Meaning of FILLER
| Pronunciation: | | 'feelehr
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- [n] the tobacco used to form the core of a cigar
- [n] anything added to fill out a whole; "some of the items in the collection are mere makeweights"
- [n] copy to fill space between more important articles in the layout of a magazine or newspaper
- [n] 100 filler equal 1 forint
- [n] used for filling cracks or holes in a surface
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| | Synonyms: | | makeweight |
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| | See Also: | | baccy, cigar, copy, forint, Hungarian monetary unit, mastic, putty, sealing material, size, sizing, stiffener, stuff, sundries, sundry, tobacco, whatchamacallit, whatsis, written matter | |
| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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\Fill"er\, n.
One who, or that which, fills; something used for filling.
'T is mere filler, to stop a vacancy in the hexameter.
--Dryden.
They have six diggers to four fillers, so as to keep
the fillers always at work. --Mortimer.
\Fill"er\, n. [From 1st {Fill}.]
A thill horse. [Prov. Eng.]
\Fill"er\, n.
1. (Paint.) A composition, as of powdered silica and oil,
used to fill the pores and grain of wood before applying
paint, varnish, etc.
2. (Forestry) Any standing tree or standard higher than the
surrounding coppice in the form of forest known as coppice
under standards. Chiefly used in the pl.
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| | Definition: | | An inactive substance used to make a product bigger or easier to handle. For example, fillers are often used to make pills or capsules because the amount of active drug is too small to be handled conveniently. |
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| | Related Terms: | | 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, IC analysis, 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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