fill – English noun declension

English noun forms of fill

Noun: fill
Singularfill
Pluralfills

Sample Sentences

  • Don't feed him any more: he's had his fill.
  • Then they set somewhat of food before me, whereof I ate my fill, and gave me somewhat of clothes wherewith I clad myself anew and covered my nakedness; after which they took me up into the ship, […] [1885, Richard F. Burton, The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night:]
  • The mixer returned to the plant for another fill.
  • That machine can do 20 fills per minute.
  • This paint program supports lines, circles, and textured fills.
  • The ruins of earlier buildings were used as fill for more recent construction.
  • Strippage from a borrow area was first treated as waste, under the contract, but after passage of time was suitable for fill and was so used. [1946, Digest of the Decisions of the Corps of Engineers Board of Contract Appeals, page 101:]
  • bass fill
  • The second part of recomposed Embroidering Golden Banner achieves the brightness and cheerfulness of music, and presents a cheerful passion through sanda playing methods such as left-hind octave fills, right-hand echo decoration, and encircled decoration. [2015, Dawei Zheng, Control, Mechatronics and Automation Technology, →ISBN:]

Etymology

From Middle English fille, vülle, fülle, from Old English fyllu, from Proto-West Germanic *fullī, from Proto-Germanic *fullį̄ (“fullness”). Cognate with German Fülle. See: Middle English Nouns 'fille', Old English Nouns 'fyllu', German Nouns 'Fülle'.