Crossword clues for filling
filling
- Make full
- The yarn woven across the warp yarn in weaving
- (dentistry) a dental appliance consisting of any of various substances (as metal or plastic) inserted into a prepared cavity in a tooth
- Flow into something (as a container)
- Appoint someone to (a position or a job)
- Finding someone for (a post)
- Cavity contents
- Announcement of successful treatment by dentist working as locum?
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Fill \Fill\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Filled; p. pr. & vb. n. Filling.] [OE. fillen, fullen, AS. fyllan, fr. full full; akin to D. vullen, G. f["u]llen, Icel. fylla, Sw. fylla, Dan. fylde, Goth. fulljan. See Full, a.]
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To make full; to supply with as much as can be held or contained; to put or pour into, till no more can be received; to occupy the whole capacity of.
The rain also filleth the pools.
--Ps. lxxxiv. 6.Jesus saith unto them, Fill the waterpots with water. Anf they filled them up to the brim.
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To furnish an abudant supply to; to furnish with as mush as is desired or desirable; to occupy the whole of; to swarm in or overrun.
And God blessed them, saying. Be fruitful, and multiply, and fill the waters in the seas.
--Gen. i. 22.The Syrians filled the country.
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To fill or supply fully with food; to feed; to satisfy.
Whence should we have so much bread in the wilderness, as to fillso great a multitude?
--Matt. xv. 33.Things that are sweet and fat are more filling.
--Bacon. To possess and perform the duties of; to officiate in, as an incumbent; to occupy; to hold; as, a king fills a throne; the president fills the office of chief magistrate; the speaker of the House fills the chair.
To supply with an incumbent; as, to fill an office or a vacancy.
--A. Hamilton.-
(Naut.)
To press and dilate, as a sail; as, the wind filled the sails.
To trim (a yard) so that the wind shall blow on the after side of the sails.
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(Civil Engineering) To make an embankment in, or raise the level of (a low place), with earth or gravel.
To fill in, to insert; as, he filled in the figures.
To fill out, to extend or enlarge to the desired limit; to make complete; as, to fill out a bill.
To fill up, to make quite full; to fill to the brim or entirely; to occupy completely; to complete. ``The bliss that fills up all the mind.''
--Pope. ``And fill up that which is behind of the afflictions of Christ.''
--Col. i. 24.
Filling \Fill"ing\, n.
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.
The woof in woven fabrics.
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(Brewing) Prepared wort added to ale to cleanse it.
Back filling. (Arch.) See under Back, a.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"calculated to fill or satisfy," 1620s, present-participle adjective from fill (v.).
c.1400, "that which fills or fills up," verbal noun from fill (v.). Dentistry sense is from 1848. Filling station attested by 1915.
Wiktionary
Of food, that satisfies the appetite by filling the stomach n. 1 Anything that is used to fill something. 2 The contents of a pie, etc. 3 (context dentistry English) A piece of amalgam used to fill a cavity in a tooth. 4 The woof in woven fabrics. 5 Prepared wort added to ale to cleanse it. v
(present participle of fill English)
WordNet
n. any material that fills a space or container; "there was not enough fill for the trench" [syn: fill]
flow into something (as a container)
(dentistry) a dental appliance consisting of any of various substances (as metal or plastic) inserted into a prepared cavity in a tooth; "when he yawned I could see the gold fillings in his teeth"; "an informal British term for `filling' is `stopping'"
a food mixture used to fill pastry or sandwiches etc.
the yarn woven across the warp yarn in weaving [syn: woof, weft, pick]
the act of filling something
Wikipedia
Filling may refer to:
- Filling (cooking), a food mixture used for stuffing
- Frosting used between layers of a cake
- Dental fillings
- Symplectic filling, a kind of cobordism in mathematics
- Part of the leather crusting process
Usage examples of "filling".
Petrie stumbled forward with Prickles on his back, urgently pushing Adelaide in front of him, he could see nothing through his facemask but a torrential swarm of furry bodies, filling the hallway and writhing on the stairs.
There was even a family resemblance, especially in the eyes- round, dark, wide, filling the big bony orbits, capable of seeing all, but adream, dreamy, as if drugged.
As they approached the fair, Garion could hear a cacophonous tumult filling the aira sort of bawling clamor of thousands of voices shouting all at once.
On this peninsula between the perimeter fence and the access roads to Western Avenue was an encampment of car-hire firms, all-night cafeterias, airfreight offices and filling stations.
Tongues of flame were working their way up her body, filling her tummy with a blazing inferno, and tingling all the way down to her fingertips.
Because the Baudot alphabet is public information, the composition of the 32 cipher alphabets filling the body of the tableau would be known.
He knew he was only filling in for the Prez, but he also knew that the Oakland Angels had to make a tough, full-strength appearance at the Labor Day Run.
Blinded by the raging blizzard, the Sons of Annam bellowed in surprise and began to stumble about, filling the air with crashes and grunts as they collided with each other.
If Bazargan had had a choice, Allen would not be filling the obligatory graduate-student position on this scientific expedition, which already had too many anomalies surrounding it.
Angelika, our skin specialist, created this recipe to be filling, antiaging, and healing for most skin problems: I eat this three times a week, and my fifty-plus skin looks twenty years younger.
Still there was no alternative, and, filling his lungs with the close and reeking air of the chamber, Tarzan of the Apes dived into the dark and watery hole which he could not see but had felt out and found with his feet and legs.
It was not exactly appetising but it would be filling, once it had been ladled out into the wooden bowls which they carried in their packs.
Every year the mountain McGillens sent thousands of the best Sweet Hush apples by mule wagon and train down to Doreatha, who stewed and pureed and spiced them into fillings for all manner of baked goods.
Ecclesiastically and doctrinally they stood in the open, while Romanist and Protestant, Anglican and Puritan, Calvinist and Arminian waged bitter war, filling the air with angry maledictions.
He feels as though he could spend like a geyser, filling first one woman, then the next, in their mouths, their cunts, their arses, leaving a great mound of them lolling and rumpled .