Usually means: To occupy or complete available space.
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General (27 matching dictionaries)
  1. fill: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. fill: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. fill: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. fill: Collins English Dictionary
  5. fill: Vocabulary.com
  6. Fill, fill: Wordnik
  7. fill: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. Fill, fill: Wiktionary
  9. fill: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. fill: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. fill: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. fill: Dictionary.com
  13. fill (v.): Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. fill: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Fill (archaeology), Fill (music): Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Fill: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. fill: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. fill: Rhymezone
  19. fill: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. fill: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. fill: Free Dictionary
  22. fill: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. Fill, fill: LookWAYup Translating Dictionary/Thesaurus
  24. fill: Dictionary/thesaurus
  25. fill: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Art (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Fill: Glossary of Binary Graphics
  2. Virginia Tech Multimedia Music Dictionary (No longer online)

Business (9 matching dictionaries)
  1. MoneyGlossary.com (No longer online)
  2. fill: Webster's New World Finance & Investment Dictionary
  3. INVESTORWORDS (No longer online)
  4. Fill: bizterms.net
  5. Construction Term Glossary (No longer online)
  6. Fill: Investopedia
  7. fill: Legal dictionary
  8. Fill: Financial dictionary
  9. Fill: WashingtonPost.com: Business

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. fill: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  2. fill: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. FILL: Acronym Finder
  2. fill: Idioms

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Botanical Terms (No longer online)

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. fill, fill: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. Fill: Urban Dictionary

Sports (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Hickok Sports Glossaries (No longer online)

Tech (8 matching dictionaries)
  1. Book Binding (No longer online)
  2. AUTOMOTIVE TERMS (No longer online)
  3. Glossary of Coal Mining Terms (No longer online)
  4. Glossary of Composite Terms (No longer online)
  5. K & A glossary (No longer online)
  6. Lake and Water Word Glossary (No longer online)
  7. Fill: Fiberglass Glossary
  8. Bridge Dictionary (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
verb:  (transitive, ergative) To make full
verb:  To add contents to (a container, cavity, or the like) so that it is full.
verb:  To enter (something), making it full.
verb:  To occupy fully, to take up all of.
verb:  (intransitive) To become full.
verb:  (of containers, cavities, or the like)
verb:  To become pervaded with something.
verb:  (transitive) To satisfy or obey (an order, request, or requirement).
verb:  (transitive) To install someone, or be installed, in (a position or office), eliminating a vacancy.
verb:  (transitive) To treat (a tooth) by adding a dental filling to it.
verb:  (transitive) To block, obstruct
verb:  (transitive) To supply fully with food; to feed; to satisfy.
verb:  (transitive, nautical) To trim (a yard) so that the wind blows on the after side of the sails.
verb:  (transitive, slang, vulgar, of a male) To have sexual intercourse with (a female).
noun:  (after a possessive) A sufficient or more than sufficient amount.
noun:  An amount that fills a container.
noun:  The filling of a container or area.
noun:  Inexpensive material used to occupy empty spaces, especially in construction.
noun:  (archaeology) Soil and/or human-created debris discovered within a cavity or cut in the layers and exposed by excavation; fill soil.
noun:  An embankment, as in railroad construction, to fill a hollow or ravine; also, the place which is to be filled.
noun:  (music) A short passage, riff, or rhythmic sound that helps to keep the listener's attention during a break between the phrases of a melody.
noun:  One of the thills or shafts of a carriage.
noun:  A surname transferred from the given name.

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