filler
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
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Etymology: Etymology tree
English fill
Proto-Indo-European *-yósder.
Proto-Italic *-āzijos
Latin -āriusnom.
Latin -āriusbor.
Proto-Germanic *-ārijaz
Proto-West Germanic *-ārī
Old English -ere
Middle English -ere
English -er
English filler
From fill + -er.
Inflected forms:
form: fillers
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: One who fills.
pos: noun
examples: They commonly have three, four, five, or six hewers or diggers, to four fillers, so as to keep the fillers always at work.
gloss: Something added to fill a space or add weight or size.
pos: noun
examples: 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[…]
gloss: Any semisolid substance used to fill gaps, cracks or pores.
pos: noun
gloss: A dermal filler, a substance injected beneath the skin to restore lost volume.
pos: noun
examples: A 50-year-old patient will come in, and suddenly, she’s super-skinny and needs filler, which she never needed before.
gloss: A relatively inert ingredient added to modify physical characteristics; a bulking agent.
pos: noun
examples: The word "filler" is taboo in the excipient world.
gloss: A short article in a newspaper or magazine.
pos: noun
gloss: A short piece of music or an announcement between radio or TV programmes.
pos: noun
gloss: Any spoken sound or word used to fill gaps in speech; filled pause.
pos: noun
examples: '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.
gloss: Cut tobacco used to make up the body of a cigar.
pos: noun
gloss: 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).
pos: noun
gloss: A plant that lacks a distinctive shape and can fill inconvenient spaces around other plants in pots or gardens.
pos: noun
gloss: Any standing tree or standard higher than the surrounding coppice in the form of forest known as "coppice under standards".
pos: noun
tags: plural-normally
gloss: 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.
pos: noun
examples: 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.
Derived words: field filler
filler cap
filler episode
filler phrase
filler-upper
filler word
floor-filler
nanofiller
postfiller
prefiller
seat filler
shelf filler
spacefiller
stocking filler
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