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English to English noun
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any material that fills a space or container |  | Example: there was not enough fill for the trench
source: wordnet30
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flow into something (as a container) | | source: wordnet30
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a food mixture used to fill pastry or sandwiches etc. | | source: wordnet30
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the yarn woven across the warp yarn in weaving | | source: wordnet30
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(dentistry) a dental appliance consisting of any of various substances (as metal or plastic) inserted into a prepared cavity in a tooth | | Example: when he yawned I could see the gold fillings in his teeth
an informal British term for `filling' is `stopping'
source: wordnet30
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the act of filling something | | source: wordnet30
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That which is used to fill a cavity or any empty space, or to supply a deficiency; as, filling for a cavity in a tooth, a depression in a roadbed, the space between exterior and interior walls of masonry, the pores of open-grained wood, the space between the outer and inner planks of a vessel, etc. | | source: webster1913
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