filling

Speech parts

1. filling - Noun

2. filling - Adjective

3. filling - Verb

Meaning

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.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

WEFT substantial fill pick satisfying hearty woof stuffing completing satiating laden full complete square heavy
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Antonyms

dirtying spending burning asking arguing blowing
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Hypernyms

material flow mixture thread stuff yarn

Hyponyms

replacement flood cement renewal saturation replenishment

Phrases with the word

fuel filling station filling site filling out filling material flour tortilla with a filling all-filling

Examples

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

My two fingers on a typewriter have never connected with my brain. My hand on a pen does. A fountain pen, of course. Ball-point pens are only good for filling out forms on a plane. Graham Greene

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

Covetousness is always filling a bottomless vessel. Dutch Proverb

It is a pot of water that is already half full that the world would like to help in filling to the brim. Nigerian Proverb

It is only the early risers who succeed in filling their baskets with white ants. African Proverb

Close letter words and terms

fillibuster filligree filligreen filling agent filling breakfast filling compound