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Fill is a related term of stack.

As a proper noun fill

is .

As a noun stack is

floor, storey.

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}}

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

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.

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stack

English

(wikipedia stack)

Noun

(en noun)

(lb) A pile.

#A large pile of hay, grain, straw, or the like, larger at the bottom than the top, sometimes covered with thatch.

#*(William Cowper) (1731-1800)

#*:But corn was housed, and beans were in the stack .

#A pile of similar objects, each directly on top of the last.

#(lb) A pile of poles or wood, indefinite in quantity.

#*(Francis Bacon) (1561-1626)

#*:Against every pillar was a stack of billets above a man's height.

#A pile of wood containing 108 cubic feet. (~3 m³)

A smokestack.

*:With just the turn of a shoulder she indicated the water front, where, at the end of the dock on which they stood, lay the good ship, Mount Vernon , river packet, the black smoke already pouring from her stacks .

(lb) In digital computing.

#A linear data structure in which the last data item stored is the first retrieved; a LIFO queue.

#A portion of computer memory occupied by a stack' data structure, particularly (' the stack ) that portion of main memory manipulated during machine language procedure call related instructions.

#*1992 , Michael A. Miller, The 68000 Microprocessor Family: Architecture, Programming, and Applications , p.47:

#*:When the microprocessor decodes the JSR opcode, it stores the operand into the TEMP register and pushes the current contents of the PC ($00 0128) onto the stack .

(lb) A coastal landform, consisting of a large vertical column of rock in the sea.

(senseid)(lb) Compactly spaced bookshelves used to house large collections of books.

(lb) A large amount of an object.

(lb) A pile of rifles or muskets in a cone shape.

(lb) The amount of money a player has on the table.

(lb) In architecture.

#A number of flues embodied in one structure, rising above the roof.

#A vertical drainpipe.

A fall or crash, a prang.

(lb) A blend of various dietary supplements or anabolic steroids with supposed synergistic benefits.

At Caltech, a lock, obstacle, or puzzle designed to prevent underclassmen from entering a senior's room during ditch day.

Verb

(en verb)

To arrange in a stack, or to add to an existing stack.

* {{quote-news, year=2013, date=January 22, author=Phil McNulty, work=BBC

, title= Aston Villa 2-1 Bradford (3-4) , passage=James Hanson, the striker who used to stack shelves in a supermarket, flashed a superb header past Shay Given from Gary Jones's corner 10 minutes after the break.}}

* {{quote-magazine, year=2013, month=July-August, author= Catherine Clabby

, magazine=(American Scientist), title= Focus on Everything , passage=Not long ago, it was difficult to produce photographs of tiny creatures with every part in focus.

(card games) To arrange the cards in a deck in a particular manner.

(poker) To take all the money another player currently has on the table.

To deliberately distort the composition of (an assembly, committee, etc.).

(transitive, US, Australia, slang) To crash; to fall.

* 1975 , Laurie Clancy, A Collapsible Man , Outback Press, page 43,

Miserable phone calls from Windsor police station or from Russell Street. ‘Mum, I?ve stacked the car; could you get me a lawyer?’, the middle-class panacea for all diseases.

* 1984 , , A Country Quinella: Two Celebration Plays , page 80,

MARMALADE Who stacked the car? (pointing to SALOON) Fangio here.

JOCK (standing) I claim full responsibility for the second bingle.

* 2002 , Ernest Keen, Depression: Self-Consciousness, Pretending, and Guilt , page 19,

Eventually he sideswiped a bus and forced other cars to collide, and as he finally stacked the car up on a bridge abutment, he passed out, perhaps from exhaustion, perhaps from his head hitting the windshield.

* 2007 , Martin Chipperfield, slut talk'', ''Night Falling , 34th Parallel Publishing, US, Trade Paperback, page 100,

oh shit danny, i stacked' the car / ran into sally, an old school friend / you ' stacked the car? / so now i need this sally?s address / for the insurance, danny says

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