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. Jules Renard:

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

2. William Butler Yeats:

   Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.

3. 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.

4. William Butler Yeats:

   Education is not filling a bucket, but lighting a fire.

5. Samuel Johnson:

   We cannot tell the precise moment when friendship formed. As in filling a vessel drop by drop, there is at last a drop which makes it run over so in a series of kindness there is at last one which makes the heart run over.

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