Definition of Filling

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Filling

of Fill

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.

The woof in woven fabrics.

Prepared wort added to ale to cleanse it.

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Filling Quotations

Rock is so much fun. That's what it's all about - filling up the chest cavities and empty kneecaps and elbows.
Jimi Hendrix

In the souls of the people the grapes of wrath are filling and growing heavy, growing heavy for the vintage.
John Steinbeck

The world must be filled with unsuccessful musical careers like mine, and it's probably a good thing. We don't need a lot of bad musicians filling the air with unnecessary sounds. Some of the professionals are bad enough.
Andy Rooney

Eating rice cakes is like chewing on a foam coffee cup, only less filling.
Dave Barry

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

When we were children we were grateful to those who filled our stockings at Christmas time. Why are we not grateful to God for filling our stockings with legs?
Gilbert K. Chesterton

Love, whether newly born, or aroused from a deathlike slumber, must always create sunshine, filling the heart so full of radiance, this it overflows upon the outward world.
Nathaniel Hawthorne

I couldn't see myself filling some definite niche in what is called a career. This was all misty.
Carl Sandburg

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

And now, dear sister, I must leave this house or the retreating army will make me a prisoner in it by filling up the road I am directed to take.
Dolley Madison

Filling Translations

filling in French is remplissant, bondant
filling in Latin is fartim
filling in Norwegian is plombe, fyll
filling in Spanish is relleno
filling in Swedish is plomb

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