Meaning of Filler | Babel Free
ˈfɪlə(ɹ)Definitions
- A surname
- A surname.
- A subdenomination of the forint, 100 fillér = 1 forint; only used in calculations since 2000 due to the inflation.
- One who fills.
- Something added to fill a space or add weight or size.
- Any semisolid substance used to fill gaps, cracks or pores.
- A dermal filler, a substance injected beneath the skin to restore lost volume.
- A relatively inert ingredient added to modify physical characteristics; a bulking agent.
- 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.
- 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.
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Any standing tree or standard higher than the surrounding coppice in the form of forest known as "coppice under standards". plural-normally
- 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.
Equivalents
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.”
CEFR level
B1
Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B1 vocabulary — intermediate level.
This word is part of the CEFR B1 vocabulary — intermediate level.
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