1. filling - Noun
2. filling - Adjective
3. filling - Verb
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 dictionaryEducation 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