The difference between Cloy and Fill

When used as verbs, cloy means to fill up or choke up, whereas fill means to occupy fully, to take up all of.

Fill is also noun with the meaning: a sufficient or more than sufficient amount.

check bellow for the other definitions of Cloy and Fill

  1. Cloy as a verb (transitive):

    To fill up or choke up; to stop up.

  2. Cloy as a verb (transitive):

    To clog, to glut, or satisfy, as the appetite; to satiate.

  3. Cloy as a verb (transitive):

    To fill to loathing; to surfeit.

  1. Fill as a verb (transitive):

    To occupy fully, to take up all of.

  2. Fill as a verb (transitive):

    To add contents to (a container, cavity or the like) so that it is full.

  3. Fill as a verb:

    To enter (something), making it full.

  4. Fill as a verb (intransitive):

    To become full.

    Examples:

    "the bucket filled with rain; the sails fill with wind"

  5. Fill as a verb (intransitive):

    To become pervaded with something.

    Examples:

    "My heart filled with joy."

  6. Fill as a verb (transitive):

    To satisfy or obey (an order, request or requirement).

    Examples:

    "The pharmacist filled my prescription for penicillin."

    "We can't let the library close! It fills a great need in the community."

  7. Fill as a verb (transitive):

    To install someone, or be installed, in (a position or office), eliminating a vacancy.

    Examples:

    "Sorry, no more applicants. The position has been filled."

  8. Fill as a verb (transitive):

    To treat (a tooth) by adding a dental filling to it.

  9. Fill as a verb (transitive):

    To fill or supply fully with food; to feed; to satisfy.

  10. Fill as a verb (transitive, nautical):

    To trim (a yard) so that the wind blows on the after side of the sails.

  11. Fill as a verb (transitive, slang, vulgar, of a [[male]]):

    To have sexual intercourse with (a female).

    Examples:

    "Did you fill that girl last night?"

  1. Fill as a noun (after a possessive):

    A sufficient or more than sufficient amount.

    Examples:

    "Don't feed him any more: he's had his fill."

  2. Fill as a noun:

    An amount that fills a container.

    Examples:

    "The mixer returned to the plant for another fill."

  3. Fill as a noun:

    The filling of a container or area.

    Examples:

    "That machine can do 20 fills a minute."

    "This paint program supports lines, circles, and textured fills."

  4. Fill as a noun:

    Inexpensive material used to occupy empty spaces, especially in construction.

    Examples:

    "The ruins of earlier buildings were used as fill for more recent construction."

  5. Fill as a noun (archaeology):

    Soil and/or human-created debris discovered within a cavity or cut in the layers and exposed by excavation; fill soil.

  6. Fill as a noun:

    An embankment, as in railroad construction, to fill a hollow or ravine; also, the place which is to be filled.

  7. Fill as a noun (music):

    A short passage, riff, or rhythmic sound that helps to keep the listener's attention during a break between the phrases of a melody.

    Examples:

    "bass fill"

  1. Fill as a noun:

    One of the thills or shafts of a carriage.

    Examples:

    "rfquotek Mortimer"

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