filling
fi ling
- n any material that fills a space or container
- n flow into something (as a container)
- n a food mixture used to fill pastry or sandwiches etc.
- n the yarn woven across the warp yarn in weaving
- n (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' - n the act of filling something
- v make full, also in a metaphorical sense
- v become full
- v occupy the whole of
- v assume, as of positions or roles
- v fill or meet a want or need
- v appoint someone to (a position or a job)
- v eat until one is sated
- v fill to satisfaction
- v plug with a substance
- It's the right size 150 filling stations will cover the country it has closed borders, and there is an added incentive: some of the world's top oil producers are unfriendly .
- And yet, despite years of vituperation, most schools keep dutifully filling out the surveys that make these ratings possible.
- All those construction workers with 10 minutes between shifts and those salarymen hunched over their desks at midnight needed something cheap, something filling and, most of all .