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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
refill
I.verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
cup
▪ He rose choreographically and refilled his cup for the third time.
▪ I dipped the glass ladle into the big bowl and refilled my cup.
▪ The coroner turned away to refill his wine cup.
glass
▪ He motioned to the barman to refill their glasses, a feeling of satisfaction running through him.
▪ Dunne motioned to the bartender, who refilled their glasses again.
▪ He smiled and sipped his drink, glancing across at the phone as he refilled his glass.
▪ Stunned, he watched Litchfield refill the glass, then calmly raise his own.
▪ Now he leaned down and carefully refilled his glass.
▪ Vassily laughed and refilled my glass.
▪ I hope she's worth all the expenses, he thought, as be refilled her glass.
▪ The busboy rushes to refill my water glass after every sip.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ Can I refill anyone's glass?
▪ If you bring your empty bottles back to the store, we can refill them.
▪ The tank was emptied, cleaned, and refilled with fresh water.
▪ The waiter refilled our wine glasses.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Drain the peel, refill the pot and boil the peel for 20 minutes more.
▪ Felicia slides her glass forward and he refills it with grape juice.
▪ He motioned to the barman to refill their glasses, a feeling of satisfaction running through him.
▪ I refill her teacup once, twice.
▪ Now he leaned down and carefully refilled his glass.
▪ Perhaps nothing makes a swimming-pool owner feel more guilty than having to drain and refill the pool.
▪ The Colonel gestured to me: I was to refill the glasses.
▪ They were together in the big cupboard behind the staff room, refilling the sugar bowls.
II.noun
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
refills for an ink pen
▪ A cup of coffee is $1.20, refills are free.
▪ A large soda is $1.50. Refills are free.
▪ a prescription refill
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ He took a boat-shaped piece of pastry filled with crab and proffered his glass for a refill.
▪ My wineglass was empty and she was bringing me a refill with unheard-of good grace.
▪ Richard gets a second refill on his coffee.
▪ She spooned more sugar into her empty coffee cup and motioned to the waitress for a refill.
▪ The number of patients granted refills at their pharmacies is unrecorded.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Refill

Refill \Re*fill"\ (r?*f?l"), v. t. & i. To fill, or become full, again.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
refill

1680s, from re- "back, again" + fill (v.). Related: Refilled; refilling.

refill

1884, from refill (v.). Meaning "a second drink" is from 1929.

Wiktionary
refill

Etymology 1 n. 1 A filling after the first. 2 A product containing materials to replace those used up by a piece of equipment. Etymology 2

vb. To fill up once again.

WordNet
refill
  1. n. a prescription drug that is provided again; "he got a refill of his prescription"; "the prescription specified only one refill"

  2. a commercial product that refills a container with its appropriate contents; "he got a refill for his ball-point pen"; "he got a refill for his notebook"

  3. v. fill something that had previously been emptied; "refill my glass, please" [syn: replenish, fill again]

Wikipedia
Refill

"Refill" is a song by American singer-songwriter and R&B recording artist Elle Varner. The song, produced by Andrew "Pop" Wansel, was released on January 31, 2012 as a digital download, and serves as the second single from her debut studio album, Perfectly Imperfect (2012). A snippet of the song was included on her mixtape Conversational Lush (2012). The song received a nomination for Best R&B Song at the 55th Grammy Awards to be held in February 2013. Robert Christgau ranked it number 14 on his year-end singles list for 2012.

Usage examples of "refill".

At the end of the meal Johanna refilled coffee cups and brought milk for Bucko before she set a large platter of bear claws on the table.

He reached to the hot-jar at his waist, unscrewed the cap, drank deeply, then emptied it of cauf grounds and set about refilling it with snow.

He had finally discarded the couplet form, Rupert Gardin told me, as he refilled my glass with iced tea, just a short while before the ship came and rescued him.

I was about to ask for a refill when the old gimmer at the next table lit his pipe, so I decided to leave.

An hour later Khor, Eratosthenes, and Ne-tiy had wound the last of the linen strips around the hydraulic tubes, refilled the depleted oil surge tank, and secured the amphora of natron in the storage locker.

He selected another helping of chicken korma then refilled his glass with chilled Chardonnay.

Lybster, after discussing with Sir William the respective merits of Bristol Milk, Oloroso, and Manzanilla, had departed, Sir William had refilled his glass, and was feeling in charity with the world.

It was pumped dry before acceleration and then, after limiting velocity had been attained, had to be cleared by hand of soil and torn vegetation before it could be refilled.

Mariko waved her fan, smiled encouragingly, and refilled his saké cup.

I ate a few dried figs, hard and half turned to sugar, and refilled my water flask at the stream that mumbled through the weedy clearing, trying to decide whether to return to the ridge top to dig another bundle of scabwort roots or head down to the cottage and the uncountable tasks that needed doing before sunset.

Angela held out her cup to be replenished, which prompted Lida to hold up her sippy cup to be refilled, too.

He filled a plastic cup to the brim, slugged it down quickly, and poured himself a refill before he sat down.

Fie stopped at a tienda on the outskirts of town and bought some tortillas and some tins of beans and salsa and some cheese and he rolled them up in his blanket and tied the bedroll on behind the saddle again and refilled the canteen and mounted up and turned the horse north.

Stone Folk, Morrhyn thought as the cup was refilled, downed tiswin even faster than Yazte, but it seemed to them no more than water.

He drank steadily, pausing only to refill the mug and grab a moistened towelette from the dispenser near the head of the bed.