Crossword clues for filler
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Filler \Fill"er\, n.
-
One who, or that which, fills; something used for filling.
'T is mere filler, to stop a vacancy in the hexameter.
--Dryden.They have six diggers to four fillers, so as to keep the fillers always at work.
--Mortimer. (Paint.) A composition, as of powdered silica and oil, used to fill the pores and grain of wood before applying paint, varnish, etc.
(Forestry) Any standing tree or standard higher than the surrounding coppice in the form of forest known as coppice under standards. Chiefly used in the pl.
Filler \Fill"er\, n. [From 1st Fill.] A thill horse. [Prov. Eng.]
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
late 15c., "one who fills," agent noun from fill (v.). Meaning "something used to fill" is from 1590s. Specifically of food products by 1901.
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. 6 A short piece of music or an announcement between radio or TV programmes. 7 Any spoken sound or word used to fill gaps in speech; filled pause. 8 cut tobacco used to make up the body of a cigar. 9 (context computing English) In COBOL, the description of an unnamed part of a record that contains no data relevant to a given context. 10 (context horticulture English) A plant that lacks a distinctive shape and can fill inconvenient spaces around other plants in pots or gardens. 11 (cx forestry mostly plural English) Any standing tree or standard higher than the surrounding coppice in the form of forest known as "coppice under standards".
n. A subdenomination of the forint, 100 fillér = 1 forint.
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" [syn: makeweight]
the tobacco used to form the core of a cigar
Wikipedia
In general, a filler is something that is used to fill gaps. Specialized meanings of the word "filler" include:
- Filler (animal food), dietary fiber and other ingredients added to pet foods to provide bulk
- Filler (linguistics), a sound spoken to fill up gaps in utterances
- Filler (materials), particles added to a matrix material, usually to improve its properties
- Filler (packaging), a machine designed to fill packaging, usually occurs in food packaging
- Filler (surname)
- Filler metal, metal added in the making of a joint through welding, brazing, or soldering
- Grain filler, a product that is used to achieve a smooth-textured wood finish
- Seat filler, a person who fills an empty seat during an event
- Star filler, a plastic insert in computer cables which separates wires
In media and entertainment:
- Filler (media), in television and other media, material that exists outside the story arc to pad out other material
- "Filler", song by hardcore punk band Minor Threat, from their debut E.P.
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.
Fillers are particles added to material ( plastics, composite material, concrete) to lower the consumption of more expensive binder material or to better some properties of the mixtured material. Worldwide more than 53 million tons of fillers with a total sum of approximately EUR16 billion are used every year in different application areas, such as paper, plastics, rubber, paints, coatings, adhesives and sealants. As such, fillers, produced by more than 700 companies, rank among the world's major raw materials and are contained in a variety of goods for daily consumer needs.
Filler is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:
- Deb Filler (born 1954), New Zealand born writer/performer, character artist and producer
- Louis Filler (1911–1998), American teacher and scholar
- Martin Filler (born 1948), American architecture critic
The fillér was the name of various small change coins throughout Hungarian history. It was the subdivision of the Austro-Hungarian and the Hungarian korona, the pengő and the forint. The name derives from the German word Vierer that means "number four" in English. Originally it was the name of the four- kreuzer coin. Due to significant inflation that took place after the fall of communism, fillér coins are no longer in circulation. The last fillér coin, worth 50 fillér (0.5 forint) was removed from circulation in 1999. However, it continues to be used in calculations, for example in the price of petrol (e.g. 310.9 forint), or in the prices of telephone calls.
In linguistics, a filler is a sound or word that is spoken in conversation by one participant to signal to others a pause to think without giving the impression of having finished speaking. These are not to be confused with placeholder names, such as thingamajig, whatsamacallit, whosawhatsa and whats'isface, which refer to objects or people whose names are temporarily forgotten, irrelevant, or unknown. Different languages have different characteristic filler sounds; in English, the most common filler sounds are uh , er , and um . Among youths, the fillers "like", "y'know", "I mean", "so", "actually", "basically", and "right" are among the more prevalent. Ronald Reagan was famous for beginning his answers to questions with "Well...", and President Barack Obama is known often beginning statements with "Look...". Fillers fall into the category of formulaic language.
The term filler has a separate use in the syntactic description of wh-movement constructions.
In processed animal foods, a filler is an ingredient added to provide dietary fiber, bulk or some other non-nutritive purpose.
Products like corncobs, feathers, soy, cottonseed hulls, peanut hulls, citrus pulp, screening, weeds, straw, and cereal by-products are often included as inexpensive fillers or low-grade fiber content.
Dietary fiber acts as a calming base for forming the stool in the colon, and it should help develop good fecal consistency, in addition to other health benefits such as reduced blood sugar uptake.
According to critics [who?], many commercial pet foods contain fillers that have little or no nutritional value, but are added to decrease the overall cost of the food, especially when pet food manufacturers attempt to keep their pet foods at a desired price point despite rising manufacturing, marketing, shipping, and related costs. Critics [who?] allege that low-grade fiber fillers actually aggravate the intestinal walls instead of promoting health, and that carnivores such as cats are not able to successfully digest vegetable matter.
In rare cases, contaminated fillers have led to large-scale recalls at significant expense to the pet food companies. Two examples are aflatoxin on corn in the 2006 Diamond Dog Food Recall and melamine, which may have contaminated wheat gluten and other protein concentrates in the 2007 pet food recalls.
Fillers (or filling machines) are used for packaging, mainly for food/beverage but for other products as well. These are used to fill either a bottle or a pouch, depending on the product.
There are several types of fillers used by the packaging industry. The following are the most common:
- Auger/agitator flling machines: designed to fill dry mixes, such as flour and sugar. The fillers have a hopper shaped like a cone that holds the mix and puts it in a pouch using an auger screw that is controlled by the agitator. The mix is filled in a pouch that is made of paper or poly that is formed in a collar and the pouch gets sealed by a series of heaters and dies.
- Flow filling machines: designed for liquids, oils, and thin food products. These fillers are designed when they fill a bottle or tub that enters the machine, the ejects the open bottle back onto another conveyor for sealing.
- Tablet fillers: These are designed for products that are counted by pieces instead of weight. These are designed for small bottles (similar to some of the flow fillers), but the hopper of the filler is set up to permit scan counting of tablets or candy pieces.
- Positive displacement pump fillers: positive displacement, pump filling machines easily handle a wide range of container sizes, fill volumes and product types. While originally designed for filling creams, gels and lotions these fillers also handle water thin and heavy paste products. Some of the products this machine easily fills are cosmetic creams, heavy sauces, thick shampoo and hair conditioners, honey, hair gels, paste cleaners, and car wax.
- Vertical form fill sealing machine
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.