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Definitions: Filler |
FillerNoun1. Used for filling cracks or holes in a surface. 2. 100 filler equal 1 forint. 3. Copy to fill space between more important articles in the layout of a magazine or newspaper. 4. Anything added to fill out a whole; "some of the items in the collection are mere makeweights". 5. The tobacco used to form the core of a cigar. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "filler" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1939. (references) |
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Building & Civil Engineering | A very finely divided mineral product with at least 70 per cent passing the 200-mesh sieve. Source: European Union. (references) |
Chemistry | A)a non-reactive substance added to an adhesive by the maker, mainly to reduce costs and occasionally to provide body; b)(USA)a relatively non-adhesive substance added to an adhesive to improve its working properties, permanence, strength, or other qualities. Source: European Union. (references) |
Computing | Short rules or dots placed at intervals in open lines of text, to guide the eye across to words or figures at the ends of the lines. Source: European Union. (references) |
| One or more characters adjacent to an item of data that serve to bring its representation up to a specified size. Source: European Union. (references) | |
Food & Agriculture | A tree or species of inferior value retained in thinnings or cleanings in the absence of any better. Source: European Union. (references) |
Health | 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. (references) |
Industry | Finely divided, normally white pigment which is added to the stock in order to e. g. raise the opacity and smoothness of the paper. Source: European Union. (references) |
Language | A substance added to a product to increase the bulk or weight of the product. Source: European Union. (references) |
Mechanical Engineering | A plant, device or machine which fills containers. Source: European Union. (references) |
Meteorology & Standards | A substance which, for technical or economic reasons, may be added to a plastic in relatively large quantities. Source: European Union. (references) |
Mining | See:mineral filler. (references) |
Occupations | Tends equipment to fill cylinders and other containers with liquefied or compressed gases: Changes cylinder valves with wrench, or adjusts them to prescribed tension, using torque wrench. Rolls cylinders onto platform scale, or positions cylinders in manifold racks manually or with chain hoist. Connects lines from manifold to cylinders, using wrench. Fills cylinders by any of following methods: (1) Sets pressure gauge to specified reading and listens for buzzer indicating completion of filling. (2) Adjusts valves and observes gauge to fill cylinders to specified pressure. (3) Observes scale indicator to fill cylinders to specified weight. (4) Fills cylinder to excess, rolls cylinder onto scale, and connects exhaust line to release excess gas and attain prescribed gross weight. Sprays or brushes chemical solution onto cylinder valve to test for leaks. Fills out and attaches warning and identification tags or decals, specifying tare and gross weight, cylinder number, type of gas, and date filled, and records data. May test gas for purity, using burette or other testing equipment. May inspect or test empty cylinder [CYLINDER INSPECTOR-AND-TESTER (chemical)]. May evacuate residual gases from cylinders. May test filled cylinders for specified gas pressure by connecting gauge and comparing reading with chart. May tend and maintain generator or compressor in filling process. May be designated according to type of container filled as Ton-Container Filler (chemical); Tube-Trailer Filler (chemical). (references) |
| Tends machines that fill metal kegs with beer in keg-filling (racking) room of brewery: Pushes metal keg or barrel onto conveyor leading to racking machine. Lifts barrel from conveyor and positions barrel on machine. Lowers filling arm of counter-pressure filling machine (racker), and fits nozzle into bung. Turns valves that pressurize barrel and start flow of beer. Turns valve that releases filling arm when sight glass indicates barrel is full and raises arm. Pounds wooden plug into bung, using mallet. Presses pedal to roll barrel onto conveyor. Affixes revenue stamp over taphole, using staples or glue. Rolls barrel from conveyor to loading chute or storage area. Washes machine and floor, using hose. (references) | |
| Fills pillows, cushions, and comforters with down, kapok, wool, or other filler, using filling machine: Ties or holds opening of cover around discharge tube of filling machine and presses button to start blower that sucks filling into cover. Estimates amount of filler blown into cover by either timing blower or weighing articles. Stuffs filling into open end of cover, using metal rod. May stuff covers by hand. May be designated according to article filled as Cushion Filler (tex. prod., nec); Pillow Filler (tex. prod., nec); Sleeping-Bag Filler (tex. prod., nec); or according to kind of filler used as Down Filler (tex. prod., nec). (references) | |
| Fills quilt or comforter covers with precut sheets of cotton or wool batting, or synthetic materials, preparatory to sewing and quilting, using one of following methods: (1) Selects filler and places it smoothly between unsewn cover pieces, securing cover together with snap clamps. (2) Spreads filler on inverted cover, sewn on three sides, and turns cover right side out over fillers. (3) Places cover, sewn on three sides, over frame that holds it open, and places filler on movable table to slide filler into cover. May fill sleeping bags and cushions. May tend automatic quilting machines. (references) | |
| Removes color blemishes and fills in cracks or scratches on shoes: Applies prepared colors with cloth, hand spray, or crayon to obtain or restore specified color. Applies prepared filler, using cloth or hand spray, to fill cracks and scratches. May blend prepared pigments to match shoe color, using spatula. May cement or rub cut or nicked areas of shoe. May be designated according to type or color of shoe as Russet Repairer (boot & shoe). (references) | |
| Tends rotary bleach boiler that cleans and bleaches rags used in making paper: Charges boiler with rags, chemicals, and water. Fastens boiler cover, starts rotary motor, and turns steam valves to clean and bleach rags in boiler for specified length of time. Opens valves to reduce steam pressure and drain liquid from boiler. May pack boiler with alternate layers of rags and dry chemicals. May mix chemicals. (references) | |
| Fills cavities in exterior surface of corncob pipe bowls with plaster of paris: Mixes plaster paste and water. Places cob bowl on revolving spindle. Applies plaster to sides and ends of bowl by hand, filling cavities and smoothing exterior surfaces of bowl. May apply sealer to interior of hickory pipe bowls to seal bowls. (references) | |
Publishing & Graphic Arts | Material that can be used at any time or to fill space. Source: European Union. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Synonym: FillerSynonym: makeweight (n). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Filler |
| English words defined with "filler": art paper ♦ built ♦ caulked, china clay, china stone ♦ kaolin, kaoline ♦ mastic ♦ porcelain clay ♦ reinforced, rensselaerite ♦ stocking filler ♦ terra alba. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "filler": ACID FILLER ♦ BAR AND FILLER ASSEMBLER, BARREL FILLER I, BARREL FILLER II, BIN FILLER ♦ filler blender, filler carrier, FILLER FEEDER, FILLER MIXER, FILLER ROOM ATTENDANT, FILLER SHREDDER, MACHINE, filler sifter, machine ♦ MOLD FILLER ♦ reject opener and filler. (references) |
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Movie/TV Titles | Filler ve Çimen (2000) | |
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 | Products of twin-screw processing include fluid glycosides (1) for making rigid polyurethane foam blocks (2), starchencapsulated herbicide strands (3) that can be made into granules (4), semiflexible polyurethane foam with starch filler (5), cationic starch (6), and the famous superabsorbent starch, Super Slurper (7). P.Credit: USDA ARS News; photo by Keith Weller.. |  | Havana filler.Credit: Library of Congress. |
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Grapes of Wrath | Steinbeck, John | They were dressed in new blue dungarees and in dungaree coats, stiff with filler, the brass buttons shining. |
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Economic History | Pakistan | Dark air-cured varieties are used mainly for filler, while light air-cured varieties are used primarily for traditional Pakistani tobacco products. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Filler" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 99.38% of the time. "Filler" is used about 162 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 99.38% | 161 | 24,661 |
| Noun (proper) | 0.62% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 162 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes the usage of "filler" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified. |
| Name | Usage/Gender | Usage per 100 million Persons | Rank in USA |
| Filler | Last name | 1,000 | 17,353 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits. | |||
Expressions using "filler": filler cap ♦ filler carrier ♦ filler packets ♦ filler pipe ♦ filler point ♦ filler word ♦ gap filler radar ♦ knifing filler ♦ mineral filler ♦ nonferrous filler metal ♦ stocking filler. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "filler": filler-joist. | |
Ending with "filler": Fibre-filler, stocking-filler. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day | Expression | Frequency per Day |
filler | 156 | filler pretzel | 15 |
form filler | 150 | piston filler | 15 |
body filler | 78 | floor filler | 14 |
bottle filler | 61 | vacuum filler | 14 |
wood filler | 56 | gift basket filler | 13 |
filler seat | 46 | filler metal | 13 |
pot filler | 44 | form filler software | 13 |
bunny filler | 35 | filler paper | 12 |
formflow filler | 34 | tub filler | 12 |
pot filler faucet | 29 | fogg filler | 12 |
all killer no filler | 28 | automatic filler pool | 12 |
basket filler | 23 | rotary filler | 11 |
bag filler | 21 | filler sausage | 11 |
pinata filler | 20 | black carbon filler graco silica | 11 |
bumper filler | 19 | federal filler | 11 |
jar filler | 18 | high temperature metal filler | 10 |
capsule filler | 18 | epoxy wood filler | 10 |
bean bag filler | 17 | used bottle filler | 9 |
auto body filler | 17 | pharmaceutical filler | 9 |
liquid filler | 16 | block filler | 9 |
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| Language | Translations for "filler"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 補白 , 补白. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | vycpávka (pad, padding, stuffing, upholstery, wadding), tmel (binder, cement, luting, mastic, putty), plnivo, nálevka (funnel). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | fyldstof (ballast, bulk, bulking agent, encrusting substance, extender, extender pigment, incrusting substance, loading, padding, size, sizing), fyld (fill, fill material, filling, filling material, padding), filler (addition, crumbles, fines, mineral filler), udpunktning (leader, leaders), udfyldningstræart, udfyldningstræ, udfyldningsfelt, spartelmasse (knifing filler, spackle, stopper, surfacer), bestrygning (coating, loading). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | vulteken (padding), vulstof (extender, extender pigment, loading), vulmiddel, vulhoutsoort, vulhout, vracht (burden, cargo, carriage charge, charge, freight, freightage, load, loading), tussenlaag (interbed, intercalation, interlayer, intervening bed, lamina, middle of board, surfacer, undercoat), plamuur (primer, priming coat, putty, surfacer), opvulveld, minerale vulstof (mineral filler), loos teken (padding), leader (leader), informatieloos teken (padding), gidsend karakter (leader). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | filleri (mineral filler), täyteväri (knifing filler, spackle, stopper), täytemerkki (leader), täytejauhe (mineral filler), täyteaine (excipient, extender, extender pigment, filling, loading, sealant), täyte (dressing, fillet, filling, makeweight, padding, stuffing), silote (knifing filler, spackle, stopper), pisteviivamerkki (leader), kartongin runkokerros (middle of board), johtopiste (leader). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | filler (mineral filler), fines (fines), fillers, agent de remplissage, appoint, bois de remplissage, bouche-trou, bourrage sur tringle (bead filler), brai, charge (fill, filler carrier), charge technique, doublure, élément de remplissage, enduit (filling-up putty), zone de remplissage, intérieur d'un carton, machine d'emplissage, masse de remplissage, matériau de remplissage, orifice de remplissage, point de conduite, remplissage (fill, filling), emplisseuse. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | Füllfeld, füller (fillers, fountain pen, fountain-pen, foutain pen, pen, surfacer), füllstoff (extender, extender pigment, loading), Einfüllstutzen (filler pipe). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | κονίαμα (mortar), στόκος υποστρώματος, γέμισμα (bottling, cross, cushion, cushioning, fell, fill, filling, insulation fill, loading, packing, pad, padding, stuffing, tamping), πρόσθετο υλικό (additive, admixture, loading), πλήσμα,μέσον πληρώσεως,συστατικόν προς αύξησιν όγκου ή βάρους, υλικό πληρώσεως κενών, χαρακτήρας συμπλήρωσης (padding), φίλλερ (mineral filler), ζώνη συμπλήρωσης, εσωτερικός ιστός χαρτονιού (middle of board), εσωτερικό στρώμα χαρτονιού (middle of board), επιβαρυντικό (loading), δένδρο πλήρωσης. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | מלוי (fill, filling, fulfillment, refill, stuffing), חומר מלוי (stuffing). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | tölcsér (charging boot, cone, cornet, crater, funnel, hopper, horn), betét (deposit, insert, insertion piece, interline, lining), fabetét, gumibetét, rakodócsillés, robbanótöltet (blast, bursting charge, destructive charge, payload, squib, warhead), alapozó (liquid make-up, primer, sub, underlying), többrétegű karton belső rétege, tömedékelő, töltő, töltő anyag, töltő szerkezet, töltőnyak, töltőnyílás, tömítő (gasket, obturating), sámfa (boot tree, shoe trees). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | zona di riempimento, rincalzo, riempitivo (fill), puntini di guida (leader, leaders), piante di rinfoltimento, materiale di riempimento (blindage, blinding, mineral filler), intonaco (coat, parget, plaster, whitewash), chi riempie, centro di un cartone (middle of board), carica attiva, carica (appointment, batch, blasting charge, brail, buntline, burden, charge, charging, concentration, electric charge, electricity, explosive charge, fill, filling, kiln load, load, loading, loads, mould weight, office, position, press head, stock, weight, winding), carattere di riempimento (padding). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | 埋め草 . (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | うめくさ. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Korean | 충 물. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | lhieeneyder (stuffer). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | illerfay funil (funnel, stovepipe), filler (mineral filler), zona de preenchimento (padding), interior do cartão (middle of board), espécie secundária, enchedor, carga (batch, blasting charge, brew, bulk, burden, cargo, charge, charging, cloud-burst, concentration, cycle, demand, down grade, electric charge, electricity, explosive charge, fare, feeding, fill, filling, freight, freighter, job, lading, load, loading, refill, round, round of charges, rush, stock, task, weight), cama interior (middle of board), betume (asphalt, asphaltic bitumen, asphaltic cement, bitumen, mastic, putty, road bitumen, size, sizing, surfacer), beber (absorb, bear, carouse, consume, down, drink, drink to, drink to excess, enduring, fuddle, fudge, imbibe, inspired, lushed, soak up, take, tipple, tolerate). (various references) наполнитель (extender, stuffer). (various references) umetak (bushing, gusset, hairpiece, inlay, insert, insertion, inset, parenthesis, tab), punjenje (charge, fill, load, loading, padding, stuffing), punilac (rammer). (various references) relleno (back filling, backfill, back-filling, blinding, construction of an embankment, cushion, embankment, fill, fill embankment, filled, filling, filling material, filling paste, filling up, forming of an embankment, packing, pad, padded, padding, replacement, replenishment, stemming, stowage, stowed goaf, stowing, stowing material, stuffing, supplement, tamping, topping up, topping(California), wadding). (various references) fyllmedel (extender, extender pigment, loading), filler (mineral filler), utfyllnadsträd, utfyllnad (card out, feather, padding, stopgap), spackelfärg (knifing filler, spackle, stopper), punktutföring (leader), punkterad rad (leader), inlaga (body, insert, inset, memorial). (various references) ผู้บรรจุ. (various references) tıkaç (bung, Cork, gag, packing, plug, spigot, spill, stopper, stopple, tampon, wad, wadding), geçici önlem (improvisation, interim injunction, interlocutory injunction, makeshift, stopgap), doldurucu (loader), boş zaman dolduracak program, astar (foundation, liner, lining, undercoat). (various references) начинка (stuffing), наповнювач, заряд (charge, load). (various references) người l m đẫy, cái để l m đẫy. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "filler": fillers. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "filler": fulfiller. (additional references) | |
Words containing "filler": fulfillers. (additional references) | |
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"Filler" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: biller, falar, fallec, fallere, fallor, filepro, fillal, fillar, fillen, fillo, Fillou, fillter, filor, filreg, Finler, Fisler, fule, fullere, Fyler, giller. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "filler" (pronounced fi"ler) |
| 3 | -i" l er | biller, chiller, distiller, driller, Giller, Hiller, killer, Miller, pillar, Schiller, Siller, Spiller, stiller, thriller, tiller, Willer. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: refill. | |
| Words within the letters "e-f-i-l-l-r" | |
-1 letter: filer, fille, flier, frill, iller, lifer, rifle, rille. | |
-2 letters: fell, file, fill, fire, lief, lier, life, lire, reif, riel, rife, rile, rill. | |
-3 letters: elf, ell, fer, fie, fil, fir, ill, ire, lei, lie, ref, rei, rif. | |
-4 letters: ef, el, er, if, li, re. | |
| Words containing the letters "e-f-i-l-l-r" | |
+1 letter: fillers, frilled, friller, refills. | |
+2 letters: fireball, firehall, firewall, freewill, frillers, frillier, hellfire, irefully, lowlifer, overfill, refilled. | |
+3 letters: direfully, fertilely, fiberfill, fibrefill, fibrillae, filtrable, fireballs, firehalls, firewalls, flatliner, fleshlier, flowerily, frilliest, frivolled, frivoller, fulfiller, fulleries, fullering, hellfires, lowlifers, nullifier, overfills, prefilled, refalling, refelling, refilling, shellfire. | |
+4 letters: alderflies, calciferol, ferrelling, fiberfills, fibrefills, fibrillate, filterable, fireballer, firewalled, flatliners, fleeringly, florilegia, flowerlike, fraxinella, friendlily, frivollers, fulfillers, infernally, mercifully, millefiori, millefleur, nullifiers, overfilled, painfuller, pilferable, pitifuller, pridefully, refillable, refuelling, shellfires, umbellifer, wearifully, wildflower, wildfowler. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)46 69 6C 6C 65 72 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)..-. .. .-.. .-.. . .-. |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000110 01101001 01101100 01101100 01100101 01110010 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)F i l l e r |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0046 0069 006C 006C 0065 0072 |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)407578787184 |
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