fill/kill

Noun

fill (countable and uncountable, plural fills)

1. A sufficient or more than sufficient amount.
   • Don't feed him any more: he's had his fill.
2. An amount that fills a container.
   • The mixer returned to the plant for another fill.
3. The filling of a container or area.
   • That machine can do 20 fills per minute.
4. Inexpensive material used to occupy empty spaces, especially in construction.
   • The ruins of earlier buildings were used as fill for more recent construction.
5. Soil and/or human-created debris discovered within a cavity or cut in the layers and exposed by excavation; fill soil.
6. An embankment, as in railroad construction, to fill a hollow or ravine; also, the place which is to be filled.

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