Filler

English

Noun

Filler (plural Fillers)

1. Something added to fill a space or add weight or size.
2. Any semisolid substance used to fill gaps, cracks or pores.
3. A relatively inert ingredient added to modify physical characteristics.
4. A short article in a newspaper or magazine.
5. A short piece of music or an announcement between radio or TV programmes.
6. Any spoken sound or word used to fill gaps in speech; filled pause.
7. Cut tobacco used to make up the body of a cigar.
8. (computing) In COBOL, the description of an unnamed part of a record that may contain no data.

Painting

1. Material used to fill the pores and grain of wood before painting

Thesaurus

IC analysis, appositive, attribute, attributive, bidet, bush, bushing, carriage horse, cart horse, cavalry horse, complement, construction modifier, cutting, deep structure, direct object, doubling, doublure, draft horse, dray horse, driving horse, facing, fill horse, filling, form-function unit, function, gigster, hack, hackney, hunter, immediate constituent analysis, indirect object, inlay, inlayer, insole, interlineation, jument, lead, leader, levels, liner, lining, modifier, mount, object, pack horse, packing, padding, palfrey, phrase structure, plow horse, pole horse, polo pony, post-horse, predicate, qualifier, ranks, remount, rider, riding horse, road horse, roadster, rouncy, saddle horse, saddler, shaft horse, shallow structure, slot, slot and filler, stalking-horse, strata, structure, stuffing, subject, sumpter, sumpter horse, surface structure, syntactic analysis, syntactic structure, syntactics, syntax, tagmeme, thill horse, thiller, underlying structure, wadding, wainscot, wheeler, wheelhorse, word arrangement, word order, workhorse

Etymology

to fill + -er

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -ɪlə(r)

Anagrams

• refill