What is the difference between fulfill and fill? In the following example, do they have the same meaning? I'll fill the form tomorrow. I'll fulfill the form tomorrow.
0 In many books and sites of English learners there are exercise that require from the learner to put the missing word / article in the 'space' between two words or at the end of the sentence. What is this place called? ("Fill the ___ with the correct articles in following sentence") For now I didn't find the term in English or in my language.
“The aid is intended to fill the food shortage in the area”. But your example sentence is very strange, and not because of the choice of verb. In “We can X each other’s shortages”, I can’t think of any verb that would make the sentence make sense without having to think up highly specific contexts.
And you can fill in a form because you're supplying missing information. Fill out is generally used when you tell someone to enter all the fields on a form of more than one field. Example: Please fill out this form. Fill out means to complete by supplying requested information.
In school, for exams we FILL UP forms. But I have seen people saying "FILL IN the form." Fill the form in OR fill the form up, which is correct. Please explain.
Unlike with "fill," "pour" only works one way: [x] The bottles are poured with wine. [ ] Wine is poured into the bottles. "Pour" is used for things that can flow; wine is a liquid and can flow, and grains of sand, in the aggregate, can also exhibit fluid-like properties (it is perfectly fine to "pour sand into a pail").
There was a series of commercials for the "Brim" coffee brand with the tagline "Fill it to the rim with Brim!" They used the word "rim" because the coffee was already called "Brim", but it always seemed a little unnatural (to me) because "to the brim" is what I would normally say.
In forms of the kind where you're supposed to fill in your address, it seems to be much more common to have a slot that says "city" only, rather than "city/town" or "town".
