Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun An act or instance of filling.
  • noun Something used to fill a space, cavity, or container.
  • noun An edible mixture used to fill pastries, sandwiches, or cakes.
  • noun The horizontal threads that cross the warp in weaving; weft.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Calculated to fill, satisfy, or satiate: as, a filling diet.
  • noun In wooden ship-building, a piece of timber placed between the frames to fill up the spaces and give greater strength. When placed in the bottom, between the floor-timbers, such pieces are called filling-timbers.
  • noun That which fills, or fills up; anything used for occupying a vacant space, completing a structure or fabric, or stopping up a hole: as, the filling of a wall, of a pie, or of a tooth.
  • noun Specifically Carpeting of solid color, used to fill up recesses outside of bordered carpets, or to cover the whole floor where rugs are used.
  • noun The woof- or weft-thread of a woven fabric.
  • noun In needlework, any plain stitch which serves to fill considerable spaces.
  • noun In lace-making, the simple stitch which serves to cover the surface of parts of the pattern, as leaves, petals, and the like. Filling may either be plain or have a geometrical or simple pattern within itself, as described under escalier-lace.
  • noun In house-painting, a coat applied to fill up inequalities, etc., as those resulting from the grain of wood; also, the operation of obliterating such inequalities, as by the application of such a coat.
  • noun A raised embankment or elevated permanent way, as a part of a railroad, formed of loose stones, gravel, or other material.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun That which is used to fill a cavity or any empty space, or to supply a deficiency
  • noun The woof in woven fabrics.
  • noun (Brewing) Prepared wort added to ale to cleanse it.
  • noun (Arch.) See under Back, a.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • adjective Of food, that satisfies the appetite by filling the stomach
  • noun Anything that is used to fill something.
  • noun The contents of a pie, etc.
  • noun dentistry A piece of amalgam used to fill a cavity in a tooth.
  • verb Present participle of fill.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun flow into something (as a container)
  • noun any material that fills a space or container
  • noun the act of filling something
  • noun (dentistry) a dental appliance consisting of any of various substances (as metal or plastic) inserted into a prepared cavity in a tooth
  • noun a food mixture used to fill pastry or sandwiches etc.
  • noun the yarn woven across the warp yarn in weaving

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Examples

  • Bake for an additional 24-28 minutes, until pumpkin filling is set.

    Baking Bites » Print » Chocolate Pumpkin Pie Bars 2008

  • Bake for an additional 24-28 minutes, until pumpkin filling is set.

    Chocolate Pumpkin Pie Bars | Baking Bites 2008

  • Photographer Pat Graham also lived there and worked for the label filling mail orders.

    AltWeeklies.com Site Feed 2009

  • Or, to mix metaphors, the two hunks of bread of this literary sandwich are hewn from his Channel 4 Monarchy series, while the filling is the missing bit: the decidedly untelegenic dark ages.

    Crown & Country by David Starkey - review Charles Spencer 2010

  • I hope the so called conservatives would note vote for Mccain, but my filling is they will, this idiots do not have the brain to comapare and contrast if you are not republican they would not vote for you, they have been brain washed years ago, and they ge screwed over and over eight years of Bush and they will still vote for Mccain knowing he will continue where Bush left off.

    McCain to make SNL appearance 2008

  • On it's own, the filling is a delicious spread on toast or English muffins - Andrew squeezed most of what was left over right into his mouth, and he doesn't even like figs (or ginger!)!

    Archive 2008-09-01 Sarah 2008

  • Set another wrapper on top and seal with your fingers, flatteningf the whole noodle area, so there are no air bubbles, and only the filling is a lump.

    Toast: Lindy 2007

  • Set another wrapper on top and seal with your fingers, flatteningf the whole noodle area, so there are no air bubbles, and only the filling is a lump.

    A Winter Broth with Frills, and a Silly, Pointless Contest Lindy 2007

  • Then you take those threads and you put them on a loom, your warp threads lengthwise and your cross threads, what we call the filling, in and out.

    Oral History Interview with Caesar Cone, January 7, 1983. Interview C-0003. Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007) 1983

  • U.S. Department of Agriculture, which regulates the country's meat, say that "taco meat filling" must contain at least 40 percent fresh meat, carry the product name and include the word "filling."

    chicagotribune.com - News 2011

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