filling

1. 1.

   any material that fills a space or container

   “there was not enough fill for the trench”

   Synonymsfill

   Broadermaterial

   Narrowercement
2. 2.

   flow into something (as a container)

   Broaderflow

   Narrowerrefilling
3. 3.

   a food mixture used to fill pastry or sandwiches etc.

   Broaderconcoction

   Narrowerlekvar
4. 4.

   the yarn woven across the warp yarn in weaving

   Synonymswoofweftpick

   Broaderthread

   Part ofweave
5. 5.

   (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'”

   Broaderdental appliance

   Narrowerinlay

   dentistry

6. 6.

   the act of filling something

   Broaderchange of integrity

   Narrowersaturationflood

Other forms of filling

plural

fillings·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about filling

What does filling mean?

filling means "any material that fills a space or container". That is the primary sense; the word has 6 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in filling?

filling has 2 syllables: fil-ling. The stress falls on "fil". In IPA it is /ˈfɪlɪŋ/.

What is another word for filling?

Close synonyms include fill, woof, weft, pick. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is filling a common word?

filling is banded "Common" — everyday vocabulary in speech and writing. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.