Definitions for fills

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IPA: /fɪl/

Fills is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 12 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 16 points.

You can make 31 anagrams from letters in fills (fills).

Definitions for fills

noun

1. a full supply; enough to satisfy want or desire:
2. an amount of something sufficient for filling; charge.
3. Civil Engineering, Building Trades. a quantity of earth, stones, etc., for building up the level of an area of ground: Compare backfill.
4. the feed and water in the digestive tract of a livestock animal, especially that consumed before marketing.

Idioms

1. fill and stand on, Nautical. (of a sailing vessel) to proceed on a tack after being hove to or halted facing the wind; fill away.
2. fill the bill. bill1 (def 16).

Verb phrases

1. fill away, Nautical. to fall off the wind and proceed on a board. to brace the yards, so that sails that have been aback will stand full.
2. fill in, to supply missing or desired information: to complete by adding detail, as a design or drawing: to substitute for: to fill with some material: Informal. to supply (someone) with information:
3. fill out, to complete (a document, list, etc.) by supplying missing or desired information. to become larger, fuller, or rounder, as the figure:
4. fill up, to fill completely: to become completely filled:

verb (used with object)

1. to make full; put as much as can be held into:
2. to occupy to the full capacity:
3. to supply to an extreme degree or plentifully:
4. to satisfy fully the hunger of; satiate:
5. to put into a receptacle:
6. to be plentiful throughout:
7. to extend throughout; pervade completely:
8. to furnish with an occupant:
9. to provide (an office or opening) with an incumbent:
10. to occupy and perform the duties of (a vacancy, position, post, etc.).
11. to supply the requirements or contents of (an order), as for goods; execute.
12. to supply (a blank space) with written matter, decorative work, etc.
13. to meet satisfactorily, as requirements:
14. to make up, compound, or otherwise provide the contents of (a medical prescription).
15. to stop up or close (a cavity, hole, etc.):
16. Cookery. to insert a filling into:
17. Nautical. to distend (a sail) by pressure of the wind so as to impart headway to a vessel. to brace (a yard) so that the sail will catch the wind on its after side.
18. to adulterate:
19. Civil Engineering, Building Trades. to build up the level of (an area) with earth, stones, etc.

verb (used without object)

1. to become full:
2. to increase in atmospheric pressure:
3. to become distended, as sails with the wind.

Origin of fills

before 900; Middle English fillen, Old English fyllan; cognate with German füllen, Gothic fulljan to make full; see full¹

Examples for fills

Always her mother had treated her with that indulgence which is as empty as an unfilled grate.

Sartor resembles the unfilled and yawning crescent moon, Wordsworth the rounded harvest orb: Sartor's cry is, "Give, give!"

Now he gave it, though the year was not gone, and many leaves were yet unfilled.

And our mouths, unfilled with bread, are to be shut, under penalties?

Some one may say, Why then touch her in this obliviousness of her unfilled possibilities?

He seized his unfilled glass, looked into it, and pushed it from him peevishly.

How many a place in the mansions of the redeemed would be unfilled!

I hate flattery as I hate an unfilled flasket in the woodlands at midnight.

An unknown, unmeasured, or unfilled region between the infra-red and the "electric" waves.

The unfilled lamp had gone out, leaving a trail of smoke in the air.