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fill | filk |

As a proper noun fill

is .

As an adjective filk is

(of music) about or inspired by science fiction, fantasy, horror, science, and/or subjects of interest to fans of speculative fiction; frequently, being a song whose lyrics have been altered to refer to science fiction; parodying (however, much filk music is original rather than parodic).

As a noun filk is

filk music.

As a verb filk is

to perform filk music.

fill

English

Etymology 1

From (etyl) (m), (m), from (etyl) .

Verb

(en verb)
  • (label) To occupy fully, to take up all of.
  • * (Tobias Smollett), translator, (Don Quixote) , part 2, book 5, chapter 4:
  • * (Charles Dickens), , chapter 38:
    • And now that I have given the one chapter to the theme that so filled my heart, and so often made it ache and ache again, I pass on, unhindered, to the event that had impended over me longer yet.
  • (label) To add contents to (a container, cavity or the like) so that it is full.
  • * , chapter=3
    • , title= Mr. Pratt's Patients , passage=My hopes wa'n't disappointed. I never saw clams thicker than they was along them inshore flats. I filled my dreener in no time, and then it come to me that 'twouldn't be a bad idee to get a lot more, take 'em with me to Wellmouth, and peddle 'em out. Clams was fairly scarce over that side of the bay and ought to fetch a fair price.}}
  • * 1950 , , The Bachelors of Broken Hill , chapter 11:
    • She continued to frown as she filled Bony's cup and added brandy to her own.
  • * 2005 , (Wendy Coakley-Thompson), , 2006 edition, ISBN 0758207484, page 10 [http://google.com/books?id=D8d9M2Lhe3IC&pg=PA10&dq=fill]:
    • She forgave him the pain as he filled' the cavity in her back molar. Three weeks later, she let him ' fill a more intimate cavity.
  • * 2006 , (Gilbert Morris), Sante Fe Woman , , page 95 [http://google.com/books?id=LepY_wtPjvIC&pg=PA95&dq=%22filled+his+plate%22]:
    • Grat Herendeen was the first man, a huge man with his bull whip coiled and over his shoulder seeming almost a part of him. He grinned at her as she filled his plate with the eggs and motioned toward the bacon. "Help yourself, Grat."
  • To enter (something), making it full.
  • * 1910 May 13, John C. Sherwin, opinion, Delashmutt et al. ''v.'' et al.'', reprinted in volume 126, ''(North Western Reporter) , page 359, at 360:
    • In the evening of the 14th of July, there was a rainfall of 3 or 3½ inches in that locality. The water filled the ditch so full that it overflowed the levees on both sides in many places.
  • * 2004 , Peter Westen, The Logic of Consent , , ISBN 0754624072, page 322 [http://google.com/books?id=17bAKRvHBkcC&pg=PA322&dq=%22as+the+crowd+filled%22]:
    • As the crowd filled the aisles, S repeated loudly what he had announced upon entering the stadium: 'I don't want anyone to touch me, and I will call the police if anyone does.'
  • (label) To become full.
  • (label) To become pervaded with something.
  • (label) To satisfy or obey (an order, request or requirement).
  • (label) To install someone, or be installed, in (a position or office), eliminating a vacancy.
  • * 1866 , , The Negro , pages 18–19 [http://google.com/books?id=E0N-AAAAMAAJ&pg=PA19&dq=filled]:
    • It is impossible to resist the conclusion, which experience and history tend to prove, that, the continuous movement of such a vast body of mankind has been influenced by natural laws, that, the negro has filled the position for which he is fitted by nature, and, that, his services were brought into use when the emergency arose necessitating his employment.
  • * 1891 January 23, Allen Morse, opinion, Lawrence ''v.'' Hanley'', reprinted in volume 47, ''Northwestern Reporter , page 753, at 755:
    • The board of supervisors called a specal(SIC) election to fill the office, and at such special election Henry C. Andrews was elected judge of probate to fill out the said term.
  • (label) To treat (a tooth) by adding a dental filling to it.
  • * "Intimate Diagnosis of Diseased Teeth", in Items of Interest: A Monthly Magazine of Dental Art, Science and Literature , volume 13, number 11, November 1891, page 657 [http://google.com/books?id=eS21AAAAIAAJ&pg=PA657&dq=%22filled+the+molar%22]:
    • Be that as it may, had the disturbance continued after our having filled the molar, and presuming that nothing had been done to the bicuspid, we might have been still as far as ever from knowing where the trouble lay.
  • (label) To fill or supply fully with food; to feed; to satisfy.
  • * Bible, Matthew xv. 33
    • Whence should we have so much bread in the wilderness, as to fill so great a multitude?
  • * Francis Bacon
    • Things that are sweet and fat are more filling .
  • To trim (a yard) so that the wind blows on the after side of the sails.
    • Synonyms
    * pervade
    Antonyms
    * (add contents to a container or cavity) empty * (to become full) empty
    Derived terms
    {{der3, backfill , filler , fill in , filling , filling station , fill in the blank , fill one's face , fill one's hand , fill out , fill someone's shoes , fill the bill , fill up , refill}}
    Related terms
    * full * fulfil, fulfill

    Etymology 2

    From (etyl) (m), from (etyl) .

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (label) A sufficient or more than sufficient amount.
    • Don't feed him any more: he's had his fill .
  • An amount that fills a container.
    • ''The mixer returned to the plant for another fill .
  • The filling of a container or area.
    • That machine can do 20 fills a minute.
    This paint program supports lines, circles, and textured fills .
  • Inexpensive material used to occupy empty spaces, especially in construction.
    • The ruins of earlier buildings were used as fill for more recent construction.
  • (label) Soil and/or human-created debris discovered within a cavity and exposed by excavation; fill soil.
    • Derived terms
    {{der3, , fill soil , , flood fill , landfill , , seed fill}}

    Etymology 3

    See (m).

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • One of the thills or shafts of a carriage.
    • (Mortimer)
  • * 2008 , Martha E. Green, Pioneers in Pith Helmets
    • It was a challenge to learn to harness him, guide him slowly back between the fills of the carriage, then to fasten the right buckles and snaps, making the harness and buggy all ready for travel to church or to town.
    English ergative verbs 1000 English basic words ----

    filk

    English

    Adjective

    (-)
  • (of music) About or inspired by science fiction, fantasy, horror, science, and/or subjects of interest to fans of speculative fiction; frequently, being a song whose lyrics have been altered to refer to science fiction; parodying. (However, much filk music is original rather than parodic.)
  • * {{quote-magazine
    • , year = 1955 , date = June , author = Karen Anderson & (writing as "Petronius Arbiter Kingsley") , title = Filk Song , magazine = Die Zeitschrift für Vollständigen Unsinn (aka The Zed) , issue = 780 , page = 13 , passage = The blame/credit (choose one) for the first filk' song is a little dubious. Like the man who tried to sit on two stools, it falls in the middle, between Poul Anderson who wrote a ' filk song called Barbarous Allen and Karen Anderson who egged him on and published it in Zed
  • 774.
    • }}
  • * 2000, Camille Bacon-Smith, Science Fiction Culture ,[http://books.google.com/books?id=oCvIZpCSRA0C] University of Pennsylvania Press, ISBN 0-8122-1530-3, page 38,
    • And the permanent exhibit area offers a filk performance on a small stage so that neophytes can sample more esoteric interests.
  • * 2006, , [[w:Nantier Beall Minoustchine Publishing, Nantier Beall Minoustchine Publishing], ISBN 1-56163-465-4, page 97,
    • I’m also involved in what is called filk music. This is music for and by fans of Fantasy and Science Fiction. […] Filk is nearly as big a part of my creative life as comics, and I have similarly made many friends among the creative people in that community.
  • * 2007, Brian Longhurst, Popular Music and Society ,[http://books.google.com/books?id=PxnOFDDMZOUC] Polity, ISBN 0745631622, page 236,
    • Music can be very important in fan texts and activities. Fans write and perform songs at gatherings about characters from television shows, not unlike the way that folk songs are sung in folk clubs. This can be seen in the name of this fan form: filk' song. According to [in ''Textual Poachers: Television Fans and Participatory Culture''], ' filk songs take their cue from commercial culture. They are about the characters from commercial television series, but ‘Filk turns commercial culture back into folk culture, existing as a mediator between two musical traditions. Its raw materials come from commercial culture; its logic is from folk culture’ (1992: 270).

    Derived terms

    * filker * filksing

    Noun

  • Filk music.
  • * 1992, , Textual Poachers: Television Fans & Participatory Culture ,[http://books.google.com/books?id=71U9-cOx_ZwC] Routledge, ISBN 0-415-90572-9, page 270,
    • Filk turns commercial culture back into folk culture, existing as a mediator between two musical traditions. Its raw materials come from commercial culture; its logic is from folk culture.
  • * 2006, Gary Hill, The Strange Sound of Cthulhu: Music Inspired by the Writings of ,[http://books.google.com/books?id=ZyFoBl6M6LEC] Lulu.com, ISBN 1-84728-776-X, page 216,
    • The style of music generally used for creating filk' is folk or popular music. That brings up one of the key points. Most, but not all, ' filk is created by "borrowing" the music of other songs and creating lyrics to fit the singer's particular circle of fandom.
  • * 2006, , [[w:Nantier Beall Minoustchine Publishing, Nantier Beall Minoustchine Publishing], ISBN 1-56163-465-4, page 97,
    • I’m also involved in what is called filk music. This is music for and by fans of Fantasy and Science Fiction. […] Filk is nearly as big a part of my creative life as comics, and I have similarly made many friends among the creative people in that community.
  • Filk song.
  • # In general
  • #* 2001, Harry Potter Filks
  • Welcome to Harry Potter Filks', with nearly 3400 ' filks (including several dozen full-length musicals) by more than 250 authors from at least five continents, all on Rowling-related themes. ... Providing a magic beyond all that Dumbledore does here since August 2 2001. Most recently updated April 29 2010.
  • # In the construction "filk of...": a filk song written as a parody of, or in the form of and with reference to, another song (which need not itself be a filksong). Compare transitive sense.
  • #* 2006, citation in the Filk Hall of Fame
  • He has recently started to accompany himself on the piano, and created such wonderful songs as "The Soul" (filk of "The Ship") and "Internal Knight".

    • Verb

    (en verb)
  • To perform filk music.
  • * {{quote-book
    • , year = 1978 , first = Sarah Elizabeth , last = Miller , title = I Could Have Filked All Night , page = 33 , passage = I could have filked all night }}
  • To participate in a filk circle, including singing along.
  • To write a parody of (a song). Compare .
  • * 1997 (?: "July A.S. XXXI") Medieval Melodies for Filking
    • However, the practice of filking , of taking an existing melody and providing new, usually topical and/or satirical, lyrics, is in fact the direct counterpart of the Medieval practice of writing contrafacta.

    See also

    * folk music * (filk music)

    References

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