Filler

//ˈfɪlə(ɹ)// name, noun

Definitions

Proper Noun
  1. 1
    A surname.
Noun
  1. 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. 2
    the tobacco used to form the core of a cigar wordnet
  3. 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. 4
    anything added to fill out a whole wordnet
  5. 5
    Any semisolid substance used to fill gaps, cracks or pores.
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  1. 6
    copy to fill space between more important articles in the layout of a magazine or newspaper wordnet
  2. 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."

  3. 8
    100 filler equal 1 forint in Hungary wordnet
  4. 9
    A relatively inert ingredient added to modify physical characteristics; a bulking agent.

    "The word "filler" is taboo in the excipient world."

  5. 10
    used for filling cracks or holes in a surface wordnet
  6. 11
    A short article in a newspaper or magazine.
  7. 12
    A short piece of music or an announcement between radio or TV programmes.
  8. 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."

  9. 14
    Cut tobacco used to make up the body of a cigar.
  10. 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).
  11. 16
    A plant that lacks a distinctive shape and can fill inconvenient spaces around other plants in pots or gardens.
  12. 17
    Any standing tree or standard higher than the surrounding coppice in the form of forest known as "coppice under standards". plural-normally
  13. 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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