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FILLED
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I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
(usually followed by 'with' or used as a combining form) generously supplied with
Example:
fog-filled air
Classified under:
Similar:
full (containing as much or as many as is possible or normal)
Domain usage:
combining form (a bound form used only in compounds)
Sense 2
Meaning:
(of time) taken up
Example:
well-filled hours
Classified under:
Similar:
occupied (held or filled or in use)
Sense 3
Meaning:
Of purchase orders that have been filled
Classified under:
Antonym:
unfilled (of purchase orders that have not been filled)
Participle:
fill (fill, satisfy or meet a want or need or condtion ro restriction)
II. (verb)
Sense 1
Past simple / past participle of the verb fill
Context examples:
It is characterized by the presence of a cystic structure that is filled with mucus.
(Appendix Mucinous Cystadenoma, NCI Thesaurus)
Her keen eyes filled, and when she spoke again, it was in a voice that could be beautifully soft and kind when she chose to make it so.
(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)
A fluid-filled sac in the outer layer of skin.
(Blister, NCI Dictionary)
But morning brought with it my parting from the old house, which Agnes had filled with her influence; and that occupied my mind sufficiently.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
It is peanut-shaped, about 300 light years long, and filled with almost nothing.
(Evidence for supernovas near Earth, NASA)
The device consists of a semi-permeable membrane between two tiny chambers, one filled with maternal cells derived from a delivered placenta and the other filled with fetal cells derived from an umbilical cord.
(Researchers design placenta-on-a-chip to better understand pregnancy, NIH)
Participants also filled out a questionnaire about how much their mind wandered in daily life.
(Daydreaming Is Good: It Means You're Smart, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)
The Hubble image unveils a very cluttered-looking universe filled with galaxies near and far.
(NASA’s Hubble Looks to the Final Frontier, NASA)
Life was so strange and wonderful, filled with an immensity of problems, of dreams, and of heroic toils, and yet these stories dealt only with the commonplaces of life.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
I’ll be back in a moment when I have changed my dressing-gown and filled my cigar-case.
(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
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