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filler
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Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
Media is often put on a physical medium or in a "time slot" that does not perfectly fit, so filler is added to the material of greater relevance or quality to fill a certain time slot or physical medium.
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. used for filling cracks or holes in a surface 100 filler equal 1 forint copy to fill space between more important articles in the layout of a magazine or newspaper anything added to fill out a whole; "some of the items in the collection are mere makeweights" ...
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES filler cap stocking filler COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS ■ NOUN cap ▪ All models have laminated windscreen, rear screen wash-wipe, clock, locking filler cap , cigar lighter and side mouldings. stocking ▪ The Pals pay tribute ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 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 A relatively inert ingredient added to modify physical characteristics. 5 A short article in a newspaper or magazine. ...
Usage examples of filler.
TV dinners loaded with silicone fillers and chemical additives and begin cooking our fantasies together from scratch.
He and Philipa were more than self-sufficient in food, most of it grown and canned with their own hands, and none of it was adulterated with dyes, preservatives, or fillers.
I watched the doctor rummaging in the glimmer of his bag, bottles clinking, his steel glasses and bald head shining with the glow of his useless potions, his meaningless spells, before he applied the drainings and poultices that always left my mother filler and more fretful.
On 28 July, the production companys extras casting director came to Major Macklin, and said that as of six-thirty in the morning, 30 July, the company was going to shoot some filler shots of utilities-clad Marines crawling through the terrain, and he thought he could get by with forty or fifty people, although more would be better.
The entire show, including the Marcel, wasn't worth more than one column inch (I folded the catalogue and shoved it into my hip pocket), unless I got desperate for more filler to make the column come out to an even two thousand words.
And generally the filler in these items comprises chopped feathers and down from ducks and geese, and in cheap stuff, chickens.
It was leaking gasoline out the filler cap, but Cortez reached in and got his cellular phone.
The hood squeaked when she raised it, but she made herself reach out calmly to the oil filler cap on the manifold of the slant-six engine and twist it off.
Steam was hissing from the filler cap under the sun goddess, and oil was streaking from the louvers of the hood.
He took a new half-gallon can from a rack, punched a pouring spout into its top, and brought it back to the tractor, where he took off the filler cap and up-ended the can over the transmission.
Pre-cut holes in one side were matched up with the pipe that would terminate at the filler cap—.
There were fresh scratches on the paint round the chrome petrol filler cap, and clusters of small white grains.
As soon as it had washed the salt from the deck I blocked the scuppers and opened the filler cap to the fresh water tank and let it run full.
I twisted the inflow, unscrewed the filler cap, waited for the pressurized nitrogen to hiss out, and then dumped in the jug of phage.
I removed the nozzle from the Cherokee's tank, closed the filler cap, hung up the hose, and went back to stand beside Jim.