filling

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   a dental appliance consisting of any of various substances, such as metal or plastic, inserted into a prepared cavity in a tooth

   When they yawned I could see the gold fillings in their teeth.

2. 2
   adj

   Of food, that satisfies the appetite by filling the stomach.

   a filling meal

3. 3
   noun

   Any material used to fill a cavity in a tooth or the result of using such material.

   I will be using a rapid-setting cement filling.

4. 4
   noun

   A religious experience attributed to the Holy Ghost "filling" a believer.

   1903, William Edward Biederwolf, A Help to the Study of the Holy Spirit, James H. Earle & Company (publ.), page 100. As learned Dr. Hodge has reminded us, any impartation of the Holy Spirit is a baptism, and certainly, apart from biblical phraseology, a filling with the Spirit may be called a baptism with the Spirit.

5. 5
   noun

   the act of filling something

6. 6
   noun

   the yarn woven across the warp yarn in weaving

7. 7
   noun

   a food mixture used to fill pastry or sandwiches etc.

8. 8
   noun

   flow into something (as a container)