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fillers

/ˈfɪlɚz/

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noun

Examples :

"At the bottling plant, the workers whose job was to operate the machines making sure they kept liquids flowing were known as the fillers. "

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Something added to fill a space or add weight or size.

Examples :

"The artist used paper scraps and small pebbles as fillers in the sculpture to give it more volume. "

material substance

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Any semisolid substance used to fill gaps, cracks or pores.

Examples :

"The painter used fillers to patch the small holes in the wall before painting it. "

material substance

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A relatively inert ingredient added to modify physical characteristics.

Examples :

"The manufacturer added fillers like wood pulp to the paper to make it cheaper and thicker. "

material substance

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A short article in a newspaper or magazine.

Examples :

"The newspaper used short, funny anecdotes as fillers to make the pages look less empty. "

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A short piece of music or an announcement between radio or TV programmes.

Examples :

"The radio station played short musical fillers between news segments to keep the audience entertained. "

media entertainment music sound communication

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Any spoken sound or word used to fill gaps in speech; filled pause.

Examples :

""The student used a lot of fillers like 'um' and 'uh' during his presentation because he was nervous." "

language phonetics communication word linguistics sound

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Cut tobacco used to make up the body of a cigar.

Examples :

"The cigar maker carefully chose the fillers, ensuring they would burn evenly and contribute to the cigar's overall flavor. "

material substance agriculture

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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).

Examples :

"In the COBOL program's data structure for student records, some unused spaces were defined as `FILLERS` to allow for future expansion, even though these `FILLERS` currently hold no student information. "

computing technical technology word structure system language

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A plant that lacks a distinctive shape and can fill inconvenient spaces around other plants in pots or gardens.

Examples :

"The gardener planted low-growing petunias as fillers to cover the bare soil between the taller roses. "

plant agriculture nature

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(usually in the plural) Any standing tree or standard higher than the surrounding coppice in the form of forest known as "coppice under standards".

Examples :

"In the ancient woodland, the fillers, taller and older than the regularly cut coppice growth around them, provided a continuous canopy and a source of larger timber. "

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