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Definition of Filling

1. Noun. Any material that fills a space or container. "There was not enough fill for the trench"

2. Noun. Flow into something (as a container).

3. Noun. A food mixture used to fill pastry or sandwiches etc..

4. Noun. The yarn woven across the warp yarn in weaving.

5. Noun. (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. Noun. The act of filling something.

Definition of Filling

1. n. 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.

Definition of Filling

1. Adjective. Of food, that satisfies the appetite by filling the stomach ¹

2. Noun. Anything that is used to fill something. ¹

3. Noun. The contents of a pie, etc. ¹

4. Noun. (context: dentistry) A piece of amalgam used to fill a cavity in a tooth. ¹

5. Verb. (present participle of fill#Verb fill) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Filling

1. that which is used to fill something [n -S]

Medical Definition of Filling

1. 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. Prepared wort added to ale to cleanse it. Back filling. See Back. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Filling

fillet layer fillet of sole filletable filleted filleter filleters filleth filleting filletings fillets

fillibeg fillibegs fillibuster fillibusters fillies filling (current term) filling defect filling defect in renal collecting system filling in filling out

filling station filling stations filling the bill fillingly fillingness fillings fillip filliped fillipeen fillipeens

Literary usage of Filling

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Sewerage: The Designing, Construction, and Maintenance of Sewerage Systems by Amory Prescott Folwell (1901)
"The filling of the trench above the level of 2 feet above the sewer shall be ... All back-filling shall be done by hand and in no case shall scrapers or ..."

2. The Stones of Venice by John Ruskin (1851)
"In more elaborate doors the cross lintel is of stone, and the filling sometimes of brick, sometimes of stone, very often a grand single stone being used to ..."

3. The American Journal of the Medical Sciences by Southern Society for Clinical Investigation (U.S.) (1894)
"He showed that in dogs aseptic plaster-of-Paris and base-plate gutta-percha can be used to fill up bone defects, and that the filling will be covered over ..."

4. The Rumford Complete Cookbook by Lily Haxworth Wallace, Rumford Chemical Works (1908)
"Caramel Nut filling 1 cup thin cream. 1 cup brown sugar. ... Use for both filling and frosting. Prune Almond filling % cup boiling water. % cup prunes. ..."

5. Energy Policies of IEA Countries by International Energy Agency (2003)
"Because of the relatively large number of gas Figure 23 Number of filling Stations in the Austrian Retail Automotive Fuel Market, 1997 to 2001 1997 1998 ..."

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