Definitions for filling
ˈfɪl ɪŋfill·ing

Princeton's WordNetRate this definition:1.0 / 1 vote

1. filling, fillnoun

   any material that fills a space or container

   "there was not enough fill for the trench"

2. fillingnoun

   flow into something (as a container)

3. fillingnoun

   a food mixture used to fill pastry or sandwiches etc.

4. woof, weft, filling, picknoun

   the yarn woven across the warp yarn in weaving

5. fillingnoun

   (dentistry) a dental appliance consisting of any of various substances (as metal or plastic) inserted into a prepared cavity in a tooth

   "when he yawned I could see the gold fillings in his teeth"; "an informal British term for `filling' is `stopping'"

6. fillingnoun

   the act of filling something

WiktionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. fillingnoun

   Anything that is used to fill something.

2. fillingnoun

   The contents of a pie, etc.

3. fillingnoun

   A piece of amalgam used to fill a cavity in a tooth.

4. fillingadjective

   Of food, that satisfies the appetite by filling the stomach

   a filling meal

ChatGPTRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. filling

   Filling is a substance used to fill gaps or spaces in objects, such as a dent, crack, or hole, in order to make it whole or complete. It is commonly used in fields such as dentistry, construction, and food preparation.

Webster DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Filling

   of Fill

2. Fillingnoun

   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

3. Fillingnoun

   the woof in woven fabrics

4. Fillingnoun

   prepared wort added to ale to cleanse it

Dictionary of Nautical TermsRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. filling

   In ship-carpentry, wood fitted on a timber or elsewhere to make up a defect in the moulding way. This name is sometimes given to a chock.

Surnames Frequency by Census RecordsRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. FILLING

   According to the U.S. Census Bureau, Filling is ranked #99845 in terms of the most common surnames in America.
   
   The Filling surname appeared 181 times in the 2010 census and if you were to sample 100,000 people in the United States, approximately 0 would have the surname Filling.
   
   97.7% or 177 total occurrences were White.

Matched Categories

1. • Change Of Integrity
   • Concoction
   • Dental Appliance
   • Dentistry
   • Flow
   • Material
   • Yarn

British National Corpus

1. Written Corpus Frequency

   Rank popularity for the word 'filling' in Written Corpus Frequency: #4058

How to pronounce filling?

1. Alex

   US English

   David

   US English

   Mark

   US English

   Daniel

   British

   Libby

   British

   Mia

   British

   Karen

   Australian

   Hayley

   Australian

   Natasha

   Australian

   Veena

   Indian

   Priya

   Indian

   Neerja

   Indian

   Zira

   US English

   Oliver

   British

   Wendy

   British

   Fred

   US English

   Tessa

   South African

How to say filling in sign language?

Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of filling in Chaldean Numerology is: 6

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of filling in Pythagorean Numerology is: 6

Examples of filling in a Sentence

1. Willie Geist:

   I was [shocked]. I think it was a shock to everybody, i don’t know how you couldn’t be surprised.I started filling in for Matt in 2010. I wasn’t close to him outside of work, but I considered him a friend and mentor. Certainly he was somebody I looked up to.He was the guy who was considered the best at that job, at hosting a morning show.So, yeah, I think we were all surprised and I think we’re all still a little bit shocked by it.

2. A Bartlett Giamatti:

   It's designed to break your heart. The game begins in the spring, when everything is new again, and it blossoms in the summer, filling the afternoons and evenings, and then as soon as the chill rains comes, it stops, and leaves you to face the fall alone.

3. Simon Pegg:

   You have to bring in new people at same time as satisfying the old people or rather the long term fans, and if something becomes too inside, it's not going to let people in and 'Star Trek' is so inclusive, it's always about bringing people together - that's what the story's about, so it's a balance of filling it with stuff for people that have been there for 50 years and at the same time making it for someone who has zero years of 'Star Trek'.

4. Rick Buhr:

   Mandi Steed was one of the people that really stepped up and... was working a ton of hours, filling in, and I'm sure it wore on Mandi Steed, we lost a lot of good people who either got other jobs or decided to leave this industry for something else.

5. Daniel Koch:

   For the moment, what we have seen in Europe is that filling up the stadiums partly is a safe thing to do.

Popularity rank by frequency of use

References

1. ^ Princeton's WordNet
   http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=filling
2. ^ Wiktionary
   https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Filling
3. ^ ChatGPT
   https://chat.openai.com
4. ^ Webster Dictionary
   https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/filling
5. ^ Dictionary of Nautical Terms
   https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/26000/pg26000-images.html#:~:text=filling
6. ^ Surnames Frequency by Census Records
   https://www.census.gov/topics/population/genealogy/data/2010_surnames.html