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FILLED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does filled mean? 

FILLED (adjective)
  The adjective FILLED has 3 senses:

1. (usually followed by 'with' or used as a combining form) generously supplied withplay

2. of purchase orders that have been filledplay

3. (of time) taken upplay

  Familiarity information: FILLED used as an adjective is uncommon.


 Dictionary entry details 


FILLED (adjective)


Sense 1

Meaning:

(usually followed by 'with' or used as a combining form) generously supplied with

Context example:

fog-filled air

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 purchase orders that have been filled

Classified under:

Participial adjectives

Antonym:

unfilled (of purchase orders that have not been filled)

Participle:

fill (fill, satisfy or meet a want or need or condtion ro restriction)


Sense 3

Meaning:

(of time) taken up

Context example:

well-filled hours

Similar:

occupied (held or filled or in use)


 Context examples 


Against the wall, near the head of the bunk, was a rack filled with books.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

Dorothy was once more filled with the hope of getting home, and the Scarecrow and the Tin Woodman were glad to be of use to her.

(The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, by L. Frank Baum)

Its center is filled with more than 100 of the galaxy's most massive young stars.

(SOFIA Reveals How the Swan Nebula Hatched, NASA)

Then we cut off the head and filled the mouth with garlic.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

Then she went to the king, and told him the joyful tidings, and when the time was come she gave birth to a son, and the king was filled with gladness.

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)

Your ruler Mars is in your packed professional and prestigious tenth house, filled with happy planets, and is in direct communication with Uranus, currently in your earned income sector.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

The scientists placed worms in vertically oriented tubes filled with a gel-like substance.

(Magnetic Field Sensor Unearthed in Worms, NIH)

The star loses its hydrogen-filled outer layers quickly, exposing its super-hot and extremely bright helium-burning core.

(Hubble Observes One-of-a-Kind Star Nicknamed 'Nasty', NASA)

It was after such encounters that the dead and wounded were carted back to the towns, and their places filled by men eager for the man-hunt.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

A pre-filled non-injectable pipette, syringe or tube.

(Applicator, NCI Thesaurus)



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