Difference between Filling and Fill

What is the difference between Filling and Fill?

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

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: When I was alone, I lived on eggplant, the stove top cook's strongest ally. I fried it and stewed it, and ate it crisp and sludgy, hot and cold. It was cheap and filling and was delicious in all manner of strange combinations. If any was left over, I ate it cold the next day on bread.

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: Those who enjoy their own emotionally bad health and who habitually fill their own minds with the rank poisons of suspicion, jealousy and hatred, as a rule take umbrage at those who refuse to do likewise, and they find a perverted relief in trying to denigrate them.

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

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