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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
- 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
- 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
- Is fill something in into something grammatically correct?
My old Japanese-English dictionary (Random House, published on 1993) provides example sentences of the verb "fill" as follows: fill sand into a pail [=fill a pail with sand] バケツに砂を入れる fill wine into bottles ぶどう酒を瓶に詰める I can't find this usage on some famous online English dictionaries such as Longman and
- Is the phrase populate with used correctly in this context?
It is grammatical As a transitive verb, "to populate" means to fill up, fill in or supply with people or things "I populated my aquarium with tropical fish " This is a relatively uncommon use, particularly in the present tense It is far more common to speak of things that have already been populated, rather than which are presently populating
- phrase meaning - Does fill me in have sexual connotation? - English . . .
Euphemism and connotation are tricky Generally, if you use "fill me in" in a normal context, with normal pronunciation, and normal body language, it won't be taken to have a sexual connotation It would be understood as follows (from Oxford Dictionaries): fill someone in PHRASAL VERB 1 Inform someone more fully of a matter:
- 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
- To fill the pot to its top, would be properly describe what I mean to . . .
There was a series of commercials for the "Brim" coffee brand with the tagline "Fill it to the rim with Brim!" They used the word "rim" because the coffee was already called "Brim", but it always seemed a little unnatural (to me) because "to the brim" is what I would normally say
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