About The Word Filling
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Filling
Filling Definition And Meaning |
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What's The Definition Of Filling?
[n] the act of filling something
[n] (dentistry) a dental appliance consisting of any of various substances (as metal or plastic) inserted into a prepared cavity in a tooth; "an informal British term for `filling' is `stopping'" [n] the yarn woven across the warp yarn in weaving [n] a food mixture used to fill pastry or sandwiches etc. [n] flow into something (as a container) [n] any material that fills a space or container; "there was not enough fill for the trench" Synonyms | Synonyms for Filling: fill | pick | weft | woof Related Terms | Find terms related to Filling: battology | bedizenment | bonus | bush | bushing | cloying | cloysome | complemental | complementary | completing | completive | completory | components | consummative | consummatory | contents | culminative | decoration | doubling | doublure | duplication | duplication of effort | embellishment | expletive | extra | extra added attraction | extra dash | extravagance | facing | fat | featherbedding | filigree | filler | fillip | flourish | frill | frills | frippery | fulfilling | gingerbread | inlay | inlayer | innards | insole | interlineation | jading | lagniappe | liner | lining | luxury | macrology | needlessness | ornament | ornamentation | overadornment | overfilling | overlap | packing | padding | payroll padding | perfective | pick | pleonasm | premium | prolixity | redundance | redundancy | satiating | sating | satisfying | shoot | something extra | stammering | stuffing | stuttering | superaddition | superfluity | superfluousness | surfeiting | tautologism | tautology | trimming | twist | unnecessariness | verbosity | wadding | wainscot | warp | weft | woof | wrinkle See Also | cement | change of integrity | cloth | concoction | dental appliance | fabric | flood | flow | inlay | intermixture | lekvar | material | material | mixture | refilling | renewal | replacement | replenishment | saturation | stuff | textile | thread | weave | yarn Filling In Webster's Dictionary \Fill"ing\, n.
1. 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.
2. The woof in woven fabrics.
3. (Brewing) Prepared wort added to ale to cleanse it.
{Back filling}. (Arch.) See under {Back}, a.
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