Meaning

One who fills..

Definitions by Sense

1. One who fills.
2. Something added to fill a space or add weight or size.
3. Any semisolid substance used to fill gaps, cracks or pores.
4. (cosmetic surgery) A dermal filler, a substance injected beneath the skin to restore lost volume.
5. A relatively inert ingredient added to modify physical characteristics; a bulking agent.
6. A short article in a newspaper or magazine.
7. A short piece of music or an announcement between radio or TV programmes.
8. (linguistics) Any spoken sound or word used to fill gaps in speech; filled pause.

Example Sentences

They commonly have three, four, five, or six hewers or diggers, to four fillers, so as to keep the fillers always at work.

I recommend this album in the face of the fact that five of the eleven songs are the purest filler, dull instrumentals with a harmonica rifling over an indifferent rhythm section. The rest is magnificent[…]

A 50-year-old patient will come in, and suddenly, she’s super-skinny and needs filler, which she never needed before.

The word "filler" is taboo in the excipient world.

'Tis a meer filler; to ſtop a vacancy in the Hexameter, and connect the Preface to the Work of Virgil.

As the years go by, speech reverts to childhood levels of disfluency, with more pauses, more errors, more repeated words, but even the peak years are not great: up to 8 percent of the average person’s word output consists of meaningless fillers and placeholders like um, uh and er.

With the exception of her movie soundtracks — Lady Sings the Blues, and its flashy renditions of Billie Holiday standards, and the much less interesting Mahogany — Ross' early-'70s albums mixed predictably strong hits and an overabundance of filler.

Word Forms

• fillers

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When Should You Use Filler?

Use filler when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.

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