair by his failure.
失败使他完全绝望了。
We are meant to fill in a tax form and pay income tax every year.
每年我们都得填写税单并缴纳所得税。
She drained the bathtub and filled it with fresh water.
她放掉了浴缸里的水, 又注入了新水。
The Port of Shanghai is filled with vessels of various kinds.
上海港停满了各种各样的船只。
I think I've filled in everything correctly.我想各项都填对了。
In the early 1950’s historians who studies preindustrial Europe (which we may define here as Europe in the period from roughly 1300 to 1800) began, for the first time in large numbers, to investigate more of the preindustrial European population than the 2 or 3 percent who comprised the political and social elite: the kings, generals, judges, nobles, bishops, and local magnates who had hitherto usually filled history books.
早在20世纪50年代，许多研究前工业时代欧洲（我们可将其粗略定义为1300年至1800年间的欧洲）的历史学家们开始研究更多的欧洲人群，而不仅仅局在只占人口总数2％到3％的那些至今还充斥着历史书籍的政治、社会、精英人物：国王、将军、法官、贵族主教和地方要人。
I am filled with desire to go back home.
我心中充满了回家的渴望。
Please fill the cup with water.
请把这个杯子装满水，
Laughter filled the room.
房间里充满了笑声。
He filled and lit his pipe.
他给烟斗装上烟，然后点着。
He watched his woods filled up with snow.
他眼看着他的树林渐渐被雪覆盖。
公园里人挤人。
The park was crowded.
The park was filled with people.
我不知道这张表怎么填。
I don't know how to fill out this form. *fill out“在空白处填写”。form是“填写用表”。
这张表怎么填?
How do I fill out this form?
今天几号?
What's today's date?
Fill out the form. (请填这张表。)
What's today's date? (今天几号?)
It's the tenth. (今天10号。)
What date is it today?
What's the date?
What's the date today?
我不知道怎么填这张表。
I don't know how to fill out this form. *fill out是固定搭配，表示“在空白处填写”。form是“表格用纸”。
How do I fill out this form?
Can you help me with this form? (您能帮我填一下这张表吗?)
我把一切告诉你。
I'll fill you in. *fill...in“填满……”、“把……装满”。
So, what happened to my father? (那，我父亲出了什么事情?)
I'll fill you in. (我把一切告诉你。)
I'll tell you all about it.
I'll explain everything.
I'll tell you all the details.
我的内心充满了悲伤。
My heart has been filled with grief. *be filled with... 表示“充满……”，grief 表示“极度悲伤”、“悲叹”。
Could you explain how to fill this out?
请你说明一下怎样填这张表好吗？
Please fill in this disembarkation card.
请你填写这张入境卡。
Very well, sir. Please fill out this remittance slip.
好的，先生。请填写这张汇款通知书。
Please fill me in.
请你把情形告诉我。
= Please tell me all about it.
Fill it up.
把油箱加满。
Drop by drop the oceans are filled; stone by stone the walls are built.
滴水汇大海，垒石诛高墙。
Grain by grain and hen fills her belly.
一粒一粒啄米，母鸡填饱肚皮。
Mere words will not fill a bushel.
空言无补。
Quick feet and busy hands fill the mouth.
手勤脚快，嘴里吃饱。
The cask savours of the first fill.
先入为主。
Fill factor 填充系数
fill rate 供应比率
To fill the hour --- that is happiness.
Ralph Woldo Emerson, American thinker
让时间过得充实些，那才是幸福。
美国思想家爱默生,R.W.
Growth and change are the law of all life. Yesterday's answers are inadequate for today's problems ----just as the solutions of today will not fill the needs of tomorrow.
Franklin Roosevelt, Averican president
生长与变化是一切生命的法则。昨日的答案不适用于今日的问题——正如今天的方法不能解决明天的需求。
美国总统罗斯福,F.
We can not tell the precise moment when friendship is founded, As in filling a vessel drop by drop, there is at last a drop which makes it run over ; so in a serics of kindness there is at last one which makes the heart run over.
James Boswell, British writer
我们无法讲出友谊缔造的确切时刻，就像一点一滴地倾注一个容器一样，终有一滴使容器满溢；因此，面对接二连三的好意，终有那么一次会动人心弦，情谊洋溢。
英国作家博斯韦尔,J.
Education is not the filling of a pail but the lighting of a fire.
William Butler Yeats, lrish poet
教育不是注满一桶水，而且点燃一把火。
爱尔兰诗人叶芝B W
Fill it up. Unleaded, please.
无铅汽油加满，谢谢。
@@@ 代替
fill in for 代替, 接替
in place of 代替; 更换
locker room 更衣室
substitute A from B 用A代替B
yield to sth. 屈服, 让步; 被...占据/替代
up : 完成，结束(expressing completeness and finality)
finish up 完成
drink up 喝干
eat up 吃光
burn up 烧光
wash up 洗净
use up 用光
fill up 装满
pay up 付清
settle up 解决
lick up 甜净
sum up 总结，
open up 透露
end up 结束
let up 中止, 减少
draw up 停止
close up 停止，关闭
swallow up 吞没
beat up 痛打
cover up 掩盖
break up 结束，分解
wind up 结束
in : 加入，记入(to be added, or included)
book in 登记
check in 签到
count in 记入
fill in 填入
hand in 交上
take in 吸收
send in 呈交
out : 搞清，弄明白(in or into notice and clearness)
find out 找出
figure out 算出，解决
make out 弄清
count out 点清
come out 出版，出现
catch out 看出
carry out 完成，
bear out 证明
bring out 发表，说出
fill out 使完全, 添满
write out 写出
fill in for 代替
fill out 填表
Please fill in the application form.
请填写一下投保单。
磅礴 majestic; fill; permeate; boundless
补 mend; patch; fill
补足 complementarity; fill
填补 fill; pad
把酒 [bǎ jiǔ] /raise one's wine cup/fill a wine cup for sb/
礴 [bó] /fill/extend/
补 [bǔ] /to repair/to patch/to mend/to make up for/to fill (a vacancy)/to supplement/
补苗 [bǔ miáo] /fill the gaps with seedlings/
补缺 [bǔ quē] /fill a vacancy/supply a deficiency/
补牙 [bǔ yá] /fill a tooth/have a tooth stopped/
补足 [bǔ zú] /bring up to full strength/make up a deficiency/fill (a vacancy, gap, etc.)/
充 [chōng] /fill/satisfy/fulfill/to act in place of/substitute/sufficient/full/
代理 [dài lǐ] /acting (temporarily filling a position)/
饺 [jiǎo] /dumplings with meat filling/
满 [mǎn] /Manchurian/to fill/to fulfill/filled/packed/
满腔 [mǎn qiāng] /have one's bosom filled with/
弥 [mí] /full/to fill/
盛产 [shèng chǎn] /(v) filled with; teem with; superabound with/
添补 [tiān bu ] /fill (up)/replenish/
填 [tián] /to fill in/
阗 [tián] /fill up/rumbling sound/
填补 [tián bǔ] /(v) fill in a gap or omission/
填空 [tián kòng] /(v) fill a job vacancy/
填写 [tián xiě] /(v) fill or write in a blank spot on a form/
馅儿 [xianr4] /stuffing/filling/
盈 [yíng] /full/filled/surplus/
Americans stopped taking prosperity for granted.
美国不再视繁荣为理所当然之事。
They began to believe that their way of doing business was failing, and that their incomes would therefore shortly begin to fall as well.
他们开始相信自己的商业经营方式不灵了，也相信不久他们的收入也会因此而下降。
The mid-1980s brought one inquiry after another into the causes of America's industrial decline.
80年代中期，人们对美国工业衰退的成因作了一次又一次的探寻。
Their sometimes sensational findings were filled with warnings about the growing competition from overseas.
在美国人那些有时耸人听闻的发现中充满着对其他国家日益增长的经济竞争的警告之词。
For us, this means that evolution is over; the biological Utopia has arrived. Strangely, it has involved little physical change.
对我们来说，这意味着进化已经结束；生物学上的乌托邦已经降临。奇怪的是，这一过程几乎丝毫没有牵涉到身体上的变化，
No other species fills so many places in nature.
没有其他物种充斥着自然中如此多的空间。
But push technology has earned the contempt of many Web users.
但这种“推”销技术遭到许多网上用户的鄙视。
Online culture thinks highly of the notion that the information flowing onto the screen comes there by specific request.
网上文化推崇这样一个概念，即流动到屏幕上的信息应是在专门的请求之后才出现的。
Once commercial promotion begins to fill the screen uninvited, the distinction between the Web and television fades.
一旦商业促销不请自来地充斥电脑屏幕，那么网络和电视就没多大差别了。
His mind was ready for the unpredictable.
他的思想在准备思考不可预测的事。
Unpredicability is part of the essential nature of research.
不可预测性是科学研究不可或缺的一个重要特征。
If you don't have unpredictable things, you don't have research.
如果没有不可预测现象的产生就无所谓科学研究了。
Scientists tend to forget this when writing their cut and dried reports for the technical journals, but history is filled with examples of it.
科学家们在为科学杂志撰写千篇一律的报告时常常忘记这一点，而历史上这样的例子却比比皆是。
This account of yourself is actually a sketch of your working life and should include education, experience and references.
你的简历实际上是对你的职业生涯的简单描述，它包括教育、经验和证明人。
Such an account is valuable.
这个描述是很有价值的，
It can be referred to in filling out standard application blanks and is extremely helpful in personal interviews.
在填写标准的申请表格时它可提供参考，在面试时更是起极大的作用。
While talking to you, your could-be employer is deciding whether your education, your experience, and other qualifications will pay him to employ you and your "wares" and abilities must be displayed in an orderly and reasonably connected manner.
在与你谈话时，你未来的雇主将根据你的教育、你的经验和你其他的资历来确定雇用你是否值得，因此你必须把你的“商品”和能力以有序而合理连贯的方式陈列出来。
{adj: Praetorian, Pretorian} characteristic of or similar to the corruptible soldiers in the Praetorian Guard with respect to corruption or political venality
"a large Praetorian bureaucracy filled with ambitious...and often sycophantic people makes work and makes trouble"- Arthur M.Schlesinger Jr.
{adj: abscessed} infected and filled with pus
"an abscessed tooth"
{adj: afraid} filled with fear or apprehension
"afraid even to turn his head"
"suddenly looked afraid"
"afraid for his life"
"afraid of snakes"
"afraid to ask questions"
<-> unafraid
{adj: afraid} filled with regret or concern; used often to soften an unpleasant statement
"I'm afraid I won't be able to come"
"he was afraid he would have to let her go"
"I'm afraid you're wrong"
{adj: air-filled} full of air
{adj: amazed, astonied, astonished, astounded, stunned} filled with the emotional impact of overwhelming surprise or shock
"an amazed audience gave the magician a standing ovation"
"I stood enthralled, astonished by the vastness and majesty of the cathedral"
"astounded viewers wept at the pictures from the Oklahoma City bombing"
"stood in stunned silence"
"stunned scientists found not one but at least three viruses"
{adj: at a loss, nonplused, nonplussed, puzzled} filled with bewilderment
"at a loss to understand those remarks"
"puzzled that she left without saying goodbye"
{adj: baffled, befuddled, bemused, bewildered, confounded, confused, lost, mazed, mixed-up, at sea} perplexed by many conflicting situations or statements; filled with bewilderment
"obviously bemused by his questions"
"bewildered and confused"
"a cloudy and confounded philosopher"
"just a mixed-up kid"
"she felt lost on the first day of school"
{adj: beguiled, captivated, charmed, delighted, enthralled, entranced} filled with wonder and delight
{adj: blank, clean, white} (of a surface) not written or printed on
"blank pages"
"fill in the blank spaces"
"a clean page"
"wide white margins"
{adj: blood-filled} containing blood
"the blood-filled centers of arteries and veins"
{adj: brimful, brimfull, brimming} filled to capacity
"a brimful cup"
"I am brimful of chowder"
"a child brimming over with curiosity"
"eyes brimming with tears"
{adj: brumous, foggy, hazy, misty} filled or abounding with fog or mist
"a brumous October morning"
{adj: bubbling, bubbly, foaming, foamy, frothy, effervescing} emitting or filled with bubbles as from carbonation or fermentation
"bubbling champagne"
"foamy (or frothy) beer"
{adj: champleve, cloisonne} (for metals) having areas separated by metal and filled with colored enamel and fired
{adj: charnel, ghastly, sepulchral} gruesomely indicative of death or the dead
"a charnel smell came from the chest filled with dead men's bones"
"ghastly shrieks"
"the sepulchral darkness of the catacombs"
{adj: chinked, stopped-up} having narrow opening filled
{adj: cloud-covered, clouded, overcast, sunless} filled or abounding with clouds
{adj: cluttered, littered} filled or scattered with a disorderly accumulation of objects or rubbish
"the storm left the drivewaylittered with sticks nd debris"
"his library was a cluttered room with piles of books on every chair"
{adj: doleful, mournful} filled with or evoking sadness
"the child's doleful expression"
"stared with mournful eyes"
"mournful news"
{adj: dry, juiceless} lacking interest or stimulation; dull and lifeless
"a dry book"
"a dry lecture filled with trivial details"
"dull and juiceless as only book knowledge can be when it is unrelated to...life"- John Mason Brown
{adj: egg-filled} full of eggs
{adj: enthusiastic} having or showing great excitement and interest
"enthusiastic crowds filled the streets"
"an enthusiastic response"
"was enthusiastic about taking ballet lessons"
<-> unenthusiastic
{adj: erectile, cavernous} filled with vascular sinuses and capable of becoming distended and rigid as the result of being filled with blood
"erectile tissue"
"the penis is an erectile organ"
{adj: exultant, exulting, jubilant, prideful, rejoicing, triumphal, triumphant} joyful and proud especially because of triumph or success
"rejoicing crowds filled the streets on VJ Day"
"a triumphal success"
"a triumphant shout"
{adj: familiar} within normal everyday experience; common and ordinary; not strange
"familiar ordinary objects found in every home"
"a familiar everyday scene"
"a familiar excuse"
"a day like any other filled with familiar duties and experiences"
<-> strange
{adj: filled} (of time) taken up
"well-filled hours"
{adj: filled} (usually followed by `with' or used as a combining form) generously supplied with
"theirs was a house filled with laughter"
"a large hall filled with rows of desks"
"fog-filled air"
{adj: filled} of purchase orders that have been filled
<-> unfilled
{adj: filthy, foul, nasty} disgustingly dirty; filled or smeared with offensive matter
"as filthy as a pigsty"
"a foul pond"
"a nasty pigsty of a room"
{adj: formless} having no physical form
"belief in a world filled with...formless but often malevolent beings"
{adj: fraught, pregnant} filled with or attended with
"words fraught with meaning"
"an incident fraught with danger"
"a silence pregnant with suspense"
{adj: frowsy, frowzy, slovenly} negligent of neatness especially in dress and person; habitually dirty and unkempt
"filled the door with her frowzy bulk"
"frowzy white hair"
"slovenly appearance"
{adj: full, replete} filled to satisfaction with food or drink
"a full stomach"
{adj: gas-filled} full of a gas
{adj: gloomy, grim, darkening} characterized by hopelessness; filled with gloom
"gloomy at the thought of what he had to face"
"gloomy predictions"
"a gloomy silence"
"took a grim view of the economy"
"the darkening mood"
{adj: half-timber, half-timbered} having exposed wood framing with spaces filled with masonry, as in Tudor architecture
{adj: harsh} disagreeable to the senses
"the harsh cry of a blue jay"
"harsh cognac"
"the harsh white light makes you screw up your eyes"
"harsh irritating smoke filled the hallway"
{adj: inflatable} designed to be filled with air or gas
"an inflatable mattress"
"an inflatable boat"
{adj: instinct, replete} (followed by `with')deeply filled or permeated
"imbued with the spirit of the Reformation"
"words instinct with love"
"it is replete with misery"
{adj: jammed, jam-packed, packed} filled to capacity
"a suitcase jammed with dirty clothes"
"stands jam-packed with fans"
"a packed theater"
{adj: laden, loaded, ladened} filled with a great quantity
"a tray loaded with dishes"
"table laden with food"
"`ladened' is not current usage"
{adj: liquid, swimming} filled or brimming with tears
"swimming eyes"
"sorrow made the eyes of many grow liquid"
{adj: lively} filled with events or activity
"a lively period in history"
{adj: melted, liquid, liquified} changed from a solid to a liquid state
"rivers filled to overflowing by melted snow"
<-> unmelted
{adj: miasmal, miasmic, vaporous, vapourous} filled with vapor
"miasmic jungles"
"a vaporous bog"
{adj: moated} protected by a deep wide ditch usually filled with water
{adj: nonappointive} filled by popular election rather than by appointment
{adj: nonelective, non-elective, nonelected} filled by appointment rather than by election
"a nonelective office"
{adj: occupied} held or filled or in use
"she keeps her time well occupied"
"the wc is occupied"
<-> unoccupied
{adj: open} not having been filled
"the job is still open"
{adj: perfumed, scented} filled or impregnated with perfume
"perfumed boudoir"
"perfumed stationery"
"scented soap"
{adj: pink-collar} of or relating to a class of jobs once traditionally filled by women
"a pink-collar employee"
{adj: salty} containing or filled with salt
"salt water"
<-> fresh
{adj: satisfied} filled with satisfaction
"a satisfied customer"
{adj: saturated} used especially of organic compounds; having all available valence bonds filled
"saturated fats"
<-> unsaturated
{adj: seething} in constant agitation
"a seething flag-waving crowd filled the streets"
"a seething mass of maggots"
"lovers and madmen have such seething brains"- Shakespeare
{adj: shady, shadowed, shadowy, umbrageous} filled with shade
"the shady side of the street"
"the surface of the pond is dark and shadowed"
"we sat on rocks in a shadowy cove"
"cool umbrageous woodlands"
{adj: smoke-filled} containing smoke
"smoke-filled rooms"
{adj: smoky} marked by or emitting or filled with smoke
"smoky rafters"
"smoky chimneys"
"a smoky fireplace"
"a smoky corridor"
<-> smokeless
{adj: sperm-filled} filled with sperm
{adj: steaming, steamy} filled with steam or emitting moisture in the form of vapor or mist
"a steaming kettle"
"steamy towels"
{adj: stormbound} delayed or confined or cut off by a storm
"the airport was filled with stormbound passengers"
{adj: stuffed} filled with something
"a stuffed turkey"
{adj: swamped} sunk by being filled with water
"a swamped boat"
{adj: tearful} filled with or marked by tears
"tearful eyes"
"tearful entreaties"
<-> tearless
{adj: teeming} abundantly filled with especially living things
"the Third World's teeming millions"
"the teeming boulevard"
{adj: terror-stricken, terror-struck} struck or filled with terror
{adj: thronged} filled with great numbers crowded together
"I try to avoid the thronged streets and stores just before Christmas"
{adj: unexpired} not having come to an end or been terminated by passage of time
"elected to fill the senator's unexpired term"
"an unexpired driver's license"
<-> expired
{adj: unfilled} of purchase orders that have not been filled
<-> filled
{adj: unoccupied} not held or filled or in use
"an unoccupied telephone booth"
"unoccupied hours"
<-> occupied
{adj: watery} filled with water
"watery soil"
{adj: wheelless} having no wheels or having no wheeled vehicles
"dragging a wheelless stoneboat filled with rocks"
"wheelless societies"
<-> wheeled
{adv: completely} so as to be complete; with everything necessary
"he had filled out the form completely"
"the apartment was completely furnished"
{adv: diagrammatically, graphically} in a diagrammatic manner
"the landscape unit drawn diagrammatically illustrates the gentle rolling relief, with a peat-filled basin"
{adv: incompletely} not to a full degree or extent
"words incompletely understood"
"a form filled out incompletely"
{adv: mindlessly} without intellectual involvement
"all day long, he mindlessly filled out forms"
{n: Berlin doughnut, bismark, jelly doughnut} a raised doughnut filled with jelly or jam
{n: Boston cream pie} layer cake filled with custard
{n: Bunyan, Paul Bunyan} a legendary giant lumberjack of the north woods of the United States and Canada
"Paul Bunyan had a blue ox named Babe"
"the lakes of Minnesota began when Paul Bunyan and Babe's footprints filled with water"
{n: Christmas stocking} a stocking that is filled with small Christmas presents
{n: Cornish pasty} meat pie with filling of meat and vegetables
{n: Eccles cake} a flat round cake of sweetened pastry filled with dried fruit
{n: French pastry} sweet filled pastry made of especially puff paste
{n: Langmuir, Irving Langmuir} United States chemist who studied surface chemistry and developed the gas-filled tungsten lamp and worked on high temperature electrical discharges (1881-1957)
{n: Livy, Titus Livius} Roman historian whose history of Rome filled 142 volumes (of which only 35 survive) including the earliest history of the war with Hannibal (59 BC to AD 17)
{n: Maxwell's demon} an imaginary creature that controls a small hole in a partition that divides a chamber filled with gas into two parts and allows fast molecules to move in one direction and slow molecules to move in the other direction through the hole; this would result in one part of the container becoming warmer and the other cooler, thus decreasing entropy and violating the second law of thermodynamics
{n: Molotov cocktail, petrol bomb, gasoline bomb} a crude incendiary bomb made of a bottle filled with flammable liquid and fitted with a rag wick
{n: Pandora} (Greek mythology) the first woman; created by Hephaestus on orders from Zeus who presented her to Epimetheus along with a box filled with evils
{n: Parkinson's law} C. Northcote Parkinson's cynical observation that work will expand so as to fill the time available for its completion
{n: Trojan Horse, Wooden Horse} a large hollow wooden figure of a horse (filled with Greek soldiers) left by the Greeks outside Troy during the Trojan War
{n: Victoria sandwich, Victoria sponge} a cake consisting of two layers of sponge cake with a jelly filling in between
{n: adaptive radiation} the development of many different forms from an originally homogeneous group of organisms as they fill different ecological niches
{n: air bladder, swim bladder} an air-filled sac near the spinal column in many fishes that helps maintain buoyancy
{n: air sac} any of the membranous air-filled extensions of the lungs of birds
{n: amalgam, dental amalgam} an alloy of mercury with another metal (usually silver) used by dentists to fill cavities in teeth; except for iron and platinum all metals dissolve in mercury and chemists refer to the resulting mercury mixtures as amalgams
{n: amniotic cavity} the fluid-filled cavity that surrounds the developing embryo
{n: amygdaloid} volcanic rock in which rounded cavities formed by expanding gas have subsequently become filled with mineral deposits
{n: apple tart} a small open pie filled with sliced apples and sugar
{n: apple tart} a tart filled with sliced apples and sugar
{n: apple turnover} turnover with an apple filling
{n: aquarium, fish tank, marine museum} a tank or pool or bowl filled with water for keeping live fish and underwater animals
{n: arteriogram} an X ray of an artery filled with a contrast medium
{n: background, background knowledge} information that is essential to understanding a situation or problem
"the embassy filled him in on the background of the incident"
{n: bacon-lettuce-tomato sandwich, BLT} sandwich filled with slices of bacon and tomato with lettuce
{n: bain-marie} a large pan that is filled with hot water; smaller pans containing food can be set in the larger pan to keep food warm or to cook food slowly
{n: baklava} rich Middle Eastern cake made of thin layers of flaky pastry filled with nuts and honey
{n: balloon} large tough nonrigid bag filled with gas or heated air
{n: bangalore torpedo} a metal pipe filled with explosive, used to detonate land mines or to clear a path through barbed wire
{n: bathtub, bathing tub, bath, tub} a relatively large open container that you fill with water and use to wash the body
{n: beanbag} a small cloth bag filled with dried beans; thrown in games
{n: beef burrito} a burrito with a beef filling
{n: bellow, bellowing, holla, holler, hollering, hollo, holloa, roar, roaring, yowl} a very loud utterance (like the sound of an animal)
"his bellow filled the hallway"
{n: bicycle pump} a small pump that fills bicycle tires with air
{n: bladder} a bag that fills with air
{n: blasting cap} a small tube filled with detonating substances; used to detonate high explosives
{n: blastocoel, blastocoele, blastocele, segmentation cavity, cleavage cavity} the fluid-filled cavity inside a blastula
{n: blastula, blastodermic vesicle} early stage of an embryo produced by cleavage of an ovum; a liquid-filled sphere whose wall is composed of a single layer of cells; during this stage (about eight days after fertilization) implantation in the wall of the uterus occurs
{n: blintz, blintze} (Judaism) thin pancake folded around a filling and fried or baked
{n: blister, bulla, bleb} (pathology) an elevation of the skin filled with serous fluid
{n: boil, furuncle} a painful sore with a hard core filled with pus
{n: bomber, grinder, hero, hero sandwich, hoagie, hoagy, Cuban sandwich, Italian sandwich, poor boy, sub, submarine, submarine sandwich, torpedo, wedge, zep} a large sandwich made of a long crusty roll split lengthwise and filled with meats and cheese (and tomato and onion and lettuce and condiments); different names are used in different sections of the United States
{n: boron chamber} an ionization chamber lined with boron or filled with boron trifluoride gas for counting low velocity neutrons
{n: borrow pit} a pit created to provide earth that can be used as fill at another site
{n: bottle, feeding bottle, nursing bottle} a vessel fitted with a flexible teat and filled with milk or formula; used as a substitute for breast feeding infants and very young children
{n: broken arch} an arch with a gap at the apex; the gap is usually filled with some decoration
{n: bumper} a glass filled to the brim (especially as a toast)
"we quaffed a bumper of ale"
{n: bunghole} a hole in a barrel or cask; used to fill or empty it
{n: burrito} a flour tortilla folded around a filling
{n: bursa} a small fluid-filled sac located between movable parts of the body especially at joints
{n: busywork, make-work} active work of little value
"while he was waiting he filled the days with busywork"
{n: buying, purchasing} the act of buying
"buying and selling fill their days"
"shrewd purchasing requires considerable knowledge"
{n: cannelloni} tubular pasta filled with meat or cheese
{n: canopy} the umbrellalike part of a parachute that fills with air
{n: carload} a gathering of passengers sufficient to fill an automobile
{n: cement} any of various materials used by dentists to fill cavities in teeth
{n: charlotte} a mold lined with cake or crumbs and filled with fruit or whipped cream or custard
{n: chicken sandwich} a sandwich made with a filling of sliced chicken
{n: chicken taco} a taco with a chicken filling
{n: cleanup, cleanup position, cleanup spot} (baseball) the fourth position in the batting order (usually filled by the best batter on the team)
{n: closure, law of closure} a Gestalt principle of organization holding that there is an innate tendency to perceive incomplete objects as complete and to close or fill gaps and to perceive asymmetric stimuli as symmetric
{n: cloze procedure, cloze test} a test for diagnosing reading ability; words are deleted from a prose passage and the reader is required to fill in the blanks
{n: coconut, cocoanut} large hard-shelled oval nut with a fibrous husk containing thick white meat surrounding a central cavity filled (when fresh) with fluid or milk
{n: company} a social gathering of guests or companions
"the house was filled with company when I arrived"
{n: confabulation} (psychiatry) a plausible but imagined memory that fills in gaps in what is remembered
{n: connective tissue} tissue of mesodermal origin consisting of e.g. collagen fibroblasts and fatty cells; supports organs and fills spaces between them and forms tendons and ligaments
{n: contrast medium, contrast material} a substance that is opaque to x-rays; when administered it allows a radiologist to examine the organ or tissue it fills
{n: cosmic background radiation, CBR, cosmic microwave background radiation, CMBR, cosmic microwave background, CMB} (cosmology) the cooled remnant of the hot big bang that fills the entire universe and can be observed today with an average temperature of about 2.725 kelvin
{n: cream puff, chou} puff filled with cream or custard
{n: cry} the characteristic utterance of an animal
"animal cries filled the night"
{n: cumulative vote} an election in which each person has as many votes as there are positions to be filled and they can all be cast for one candidate or can be distributed in any manner
{n: cupbearer} the attendant (usually an officer of a nobleman's household) whose duty is to fill and serve cups of wine
{n: cup} any cup-shaped concavity
"bees filled the waxen cups with honey"
"he wore a jock strap with a metal cup"
"the cup of her bra"
{n: cushion} a soft bag filled with air or a mass of padding such as feathers or foam rubber etc.
{n: custard pie} a prop consisting of an open pie filled with real or artificial custard; thrown in slapstick comedies
{n: danish, danish pastry} light sweet yeast-raised roll usually filled with fruits or cheese
{n: dash-pot} a mechanical damper; the vibrating part is attached to a piston that moves in a chamber filled with liquid
{n: diaphragm, pessary, contraceptive diaphragm} a contraceptive device consisting of a flexible dome-shaped cup made of rubber or plastic; it is filled with spermicide and fitted over the uterine cervix
{n: diastole} the widening of the chambers of the heart between two contractions when the chambers fill with blood
{n: drafting} writing a first version to be filled out and polished later
{n: drugget} a rug made of a coarse fabric having a cotton warp and a wool filling
{n: eiderdown, duvet, continental quilt} a soft quilt usually filled with the down of the eider
{n: employment agency, employment office} an agency that finds people to fill particular jobs or finds jobs for unemployed people
{n: enchilada} tortilla with meat filling baked in tomato sauce seasoned with chili
{n: endolymph} the bodily fluid that fills the membranous labyrinth of the inner ear
{n: entrancement, ravishment} a feeling of delight at being filled with wonder and enchantment
{n: erectile tissue} vascular tissue capable of filling with blood and becoming rigid
{n: ether, aether} a medium that was once supposed to fill all space and to support the propagation of electromagnetic waves
{n: ethmoid, ethmoid bone} one of the eight bones of the cranium; a small bone filled with air spaces that forms part of the eye sockets and the nasal cavity
{n: expletive} a word or phrase conveying no independent meaning but added to fill out a sentence or metrical line
{n: fake book} a fake in the form of an imitation book; used to fill bookcases of people who wish to appear scholarly
{n: filler} copy to fill space between more important articles in the layout of a magazine or newspaper
{n: filler} used for filling cracks or holes in a surface
{n: filling, fill} any material that fills a space or container
"there was not enough fill for the trench"
{n: filling} (dentistry) a dental appliance consisting of any of various substances (as metal or plastic) inserted into a prepared cavity in a tooth
"when he yawned I could see the gold fillings in his teeth"
"an informal British term for `filling' is `stopping'"
{n: filling} a food mixture used to fill pastry or sandwiches etc.
{n: filling} flow into something (as a container)
{n: filling} the act of filling something
{n: fill} a quantity sufficient to satisfy
"he ate his fill of potatoes"
"she had heard her fill of gossip"
{n: flaccid bladder} a urinary bladder disorder resulting from interruption of the reflex arc normally associated with voiding urine; absence of bladder sensation and over-filling of the bladder and inability to urinate voluntarily
{n: flan} open pastry filled with fruit or custard
{n: flood, flowage} the act of flooding; filling to overflowing
{n: flume} watercourse that consists of an open artificial chute filled with water for power or for carrying logs
{n: form} a printed document with spaces in which to write
"he filled out his tax form"
{n: frangipane} pastry with a creamy almond-flavored filling
{n: fullness} the condition of being filled to capacity
<-> emptiness
{n: game} an amusement or pastime
"they played word games"
"he thought of his painting as a game that filled his empty time"
"his life was all fun and games"
{n: gas shell} (military) bomb consisting of an explosive projectile filled with a toxic gas that is released when the bomb explodes
{n: gasoline station, gas station, filling station, petrol station} a service station that sells gasoline
{n: glow tube} a gas-discharge tube consisting of a cold cathode and a diode in a tube filled with gas; the color of the glow depends on the particular gas
{n: grout} a thin mortar that can be poured and used to fill cracks in masonry or brickwork
{n: ham sandwich} a sandwich made with a filling of sliced ham
{n: headspace} the volume left at the top of a filled container (bottle or jar or tin) before sealing
{n: hematoma, haematoma} a localized swelling filled with blood
{n: horn of plenty, cornucopia} a goat's horn filled with grain and flowers and fruit symbolizing prosperity
{n: hot tub} a very large tub (large enough for more than one bather) filled with hot water
{n: hot-water bottle, hot-water bag} a stoppered receptacle (usually made of rubber) that is to be filled with hot water and used for warming a bed or parts of the body
{n: humility, humbleness} a humble feeling
"he was filled with humility at the sight of the Pope"
<-> pride
{n: hydatid mole, hydatidiform mole, molar pregnancy} an abnormality during pregnancy; chorionic villi around the fetus degenerate and form clusters of fluid-filled sacs; usually associated with the death of the fetus
{n: hydatid} cyst filled with liquid; forms as a result of infestation by tapeworm larvae (as in echinococcosis)
{n: hypertrophic cardiomyopathy} a disorder in which the heart muscle is so strong that it does not relax enough to fill with the heart with blood and so has reduced pumping ability
{n: ice pack, ice bag} a waterproof bag filled with ice: applied to the body (especially the head) to cool or reduce swelling
{n: incense} the pleasing scent produced when incense is burned
"incense filled the room"
{n: incidental music} music composed to accompany the action of a drama or to fill intervals between scenes
{n: inflation} the act of filling something with air
<-> deflation
{n: inlay} (dentistry) a filling consisting of a solid substance (as gold or porcelain) fitted to a cavity in a tooth and cemented into place
{n: kettle hole, kettle} (geology) a hollow (typically filled by a lake) that results from the melting of a mass of ice trapped in glacial deposits
{n: kishke, stuffed derma} (Judaism) roasted fowl intestines with a seasoned filling of matzo meal and suet
{n: knish} (Yiddish) baked or fried turnover filled with potato or meat or cheese; often eaten as a snack
{n: lacrimal sac, tear sac, dacryocyst} either of the two dilated ends of the lacrimal ducts at the nasal ends of the eyes that fill with tears secreted by the lacrimal glands
{n: lally, lally column} support column consisting of a steel cylinder filled with concrete
{n: landfill} a low area that has been filled in
{n: layer cake} cake having layers held together by a sweet filling and usually covered with frosting
{n: lekvar} a sweet filling made of prunes or apricots
{n: lobster tart} a pastry shell filled with cooked lobster
{n: maar} a flat-bottomed volcanic crater that was formed by an explosion; often filled with water
{n: mackerel sky} a sky filled with rows of cirrocumulus or small altocumulus clouds
{n: makeweight, filler} anything added to fill out a whole
"some of the items in the collection are mere makeweights"
{n: marrow, bone marrow} the fatty network of connective tissue that fills the cavities of bones
{n: mattress} a large thick pad filled with resilient material and often incorporating coiled springs, used as a bed or part of a bed
{n: milt, soft roe} fish sperm or sperm-filled reproductive gland; having a creamy texture
{n: moat, fosse} ditch dug as a fortification and usually filled with water
{n: napoleon} a rectangular piece of pastry with thin flaky layers and filled with custard cream
{n: nogging} rough brick masonry used to fill in the gaps in a wooden frame
{n: novel} a printed and bound book that is an extended work of fiction
"his bookcases were filled with nothing but novels"
"he burned all the novels"
{n: oreo, oreo cookie} chocolate cookie with white cream filling
{n: padding, cushioning} artifact consisting of soft or resilient material used to fill or give shape or protect or add comfort
{n: paillasse, palliasse} mattress consisting of a thin pad filled with straw or sawdust
{n: pallet} a mattress filled with straw or a pad made of quilts; used as a bed
{n: parachute, chute} rescue equipment consisting of a device that fills with air and retards your fall
{n: performance bond, surety bond} a bond given to protect the recipient against loss in case the terms of a contract are not filled; a surety company assumes liability for nonperformance
{n: perilymph} the bodily fluid that fills the space between the bony labyrinth and the membranous labyrinth of the inner ear
{n: pervasiveness} the quality of filling or spreading throughout
"the pervasiveness of the odor of cabbage in tenement hallways"
{n: pinata} plaything consisting of a container filled with toys and candy; suspended from a height for blindfolded children to break with sticks
{n: pinwheel roll} pinwheel-shaped rolls spread with cinnamon and sugar and filled with e.g. jam before baking
{n: pita, pocket bread} usually small round bread that can open into a pocket for filling
{n: plug, stopper, stopple} blockage consisting of an object designed to fill a hole tightly
{n: pneumatic tire, pneumatic tyre} a tire made of reinforced rubber and filled with compressed air; used on motor vehicles and bicycles etc
{n: pneumatophore} an air-filled root (submerged or exposed) that can function as a respiratory organ of a marsh or swamp plant
{n: pointing trowel} a trowel used to fill and finish masonry joints with mortar or cement
{n: pool} an excavation that is (usually) filled with water
{n: pork pie} small pie filled with minced seasoned pork
{n: pustule} a small inflamed elevation of skin containing pus; a blister filled with pus
{n: quiche} a tart filled with rich unsweetened custard; often contains other ingredients (as cheese or ham or seafood or vegetables)
{n: quicksand} a pit filled with loose wet sand into which objects are sucked down
{n: quilt, comforter, puff} bedding made of two layers of cloth filled with stuffing and stitched together
{n: quilting} stitching through layers of fabric and a filling so as to create a design
{n: quinsy, peritonsillar abscess} a painful pus filled inflammation of the tonsils and surrounding tissues; usually a complication of tonsillitis
{n: rain stick} a percussion instrument that is made from a dried cactus branch that is hollowed out and filled with small pebbles and capped at both ends; makes the sound of falling rain when tilted; origin was in Chile where tribesmen used it in ceremonies to bring rain
{n: raisin-nut cookie} cookie filled with a paste of raisins and nuts
{n: refilling, replenishment, replacement, renewal} filling again by supplying what has been used up
{n: requisition, requisition form} an official form on which a request in made
"first you have to fill out the requisition"
{n: roe, hard roe} fish eggs or egg-filled ovary; having a grainy texture
{n: rose window, rosette} circular window filled with tracery
{n: rosin bag} a bag filled with rosin; used by baseball pitchers to improve their grip on the ball
{n: roulade} a dish consisting of a slice of meat that is rolled around a filling and cooked
{n: row} a long continuous strip (usually running horizontally)
"a mackerel sky filled with rows of clouds"
"rows of barbed wire protected the trenches"
{n: safety fuse} a slow-burning fuse consisting of a tube or cord filled or saturated with combustible matter; used to ignite detonators from a distance
{n: samosa} small turnover of Indian origin filled with vegetables or meat and fried and served hot
{n: sandbag} a bag filled with sand; used as a weapon or to build walls or as ballast
{n: sandbox, sandpile} plaything consisting of a pile of sand or a box filled with sand for children to play in
{n: sandwich} two (or more) slices of bread with a filling between them
{n: satin weave} a weave in which the filling and warp threads intersect in such a way as to give a smooth compact surface with no distinguishable twill line
{n: sausage meat} any meat that is minced and spiced and cooked as patties or used to fill sausages
{n: sealing material} any substance used to seal joints or fill cracks in a porous surface
{n: sebaceous cyst, pilar cyst, wen, steatocystoma} a common cyst of the skin; filled with fatty matter (sebum) that is secreted by a sebaceous gland that has been blocked
{n: semicircular canal} one of three tube loops filled with fluid and in planes nearly at right angles with one another; concerned with equilibrium
{n: serous membrane, serosa} a thin membrane lining the closed cavities of the body; has two layers with a space between that is filled with serous fluid
{n: shoofly pie} open pie filled with a mixture of sweet crumbs and molasses
{n: silhouette} a drawing of the outline of an object; filled in with some uniform color
{n: sinus} any of various air-filled cavities especially in the bones of the skull
{n: size, sizing} any glutinous material used to fill pores in surfaces or to stiffen fabrics
"size gives body to a fabric"
{n: slough} a hollow filled with mud
{n: solidity} state of having the interior filled with matter
<-> hollowness
{n: spackle, spackling compound} powder (containing gypsum plaster and glue) that when mixed with water forms a plastic paste used to fill cracks and holes in plaster
{n: spice rack} a rack for displaying containers filled with spices
{n: spinal fluid, cerebrospinal fluid} clear liquid produced in the ventricles of the brain; fills and protects cavities in the brain and spinal cord
{n: squib} firework consisting of a tube filled with powder (as a broken firecracker) that burns with a fizzing noise
{n: stand-in, substitute, relief, reliever, backup, backup man, fill-in} someone who takes the place of another (as when things get dangerous or difficult)
"the star had a stand-in for dangerous scenes"
"we need extra employees for summer fill-ins"
{n: state of matter, state} (chemistry) the three traditional states of matter are solids (fixed shape and volume) and liquids (fixed volume and shaped by the container) and gases (filling the container)
"the solid state of water is called ice"
{n: steam bath, steam room, vapor bath, vapour bath} a room that can be filled with steam in which people bathe; `vapour bath' is a British term
{n: stodge} heavy and filling (and usually starchy) food
{n: strudel} thin sheet of filled dough rolled and baked
{n: stuffed cabbage} parboiled head of cabbage scooped out and filled with a hash of chopped e.g. beef or ham and baked; served with tomato or cheese sauce
{n: stuffed tomato, cold stuffed tomato} tomato cases filled with various salad mixtures and served cold
{n: stuffed tomato, hot stuffed tomato} tomato cases filled with various mixtures and baked briefly
{n: taco} a tortilla rolled cupped around a filling
{n: tart} a pastry cup with a filling of fruit or custard and no top crust
{n: tart} a small open pie with a fruit filling
{n: tear gas, teargas, lacrimator, lachrymator} a gas that makes the eyes fill with tears but does not damage them; used in dispersing crowds
{n: tire, tyre} hoop that covers a wheel
"automobile tires are usually made of rubber and filled with compressed air"
{n: touch, touching} the act of putting two things together with no space between them
"at his touch the room filled with lights"
{n: treasure chest} a chest filled with valuables
{n: tucker-bag} a bag used for carrying food
"the swagman filled his tuckerbag"
{n: turnover} a dish made by folding a piece of pastry over a filling
{n: vacuole} a tiny cavity filled with fluid in the cytoplasm of a cell
{n: vacuolization, vacuolisation, vacuolation} the state of having become filled with vacuoles
{n: vitalization, vitalisation} the state of being vitalized and filled with life
{n: vitreous humor, vitreous humour, vitreous body} the clear colorless transparent jelly that fills the posterior chamber of the eyeball
{n: vol-au-vent} puff paste shell filled with a savory meat mixture usually with a sauce
{n: water bed} a bed with a mattress made of strong plastic that is filled with water
{n: water jacket} a container filled with water that surrounds a machine to cool it; especially that surrounding the cylinder block of an engine
{n: water vascular system} system of fluid-filled tubes used by echinoderms in locomotion and feeding and respiration
{n: won ton, wonton} a Chinese dumpling filled with spiced minced pork; usually served in soup
{n: wonderer, marveller} someone filled with admiration and awe; someone who wonders at something
{n: woof, weft, filling, pick} the yarn woven across the warp yarn in weaving
{n: word square, acrostic} a puzzle where you fill a square grid with words reading the same down as across
{n: wrap} a sandwich in which the filling is rolled up in a soft tortilla
{v: assume, usurp, seize, take over, arrogate} seize and take control without authority and possibly with force ; take as one's right or possession
"He assumed to himself the right to fill all positions in the town"
"he usurped my rights"
"She seized control of the throne after her husband died"
{v: brim} fill as much as possible
"brim a cup to good fellowship"
{v: bunker} fill (a ship's bunker) with coal or oil
{v: charge} fill or load to capacity
"charge the wagon with hay"
<-> discharge
{v: chink} fill the chinks of, as with caulking
{v: clog, overload} fill to excess so that function is impaired
"Fear clogged her mind"
"The story was clogged with too many details"
{v: close, fill up} fill or stop up
"Can you close the cracks with caulking?"
{v: clutter, clutter up} fill a space in a disorderly way
<-> unclutter
{v: compel, oblige, obligate} force or compel somebody to do something
"We compel all students to fill out this form"
{v: complete, fill out, fill in, make out} write all the required information onto a form
"fill out this questionnaire, please!"
"make out a form"
{v: consternate} fill with anxiety, dread, dismay, or confusion
"After the terrorist attack, people look consternated"
{v: cram} put something somewhere so that the space is completely filled
"cram books into the suitcase"
{v: crowd} fill or occupy to the point of overflowing
"The students crowded the auditorium"
{v: deluge, flood, inundate, swamp} fill quickly beyond capacity ; as with a liquid
"the basement was inundated after the storm"
"The images flooded his mind"
{v: disgust, gross out, revolt, repel} fill with distaste
"This spoilt food disgusts me"
{v: dismay, alarm, appal, appall, horrify} fill with apprehension or alarm ; cause to be unpleasantly surprised
"I was horrified at the thought of being late for my interview"
"The news of the executions horrified us"
{v: eke out, fill out} supplement what is thought to be deficient
"He eked out his meager pay by giving private lessons"
"Braque eked out his collages with charcoal"
{v: elate, lift up, uplift, pick up, intoxicate} fill with high spirits ; fill with optimism
"Music can uplift your spirits"
<-> depress
{v: empty, discharge} become empty or void of its content
"The room emptied"
<-> fill
{v: empty} make void or empty of contents
"Empty the box"
"The alarm emptied the building"
<-> fill
{v: exhilarate, inebriate, thrill, exalt, beatify} fill with sublime emotion ; tickle pink (exhilarate is obsolete in this usage)
"The children were thrilled at the prospect of going to the movies"
"He was inebriated by his phenomenal success"
{v: fatten, fat, flesh out, fill out, plump, plump out, fatten out, fatten up} make fat or plump
"We will plump out that poor starving child"
{v: fill in} supply with information on a specific topic
"He filled me in on the latest developments"
{v: fill up, fill} eat until one is sated
"He filled up on turkey"
{v: fill, fill up, make full} make full, also in a metaphorical sense
"fill a container"
"fill the child with pride"
<-> empty
{v: fill, fill up} become full
"The pool slowly filled with water"
"The theater filled up slowly"
<-> empty
{v: fill, take} assume, as of positions or roles
"She took the job as director of development"
{v: fill} appoint someone to (a position or a job)
{v: fill} plug with a substance
"fill a cavity"
{v: fit the bill, fill the bill} be what is needed or be good enough for what is required
"Does this restaurant fit the bill for the celebration?"
{v: flood} become filled to overflowing
"Our basement flooded during the heavy rains"
{v: gas up} fill with gasoline
"Gas up the car"
{v: heap} fill to overflow
"heap the platter with potatoes"
{v: impregnate, infuse, instill, tincture} fill, as with a certain quality
"The heavy traffic tinctures the air with carbon monoxide"
{v: impregnate, saturate} infuse or fill completely
"Impregnate the cloth with alcohol"
{v: inflate, blow up} fill with gas or air
"inflate a balloons"
<-> deflate
{v: ink} fill with ink
"ink a pen"
{v: inundate, deluge, submerge} fill or cover completely, usually with water
{v: line} fill plentifully
"line one's pockets"
{v: load, lade, laden, load up} fill or place a load on
"load a car"
"load the truck with hay"
{v: meet, satisfy, fill, fulfill, fulfil} fill or meet a want or need
{v: occupy, fill} occupy the whole of
"The liquid fills the container"
{v: overfill} fill beyond capacity
"overfill the baskets"
{v: pack} fill to capacity
"This singer always packs the concert halls"
"They murder trial packed the court house"
{v: pad, fill out} line or stuff with soft material
"pad a bra"
{v: panic} cause sudden fear in or fill with sudden panic
"The mere thought of an isolation cell panicked the prisoners"
{v: people, populate} fill with people or supply with inhabitants
"people a room"
"The government wanted to populate the remote area of the country"
{v: perfume, aromatize, aromatise} fill or impregnate with an odor
"orange blossoms prerfumed the air in the garden"
{v: plug, stop up, secure} fill or close tightly with or as if with a plug
"plug the hole"
"stop up the leak"
{v: prime} fill with priming liquid
"prime a car engine"
{v: putty} apply putty in order to fix or fill
"putty the window sash"
{v: replenish, refill, fill again} fill something that had previously been emptied
"refill my glass, please"
{v: revolutionize, revolutionise, inspire} fill with revolutionary ideas
{v: round out, fill out} make bigger or better or more complete
{v: round out, finish out} fill out
"These studies round out the results of many years of research"
{v: round, flesh out, fill out} become round, plump, or shapely
"The young woman is fleshing out"
{v: satiate, sate, replete, fill} fill to satisfaction
"I am sated"
{v: shade, fill in} represent the effect of shade or shadow on
{v: soak, imbue} fill, soak, or imbue totally
"saturate the bandage with disinfectant"
{v: stink up, smell up, stink out} cause to smell bad ; fill with a bad smell
{v: stow} fill by packing tightly
"stow the cart"
{v: stuff} fill completely
"The child stuffed his pockets with candy"
{v: stuff} fill tightly with a material
"stuff a pillow with feathers"
"The old lady wants to have her dead poodle stuffed by the taxidermist"
{v: stuff} fill with a stuffing while cooking
"Have you stuffed the turkey yet?"
{v: stuff} treat with grease, fill, and prepare for mounting
"stuff a bearskin"
{v: substitute, sub, stand in, fill in} be a substitute
"The young teacher had to substitute for the sick colleague"
"The skim milk substitutes for cream--we are on a strict diet"
{v: surcharge} fill to an excessive degree
"The air was surcharged with tension"
{v: surcharge} fill to capacity with people
"The air raids had surcharged the emergency wards"
{v: swell, puff up} become filled with pride, arrogance, or anger
"The mother was swelling with importance when she spoke of her son"
{v: tear} fill with tears or shed tears
"Her eyes were tearing"
{v: terrify, terrorize, terrorise} fill with terror ; frighten greatly
{v: top off} fill to the point of almost overflowing
"She topped off the cup"
{v: uprise} ascend as a sound
"The choirs singing uprose and filled the church"
{v: vent, ventilate, air out, air} expose to cool or cold air so as to cool or freshen
"air the old winter clothes"
"air out the smoke-filled rooms"
{v: water} fill with tears
"His eyes were watering"
I used to know when my grandfather wanted me to laugh, when to be silent;
我知道什么时候祖父要我笑，什么时候要我安静。
also I would remember the times for his prayers and would bring him his prayer rug and fill the ewer for his ablutions without his having to ask me.
我总会记得他祈祷的特定时间，不需他吩咐我会给他拿来祈祷用的跪毯，将他沐浴用的水罐灌满。
I saw Masood filling the palms of both hands with dates and bringing them up close to his nose, then returning them.
我看到马苏德双手捧起一把椰枣，凑向鼻子，起劲地闻着，然后又放了回去。
Three years later, after filling laboratory books with page after page of failed experiments, Baekeland finally developed a material that he dubbed in his notebooks " Bakelite ".
三年后，在实验室的记录本上记满了一页又一页的失败试验后，贝克兰终于制造出了一种他在记录本上昵称为 " Bakelite（酚醛塑料） "的材料。
It's filled with the carcasses of donated computers that no longer work because he can't get the funds for spare parts.
那里面全是一些报废了的别人赠送的计算机，由于没钱购置零件，再也不能使用了。
But you don't need a jetboat or aircraft for a memorable thrill-filled ride.
但是如果你想体验一次难忘的、充满刺激的旅行，你并不一定要乘坐赛艇或飞机。
( There were almost no women in California in those days, and the Chinese filled a real need by doing this " woman's work ".)
（在那段岁月，在加利福尼亚几乎没有妇女，因而中国人所做的这些 "妇女 "的工作确实迎合了当时的需要。）
They were in Beacon valley, a boulder-filled area between glaciers, collecting volcanic ash from a seven-foot deep, V-shaped fissure in rack.
当时他们正在贝肯峡谷从一个七英尺深的 V 形岩石裂缝中搜集火山的灰烬，贝肯峡谷是一个位于冰川之间被碎石填满的地方。
The newspapers were filled with talk of the inspiring examples of these two very different women.
报纸大量谈论这两位截然不同的妇女鼓舞人心的诸多榜样事例。
There are books filled with the lives of saints who flew, emitted odours, raised the dead, multiplied bread and wine and performed miracle cures.
许多书籍都是圣人的传记，说他们会飞行、会发出气味、会起死回生、会生产面包和酿酒，并能进行奇迹般的治疗。
Assorted relatives filled every corner of the house;
各方亲戚满屋子都是；
small children, noisy and exuberant, seemed to bounce off the walls.
尤其是小孩子们兴高采烈，叽叽喳喳闹个不停，好像要越墙而过。
This will be the last ornament packed, then placed at the top of the box, where next year it will be the first light of the Christmas season to fill the home.
这颗星将留到最后才包扎，放到纸箱上层，明年一开箱，它就是照耀全家的第一缕圣诞之光。
Some rare people are so filled with egotism that they imagine that they speak for all mankind.
有很少的一些杰出人物都相当自负，他们觉得自己是全人类的代言人。
I filled my leather briefcase with beer and cold packs, put on my best power suit and hit the bars.
我将啤酒及冰袋装进大皮箱里，穿上我那套尽显男人风度与地位的笔挺西装，向一间间酒吧走去。
Now I use the gravy boat just as she had, taking it carefully from the shelf and filling it just as she did with dark, rich turkey gravy for family dinners and other special occasions.
如今我就像妈妈当年一样使用着这只盘子，小心翼翼地从碗柜的搁板上拿下来，在家庭晚宴上和其他特别的节日里盛上黑色而肥美的火鸡肉汁。
But what should have been a mission of joy filled me with apprehension.
这本应是一次愉快的旅行，可我却忧心忡仲。
He has been revered by generations of teachers inspired by the belief that children are not empty vessels to be filled with knowledge( as traditional pedagogical theory had it) but active builders of knowledge--little scientists who are constantly creating and testing their own theories of the world.
他受到几代教师的尊敬，他们都受到这个信念的鼓舞，即孩产不是被灌注知识的空桶（如传统的教学理论所认为的那样），而是知识的积极建构者，是不断创造和实践自己世界现的小科学家。
The fear that filled the car was stronger, much stronger, than I was.
车里恐惧气氛迷漫，使我倍感自己弱小不堪。
I experienced a presence, virtually a palpable sensation, of overwhelming love filling my car, washing over me, blotting our the stark panic.
我分明感到神灵的降临，一种清晰而巨大的爱的力量直扑车里，朝我涌来，顿时将惧伯一扫而光。
I ran back to the car for my big water bottle, and for half an hour the Bushman's mouth worked to fill it for me.
我跑回汽车，取来我那只大水罐，连续半个小时，他用嘴吸水灌进我的水罐。
" I hate to tell you this, son, but Johnny Carson is the host of The Tonight Show. "
"小伙子，我真不想告诉你，约翰尼·卡森才是《今夜有好戏》节目的主持人。 "
" I know that. And I 'm filling in ! "
"我知道，但今晚我将取而代之 ! ! "
So he filled the backyard with chickens and geese and built pens and greenhouses to shield parrots and other tropical birds from snow.
就这样，他在后院养了许多鸡和鹅，修建了许多围栏和温室来庇护鹦鹉和其他热带鸟儿不受冰雪侵害。
Ten minutes later, the hall was filled with chatting, groaning, and angry contempt.
十分钟后，整个大厅充满了闲谈、抱怨和由于受到蔑视而感到极为愤怒之声。
Long frustrated by the dearth of makeup in the U.S. for Asian complexions, Susan decided to fill the void.
美国缺少适合亚洲人肤色的化妆品，余素兰为此困恼了很长一段时间之后，决定去填补这一市场空缺。
" All of a sudden people are saying, 'Oh, my gosh, what a horrible price to fill up my tank ! ' " says Senator Richard Bryan, a Nevada Democrat who is pushing for tougher gas-mileage rules.
内华达民主党人、参议员理查德·布赖恩说：突然之间，人们开始惊呼，啊呀，糟了！加满我的油箱怎么要这么多钱！他正在努力使燃料经济性的规定变得更加严格。
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