Filling vs. Fulfilling — What's the Difference?

Anything that is used to fill something.

To bring into actuality; effect or make real

A quantity of soft material that fills or is used to fill something

To do, perform, or obey (a task or order, for example); carry out.

(of food) leaving one with a pleasantly satiated feeling

To meet (a requirement or condition); satisfy.

An act or instance of filling.

Which causes fulfilment; emotionally or artistically satisfying.

Something used to fill a space, cavity, or container

Present participle of fulfill

An edible mixture used to fill pastries, sandwiches, or cakes. See Note at frosting.

Present participle of fulfil

The horizontal threads that cross the warp in weaving; weft.

Fulfilment

Present participle of fill

Of food, that satisfies the appetite by filling the stomach.

The contents of a pie, etc.

(dentistry) Any material used to fill a cavity in a tooth or the result of using such material.

The woof in woven fabrics.

Prepared wort added to ale to cleanse it.

(Protestantism) A religious experience attributed to the Holy Ghost "filling" a believer.

That which is used to fill a cavity or any empty space, or to supply a deficiency; as, filling for a cavity in a tooth, a depression in a roadbed, the space between exterior and interior walls of masonry, the pores of open-grained wood, the space between the outer and inner planks of a vessel, etc.

The woof in woven fabrics.

Prepared wort added to ale to cleanse it.

Any material that fills a space or container;

Flow into something (as a container)

(dentistry) a dental appliance consisting of any of various substances (as metal or plastic) inserted into a prepared cavity in a tooth;

A food mixture used to fill pastry or sandwiches etc.

The yarn woven across the warp yarn in weaving

The act of filling something