Difference between Fill and Filling

What is the difference between Fill and Filling?

Fill as a verb is to make full. while Filling as a verb is to occupy fully, to take up all of.

Fill

Part of speech: verb

Definition: to make full.

Part of speech: noun

Definition: A sufficient or more than sufficient amount. An amount that fills a container. The filling of a container. Inexpensive material used to occupy empty spaces, especially in construction. Soil and/or human-created debris discovered within a cavity and exposed by excavation; fill soil.

Example sentence: Anybody who succeeds is helping people. The secret to success is find a need and fill it; find a hurt and heal it; find a problem and solve it.

Filling

Part of speech: adjective

Definition: Of food, that satisfies the appetite by filling the stomach

Part of speech: verb

Definition: To occupy fully, to take up all of.

Part of speech: noun

Definition: Anything that is used to fill something.The contents of a pie, etc.A piece of amalgam used to fill a cavity in a tooth.

Example sentence: Illegal immigrants are using our resources, taking our jobs, filling our schools, our hospitals and our prisons, and we are paying for it all.

We hope you now know whether to use Fill or Filling in your sentence.

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