different between fulfill vs teem

English

Alternative forms

• (UK) fulfil

Etymology

From Middle English fulfillen, from Old English fullfyllan (“to fill full”), corresponding to ful- +? fill.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /f?l?f?l/, /f??f?l/
• Rhymes: -?l

Verb

fulfill (third-person singular simple present fulfills, present participle fulfilling, simple past and past participle fulfilled) (American spelling)

1. To satisfy, carry out, bring to completion (an obligation, a requirement, etc.).
2. To emotionally or artistically satisfy; to develop one's gifts to the fullest.

3. To obey, follow, comply with (a rule, requirement etc.).

4. (business) To package, distribute, or ship goods.
5. (archaic) To fill full; fill to the utmost capacity; fill up.
   • 1870, James Thomson, The City of Dreadful Night

     The silence which benumbs or strains the sense

     Fulfils with awe the soul's despair unweeping

Derived terms

• fulfilled
• fulfilling
• fulfillable
• (chiefly US) fulfillment; (UK) fulfilment
• unfulfilled

Translations

English

Etymology 1

From Middle English temen (“to bear, to support”), from Old English t?man (“to give birth”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ti?m/
• Rhymes: -i?m
• Homophone: team

Verb

teem (third-person singular simple present teems, present participle teeming, simple past and past participle teemed)

1. To be stocked to overflowing.
2. To be prolific; to abound; to be rife.
3. (obsolete) To bring forth young, as an animal; to produce fruit, as a plant; to bear; to be pregnant; to conceive; to multiply.

Related terms

Translations

Etymology 2

From Middle English temen (“to drain”), from Old Norse tœma, from Proto-Germanic *t?mijan? (“to empty, make empty”). Related to English toom (“empty, vacant”). More at toom.

Verb

teem (third-person singular simple present teems, present participle teeming, simple past and past participle teemed)

1. (archaic) To empty.
   • 1849, G. C. Greenwell, A Glossary of Terms used in the Coal Trade of Northumberland and Durham

     [The banksman] also puts the full tubs to the weighing machine, and thence to the skreens, upon which he teems the coals. It is also his duty to keep an account of the quantity of coals and stones drawn each day.
2. To pour (especially with rain)
3. To pour, as steel, from a melting pot; to fill, as a mould, with molten metal.

Translations

Etymology 3

From Middle English temen (“to be suitable, befit”), from Old English *teman, from Proto-Germanic *teman? (“to fit”). Cognate with Low German temen, tamen (“to befit”), Dutch betamen (“to befit”), German ziemen. See also tame (adjective) and compare beteem.

Verb

teem (third-person singular simple present teems, present participle teeming, simple past and past participle teemed)

1. (obsolete, rare) To think fit.
   • 1603, George Gifford, Dialogue of Witches

     Ah, said he, thou hast confessed and bewrayed all, I could teem it to rend thee in pieces

Anagrams

• Teme, etem, meet, mete, teme

Dutch

Pronunciation

Verb

teem

1. first-person singular present indicative of temen
2. imperative of temen

Farefare

Etymology

Cognate with Moore toeeme (“to change”)

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /té?m/

Verb

teem

1. to move something

   S??? ka teem b??s? la

   Go move the goats

Middle English

Noun

teem

1. Alternative form of teme (“folk”)