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filler¹
- /ˈfɪləː/ UK
- /ˈfɪlɚ/ Canadian, US, Standard
Rhymes with -ɪlə(ɹ)
noun fillers
- One who fills. They commonly have three, four, five, or six hewers or diggers, to four fillers, so as to keep the fillers always at work.
- Something added to fill a space or add weight or size. 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[…]
- Any semisolid substance used to fill gaps, cracks or pores.
- A dermal filler, a substance injected beneath the skin to restore lost volume. A 50-year-old patient will come in, and suddenly, she’s super-skinny and needs filler, which she never needed before.
- A relatively inert ingredient added to modify physical characteristics; a bulking agent. The word "filler" is taboo in the excipient world.
- 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. 'Tis a meer filler; to ſtop a vacancy in the Hexameter, and connect the Preface to the Work of Virgil.
- Cut tobacco used to make up the body of a cigar.
- 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).
- A plant that lacks a distinctive shape and can fill inconvenient spaces around other plants in pots or gardens.
- Any standing tree or standard higher than the surrounding coppice in the form of forest known as "coppice under standards".
- A material of lower cost or quality that is used to fill a certain television time slot or physical medium, such as a music album. With the exception of her movie soundtracks — Lady Sings the Blues, and its flashy renditions of Billie Holiday standards, and the much less interesting Mahogany — Ross' early-'70s albums mixed predictably strong hits and an overabundance of filler.
Filler²
Rhymes with -ɪlə(ɹ)
proper noun Fillers
- A surname.
Thesaurus
Closest in meaning: makeweight, fill, infill, burden, load, leader, backfilling, backfill, filling, refill, refilling, trim, packing, garnish, tab, pad
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noun something added to fill a space
| 日本語 | フィラー firā |
|---|---|
| Français | filler |
| Русский | наполнитель napolnitel' |
noun substance used to fill gaps, cracks, pores
| Deutsch | Spachtelmasse, Füllmasse |
|---|
noun a relatively inert ingredient added to modify physical characteristics
| Português | preenchimento |
|---|---|
| Ελληνικά | σφράγισμα sfrágisma |
noun any spoken sound or word used to fill gaps in speech; filled pause
| Español | muletilla, latiguillo, estribillo, bordón, bordoncillo, cantaleta |
|---|---|
| 日本語 | フィラー firā |
| Deutsch | Füllwort |
| Русский | слово-паразит slovo-parazit |
Talk about this word "filler." Wiktionary, via Micwyn, micwyn.com/word/filler. Accessed 6 Nov. 2026. filler. (n.d.). In Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Retrieved November 6, 2026, from https://micwyn.com/word/filler "filler." Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Accessed November 6, 2026. https://micwyn.com/word/filler.Cite this
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title = {filler},
howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
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