filler
English
Pronunciation
- enPR: fĭlʹər, IPA(key): /ˈfɪl.ə(ɹ)/
- Rhymes: -ɪlə(r)
Noun
filler (plural fillers)
- One who fills.
- Mortimer
- They have six diggers to four fillers, so as to keep the fillers always at work.
- Mortimer
- 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 […]
- 1977, Stereo Review (volume 38, page 70)
- Any semisolid substance used to fill gaps, cracks or pores.
- A relatively inert ingredient added to modify physical characteristics.
- 2014 — Seufert, Ken. (April 2014) "The New Dawn of Pharmaceutical Manufacturing: Innovative Solutions for Unprecedented Challenges", American Pharmaceutical Review, 17(3):9.
- The word "filler" is taboo in the excipient world.
- 2014 — Seufert, Ken. (April 2014) "The New Dawn of Pharmaceutical Manufacturing: Innovative Solutions for Unprecedented Challenges", American Pharmaceutical Review, 17(3):9.
- A short article in a newspaper or magazine.
- A short piece of music or an announcement between radio or TV programmes.
- Any spoken sound or word used to fill gaps in speech; filled pause.
- Dryden
- 'Tis mere filler, to stop a vacancy in the hexameter.
- Dryden
- Cut tobacco used to make up the body of a cigar.
- (computing) 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".
Translations
Something added to fill a space
A relatively inert ingredient added to modify physical characteristics
Norwegian Bokmål
Norwegian Nynorsk
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