Filling

Quick meaning: Filling is a verb meaning present participle and gerund of fill.

Meaning

present participle and gerund of fill.

More Meanings

1. Of food, that satisfies the appetite by filling the stomach.
2. Anything that is used to fill something.
3. The contents of a pie, etc.
4. (dentistry) Any material used to fill a cavity in a tooth or the result of using such material.
5. The woof in woven fabrics.
6. Prepared wort added to ale to cleanse it.
7. (Protestantism) A religious experience attributed to the Holy Ghost "filling" a believer.

Example Sentences

a filling meal

My temporary filling fell out and got lost.

I will be using a rapid-setting cement filling.

Plain and unexciting, perhaps, but they are solid, well cooked, appetising and filling, and moreover cheap.

Word Forms

• fillings

Synonyms for filling

Depending on context, synonyms include stopping, pick, woof, fill, weft.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include pick, weft, woof, bulking, infill, load.

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