filler
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Etymology
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈfɪlə(ɹ)/
Audio (Southern England): (file)
- (General American) enPR: fĭlʹər, IPA(key): /ˈfɪlɚ/
- Rhymes: -ɪlə(ɹ)
Noun
filler (plural fillers)
- One who fills.
- 1707, J[ohn] Mortimer, The Whole Art of Husbandry; or, The Way of Managing and Improving of Land. […], London: […] J[ohn] H[umphreys] for H[enry] Mortlock […], and J[onathan] Robinson […], →OCLC:
- They commonly have three, four, five, or six hewers or diggers, to four fillers, so as to keep the fillers always at work.
- Something added to fill a space or add weight or size.
- 1977, Stereo Review, volume 38, page 70:
- 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 […]
- Any semisolid substance used to fill gaps, cracks or pores.
- (cosmetic surgery) A dermal filler, a substance injected beneath the skin to restore lost volume.
- 2023 January 24, Amy Synnott, quoting Dr. Drank, “Those Weight Loss Drugs May Do a Number on Your Face”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
- A 50-year-old patient will come in, and suddenly, she’s super-skinny and needs filler, which she never needed before.
- A relatively inert ingredient added to modify physical characteristics; a bulking agent.
- 2014 April, Ken Seufert, “The New Dawn of Pharmaceutical Manufacturing: Innovative Solutions for Unprecedented Challenges”, in American Pharmaceutical Review, 17(3):9:
- The word "filler" is taboo in the excipient world.
- A short article in a newspaper or magazine.
- A short piece of music or an announcement between radio or TV programmes.
- (linguistics) Any spoken sound or word used to fill gaps in speech; filled pause.
- 1697, Virgil, “Dedication”, in John Dryden, transl., The Works of Virgil: Containing His Pastorals, Georgics, and Æneis. […], London: […] Jacob Tonson, […], →OCLC:
- 'Tis a meer filler; to ſtop a vacancy in the Hexameter, and connect the Preface to the Work of Virgil.
- Cut tobacco used to make up the body of a cigar.
- (programming) 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).
- (horticulture) A plant that lacks a distinctive shape and can fill inconvenient spaces around other plants in pots or gardens.
- (forestry, usually in the plural) Any standing tree or standard higher than the surrounding coppice in the form of forest known as "coppice under standards".
- (television, music) material of lower cost or quality that is used to fill a certain television time slot or physical medium, such as a music album
Derived terms
Translations
something added to fill a space
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substance used to fill gaps, cracks, pores
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a relatively inert ingredient added to modify physical characteristics
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any spoken sound or word used to fill gaps in speech; filled pause
Anagrams
Noun
filler m or f
Noun
filler f
Noun
filler
- nominative plural of fil
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