About The Word Filling

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Filling

Filling Meaning & Definition
Filling Definition And Meaning

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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