Meaning of Filler | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A surname
2. A surname.
3. A subdenomination of the forint, 100 fillér = 1 forint; only used in calculations since 2000 due to the inflation.
4. One who fills.
5. Something added to fill a space or add weight or size.
6. Any semisolid substance used to fill gaps, cracks or pores.
7. A dermal filler, a substance injected beneath the skin to restore lost volume.
8. A relatively inert ingredient added to modify physical characteristics; a bulking agent.
9. A short article in a newspaper or magazine.
10. A short piece of music or an announcement between radio or TV programmes.
11. Any spoken sound or word used to fill gaps in speech; filled pause.
12. Cut tobacco used to make up the body of a cigar.
13. 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).
14. A plant that lacks a distinctive shape and can fill inconvenient spaces around other plants in pots or gardens.
15. Any standing tree or standard higher than the surrounding coppice in the form of forest known as "coppice under standards".
    plural-normally
16. 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.

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Examples

“They commonly have three, four, five, or six hewers or diggers, to four fillers, so as to keep the fillers always at work.”

“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[…]”

“A 50-year-old patient will come in, and suddenly, she’s super-skinny and needs filler, which she never needed before.”

“The word "filler" is taboo in the excipient world.”

“'Tis a meer filler; to ſtop a vacancy in the Hexameter, and connect the Preface to the Work of Virgil.”

“As the years go by, speech reverts to childhood levels of disfluency, with more pauses, more errors, more repeated words, but even the peak years are not great: up to 8 percent of the average person’s word output consists of meaningless fillers and placeholders like um, uh and er.”

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