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to infill

to infill

1 5.6
To fill a space with material or build on empty land between buildings in a city
  • verb
  • /ˈɪnˌfɪl/
  • Specialized
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  • Examples include the E1 Jay Motel, once located on the western outskirts of town, but now replaced by a fast-food establishment that serves a rapidly infilling suburban population.
  • infill board

I was like, OK, I'm your guy, tell me when I infill.

Examples

  • It's only going to grow as that part of town matures and infills further, plus the backdrop of the old market building can't be beat for flavor.

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  • And much can be accomplished simply by infilling our sprawled built environment, reducing the time and energy necessary for daily life.

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  • In Atlanta, "roommate" floor plans turn up as infill in gentrified areas.

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  • This will infill shadows, give a more studio quality, and improve resolution and skin tone; female presenters appreciate this.

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  • I ended up in squadron OPS and so I'm now one of the drivers to infill teams to their ambush sites.

  • The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) granted regulatory approval in 2006 to infill the existing 12,343-ha developed portion of the field with an additional 3,100 wells (USDOI 2006).

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  • The city plans to infill vacant lots with new housing projects to improve the neighborhood.

  • Developers are eager to infill the spaces between the old buildings with modern architecture.

  • To maximize urban space, they decided to infill the empty parcels with small parks and shops.

Synonyms

to fill up
vsto infill
90 1.3

Close a hole or gap by putting material into it

refers to adding material or buildings between existing structures not general topping up
to brick in
vsto infill
1 7.0

To close an opening by building a wall of bricks across it

is used to build between existing structures rather than only to seal openings
to backfill
vsto infill
  • Specialized
1 4.3

To fill a hole or trench with soil after work is done

is used to build between existing buildings rather than replace earth in holes

How Filled

to fill
∞ 1.0
to infill
  • Specialized
1 5.6
to patch
151 2.5
to plug
66 1.9

Surface Forms

infill infinitive
infilled past
infilled past participle
infilling present participle
infills third person singular

Morphology

infill = fill (semi-transparent) = in + fill

The relation to 'fill' is clear, but the urban-planning use 'build on vacant land between existing structures' is a specialized extension rather than a fully automatic meaning of 'in-' plus 'fill'.

Etymology

Infill comes from the parts in- meaning 'into' and fill meaning 'to make full', so you can think of it as 'filling into' a gap, like putting soil into a hole or building a new house between two old ones.