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Fill (archaeology)
WordNet
noun
(1) A quantity sufficient to satisfy
"He ate his fill of potatoes"
"She had heard her fill of gossip"
(2) Any material that fills a space or container
"There was not enough fill for the trench"
verb
(3) Plug with a substance
"Fill a cavity"
(4) Become full
"The pool slowly filled with water"
"The theater filled up slowly"
(5) Make full, also in a metaphorical sense
"Fill a container"
"Fill the child with pride"
(6) Fill or meet a want or need
(7) Fill to satisfaction
"I am sated"
(8) Eat until one is sated
"He filled up on turkey"
(9) Appoint someone to (a position or a job)
(10) Assume, as of positions or roles
"She took the job as director of development"
(11) Occupy the whole of
"The liquid fills the container"
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Etymology 2
, from . Cognate with German .
Noun
- A sufficient or more than sufficient amount.
- Don't feed him anymore, 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.
- That machine can do 20 fills a minute.
- 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 and exposed by excavation; fill soil.
Etymology
From . Cognate to French .