--- title: F — The English dictionary with trees and pragmatics · page 16 description: The 906 words of the English dictionary under F, every meaning for a pupil and every example with its dependency tree and pragmatics. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/english/F/page/16/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [dictionaries](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/) / [English dictionary](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/english/) / F # F — The English dictionary · page 16 [A](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/english/A/) · [B](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/english/B/) · [C](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/english/C/) · [D](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/english/D/) · 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meaning 1:* To fight is to try to hurt someone using your body or weapons.[↗](../../fight/#m1 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 2:* To fight is to argue angrily.[↗](../../fight/#m2 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 3:* To fight for or against something is to try very hard to get or stop it: fight a fire, fight an illness.[↗](../../fight/#m3 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 4:* A fight is an act of fighting or an argument.[↗](../../fight/#m4 "tree and pragmatics") *Example:* Don't fight — tell a teacher instead.[↗](../../fight/#x1 "tree and pragmatics") · My brothers fight over the remote.[↗](../../fight/#x2 "tree and pragmatics") · We had a silly fight about a game.[↗](../../fight/#x3 "tree and pragmatics") · White blood cells fight germs.[↗](../../fight/#x4 "tree and pragmatics") · Firefighters fought the fire all night.[↗](../../fight/#x5 "tree and pragmatics") · She fought hard to win the race.[↗](../../fight/#x6 "tree and pragmatics") · Walk away if someone wants a fight.[↗](../../fight/#x7 "tree and pragmatics") · The town fought to save the old library.[↗](../../fight/#x8 "tree and pragmatics") · The fight was short and sharp.[↗](../../fight/#x9 "tree and pragmatics") · The LORD will fight for you, and ye shall hold your peace.'[↗](../../fight/#x10 "tree and pragmatics") (Torah EXO.14.14, JPS 1917)[↗](../../fight/#x10 "tree and pragmatics") · When thou drawest nigh unto a city to fight against it, then proclaim peace unto it.[↗](../../fight/#x11 "tree and pragmatics") (Torah DEU.20.10, JPS 1917)[↗](../../fight/#x11 "tree and pragmatics") · for the LORD your God is He that goeth with you, to fight for you against your enemies, to save you.'[↗](../../fight/#x12 "tree and pragmatics") (Torah DEU.20.4, JPS 1917)[↗](../../fight/#x12 "tree and pragmatics") · that they gathered themselves together, to fight with Joshua and with Israel, with one accord.[↗](../../fight/#x13 "tree and pragmatics") (Prophets JOS.9.2, JPS 1917)[↗](../../fight/#x13 "tree and pragmatics") · Strive, O LORD, with them that strive with me; fight against them that fight against me.[↗](../../fight/#x14 "tree and pragmatics") (Writings PSA.35.1, JPS 1917)[↗](../../fight/#x14 "tree and pragmatics") · And they told David, saying: 'Behold, the Philistines are fighting against Keilah, and they rob the threshing-floors.'[↗](../../fight/#x15 "tree and pragmatics") (Prophets 1SA.23.1, JPS 1917)[↗](../../fight/#x15 "tree and pragmatics") **fighter** — *Everyday, meaning 1:* A fighter is a person who fights, for example in boxing or martial arts, or in a war.[↗](../../fighter/#m1 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 2:* A fighter is someone who does not give up and keeps trying hard against problems or illness.[↗](../../fighter/#m2 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 3:* A fighter (fighter plane, fighter jet) is a small fast military aeroplane made to attack other aircraft.[↗](../../fighter/#m3 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 4:* A firefighter is a person whose job is to put out fires.[↗](../../fighter/#m4 "tree and pragmatics") *Example:* The boxer was a strong fighter.[↗](../../fighter/#x1 "tree and pragmatics") · Grandad was ill for months, but he's a real fighter.[↗](../../fighter/#x2 "tree and pragmatics") · Two fighter jets flew low over the beach.[↗](../../fighter/#x3 "tree and pragmatics") · The firefighters put out the fire in ten minutes.[↗](../../fighter/#x4 "tree and pragmatics") · Sam wasn't a fighter; he hated hitting anyone.[↗](../../fighter/#x5 "tree and pragmatics") · My little sister is a fighter and never gives up at chess.[↗](../../fighter/#x6 "tree and pragmatics") · The fighter pilot landed the plane safely.[↗](../../fighter/#x7 "tree and pragmatics") · They were savage fighters and hunters.[↗](../../fighter/#x8 "tree and pragmatics") **fighteth** — *Early Modern English, meaning 1:* «fighteth» means «fights», a form of «fight».[↗](../../fighteth/#m1 "tree and pragmatics") *e.g.* To fight is to try to hurt someone using your body or weapons.[↗](../../fighteth/#m1 "tree and pragmatics") *Example:* Ye shall not fear them; for the LORD your God, He it is that fighteth for you.'[↗](../../fighteth/#x1 "tree and pragmatics") (Torah DEU.3.22, JPS 1917) · And He took off their chariot wheels, and made them to drive heavily; so that the Egyptians said: 'Let us flee from the face of Israel; for the LORD fighteth for them against the Egyptians.'[↗](../../fighteth/#x2 "tree and pragmatics") (Torah EXO.14.25, JPS 1917) **figurative** — *Everyday, meaning 1:* Used with a meaning different from the usual, word-for-word one, to make a picture in the mind: «a heart of gold» is figurative.[↗](../../figurative/#m1 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 2:* (art) Showing real people or things that you can recognise, not abstract shapes.[↗](../../figurative/#m2 "tree and pragmatics") *Example:* «It's raining cats and dogs» is figurative language.[↗](../../figurative/#x1 "tree and pragmatics") · Poets use figurative language to paint pictures with words.[↗](../../figurative/#x2 "tree and pragmatics") · «He has a heart of stone» has a figurative meaning: he is unkind.[↗](../../figurative/#x3 "tree and pragmatics") · The teacher asked us to find three figurative phrases in the poem.[↗](../../figurative/#x4 "tree and pragmatics") · She paints figurative pictures of people at the beach.[↗](../../figurative/#x5 "tree and pragmatics") · The figurative meaning of «break the ice» is to start a friendly chat.[↗](../../figurative/#x6 "tree and pragmatics") · 16) Judah Halevi in his book entitled "Kusari," p. 456, illustrates it thus: The Creator is one, and the space has in the figurative expression six dimensions.[↗](../../figurative/#x7 "tree and pragmatics") (Sefer Yetzirah, Kalisch 1877)[↗](../../figurative/#x7 "tree and pragmatics") **figuratively** — *Everyday, meaning 1:* In a figurative way, not with the plain word-for-word meaning.[↗](../../figuratively/#m1 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 2:* Used in the phrase «figuratively speaking» to show you are using an image, not a fact.[↗](../../figuratively/#m2 "tree and pragmatics") *Example:* Figuratively speaking, my brain is full after that test.[↗](../../figuratively/#x1 "tree and pragmatics") · «She is a shining star» is meant figuratively.[↗](../../figuratively/#x2 "tree and pragmatics") · He was figuratively walking on air after the win.[↗](../../figuratively/#x3 "tree and pragmatics") · The climbers reached the top, both literally and figuratively.[↗](../../figuratively/#x4 "tree and pragmatics") · When Mum says the house is a zoo, she means it figuratively.[↗](../../figuratively/#x5 "tree and pragmatics") · Can you explain this sentence figuratively and literally?[↗](../../figuratively/#x6 "tree and pragmatics") **figure** — *Everyday, meaning 1:* A figure is a number written as a sign, like 7 or 25.[↗](../../figure/#m1 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 2:* A figure is a shape, like a triangle or a square.[↗](../../figure/#m2 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 3:* A figure is the shape of a person, or a small toy model of a person: an action figure.[↗](../../figure/#m3 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 4:* A figure in a book is a picture or a diagram.[↗](../../figure/#m4 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 5:* To figure out is to find the answer or to understand.[↗](../../figure/#m5 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 6:* To figure in a story means to appear or play a part in it.[↗](../../figure/#m6 "tree and pragmatics") *Example:* Jerry had 7 action figures.[↗](../../figure/#x1 "tree and pragmatics") · He added 2 more figures.[↗](../../figure/#x2 "tree and pragmatics") · Can you figure out how many he has now?[↗](../../figure/#x3 "tree and pragmatics") · How many more books than figures are on the shelf?[↗](../../figure/#x4 "tree and pragmatics") · Write the number in figures: 25.[↗](../../figure/#x5 "tree and pragmatics") · A square is a figure with four equal sides.[↗](../../figure/#x6 "tree and pragmatics") · I saw a dark figure in the fog.[↗](../../figure/#x7 "tree and pragmatics") · Look at Figure 3 on page 10.[↗](../../figure/#x8 "tree and pragmatics") · A gigantic pike figures also in the Kalevala.[↗](../../figure/#x9 "tree and pragmatics") · lest ye deal corruptly, and make you a graven image, even the form of any figure, the likeness of male or female, (Torah DEU.4.16, JPS 1917)[↗](../../figure/#x10 "tree and pragmatics") · then ye shall drive out all the inhabitants of the land from before you, and destroy all their figured stones, and destroy all their molten images, and demolish all their high places.[↗](../../figure/#x11 "tree and pragmatics") (Torah NUM.33.52, JPS 1917)[↗](../../figure/#x11 "tree and pragmatics") · Ye shall make you no idols, neither shall ye rear you up a graven image, or a pillar, neither shall ye place any figured stone in your land, to bow down unto it; for I am the LORD your God.[↗](../../figure/#x12 "tree and pragmatics") (Torah LEV.26.1, JPS 1917)[↗](../../figure/#x12 "tree and pragmatics") · To understand a proverb, and a figure; the words of the wise, and their dark sayings.[↗](../../figure/#x13 "tree and pragmatics") (Writings PRO.1.6, JPS 1917)[↗](../../figure/#x13 "tree and pragmatics") · And he carved all the walls of the house round about with carved figures of cherubim and palm-trees and open flowers, within and without.[↗](../../figure/#x14 "tree and pragmatics") (Prophets 1KI.6.29, JPS 1917)[↗](../../figure/#x14 "tree and pragmatics") **filament** — *Everyday, meaning 1:* A filament is a very thin thread or wire.[↗](../../filament/#m1 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 2:* In an old-style light bulb, the filament is the thin wire that glows when electricity passes through it.[↗](../../filament/#m2 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 3:* (science) A thin thread in living things, such as in fungi, plants or a flower's stamen.[↗](../../filament/#m3 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 4:* The plastic thread used in 3D printers.[↗](../../filament/#m4 "tree and pragmatics") *Example:* The filament in the bulb glowed bright orange.[↗](../../filament/#x1 "tree and pragmatics") · When the filament breaks, the bulb stops working.[↗](../../filament/#x2 "tree and pragmatics") · The stamen of a flower has a filament and an anther.[↗](../../filament/#x3 "tree and pragmatics") · Spiders spin silk filaments.[↗](../../filament/#x4 "tree and pragmatics") · Our 3D printer uses plastic filament.[↗](../../filament/#x5 "tree and pragmatics") · Fungi grow tiny filaments under the ground.[↗](../../filament/#x6 "tree and pragmatics") **filbert** — *Everyday, meaning 1:* A filbert is a hazelnut, the smooth nut of the hazel tree.[↗](../../filbert/#m1 "tree and pragmatics") (old use).[↗](../../filbert/#m1 "tree and pragmatics") *Example:* A boy put his hand into a pitcher full of filberts.[↗](../../filbert/#x1 "tree and pragmatics") · Perhaps you may have some more filberts another time.[↗](../../filbert/#x2 "tree and pragmatics") **filch** — *Everyday, meaning 1:* To filch is to steal something small, usually in a sneaky way.[↗](../../filch/#m1 "tree and pragmatics") *Example:* The fox filched the brains when the lion was not looking.[↗](../../filch/#x1 "tree and pragmatics") · A bit of cheese was filched from the dairy.[↗](../../filch/#x2 "tree and pragmatics") · Do not filch sweets from the jar.[↗](../../filch/#x3 "tree and pragmatics") **file** — *Everyday, meaning 1:* A file is a set of information kept together on a computer, like a picture or a document.[↗](../../file/#m1 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 2:* A file is a folder or box for keeping papers in order.[↗](../../file/#m2 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 3:* A file is a metal tool for making things smooth: a nail file.[↗](../../file/#m3 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 4:* To file is to put papers away in order, or to smooth with a file.[↗](../../file/#m4 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 5:* In single file means in a line, one behind another.[↗](../../file/#m5 "tree and pragmatics") *Example:* Dave had 24 files on his phone.[↗](../../file/#x1 "tree and pragmatics") · He deleted 9 files.[↗](../../file/#x2 "tree and pragmatics") · He has 15 apps and 9 files left.[↗](../../file/#x3 "tree and pragmatics") · How many more files than apps did he delete?[↗](../../file/#x4 "tree and pragmatics") · Save the file before you close it.[↗](../../file/#x5 "tree and pragmatics") · The teacher keeps our work in a file.[↗](../../file/#x6 "tree and pragmatics") · Walk in single file along the narrow path.[↗](../../file/#x7 "tree and pragmatics") · Mum used a nail file to smooth her nail.[↗](../../file/#x8 "tree and pragmatics") · These files may be used for any non-commercial purpose, provided this notice of attribution is left intact in all copies.[↗](../../file/#x9 "tree and pragmatics") (Sefer Yetzirah, Kalisch 1877)[↗](../../file/#x9 "tree and pragmatics") · + Make non-commercial use of the files We designed Google Book Search for use by individuals, and we request that you use these files for personal, non-commercial purposes.[↗](../../file/#x10 "tree and pragmatics") (Sefer Yetzirah, Westcott 1893)[↗](../../file/#x10 "tree and pragmatics") · + Maintain attribution The Google "watermark" you see on each file is essential for informing people about this project and helping them find additional materials through Google Book Search.[↗](../../file/#x11 "tree and pragmatics") (Sefer Yetzirah, Westcott 1893)[↗](../../file/#x11 "tree and pragmatics") **filial** — *Everyday, meaning 1:* Filial means of a son or daughter, or owed by a child to a parent: filial duty.[↗](../../filial/#m1 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 2:* In old stories «filial» describes a child who is loving, respectful and obedient to a parent.[↗](../../filial/#m2 "tree and pragmatics") *Example:* She was a filial daughter who cared for her father.[↗](../../filial/#x1 "tree and pragmatics") · The prince showed filial love by obeying the king.[↗](../../filial/#x2 "tree and pragmatics") · Be obedient and filial to your mother.[↗](../../filial/#x3 "tree and pragmatics") · Her filial piety was known throughout the village.[↗](../../filial/#x4 "tree and pragmatics") **filing** — *Everyday, meaning 1:* Filing is putting papers or computer documents in order in files or folders.[↗](../../filing/#m1 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 2:* Filings are tiny pieces rubbed off metal with a file, such as iron filings.[↗](../../filing/#m2 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 3:* Filing is also the «-ing» form of «file»: walking in a line (filing into class), smoothing with a file (filing nails), or sending a document officially.[↗](../../filing/#m3 "tree and pragmatics") *Example:* The iron filings made a pattern round the magnet.[↗](../../filing/#x1 "tree and pragmatics") · Mum keeps her letters in a filing cabinet.[↗](../../filing/#x2 "tree and pragmatics") · The children were filing quietly into the hall.[↗](../../filing/#x3 "tree and pragmatics") · She is filing her nails smooth.[↗](../../filing/#x4 "tree and pragmatics") · Dad spent the evening doing his filing.[↗](../../filing/#x5 "tree and pragmatics") · Sprinkle the filings gently over the paper.[↗](../../filing/#x6 "tree and pragmatics") · Don't blow iron filings; they can get in your eyes.[↗](../../filing/#x7 "tree and pragmatics") · And the price of the filing was a pim for the mattocks, and for the coulters, and for the forks with three teeth, and for the axes; and to set the goads.[↗](../../filing/#x8 "tree and pragmatics") (Prophets 1SA.13.21, JPS 1917)[↗](../../filing/#x8 "tree and pragmatics") **filipino** — *Everyday, meaning 1:* Filipino means from or belonging to the Philippines, a country of more than seven thousand islands in South-East Asia.[↗](../../filipino/#m1 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 2:* A Filipino is a person from the Philippines.[↗](../../filipino/#m2 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 3:* Filipino is also the national language of the Philippines, based mostly on Tagalog; English is also widely spoken there.[↗](../../filipino/#m3 "tree and pragmatics") *Example:* My friend's mum is Filipino.[↗](../../filipino/#x1 "tree and pragmatics") · We tried Filipino food at the festival.[↗](../../filipino/#x2 "tree and pragmatics") · Filipino is the national language of the Philippines.[↗](../../filipino/#x3 "tree and pragmatics") · Many Filipinos speak both Filipino and English.[↗](../../filipino/#x4 "tree and pragmatics") · The Filipino team won the dance competition.[↗](../../filipino/#x5 "tree and pragmatics") · A Filipino nurse looked after my grandad.[↗](../../filipino/#x6 "tree and pragmatics") **fill** — *Everyday, meaning 1:* To fill is to put in as much as something can hold.[↗](../../fill/#m1 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 2:* To fill is to become full: «The room filled with people».[↗](../../fill/#m2 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 3:* To fill in a form or a gap is to write what is missing.[↗](../../fill/#m3 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 4:* To fill up means to make completely full.[↗](../../fill/#m4 "tree and pragmatics") *Example:* How many boxes can Ben fill?[↗](../../fill/#x1 "tree and pragmatics") · Anna fills 3 jars with 8 sweets each.[↗](../../fill/#x2 "tree and pragmatics") · 20 pencils fill 4 boxes equally.[↗](../../fill/#x3 "tree and pragmatics") · Fill the bucket with sand.[↗](../../fill/#x4 "tree and pragmatics") · Fill in the missing numbers: 2, 4, \_, 8.[↗](../../fill/#x5 "tree and pragmatics") · The stadium filled with fans.[↗](../../fill/#x6 "tree and pragmatics") · Fill in your name and age on the form.[↗](../../fill/#x7 "tree and pragmatics") · The bath takes 10 minutes to fill.[↗](../../fill/#x8 "tree and pragmatics") · Then he filled the cup again.[↗](../../fill/#x9 "tree and pragmatics") · And the earth was corrupt before God, and the earth was filled with violence.[↗](../../fill/#x10 "tree and pragmatics") (Torah GEN.6.11, JPS 1917)[↗](../../fill/#x10 "tree and pragmatics") · Then the cloud covered the tent of meeting, and the glory of the LORD filled the tabernacle.[↗](../../fill/#x11 "tree and pragmatics") (Torah EXO.40.34, JPS 1917)[↗](../../fill/#x11 "tree and pragmatics") · And Jacob said unto Laban: 'Give me my wife, for my days are filled, that I may go in unto her.'[↗](../../fill/#x12 "tree and pragmatics") (Torah GEN.29.21, JPS 1917)[↗](../../fill/#x12 "tree and pragmatics") · Do not I fill heaven and earth? saith the LORD.[↗](../../fill/#x13 "tree and pragmatics") (Prophets JER.23.24, JPS 1917)[↗](../../fill/#x13 "tree and pragmatics") · Or with princes that had gold, who filled their houses with silver; (Writings JOB.3.15, JPS 1917)[↗](../../fill/#x14 "tree and pragmatics") · Till He fill thy mouth with laughter, and thy lips with shouting.[↗](../../fill/#x15 "tree and pragmatics") (Writings JOB.8.21, JPS 1917)[↗](../../fill/#x15 "tree and pragmatics") **fille** — *Everyday, meaning 1:* (French) «Fille» means «girl» or «daughter»: «une petite fille» = a little girl, «ma fille» = my daughter.[↗](../../fille/#m1 "tree and pragmatics") It sounds like «fee» with a soft y at the end («feey»), and it is not an English word.[↗](../../fille/#m1 "tree and pragmatics") *Example:* «Je suis une fille» means «I am a girl» in French.[↗](../../fille/#x1 "tree and pragmatics") · «C'est ma fille» means «This is my daughter.»[↗](../../fille/#x2 "tree and pragmatics") · In French, «fille» is feminine: «la fille», «une fille».[↗](../../fille/#x3 "tree and pragmatics") · The French teacher said «filles» for the girls and «garçons» for the boys.[↗](../../fille/#x4 "tree and pragmatics") · «Petite-fille» in French means granddaughter.[↗](../../fille/#x5 "tree and pragmatics") · «La fille du roi» means «the king's daughter».[↗](../../fille/#x6 "tree and pragmatics") **fillet** — *In Jewish tradition, meaning 1:* A thin band or strip, often used to bind or decorate something.[↗](../../fillet/#m1 "tree and pragmatics") *Example:* Their pillars were twenty, and their sockets twenty, of brass; the hooks of the pillars and their fillets were of silver.[↗](../../fillet/#x1 "tree and pragmatics") (Torah EXO.38.10, JPS 1917)[↗](../../fillet/#x1 "tree and pragmatics") · All the pillars of the court round about shall be filleted with silver; their hooks of silver, and their sockets of brass.[↗](../../fillet/#x2 "tree and pragmatics") (Torah EXO.27.17, JPS 1917)[↗](../../fillet/#x2 "tree and pragmatics") · And the pillars thereof shall be twenty, and their sockets twenty, of brass; the hooks of the pillars and their fillets shall be of silver.[↗](../../fillet/#x3 "tree and pragmatics") (Torah EXO.27.10, JPS 1917)[↗](../../fillet/#x3 "tree and pragmatics") · In that day the Lord will take away the bravery of their anklets, and the fillets, and the crescents; (Prophets ISA.3.18, JPS 1917)[↗](../../fillet/#x4 "tree and pragmatics") **filling** — *Everyday, meaning 1:* (noun) A filling is the food inside a pie, sandwich, cake or pastry.[↗](../../filling/#m1 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 2:* (noun) A filling is the material a dentist puts into a hole in a tooth.[↗](../../filling/#m2 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 3:* (noun) Filling is also the soft material inside cushions, pillows and toys.[↗](../../filling/#m3 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 4:* (adjective) Filling food makes you feel full quickly.[↗](../../filling/#m4 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 5:* (verb) Filling is the -ing form of «fill»: putting something into a container until it is full.[↗](../../filling/#m5 "tree and pragmatics") *Example:* My favourite sandwich filling is cheese and pickle.[↗](../../filling/#x1 "tree and pragmatics") · I had a filling at the dentist because I ate too many sweets.[↗](../../filling/#x2 "tree and pragmatics") · Porridge is very filling.[↗](../../filling/#x3 "tree and pragmatics") · She is filling the bath with warm water.[↗](../../filling/#x4 "tree and pragmatics") · The teddy's filling came out of a hole.[↗](../../filling/#x5 "tree and pragmatics") · A tap filling a tank at 5 litres per minute fills 60 litres in 12 minutes.[↗](../../filling/#x6 "tree and pragmatics") · Please finish filling in your form.[↗](../../filling/#x7 "tree and pragmatics") · He found there a little old woman busily occupied in filling great barrels with water.[↗](../../filling/#x8 "tree and pragmatics") · It shall be for the filling of his belly; He shall cast the fierceness of His wrath upon him, and shall cause it to rain upon him into his flesh.[↗](../../filling/#x9 "tree and pragmatics") (Writings JOB.20.23, JPS 1917)[↗](../../filling/#x9 "tree and pragmatics") [1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/english/F/) … 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