filling

«filling» in Mova's school dictionary: the food inside a pie, sandwich, cake or pastry — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

part of speech

noun (a filling, fillings); verb form (-ing form of fill: fill, fills, filled, filling); adjective (filling)

meaning for a pupil

1) (noun) A filling is the food inside a pie, sandwich, cake or pastry. tree →

2) (noun) A filling is the material a dentist puts into a hole in a tooth. tree →

3) (noun) Filling is also the soft material inside cushions, pillows and toys. tree →

4) (adjective) Filling food makes you feel full quickly. tree →

5) (verb) Filling is the -ing form of «fill»: putting something into a container until it is full. tree →

sense in the lessons

In everyday life it appears with food and the dentist. In maths problems about capacity, filling tanks, jugs and baths is a common topic: rates like «filling at 5 litres a minute». Phrases: sandwich filling, a filling at the dentist, filling up, filling in a form.

examples

• My favourite sandwich filling is cheese and pickle. tree →
• I had a filling at the dentist because I ate too many sweets. tree →
• Porridge is very filling. tree →
• She is filling the bath with warm water. tree →
• The teddy's filling came out of a hole. tree →
• A tap filling a tank at 5 litres per minute fills 60 litres in 12 minutes. tree →
• Please finish filling in your form. tree →
• He found there a little old woman busily occupied in filling great barrels with water. tree →

note

Countable noun: a filling, fillings. «Fill in» (UK) / «fill out» (US) a form = write answers in it. In maths: time to fill = capacity ÷ rate (60 ÷ 5 = 12 minutes).

In the corpora

• A filling fixes a hole in a tooth so it does not get bigger and hurt more.
• A girl in Sydney drank fizzy drinks instead of water every day; she had fillings in four teeth before she was ten.
• Unplug a kettle before filling it, fill it only to the line and keep its cord away from the edge.
• A grown-up can help clear your watch history, so the app stops filling your list with the same kind of video.
• In Europa Universalis 5, colonising looks like filling empty provinces with settlers.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «filling» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.