Difference between Take and Fill

What is the difference between Take and Fill?

Take as a noun is an act of taking. while Fill as a noun is a sufficient or more than sufficient amount.

Take

Part of speech: noun

Definition: An act of taking. Something that is taken. A (1) profit, (2) reward, (3) bribe, illegal payoff or unethical kickback. An interpretation or view. An attempt to record a scene. A catch. A facial gesture in response to an event. A catch of the ball, especially by the wicket-keeper.

Part of speech: verb

Definition: To grasp with the hands. To grab and move to oneself. To get into one's possession. To accept. To gain a position by force. To have sex forcefully with, possibly without consent. To carry, particularly to a particular destination. To choose. To support or carry without failing or breaking. To endure or cope with. To not swing at a pitch To ingest medicine, drugs, etc. To assume or interpret to be. To enroll (in a class, or a course of study). To participate in, undergo, or experience. To tighten (take up) a belaying rope. Often used imperatively. To fight or attempt to fight somebody. (See also take on.) To stick, persist, thrive or remain. To become. To catch the ball; especially for the wicket-keeper to catch the ball after the batsman has missed or edged it. To require. To capture using a photographic camera. To last or expend [an amount of time]. To use To consider as an instance or example.

Example sentence: I've missed more than 9000 shots in my career. I've lost almost 300 games. 26 times, I've been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed. I've failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed.

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: There are two kinds of teachers: the kind that fill you with so much quail shot that you can't move, and the kind that just gives you a little prod behind and you jump to the skies.

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

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