Definitions for filling
filling
fill·ing
Spelling: [fil-ing]
IPA: /ˈfɪl ɪŋ/
Filling is a 7 letter English word.
It's valid Scrabble word worth 11 points.
It's valid Words with friends word worth 15 points.
You can make 60 anagrams from letters in filling (fgiilln).
Definitions for filling
noun
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an act or instance of filling.
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something that is put in to fill something else:
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Dentistry. a substance such as cement, amalgam, gold, or the like, used to fill a cavity caused by decay in a tooth.
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a food mixture that goes into something, as if to fill it:
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Also called pick, weft, woof. Textiles. yarn carried by the shuttle and interlacing at right angles with the warp in woven cloth.
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a full supply; enough to satisfy want or desire:
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an amount of something sufficient for filling; charge.
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Civil Engineering, Building Trades. a quantity of earth, stones, etc., for building up the level of an area of ground:
Compare backfill.
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the feed and water in the digestive tract of a livestock animal, especially that consumed before marketing.
Idioms
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fill and stand on, Nautical. (of a sailing vessel) to proceed on a tack after being hove to or halted facing the wind; fill away.
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fill the bill. bill1 (def 16).
Verb phrases
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fill away, Nautical.
to fall off the wind and proceed on a board.
to brace the yards, so that sails that have been aback will stand full.
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fill in,
to supply missing or desired information:
to complete by adding detail, as a design or drawing:
to substitute for:
to fill with some material:
Informal. to supply (someone) with information:
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fill out,
to complete (a document, list, etc.) by supplying missing or desired information.
to become larger, fuller, or rounder, as the figure:
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fill up,
to fill completely:
to become completely filled:
verb (used with object)
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to make full; put as much as can be held into:
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to occupy to the full capacity:
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to supply to an extreme degree or plentifully:
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to satisfy fully the hunger of; satiate:
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to put into a receptacle:
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to be plentiful throughout:
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to extend throughout; pervade completely:
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to furnish with an occupant:
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to provide (an office or opening) with an incumbent:
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to occupy and perform the duties of (a vacancy, position, post, etc.).
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to supply the requirements or contents of (an order), as for goods; execute.
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to supply (a blank space) with written matter, decorative work, etc.
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to meet satisfactorily, as requirements:
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to make up, compound, or otherwise provide the contents of (a medical prescription).
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to stop up or close (a cavity, hole, etc.):
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Cookery. to insert a filling into:
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Nautical.
to distend (a sail) by pressure of the wind so as to impart headway to a vessel.
to brace (a yard) so that the sail will catch the wind on its after side.
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to adulterate:
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Civil Engineering, Building Trades. to build up the level of (an area) with earth, stones, etc.
verb (used without object)
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to become full:
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to increase in atmospheric pressure:
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to become distended, as sails with the wind.
Origin of filling
Middle English word dating back to 1350-1400; See origin at fill, -ing1
Examples for filling
At Henley, the other vaporium, the crew lying around on settees and filling the room with fog brought back Dutch flashbacks.
Beltrán Leyva, a gourmand, was savoring his tamale with its filling of roasted corn.
He should be free, filling the world with happiness, love and his fighting spirit.
(b) Describe the filling and closing of jars in this method.
Then, between these layers, put a filling about 1/2 inch thick.
And this mix of intellectualism and faithfulness is filling an unmet need among students on many of these campuses.
Lined them with stakes and bushes to keep them from filling in.
The result will be a filling that has more of the date flavor.
And she thought I was a bad influence on you, filling your head with stuff out of books.
Senate Democrats face a choice: pushing through AG nominee Loretta Lynch, or filling 231 executive-branch vacancies.