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filler
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun filler has 5 senses
- filler(n = noun.substance) Array - used for filling cracks or holes in a surface; Array has particulars: putty, mastic, size, sizing, stiffener
- filler(n = noun.quantity) Array - 100 filler equal 1 forint in Hungary; Array is a kind of hungarian monetary unit
- filler(n = noun.communication) Array - copy to fill space between more important articles in the layout of a magazine or newspaper; Array is a kind of copy, written matter
- filler(n = noun.artifact) makeweight - anything added to fill out a whole; "some of the items in the collection are mere makeweights" is a kind of object, physical object
- filler(n = noun.artifact) Array - the tobacco used to form the core of a cigar; Array is a part of cigar
is a kind of sealing material
Derived form verb fill9
is a part of forint
Derived form verb fill1
Derived form verb fill1
is a kind of baccy, tobacco
Derived form verb fill1
CIDE DICTIONARY
filler, n.
- One who, or that which, fills; something used for filling. [1913 Webster]"'T is mere filler, to stop a vacancy in the hexameter." [1913 Webster]"They have six diggers to four fillers, so as to keep the fillers always at work." [1913 Webster]
- A composition, as of powdered silica and oil, used to fill the pores and grain of wood before applying paint, varnish, etc. [Webster 1913 Suppl.]
- Any standing tree or standard higher than the surrounding coppice in the form of forest known as
coppice under standards . Chiefly used in thepl. [Webster 1913 Suppl.]
filler, n. [From 1st Fill.].
A thill horse. [1913 Webster]
OXFORD DICTIONARY
filler, n.
1 material or an object used to fill a cavity or increase bulk.
2 an item filling space in a newspaper etc.
3 a person or thing that fills.
1 material or an object used to fill a cavity or increase bulk.
2 an item filling space in a newspaper etc.
3 a person or thing that fills.
Idiom
filler cap a cap closing the filling-pipe leading to the petrol tank of a motor vehicle.
THESAURUS
filler
IC analysis, appositive, attribute, attributive, bidet, bush, bushing, carriage horse, cart horse, cavalry horse, complement, construction modifier, cutting, deep structure, direct object, doubling, doublure, draft horse, dray horse, driving horse, facing, fill horse, filling, form-function unit, function, gigster, hack, hackney, hunter, immediate constituent analysis, indirect object, inlay, inlayer, insole, interlineation, jument, lead, leader, levels, liner, lining, modifier, mount, object, pack horse, packing, padding, palfrey, phrase structure, plow horse, pole horse, polo pony, post-horse, predicate, qualifier, ranks, remount, rider, riding horse, road horse, roadster, rouncy, saddle horse, saddler, shaft horse, shallow structure, slot, slot and filler, stalking-horse, strata, structure, stuffing, subject, sumpter, sumpter horse, surface structure, syntactic analysis, syntactic structure, syntactics, syntax, tagmeme, thill horse, thiller, underlying structure, wadding, wainscot, wheeler, wheelhorse, word arrangement, word order, workhorse
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