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# 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 →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/filling/#m1)

2) (noun) A filling is the material a dentist puts into a hole in a tooth. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/filling/#m2)

3) (noun) Filling is also the soft material inside cushions, pillows and toys. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/filling/#m3)

4) (adjective) Filling food makes you feel full quickly. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/filling/#m4)

5) (verb) Filling is the -ing form of «fill»: putting something into a container until it is full. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/filling/#m5)

### 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 →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/filling/#x1)
- I had a filling at the dentist because I ate too many sweets. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/filling/#x2)
- Porridge is very filling. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/filling/#x3)
- She is filling the bath with warm water. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/filling/#x4)
- The teddy's filling came out of a hole. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/filling/#x5)
- A tap filling a tank at 5 litres per minute fills 60 litres in 12 minutes. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/filling/#x6)
- Please finish filling in your form. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/filling/#x7)
- He found there a little old woman busily occupied in filling great barrels with water. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/filling/#x8)

### 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.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/75-the-dentist-and-washing-hands/6/)
- [A girl in Sydney drank fizzy drinks instead of water every day; she had fillings in four teeth before she was ten.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/80-sleep-and-healthy-eating/20/)
- [Unplug a kettle before filling it, fill it only to the line and keep its cord away from the edge.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/107-oven-hob-kettle-toaster-and-dishwasher/8/)
- [A grown-up can help clear your watch history, so the app stops filling your list with the same kind of video.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/423-older-siblings-and-youtube-gameplay/22/)
- [In Europa Universalis 5, colonising looks like filling empty provinces with settlers.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/14-latin-america-and-the-caribbean/3/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «filling» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/filling/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.