filler
Syllables: fil·ler/ˈfɪləː/US/ˈfɪlɚ/
filler noun: one who fills.
Noun
filler (plural 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.1707, J[ohn] Mortimer, The Whole Art of Husbandry; or, The Way of Managing and Improving of Land. […], London: […] J[ohn] H[umphreys] for H[enry] Mortlock […], and J[onathan] Robinson […], →OCLC
- 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[…]1977, Stereo Review, volume 38, page 70
- 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.2023 January 24, Amy Synnott, quoting Dr. Frank, “Those Weight Loss Drugs May Do a Number on Your Face”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, archived from the original on 24 Jan 2023
- A relatively inert ingredient added to modify physical characteristics; a bulking agent.
- The word "filler" is taboo in the excipient world.2014 April, Ken Seufert, “The New Dawn of Pharmaceutical Manufacturing: Innovative Solutions for Unprecedented Challenges”, in American Pharmaceutical Review, 17(3):9
- 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.1697, Virgil, “Dedication”, in John Dryden, transl., The Works of Virgil: Containing His Pastorals, Georgics, and Æneis. […], London: […] Jacob Tonson, […], →OCLC
- 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.2007 August 24, William Grimes, “Uh, Lead My Rips: No More Bloopers”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 04 Jan 2013
- 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.2004, Christian David Hoard, Nathan Brackett (editors), The New Rolling Stone Album Guide, page 704
Proper noun capitalized: Filler
Filler (plural Fillers)
- A surname.
filler meaning in Hindi, Tamil and Urdu
filler in Hindi
- filler, filling
- भरता bhartā
filler in Tamil
- நிரப்பி, நிரப்புப் பொருள், அரத்தினால் உராய்தல், நிரப்புப்பொருள்
filler in Urdu
- بھرتی, کام چلاو, پر کرنے والا
Examples of filler in a sentence
- Two to four filler leaves are laid end to end and rolled into the two halves of the binder leaves, making up what is called the bunch.
- More starches as fillers, less costly than proteins, more money pocketed by the companies.
- Vaporizers not equipped with keyed fillers have been occasionally misfilled with the wrong anesthetic liquid.
Forms of filler
| Noun | |
|---|---|
| plural | fillers |
| Proper noun | |
| plural | Fillers |
| alternative form | Fillers |
Origin of filler
From fill + -er.
Words formed from filler
Phrases with filler
Words that rhyme with filler
Questions about filler
- What does filler mean?
- Filler means one who fills.
- What is filler in Hindi?
- Filler in Hindi is भरता (bhartā). See Filler meaning in Hindi.
- What part of speech is filler?
- Filler can be a noun or a proper noun.
- How do you pronounce filler?
- Filler is pronounced /ˈfɪləː/ (UK).
- What is the plural of filler?
- The plural of filler is fillers.
Words near filler in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: filler (page history and authors); Filler (page history and authors); भरता (Hindi) (page history and authors); filler (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); filler (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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