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Definition: Filling |
FillingNoun1. Any material that fills a space or container; "there was not enough fill for the trench". 2. Flow into something (as a container). 3. (dentistry) a dental appliance consisting of any of various substances (as metal or plastic) inserted into a prepared cavity in a tooth; "an informal British term for `filling' is `stopping'". 4. A food mixture used to fill pastry or sandwiches. 5. The yarn woven across the warp yarn in weaving. 6. A act of filling something. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "filling" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1350. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Industry | Cross-threads woven into warp to make web. Source: European Union. (references) |
Building & Civil Engineering | Material used for raising earthworks to the required level. Source: European Union. (references) |
| The closing up and disappearance of breaks or cracks in concrete when the concrete parts are kept damp and in contact. Source: European Union. (references) | |
Environment | Depositing dirt, mud or other materials into aquatic areas to create more dry land, usually for agricultural or commercial development purposes, often with ruinous ecological consequences. (references) |
Fine Arts | A movable section of the stage floor, sliding in fillet grooves and covering a stage cut (slider cut). Source: European Union. (references) |
Food & Agriculture | Piece of timber placed in the space between the frames wherever special solidity is required, and which extends from the keel to about the turn of bilge. Source: European Union. (references) |
Industry | The crosswise yarns are the --, also referred to as the weft or the woof. Source: European Union. (references) |
| A)threads widthways in a fabric as woven; b)yarn intended for use as in. Source: European Union. (references) | |
Metallurgy | The act of loading materials into the blast furnace. Source: European Union. (references) |
Mining | A. The waste material used to fill up old stopes or chambers b. The loading of trams, conveyors, tubs, or trucks with coal, ore, or waste; the place where loading occurs c. Allowing a mine to fill with water d. Clogging of the abrasive coat by swarf. It may be reduced in many operations by using an opencoat construction or a lubricant. See also:swarf e. Loading of mineral into mine trucks; shoveling onto conveyors; gob stowing; packing old stopes with waste f. Material such as waste, sand, ashes, and other refuse used to fill in worked-out areas of excavation. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Synonyms: FillingSynonyms: fill (n), pick (n), weft (n), woof (n). (additional references) |
| Synonyms by domain: fill-in (building & civil engineering). |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Completeness | Complement, supplement, make-weight; filling, up; Verb: |
Lining | Filling, stuffing, wadding, padding. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
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Screenplays | That may make you look a little crazy, Your Honor, just, just sitting around filling in O's, but I don't see anything wrong, 'cause that helps you think (Mr. Deeds Goes to Town; writing credit: Clarence Budington Kell; Robert Riskin) Do realize if I get arrested you won't make your meeting because you'll be filling out police reports until next October (Carpool; writing credit: Don Rhymer) Can you excuse a pole for filling a hole (Coup de torchon; writing credit: Jean Aurenche; Bertrand Tavernier) What do the building codes say about filling the basement with earth (Saturday the 14th; writing credit: Jeff Begun; Howard R. Cohen) I wouldn't stone clad my house it would look like a white filling in a mouth full of rotten teeth (The League of Gentlemen; writing credit: Jeremy Dyson; Mark Gatiss) | |
Lyrics | Filling out forms (Allentown; performing artist: Billy Joel) Cuz it's filling up (Danger (Been So Long); performing artist: Mystikal) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Filling the Gap (1942) Canned Meat Department. No. 1: Filling and Capping (1901) Santa Claus Filling Stockings (1897) Filling Me Up (2002) | |
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 | (4) color slides show a peanut butter and jelly sandwich, the top slice of bread is turned clockwise so as to see the peanut butter and jelly filling. Credit: Renee Comet (photographer). |  | Shown is a lab technician filling wells with a liquid for a research test. This researcher is involved in preparation of cultures in which hybrids are grown in large quantities to produce a desired antibody. This is effected by fusing myeloma cell and mouse b-lymphocyte to form hybrid cell (hybridoma). Credit: Linda Bartlett (photographer). |
 | Water hyacinth, an exotic, filling a canal. Water hyacinth stops boat traffic and interferes with circulation of water. Credit: America's Coastlines. |  | Filling tank with live bait on tuna boat to be used later in pole and line fishing for tuna. Credit: Fisheries. |
 | The hold of a commercial ship filling up with sole. Credit: Fisheries. |  | A dredge pipe filling a geotube. Credit: NOAA Restoration Center. |
 | The crew discussing the filling of geotubes. Credit: NOAA Restoration Center. |  | A view of filling a bulk carrier ship with phosphate at the piers at Nauru as seen from the NOAA Ship RONALD H. BROWN. Credit: Sailing for Science - the NOAA Fleet Then and Now. |
 | Filling a meteorological kite with hydrogen on the PRINCESS ALICE. This ship was the earliest to conduct upper-air studies at sea. In: "From the Surface to the Bottom of the Sea" by H. Bouree, 1912. Figure 23, p. 30. Library Call Number 525.8 B77. Credit: Sailing for Science - the NOAA Fleet Then and Now. |  | Mud, rather than water, fills a watershed dam in the Little Sioux Watershed and Flood Prevention project in northwest Iowa. Many of Iowa's older watershed dams are filling with sediment and threatening their capacity to slow floodwaters. Credit: Tim McCabe. |
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| "Filling pump" by Lucian Binder Commentary: "An old filling pump out of use." | "Photoss 1" by Kerem Titiz Commentary: "My stock filling photos." |
Source: photographs selected by the editor, with permission from the photographers. | |
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 | Ding ding; gas station; filling station; gasoline; grease monkey; attendant; mechanic; garage; car; auto; automobile; truck. |
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| Author | Date | Quotation |
Treaty of Versailles | 1919 | The method of filling vacancies and other similar questions may be determined by the Governing Body subject to the approval of the Conference. (reference) |
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| Title | Author | Quote |
Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | Then, filling his glass, he arose |
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man | Joyce, James | He felt some dark presence moving irresistibly upon him from the darkness, a presence subtle and murmurous as a flood filling him wholly with itself |
Grapes of Wrath | Steinbeck, John | In the souls of the people the grapes of wrath are filling and growing heavy, growing heavy for the vintage |
Walden | Thoreau, Henry David | Daily the beans saw me come to their rescue armed with a hoe, and thin the ranks of their enemies, filling up the trenches with weedy dead |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | Sealing one tooth usually costs less than filling one tooth. (references) | |
This procedure involves filling the colon with barium, a chalky white solution. (references) | ||
If a child does not sense the bladder filling and awaken to urinate, then wetting will occur. (references) | ||
Business | Land filling is the preferred method of disposal because it is seen as cheap. (references) | |
This would cover the costs of collection, transfer, recycling and land filling. (references) | ||
Franchising has the benefit of filling a yawing gap of management talent in the market. (references) | ||
Economic History | Ecuador | The agents are paid a commission by the U.S. company filling these orders. (references) |
Ukraine | British Petroleum started retail fuel sales in Ukraine in 1999 with two gas filling stations in Kiev. (references) | |
India | Polyethylene compounds are used for sheathing, steel tapes for armoring and petroleum jelly for filling. (references) | |
Human Rights | Nicaragua | The Human Rights Ombudsman's Office (PPDDH), the only autonomous government-financed human rights office, continued to focus on filling staffing gaps and organizing its scope and activities. (references) |
Minorities | Congo | President Joseph Kabila continued his father's practice of filling a disproportionate number of government positions with persons from his home province of Katanga and specifically from his Muluba ethnic group. (references) |
Political Rights | Peru | The majority of complaints concerned the congressional election, and many were related to mistakes by poll workers filling out the vote tally sheets on election night. (references) |
Trade | Colombia | Extensions, additions or modifications may be requested by filling out additional forms. (references) |
Women | Malaysia | In 1999 Malaysian Trade Union Congress President Zainal Rampak urged trade unions to fulfill the ILO policy of filling 30 percent of leadership positions with women. (references) |
Worker Rights | Morocco | In those cases where unwitting Moroccan women have been recruited to perform sexual services outside of the country, traffickers usually have deceived them into thinking that they will be filling secretarial or domestic servant jobs. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
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James Madison | 1809-1817 | With a view to that vigorous prosecution of the war to which our national faculties are adequate, the attention of Congress will be particularly drawn to the insufficiency of existing provisions for filling up the military establishment. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| "Filling" is generally used as a lexical verb (-ing form) -- approximately 90.97% of the time. "Filling" is used about 1,592 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 |
| Lexical Verb (-ing form) | 90.97% | 1,448 | 5,577 |
| Noun (singular) | 5.77% | 92 | 34,282 |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 2.38% | 38 | 55,818 |
| Noun (proper) | 0.82% | 13 | 97,576 |
| Noun (common) | 0.06% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 1,592 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "filling": Back filling ♦ be filling ♦ dental filling ♦ filling fail places ♦ filling food ♦ filling frame ♦ filling gaps ♦ filling into casks ♦ filling material ♦ filling of a tooth ♦ filling of joints ♦ filling out ♦ filling pocket ♦ filling shuttle ♦ filling station ♦ filling stone ♦ filling timber ♦ filling up ♦ filling up with alluvium ♦ filling winder ♦ gold filling ♦ inert filling ♦ reefed filling time ♦ rock filling ♦ Root Canal Filling Materials ♦ sack filling machine ♦ slider filling ♦ temporary filling ♦ tooth filling. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "filling": filling-in, filling-out, filling-station, filling-stations, filling-up. | |
Ending with "filling": blank-filling, form-filling, gap-filling, in-filling, space-filling. | |
| 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. |
| Language | Translations for "filling"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | fishek (blank like fine roll, cartridge, quickly), mbushje (admission, charge, dressing, fill, loading, packing, pad, padding, pervasion, stuffing, suffusion), material mbushës (fill, padding, stuffing), ind (tissue, weft), amalgamë (amalgam, cement). (various references) | |
Arabic | كل ما يحشى به, مل ء (bellyful, padding), حشوة السن, حشوة الأسنان, حشوة (fill, loading, padding, stuffing, wad, wadding), حشو (charging, dressing, loading, pleonasm, redundance, redundancy, stuffing, tautology), تعبئة (recall). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | пълнеж (stuffing), подплънка (pad, padding, wad, wadding), плънка (farce, stuffing), пломба (lead, plug, seal, stamp, stopping). (various references) | |
Chinese | 餡兒 (stuffing), 装填. (various references) | |
Czech | výplò (center, centre, pane, panel), sytivý, sytý (deep, fruity, sick, vivid), plomba (seal, stopping), plnicí, náplò (cartridge, center, centre, charge), nádivka (stuffing). (various references) | |
Danish | fyld (fill, fill material, filler, filling material, padding), fylde (fill, fill in, fill up), fyldespant (filling frame, filling timber), fyldmasse (filling paste, magma), fyldmaterialer (fill, fill material, filling material), fyldning (charge, charging, down flooding, feeding, flooding, influx of water, plombage, plugging, stopping), indbygning af fyld (construction of an embankment, forming of an embankment), chargering (burdening, charging, to burden, to charge, to fill), ilaegning (charging, feeding), skudgarn (shoot, shute, weft, woof), indlæg (address, contributed paper, contribution, filling paste, inset, paper, speech), islaet (weft), laegge i (charge, fill), påfyldning (back-filling, construction of an embankment, delivery, embankment, fill, fill embankment, forming of an embankment, loading, nursing, supply), plombe (plombage, plugging, stopping), plombering (plombage, plugging, seal, sealing, sealing device, stopping), skud (bang, blast, clump shoots, filling weft, flush, fruit cane, green shoot, pick, rod, shoot, shot, shute, sprout, tiller, weft, woof), ilaegge (charge, fill). (various references) | |
Dutch | inweefsel (weft), aanbrengen van ophoogmateriaal (construction of an embankment, forming of an embankment), aanvullen (complete), aanvulmateriaal (fill, fill material, filling material), beladen (burden, load), belading (cargo, charging, freight, lading, load, loading, on-loading, to charge, to fill), charge (assault, storming), inleggen (deposit, insert, pickle, preserve, put away, put in, stow), aanbrengen van aanvulmateriaal (construction of an embankment, forming of an embankment), invoeren (import), vulmassa (filling paste, masse cuite, massecuite, syruppy mass), laden (burden, charge, load), lading (burden, cargo, charge, load), ophogen (advance, increase, raise), ophoogmateriaal (fill, fill material, filling material), plombering (plombage, plugging, stopping), spantvulling (filling frame, filling timber), vullen (fill, fill in, fill up, pad, stuff, upholster), vulling (burden, charge, load, stuffing), inslag (fill, filling weft, pick, shoot, shot, shute, storage, weft, woof). (various references) | |
Esperanto | benzinstacio (filling station). (various references) | |
Finnish | täyttäminen (charging, feeding). (various references) | |
French | remplissage (fill, filler), plombage. (various references) | |
German | sättigend (satiable, satiably, satiating, sating, satisfying, saturating), plombierung (seal, sealing), plombe (inlay, lead seal, seal), füllung (center, centre, charge, inlay, panel, stuffing). (various references) | |
Greek | σφράγισμα (stopping), γέμισμα (cross, fill, stuffing), πλήρωση (repletion). (various references) | |
Hebrew | מלית (stuffing), מלוי (fill, filler, fulfillment, refill, stuffing), התמלאות (accomplishment, fulfillment, realization). (various references) | |
Hungarian | töltelék (stuffing). (various references) | |
Italian | ripieno (stuffing), riempimento (ballasting, fill, packing, padding, replenishing, replenishment, silting up). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 充填 (fill, loading, plug, replenish), 中身 (blade, contents, interior, substance), 中味 (blade, contents, interior, substance). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | なかみ (blade, contents, interior, substance), じゅうてん (colon, emphasis, fill, important point, lay stress on, loading, plug, replenish). (various references) | |
Korean | 충정. (various references) | |
Manx | taah (adhere, anchylosis, cement, coalesce, coalescence, concrete, conjugate; conjugation, conjunction, set, solder, soldering, splice, sweat, weld, welding), pronney (cram, eating greedily, fill, press; overcrowding, ram home, stuff, stuffing, taxidermy), lughtaghey (charging, fill, freight, lading, loading, stow, stowage, write down), dooney (barricade, block, button up, cadence, clench, closure, imprisonment, lacing up, occlude, occlusion, secure, shut, shut down, stop up, swing). (various references) | |
Maya | ki'il. (various references) | |
Norwegian | fyll (fill), plombe. (various references) | |
Papiamen | gasolinsteishen (filling station). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | illingfay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | recheio (dressing, farce, stuffing), obturação (obturation, stopping), enchimento (charging, distension, replenishment, shim, wad, wadding), carregamento (ammunition, burden, cargo, charging, draught, freight, lading, load, shipment). (various references) | |
Romanian | umpluturã (forcemeat, padding, rubbish, stuffing), umplere (inflation, packing, repletion), tocãturã (farce, hash, mince, stuffing), plombã (lead, plug, stopping), completare (addendum, addition, annex, complement, completion, parenthesis, supplement), împlinire (consummation, fulfilment). (various references) | |
Russian | уток (shoot, weft, woof), насыпка, насадка (adjutage, adjutancy, cap, headpiece, neck, nozzle), нагрузка (burden, charge, lading, load, loading, thrust, weight, workload), набивка (compression, gasket, pack, padding, stuffing, wadding), наполнение (repletion), засыпка, заливка (potting), заполнять (brim with, brimming, brimming with, fill, fill in, fill out, fill up, fill with, pack, pad, populate, populated, populating), заполнение (fill, suffusion), пломба (seal, stamp, stopper). (various references) | |
Scottish | lìonadh (flowing of the tide, replenishing). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | fil, plomba (seal, stopping). (various references) | |
Spanish | relleno (blinding, filled, filler, packing, pad, padded, padding, replacement, replenishment, stuffing, supplement, wadding). (various references) | |
Swedish | plomb (plug, seal), inslag (element, leaven, leavening, strand, woof), fyllning (dressing, fill, stopping, stuffing). (various references) | |
Turkish | doyurucu (satisfying), dolgu (core, fillet, inlay, plug, stopping, stuffing, wadding), doldurma (charging, loading, refill, springing). (various references) | |
Turkmen | plomwa (r), яonuюga (shaving). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | навантаження (capacity, charge, load, loading), заливання, заправка пальним, заповнення (plenum), пломбування. (various references) | |
Vietnamese | sự tràn đầy (overflowing, repletion), sự đắp đầy, sự đổ đầy. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | conpletionem, fartim. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| Language | Date | Source | Acts Chapter 14, Verse 17 |
| Greek (transliterated) | 250 BC | Septuagint | Kai toi ge ouk amarturon eauton afhken agaqopoiwn ouranoqen hmin uetouV didouV kai kairouV karpoforouV empiplwn trofhV kai eufrosunhV taV kardiaV hmwn |
| Latin | 405 | Vulgate | Et haec dicentes vix sedaverunt turbas ne sibi immolarent |
| Middle English | 1395 | Wyclif | And thei seiynge these thingis, vnnethis swagiden the puple, that thei offriden not to hem. |
| Renaissance English | 1526 | Tyndale | Neverthelesse he lefte not him selfe with outen witnes in that he shewed his benefites in gevinge vs rayne from heaven and frutefull ceasons fyllinge oure hertes with fode and gladnes. |
| Jacobean English | 1611 | King James | Nevertheless he left not himself without witness, in that he did good, and gave us rain from heaven, and fruitful seasons, filling our hearts with food and gladness. |
| Victorian English | 1833 | Webster | Nevertheless he left not himself without witness, in that he did good, and gave us rain from heaven, and fruitful seasons, filling our hearts with food and gladness. |
| Basic English | 1964 | Ogden | But he was not without witness, because he did good, and gave you rain from heaven and times of fruit, making your hearts full of food and joy. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Language | Acts Chapter 14, Verse 17 |
| Albanian | por nuk e la veten e vet pa dëshmi, duke bërë mirë, duke na dhënë shira prej qiellit dhe stinë të frytshme dhe duke i mbushur zemrat tona me ushqim dhe gëzim''. |
| Cebuano | ngani wala niya itugot nga dili kapanghimatud-an ang iyang kaugalingon, sanglit gibuhat man niya ang maayo, ug gihatagan niya kamog ulan gikan sa langit ug kapanahonan nga makapabunga, ug ang inyong mga kasingkasing nabuhong sa pagkaon ug sa kalipay." |
| Croatian | Ipak ne ostavi sebe neposvjedoèena: dobroèinstva iskazuje, s neba vam kišu daje i vremena plodonosna, napunja hranom i radošæu srca vaša." |
| Danish | ihvorvel han ikke lod sig selv være uden Vidnesbyrd, idet han gjorde godt og gav eder Regn og frugtbare Tider fra Himmelen og mættede eders Hjerter med Føde og Glæde." |
| Dutch | Hoewel Hij nochtans Zichzelven niet onbetuigd gelaten heeft, goed doende van den hemel, ons regen en vruchtbare tijden gevende, vervullende onze harten met spijs en vrolijkheid. |
| Finnish | ja kuitenkaan hän ei ole ollut antamatta todistusta itsestään, sillä hän on tehnyt teille hyvää, antaen teille taivaasta sateita ja hedelmällisiä aikoja ja raviten teidän sydämenne ruualla ja ilolla." |
| French | quoiqu`il n`ait cessé de rendre témoignage de ce qu`il est, en faisant du bien, en vous dispensant du ciel les pluies et les saisons fertiles, en vous donnant la nourriture avec abondance et en remplissant vos coeurs de joie. |
| German | und doch hat er sich selbst nicht unbezeugt gelassen, hat uns viel Gutes getan und vom Himmel Regen und fruchtbare Zeiten gegeben, unsere Herzen erfüllt mit Speise und Freude. |
| Indonesian-Bahasa Sehari-hari | Tetapi Ia tidak lupa memberi bukti-bukti tentang diri-Nya, yaitu dengan berbuat baik. Ia memberikan kepadamu hujan dari langit dan hasil tanah pada musimnya. Ia memberikan makanan kepadamu dan menyenangkan hatimu." |
| Indonesian-Terjemahan Lama | meskipun Ia menyatakan diri-Nya sendiri dengan berbuat kebajikan, dan mengaruniakan kamu hujan dari langit dan musim buah-buahan yang mewah, sambil memuaskan hatimu dengan makanan dan kesukaan." |
| Italian | ma non ha cessato di dar prova di sé beneficando, concedendovi dal cielo piogge e stagioni ricche di frutti, fornendovi il cibo e riempiendo di letizia i vostri cuori». |
| Maori | Otiia kihai i tukua e ia kia kahore he kaiwhakaatu mona; i atawhai hoki ia, i homai ano e ia ki a koutou te ua o te rangi, me nga po hua, i makona ai o koutou ngakau i te kai, i te koa. |
| Norwegian | enda han ikke lot sig uten vidnesbyrd, idet han gjorde godt, gav eder regn og fruktbare tider fra himmelen, og mettet eders hjerter med føde og glede. |
| Portuguese | Contudo não deixou de dar testemunho de si mesmo, fazendo o bem, dando-vos chuvas do céu e estações frutíferas, enchendo-vos de mantimento, e de alegria os vossos corações. |
| Rumanian | mqcar cq, drept vorbind, nu s`a lqsat fqrq mqrturie, kntruckt v`a fqcut bine, v`a trimes ploi din cer, wi timpuri roditoare, v`a dat hranq din belwug, wi v`a umplut inimile de bucurie.`` |
| Russian | ИПФС Й ОЕ РЕТЕУФБЧБМ УЧЙДЕФЕМШУФЧПЧБФШ П уЕВЕ ВМБЗПДЕСОЙСНЙ, РПДБЧБС ОБН У ОЕВБ ДПЦДЙ Й ЧТЕНЕОБ РМПДПОПУОЩЕ Й ЙУРПМОСС РЙЭЕА Й ЧЕУЕМЙЕН УЕТДГБ ОБЫЙ. |
| Shuar | Tuma ain shuaran pénker awajsamujai Wiitjai Nekas Yus tusa paant awajmamsamiayi. Kame yumi yutuktinian nayaimpinmaya akupturmaji. Tura ejemarar Warasarmí tusa yurumak nerektinniasha Súramji" Tímiayi. |
| Swahili | Hata hivyo, Mungu hakuacha kujidhihirisha kwa mambo mema anayowatendea: huwanyeshea mvua toka angani, huwapa mavuno kwa wakati wake, huwapa chakula na kuijaza mioyo yenu furaha." |
| Swedish | Dock har han icke låtit sig vara utan vittnesbörd, ty han har bevisat eder välgärningar, i det han har givit eder regn och fruktbara tider från himmelen och så vederkvickt edra hjärtan med mat och glädje." |
| Uma | Aga nau' wae, uma nalipo' mpowai' -ta tanda-tanda to mpakanoto-taka karia-na Alata'ala. Nawai' -ta wori' nyala pewai' to lompe': nawai' -ta uda ngkai langi', napopowua' hinu'a-ta hi tempo-na. Nawai' -ta pongkoni', nawai' -ta kagoea' nono." |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "filling": fillings. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "filling": backfilling, fulfilling, overfilling, overfulfilling, refilling. (additional references) | |
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"Filling" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: failling, faling, falline, fallling, falping, Fellin, fellini, felyng, Filein, fileing, filig, filin, fillen, fillin, Fillpina, Fitling, Foillan, folling, fyling, gillying. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "filling" (pronounced fi"ling) |
| 5 | f i" l i ng | fulfilling. |
| 4 | -i" l i ng | billing, chilling, distilling, drilling, grilling, hilling, instilling, killing, milling, Pilling, quilling, rilling, Schilling, shilling, skilling, spilling, swilling, thrilling, Tilling, trilling, unwilling, willing, yearling. |
| 3 | -l i ng | annealing, appalling, appealing, ailing, ambling, angling, assailing, assembling, babbling, backpedaling, baffling, bailing, baling, balling, bankrolling, barreling, battling, beguiling, belittling, Belling, bicycling, blackmailing, boggling, boiling, Bolling, bottling, bowling, brawling, bristling, broiling, bubbling, buckling, bugling, bumbling, bundling, bungling, burgling, burling, bustling, cackling, cajoling, calling, canceling, cancelling, Carling, ceiling, channeling, chortling, chronicling, chuckling, circling, coddling, commingling, compelling, compiling, concealing, consoling, controlling, cooling, corralling, counseling, countervailing, coupling, cowling, crackling, cradling, crawling, crippling, crumbling, cuddling, culling, curling, curtailing, cycling, dabbling, dangling, darling, dawdling, dazzling, dealing, decoupling, derailing, detailing, Dialing, disabling, disgruntling, dismantling, dispelling, dissembling, doling, doubling, dribbling, drizzling, drooling, duckling, dueling, dulling, dumpling, dwelling, dwindling, earthling, emailing, embezzling, empaneling, enabling, encircling, enrolling, entailing, entangling, entitling, equaling, excelling, expelling, extolling, failing, falling, feeling, felling, fiddling, filing, fizzling, flailing, fledgling, foaling, foiling, fondling, fooling, forestalling, foretelling, fouling, foundling, freewheeling, fueling, fuelling, fumbling, funneling, galling, gambling, giggling, gobbling, grappling, Grayling, groundling, groveling, growling, grueling, grumbling, gurgling, guzzling, haggling, hailing, handling, hassling, hauling, healing, heckling, helling, hobbling, holing, howling, huddling, humbling, hurdling, hurling, hurtling, hustling, idling, imperiling, inhaling, initialing, inkling, installing, intermingling, jailing, jiggling, jostling, juggling, Keeling, kindling, kneeling, labeling, leveling, lolling, Lulling, mailing, mangling, Marling, marshaling, meddling, Melling, middling, mingling, mishandling, mislabeling, misspelling, modeling, mothballing, mottling, muddling, mulling, mumbling, muscling, nailing, needling, nestling, nibbling, nonruling, oiling, outselling, overbilling, overhauling, overkilling, overruling, overselling, paddling, paneling, panhandling, paralleling, parboiling, parceling, paroling, patrolling, pearling, pedaling, peddling, peeling, pickling, piddling, piling, Pindling, poling, polling, pooling, prevailing, profiling, propelling, prowling, pulling, pummeling, puzzling, quadrupling, quarreling, quelling, quibbling, Quisling, railing, rambling, rankling, rappelling, rattling, raveling, rebelling, recalling, reconciling, recycling, redoubling, reeling, refueling, regaling, rekindling, remodeling, repealing, repelling, rescheduling, reselling, resembling, reshuffling, retailing, retelling, retooling, revealing, reveling, ridiculing, Riesling, rifling, rippling, rivaling, roiling, rolling, rototilling, ruffling, ruling, rumbling, rustling, saddling, sailing, sampling, Sandling, sapling, scaling, scheduling, schooling, scowling, scrambling, scribbling, scuttling, sealing, seedling, Seeling, selling, settling, shelling, shoveling, shriveling, shuffling, shuttling, sibling, signaling, signalling, singling, sizzling, smelling, smiling, smuggling, snarling, Snelling, snowballing, sparkling, Sparling, spelling, spiraling, spiralling, spoiling, sprawling, sprinkling, squabbling, squealing, stalling, stapling, starling, startling, stealing, stenciling, sterling, stifling, stockpiling, stonewalling, storytelling, straddling, strangling, strickling, stripling, strolling, struggling, stumbling, styling, suckling, surveilling, swashbuckling, swelling, swindling, swirling, swiveling, tabling, tackling, tailing, tangling, telling, throttling, tingling, tinkling, toddling, toggling, toiling, tolling, tooling, toppling, totaling, totalling, toweling, trailing, trampling, traveling, travelling, trembling, trickling, trifling, tripling, trolling, troubling, tumbling, tunneling, twiddling, twinkling, twirling, unappealing, unavailing, unbundling, underling, underselling, unfailing, unfeeling, unfurling, unraveling, unsettling, unsmiling, untangling, unveiling, veiling, waffling, waggling, wailing, walling, warbling, weakling, welling, whaling, wheeling, whirling, whistling, whittling, wholesaling, wiggling, wiling, wobbling, wrangling, wrestling, wrinkling, yelling, yodeling. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "f-g-i-i-l-l-n" | |
-1 letter: filing. | |
-2 letters: fling. | |
-3 letters: fill, gill, ling, nill. | |
-4 letters: fig, fil, fin, gin, ill, lin, nil. | |
-5 letters: if, in, li. | |
| Words containing the letters "f-g-i-i-l-l-n" | |
+1 letter: fillings, flailing, frilling. | |
+2 letters: failingly, filleting, filliping, frillings, infalling, refilling. | |
+3 letters: flatlining, frivolling, fulfilling, jellifying, jollifying, mollifying, nullifying, stiflingly. | |
+4 letters: alkalifying, backfilling, fireballing, firewalling, helilifting, overfilling, stellifying, unfailingly, wildfowling. | |
+5 letters: blindfolding, bullfighting, fibrillating, flickeringly, flimflamming, fuliginously, fungicidally, insightfully, magnifically, syllabifying, wildfowlings. | |
| 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. | |
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