Usually means: Occupies or completes available space.
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General (10 matching dictionaries)
  1. fills: Merriam-Webster
  2. fills: Collins English Dictionary
  3. fills: Vocabulary.com
  4. Fills, fills: Wordnik
  5. fills: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. fills: Wiktionary
  7. fills: Dictionary.com
  8. fills: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  9. FILLS: Dictionary of Americanisms (1848)
  10. fills: TheFreeDictionary.com

Art (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Technical Glossary of Theatre Terms (No longer online)
  2. Shakespeare Glossary (No longer online)

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. fills: Legal dictionary
  2. fills: Financial dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. fills: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. fills: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. fills: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. fills: Idioms

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Definitions from Wiktionary (fill)

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.
noun:  (film, television) Short for fill light. [(film, television, photography, theater) A light that may be used to reduce the contrast of a scene to match the dynamic range of the recording media and capture the amount of detail typically seen by eye in average conditions.]
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