fills
Because it is a word with a single syllable, fills is not hyphenated. The words that have a single syllable are called monosyllabic words.
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Definitions offills
- To occupy fully, to take up all of.
- To add contents to (a container, cavity or the like) so that it is full.
- To enter (something), making it full.
- To become full.
Example: "the bucket filled with rain; the sails fill with wind"
- To become pervaded with something.
Example: "My heart filled with joy."
- To satisfy or obey (an order, request or requirement).
Example: "The pharmacist filled my prescription for penicillin."
- To install someone, or be installed, in (a position or office), eliminating a vacancy.
Example: "Sorry, no more applicants. The position has been filled."
- To treat (a tooth) by adding a dental filling to it.
Example: "Dr. Smith filled Jim's cavity with silver amalgam."
- To fill or supply fully with food; to feed; to satisfy.
- To trim (a yard) so that the wind blows on the after side of the sails.
- (of a male) To have sexual intercourse with (a female).
Example: "Did you fill that girl last night?"
- (after a possessive) A sufficient or more than sufficient amount.
Example: "Don't feed him any more: he's had his fill."
- An amount that fills a container.
Example: "The mixer returned to the plant for another fill."
- The filling of a container or area.
Example: "That machine can do 20 fills a minute."
- Inexpensive material used to occupy empty spaces, especially in construction.
Example: "The ruins of earlier buildings were used as fill for more recent construction."
- Soil and/or human-created debris discovered within a cavity or cut in the layers and exposed by excavation; fill soil.
- An embankment, as in railroad construction, to fill a hollow or ravine; also, the place which is to be filled.
- A short passage, riff, or rhythmic sound that helps to keep the listener's attention during a break between the phrases of a melody.
Example: "bass fill"
- One of the thills or shafts of a carriage.
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