filling

Plural: fillings

Noun

• Material used to stuff, pack, or occupy a space.
• any material that fills a space or container
• flow into something (as a container)
• a food mixture used to fill pastry or sandwiches etc.
• the yarn woven across the warp yarn in weaving
• (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'"
• the act of filling something
• Anything that is used to fill something.
• The contents of a pie, etc.
• Any material used to fill a cavity in a tooth or the result of using such material.
• The woof in woven fabrics.
• Prepared wort added to ale to cleanse it.
• A religious experience attributed to the Holy Ghost "filling" a believer.

Verb

• make full, also in a metaphorical sense
• become full
• occupy the whole of
• assume, as of positions or roles
• fill or meet a want or need
• appoint someone to (a position or a job)
• eat until one is sated
• fill to satisfaction
• plug with a substance
• present participle and gerund of fill

Adj

• Of food, that satisfies the appetite by filling the stomach.

Examples

• I will be using a rapid-setting cement filling.
• My temporary filling fell out and got lost.
• The filling for his triple word score was an expertly placed ’Z’.

Synonyms

fill, fill up, fulfil, fulfill, make full, meet, occupy, pick, replete, sate, satiate, satisfy, take, weft, woof, enduement, second baptism, stopping

Antonyms

empty

Related Words

filing, stick to one's ribs

Anagrams of filling