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Filling

//ˈfɪlɪŋ// adj, noun, verb

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Adjective
  1. 1
    Of food, that satisfies the appetite by filling the stomach.

    "a filling meal"

Noun
  1. 1
    Anything that is used to fill something.
  2. 2
    the act of filling something wordnet
  3. 3
    The contents of a pie, etc.
  4. 4
    (dentistry) a dental appliance consisting of any of various substances (as metal or plastic) inserted into a prepared cavity in a tooth wordnet
  5. 5
    Any material used to fill a cavity in a tooth or the result of using such material.

    "I will be using a rapid-setting cement filling."

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  1. 6
    the yarn woven across the warp yarn in weaving wordnet
  2. 7
    The woof in woven fabrics.
  3. 8
    a food mixture used to fill pastry or sandwiches etc. wordnet
  4. 9
    Prepared wort added to ale to cleanse it.
  5. 10
    flow into something (as a container) wordnet
  6. 11
    A religious experience attributed to the Holy Ghost "filling" a believer.

    "1903, William Edward Biederwolf, A Help to the Study of the Holy Spirit, James H. Earle & Company (publ.), page 100. As learned Dr. Hodge has reminded us, any impartation of the Holy Spirit is a baptism, and certainly, apart from biblical phraseology, a filling with the Spirit may be called a baptism with the Spirit."

  7. 12
    any material that fills a space or container wordnet
Verb
  1. 1
    present participle and gerund of fill form-of, gerund, participle, present

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