English to English
noun
- any material that fills a space or container
There was not enough fill for the trench.
source: WordNet 3.0
- flow into something (as a container)
source: WordNet 3.0
- a food mixture used to fill pastry or sandwiches etc.
source: WordNet 3.0
- the yarn woven across the warp yarn in weaving
source: WordNet 3.0
- (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'.
source: WordNet 3.0
- the act of filling something
source: WordNet 3.0
- 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.
source: Webster 1913
