In English, the verb fill has several related meanings centered on making something full or complete. As a transitive verb, to fill means to put something into a container or space until it is full, such as fill a glass with water, fill a room with people, or fill a bag with groceries. It can also mean to occupy a position or role, like fill a vacancy or fill a job, meaning to take on that role. In other contexts, fill means to satisfy a need, such as fill an order or fill a prescription, or to complete something, like fill in a form or fill out an application. As a noun, a fill can refer to material used to fill a space, like land fill, or in dentistry a filling. The word also appears in many phrasal verbs like fill in, fill out, fill up, fill in for someone. Figuratively, fill can mean to make someone feel full emotionally, like music that fills the heart. Overall, fill conveys the idea of making full, supplying what is missing, occupying, or completing.
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