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- word usage - Difference between fulfill and fill - English Language . . .
1) Fill vs Fulfill (also spelled[also spelt "spelt"] "fulfil") : Fill means to add content to the container or gap until it is full In particular, "filling" tends to involve a physical action, such as filling a mug with water, or filling a form in with a pencil Please fill this jug with water Please fill in this form
- The correct word for filling out the application form
Fill in means to supply something that's missing So you fill in the blanks on a test, for example, or you can fill in a triangle with a color (change it from an outline to a solid triangle by coloring inside it), or you can fill in (substitute) for an absent colleague at work And you can fill in a form because you're supplying missing
- Which are other collocations meaning to fill in the gaps?
It brings to my mind a picture of a bookshelf that has a number of books that belong in a collection, but there are gaps in the number sequence of those books and you want to "fill in those gaps" that exist on this bookshelf with the appropriate volumes to help complete the collection
- Is it possible to use the verb fill with the word shortage?
“The aid is intended to fill the food shortage in the area” But your example sentence is very strange, and not because of the choice of verb In “We can X each other’s shortages”, I can’t think of any verb that would make the sentence make sense without having to think up highly specific contexts
- Fill me vs fill me up. - English Language Learners Stack Exchange
There is no rule, just idiom "Fill me" is more likely with things like emotion, rather than food I had a bag of chips for lunch but it didn't fill me up Watching them together fills me with joy Other people might prefer "fill me" for food, since there is no real difference in meaning
- sentence meaning - Fill the form UP or Fill the form IN - English . . .
"Fill up" a form is not really idiomatic, or at least not the most idiomatic phrasal verb for that context You fill up some kind of container, and you fill in something incomplete, such as a form Examples: Go to the well and fill up these buckets with water
- idioms - Filled in for someone meaning - English Language Learners . . .
Like a hole in the wall, you'd fill it in with plaster Whether he undertook all of your duties is questionable, it depends on what skill sets he has in comparison to yours, but most likely simply handled the day to day items and left the rest for your return
- What is the appropriate way to ask about filling in documents?
To my mind, documents aren't something you "fill in" - at most you might sign them (by way of proving that you have read and agreed verified all the pre-printed details) – FumbleFingers Commented Oct 6, 2013 at 0:25
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