• IPA: /ˈfɪlɪŋ/
  • (America) IPA: [ˈfɪɫɪŋ]

1. Present participle and gerund of fill

filling

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

   a filling meal

   • 1925-29, Mahadev Desai (translator), Mahatma Gandhi, The Story of My Experiments with Truth, Part I, chapter xiv:

     We had oatmeal porridge for breakfast, which was fairly filling, but I always starved at lunch and dinner. My friend continually reasoned with me to eat meat, but I always pleaded my vow and then remained silent.

• French: consistant
• German: sättigend, mächtig
• Russian: сы́тный

filling (plural fillings)

1. Anything that is used to fill something.
2. The contents of a pie, etc.
3. (dentistry) Any material used to fill a cavity in a tooth or the result of using such material.

   Synonyms: stopping

   I will be using a rapid-setting cement filling.

   My temporary filling fell out and got lost.

4. The woof in woven fabrics.
5. Prepared wort added to ale to cleanse it.
6. (Protestantism) A religious experience attributed to the Holy Ghost "filling" a believer. [since late 19th or early 20th c.]
   • 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.

   Synonyms: enduement, second baptism

• German: Füllung
• Portuguese: enchimento
• Russian: наполне́ние

• French: farce
• German: Füllung
• Italian: ripieno
• Portuguese: recheio
• Russian: начи́нка

• French: plombage
• German: Füllung
• Italian: impiombatura, otturazione
• Portuguese: obturação, chumbo
• Russian: пло́мба
• Spanish: empaste, tapadura, relleno