filling (noun)
1filling — ► NOUN ▪ a quantity or piece of material that fills or is used to fill something. ► ADJECTIVE ▪ (of food) leaving one with a pleasantly satiated feeling …
2filling station — noun a service station that sells gasoline (Freq. 2) • Syn: ↑gasoline station, ↑gas station, ↑petrol station • Hypernyms: ↑service station * * * noun, pl ⋯ tions [count] : ↑ …
3filling — verbal noun from FILL (Cf. fill) (v.). Dentistry sense is from 1848. Filling station attested by 1921 …
4filling — noun Date: 14th century 1. an act or instance of filling 2. something used to fill a cavity, container, or depression 3. something that completes: as a. the yarn interlacing the warp in a fabric; also yarn for the shuttle b. a food mixture used… …
5filling station — noun facility which sells fuel and lubricants for motor vehicles. 1948 mdash; Here and there, under the porches of ruined filling stations, in the gaping doorways of office buildings, lie heaps of human bones. mdash; Aldous Huxley, Ape and… …
6filling station — filling ,station noun count a GAS STATION …
7filling station — ► NOUN ▪ a petrol station …
8filling fork — noun : a loom feeler that actuates a stop motion when filling yarn breaks or is not properly laid …
9filling notch — noun or filling slot : an opening cut into the shoulders of a ball bearing to permit introduction of the balls …
10filling slot — noun see filling notch …
