Difference between Shorten and Fill

SHORTEN vs FILL: NOUN

The material, such as earth or gravel, used for this.
A built-up piece of land; an embankment.
Material for filling a container, cavity, or passage.
An amount needed to make full, complete, or satisfied.
Deposition alternating with or in contrast to scouring out. The contrasting terms are scour and fill, cut and fill.
The vertical height of the top of an embankment above the natural surface at any point.
In engineering: An embankment of earth or rock made as a road-bed: the opposite of cut.
Thyme.
Any material that fills a space or container
A quantity sufficient to satisfy
An amount of something sufficient for filling; a charge.
A full supply; enough to satisfy want or desire; as much as gives complete satisfaction.
A shaft; a thill.
A dialectal variant of field.

To take in (a sail) so that less canvas is exposed to the wind, thereby reducing speed.
To make short or shorter.
To reduce in force, efficacy, or intensity.
To add shortening to (dough) so as to make flaky.
To become short or shorter.

To put something into (a container, for example) to capacity or to a desired level.
To supply or provide to the fullest extent.
To build up the level of (low-lying land) with material such as earth or gravel.
To stop or plug up (an opening, for example).
To repair a cavity of (a tooth).
To add a foreign substance to (cloth or wood, for example).
To flow or move into (a container or area), often to capacity.
To satiate, as with food and drink.
To engage or occupy completely.
To satisfy or meet; fulfill: : satisfy.
To supply what is specified by or required for.
To put a person into (a job or position).
To discharge the duties of; occupy.
To cover the surface of (an inexpensive metal) with a layer of precious metal, such as gold.
To cause (a sail) to swell.
To adjust (a yard) so that wind will cause a sail to swell.
To become full.
To pervade.

To make short or shorter in measure, extent, or time
To make deficient (as to); to deprive; -- with of.
To take in the slack of it.
To reduce sail by taking it in.
To reduce or diminish in amount, quantity, or extent; to lessen; to abridge; to curtail; to contract

To make short or friable, as pastry with butter or lard.
To cause to come short or fail.
To deprive.
To check; confine; restrain.
To take in; contract; lessen in extent or amount: as, to shorten sail; to shorten an allowance.
Figuratively, to make inefficient or incapable. Compare short-armed.
To make appear short: as, pleasant companionship shortens a journey; a concave mirror shortens the face.
To make short or shorter; abridge; curtail: as, to shorten hours of work; to shorten the skirt of a dress.
To come short; fail.
To make anything short: used with in in the nautical phrase to shorten in on the cable, to heave in short or shorter.
To pronounce or measure as short: as, to shorten a vowel or syllable.
To become short or shorter; contract; diminish in length: as, ropes shorten when wet.

An obsolete variant of fell.
To make up: as, to fill a prescription.
To execute: as. to fill an order for goods.
In poker, to draw cards which improve the hand: usually restricted to filling four-card flushes or straights.
An obsolete preterit of fall.
Fill, satisfy or meet a want or need or condition or restriction
(idiom) (fill the bill) To serve a particular purpose.
(idiom) (fill (someone's) shoes) To assume someone's position or duties.

Interrupt, Lessen, Expedite, Improve, Streamline, Accelerate, Bowdlerize, Bowdlerise, Expurgate, Contract, Abridge, Foreshorten, Cut, Abbreviate, Reduce

Make full, Fill up, Fulfil, Close, Stuff, Jam, Replete, Meet, Sate, Satisfy, Take, Satiate, Fulfill, Cram, Occupy

Minimize, Reducing, Interrupt, Lessen, Expedite, Improve, Streamline, Accelerate, Expurgate, Contract, Abridge, Foreshorten, Cut, Abbreviate, Reduce

Refill, Replace, Fill up, Fulfil, Close, Stuff, Jam, Replete, Meet, Sate, Satisfy, Take, Satiate, Cram, Occupy

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The rock fill shall be compacted by rollers to ensure proper settlementand compaction, but not permitting the fill to go below the standing waterlevel.
Fill fryer with oil to the fill line indicated inside the fryer.
If travelers are unable to fill out the form online, they must fill out a paper version prior to arrival into Panama.
These outfits had sprung up to fill a burgeoning demand for credit that the more tightly controlled official banking sector was unable to fill.
Emergency fill Emergency fill lets you get a limited quantity of certain drugs while the plan processes your preauthorization equest.
Upon completion of dumping, fill the hole or trench with clean fill and sod over the area.
Do not fill cooking pot above the maximum fill line.
Hot fill, cold fill, UHT, and modified aseptic.
Students can fill AMIE Exam Form Fill Up Online.