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Filling

noun

1.

Any material that fills a space or container. Synonym: fill.

2.

Flow into something (as a container).

3.

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

4.

The yarn woven across the warp yarn in weaving. Synonyms: pick, weft, woof.

5.

(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.

The act of filling something.

Fill

verb

(past & past part. filled; pres. part. filling)

1.

Make full, also in a metaphorical sense. Synonyms: fill up, make full. "Fill the child with pride"

2.

Become full. Synonym: fill up. "The theater filled up slowly"

3.

Occupy the whole of. Synonym: occupy.

4.

Assume, as of positions or roles. Synonyms: occupy, take. "He occupies the position of manager" , "The young prince will soon occupy the throne"

5.

Fill or meet a want or need. Synonyms: fulfil, fulfill, meet, satisfy.

6.

Appoint someone to (a position or a job).

7.

Eat until one is sated. Synonym: fill up.

8.

Fill to satisfaction. Synonyms: replete, sate, satiate.

9.

Plug with a substance.

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"Filling" Quotes from Famous Books

... some twenty yards off, I took the doctor's fur cap, and filling it with water, returned to the stag. What an expressive glance! What beautiful eyes! I sprinkled at first some drops upon his tongue, and then, putting the water under his nose, he soon drained it up. My companions became so much interested with the sufferings of the poor animals, that they took ...

— Travels and Adventures of Monsieur Violet • Captain Marryat

... he does!" ejaculated Arthur, his heart filling on the instant with envy, hatred, malice, and all uncharitableness towards Lord Minster. He had not the slightest wish to marry Mildred himself, but he boiled at the mere thought of anybody else doing so. Lady Florence was ...

— Dawn • H. Rider Haggard

... have to go on without me," she said, her eyes filling with tears of vexation and disappointment. "Professor Howe's on a regular rampage to-day. She's kept me all this time over an old composition on Emerson. She's made me loathe Emerson for all time. I shall perfectly hate him from this hour forth. ...

— Blue Bonnet in Boston - or, Boarding-School Days at Miss North's • Caroline E. Jacobs

... threescore years in filling six rooms with such trumpery as is just too good to be thrown away, and too bad to be kept. His life was as inoffensive as long. Instead of stealing the goods which other people use, he purchased what he could not use himself. He was ...

— An History of Birmingham (1783) • William Hutton

... comprehend it. The following simple sentences and members of sentences, have no relation to each other until they are connected by conjunctions. He labors harder—more successfully—I do. That man is healthy—he is temperate. By filling up the vacancies in these sentences with conjunctions, you will see the importance of this sort of words: thus, He labors harder and more successfully than I do. That man is healthy because ...

— English Grammar in Familiar Lectures • Samuel Kirkham

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