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filling

13 ENTRIES FOUND:
  1. filling
  2. fill
  3. filling fork
  4. filling knitting
  5. filling notch
  6. filling point
  7. filling station
  8. eye-filling
  9. mouth-filling
  10. space-filling model
  11. fill away
  12. fill in
  13. fill out

fill·ing

noun \ˈfi-liŋ\

: material that is used to fill something

: a food mixture that is used to fill something (such as pastry or a sandwich)

Full Definition of FILLING

1
:  an act or instance of filling
2
:  something used to fill a cavity, container, or depression
3
:  something that completes: as
a :  the yarn interlacing the warp in a fabric; also :  yarn for the shuttle
b :  a food mixture used to fill pastry or sandwiches
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Examples of FILLING

  1. a filling for a tooth
  2. pies that need more filling

First Known Use of FILLING

14th century

Related to FILLING

Synonyms
fill, filler, padding, stuffing, wadding

Other Dentistry Terms

bridge, crown, tush

Rhymes with FILLING

billing, drilling, killing, milling, schilling, shilling, twilling, willing

fill·ing

noun \ˈfil-iŋ\   (Medical Dictionary)

Medical Definition of FILLING

1
: material (as gold or amalgam) used to fill a cavity in a tooth
2
: simple sporadic lymphangitis of the leg of a horse commonly due to overfeeding and insufficient exercise

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