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Filler
//ˈfɪlə(ɹ)// name, noun
Definitions
Proper Noun
- 1 A surname.
Noun
- 1 One who fills.
"They commonly have three, four, five, or six hewers or diggers, to four fillers, so as to keep the fillers always at work."
- 2 the tobacco used to form the core of a cigar wordnet
- 3 Something added to fill a space or add weight or size.
"I recommend this album in the face of the fact that five of the eleven songs are the purest filler, dull instrumentals with a harmonica rifling over an indifferent rhythm section. The rest is magnificent[…]"
- 4 anything added to fill out a whole wordnet
- 5 Any semisolid substance used to fill gaps, cracks or pores.
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- 6 copy to fill space between more important articles in the layout of a magazine or newspaper wordnet
- 7 A dermal filler, a substance injected beneath the skin to restore lost volume.
"A 50-year-old patient will come in, and suddenly, she’s super-skinny and needs filler, which she never needed before."
- 8 100 filler equal 1 forint in Hungary wordnet
- 9 A relatively inert ingredient added to modify physical characteristics; a bulking agent.
"The word "filler" is taboo in the excipient world."
- 10 used for filling cracks or holes in a surface wordnet
- 11 A short article in a newspaper or magazine.
- 12 A short piece of music or an announcement between radio or TV programmes.
- 13 Any spoken sound or word used to fill gaps in speech; filled pause.
"'Tis a meer filler; to ſtop a vacancy in the Hexameter, and connect the Preface to the Work of Virgil."
- 14 Cut tobacco used to make up the body of a cigar.
- 15 In COBOL, the description of an unnamed part of a record that contains no data relevant to a given context (normally capitalised when in a data division).
- 16 A plant that lacks a distinctive shape and can fill inconvenient spaces around other plants in pots or gardens.
- 17 Any standing tree or standard higher than the surrounding coppice in the form of forest known as "coppice under standards". plural-normally
- 18 A material of lower cost or quality that is used to fill a certain television time slot or physical medium, such as a music album.
Etymology
From fill + -er.
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