Tra từ fill - Từ điển Oxford Advanced Learner 8th

fill [fill fills filled filling] verb, noun BrE [fɪl] NAmE [fɪl]
verb

MAKE FULL
1. transitive, intransitive to make sth full of sth; to become full of sth
•~ sth Please fill this glass for me.
•to fill a vacuum/void
• The school is filled to capacity.
•Smoke filled the room.
•The wind filled the sails.
•A Disney film can always fill cinemas (= attract a lot of people to see it).
•~ sth with sth to fill a hole with earth/a bucket with water
•~ sth + adj. Fill a pan half full of water.
•~ (with sth) The room was filling quickly.
•Her eyes suddenly filled with tears.
•The sails filled with wind.

BLOCK HOLE
2. transitive ~ sth (with sth) to block a hole with a substance
• The crack in the wall had been filled with plaster.
• I need to have two teeth filled (= to have ↑fillings put in them).
• (figurative)The product has filled a gap in the market.

WITH FEELING
3. transitive ~ sb (with sth) to make sb have a strong feeling
• We were all filled with admiration for his achievements.

WITH SMELL/SOUND/LIGHT
4. transitive ~ sth (with sth) if a smell, sound or light fills a place, it is very strong, loud or bright and easy to notice

-FILLED
5. (in adjectives)full of the thing mentioned
•a smoke-filled room
•a fun-filled day

A NEED
6. transitive ~ sth to stop people from continuing to want or need sth
• More nurseries will be built to fill the need for high-quality child care.

JOB
7. transitive ~ sth to do a job, have a role or position, etc
• He fills the post satisfactorily (= performs his duties well).
• The team needs someone to fill the role of manager very soon.
8. transitive ~ sth to appoint sb to a job
• The vacancy has already been filled.

TIME
9. transitive ~ sth (up) to use up a particular period of time doing sth
• How do you fill your day now that you've retired?

WITH FOOD
10. transitive ~ sb/yourself (up) (with sth) (informal)to make sb/yourself feel unable to eat any more
•The kids filled themselves with snacks.

AN ORDER
11. transitive ~ sth if sb fills an order or a ↑prescription, they give the customer what they have asked for
see also ↑unfilled
more at fill/fit the bill at ↑bill _n.
Verb forms:

Word Origin:
Old English fyllan (verb), fyllu (noun) of Germanic origin; related to Dutch vullen and German füllen (verbs), Fülle (noun), also to ↑full.

Thesaurus:
fill verb T, I
•She filled the kettle.
fill (sth) up • • load • • pack • • refill • • restock • |especially BrE top sb/sth up • |formal replenish •
Opp: empty
fill/fill up/load/pack/refill/restock/top up/replenish sth with sth
fill/load/pack sth in/into sth
fill/fill up/refill/top up/replenish sb's glass

Example Bank:
•Fill the bucket with water.
•He seemed to fill the room with his presence.
•The drawers were all filled to the brim.
•The sails began to fill.
•The school is filled to capacity— we simply can't take any more students.
•A Disney film can always fill cinemas.
•Carl took a mug and filled it to the brim with hot coffee.
•How do you fill your day now that you've retired?
•I needed extra coaching to fill the gaps in my grasp of the subject.
•More nurseries will be built to fill the need for high-quality childcare.
•She filled the kettle from the tap.
•She went for a walk to fill in the time before her next appointment.
•Work expands to fill the time available.
Idiom: ↑fill somebody's shoes
Derived: ↑fill in ▪ ↑fill out ▪ ↑fill somebody in ▪ ↑fill something in ▪ ↑fill something out ▪ ↑fill something up ▪ ↑fill up

noun singular
1. your ~ (of sth/sb) as much of sth/sb as you are willing to accept
•I've had my fill of entertaining for one week.
2. your ~ (of food/drink) as much as you can eat/drink
•All we had was what was left after the guests had eaten their fill.
•The pigs had had their fill of the leftovers.

Word Origin:
Old English fyllan (verb), fyllu (noun) of Germanic origin; related to Dutch vullen and German füllen (verbs), Fülle (noun), also to ↑full.