Definitions for filling
ˈfɪl ɪŋfill·ing

Princeton's WordNet(1.00 / 1 vote)Rate this definition:

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

Wiktionary(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

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

Webster Dictionary(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

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 Terms(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

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.

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

   Daniel

   British

   Karen

   Australian

   Veena

   Indian

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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. 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.

2. Jules Renard:

   Love is like an hourglass, with the heart filling up as the brain empties.

3. Glenn Hinson:

   It makes a lot of sense that there would be men working in relative isolation in the pine forests and filling those forests with their song.

4. Kristi Noem:

   This is our problem, and together, we need to get on it, it is filling our jails and prisons, clogging our court systems, and stretching our drug treatment capacity while destroying people and their families.

5. Jeffery Currie:

   The unprecedented disruption to economic activity in China has resulted in an estimated 4 million b/d of lost oil demand compared to 5 million b/d during the Great Recession in 2008/09, and finite storage capacity in China - though large - is filling up quickly, presenting further downside risk if storage is ultimately breached.

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