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Filling   /fˈɪlɪŋ/   Listen
Filling

noun
1.
Any material that fills a space or container.  Synonym: fill.
2.
Flow into something (as a container).
3.
A food mixture used to fill pastry or sandwiches etc..
4.
The yarn woven across the warp yarn in weaving.  Synonyms: pick, weft, woof.
5.
(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'"
6.
The act of filling something.


Fill

verb
(past & past part. filled; pres. part. filling)
1.
Make full, also in a metaphorical sense.  Synonyms: fill up, make full.  "Fill the child with pride"  Antonym: empty.
2.
Become full.  Synonym: fill up.  "The theater filled up slowly"  Antonym: empty.
3.
Occupy the whole of.  Synonym: occupy.
4.
Assume, as of positions or roles.  Synonyms: occupy, take.  "He occupies the position of manager" , "The young prince will soon occupy the throne"
5.
Fill or meet a want or need.  Synonyms: fulfil, fulfill, meet, satisfy.
6.
Appoint someone to (a position or a job).
7.
Eat until one is sated.  Synonym: fill up.
8.
Fill to satisfaction.  Synonyms: replete, sate, satiate.
9.
Plug with a substance.



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"Filling" Quotes from Famous Books



... the governor said. "Tops. I've seen his record as State Attorney General and as Lieutenant Governor. And when Governor Dinsmore died three years ago, Fisher did a fine job filling out his ...
— Hail to the Chief • Gordon Randall Garrett
... way Mayme McCartney and I became early morning friends. She adopted for her special own a bench some rods from mine under the lilac near the fountain. After her walk, taken with her thin shoulders flung back and the chest filling with deep, slow breaths, she would pay me a call or await one from me and we would exchange theories and opinions and argue about this and other worlds. Seventy against seventeen. Fair exchange, for, if mine were the riper creed, hers was the more vivid and adventurous. Who shall say which ...
— From a Bench in Our Square • Samuel Hopkins Adams
... non-importance. That all Impressionists do not agree with the following is evidenced by the good that comes to us with their mark,—"Opposed to the miserable law of composition, symmetry, balance, arrangement of parts, filling of space, as though Nature herself does not do that ten thousand times better in her own pretty way." The assertion that composition is a part of Nature's law, that it is done by her and well done we are glad to hear in the same breath of invective that seeks to annihilate it. When, ...
— Pictorial Composition and the Critical Judgment of Pictures • Henry Rankin Poore
... fresh hoof prints in the yielding sand, with which the police party had been filling the ruts of the outer roadway, was one never made by government horse or mule. In half a dozen places within a dozen rods, plain as a pikestaff, was the print of a bar shoe, worn on the off fore foot of just one quadruped at the post—Hay's swift ...
— A Daughter of the Sioux - A Tale of the Indian frontier • Charles King
... portion of their contents spilled out on the ground, though we didn't mind that at the time. There was more money in each of the bags than any one of us had ever handled before. In the light of what happened afterwards I'm positive that it was Cumshaw who suggested filling up ...
— The Lost Valley • J. M. Walsh


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