filling: Meaning and Definition of

fill•ing

1. an act or instance of filling.
2. something that is put in to fill something else: They used sand as filling for the depression.
3. a substance such as cement, amalgam, gold, or the like, used to fill a cavity caused by decay in a tooth.
4. a food mixture that goes into something, as if to fill it: sandwich filling; pie filling.
5. Also calledyarn carried by the shuttle and interlacing at right angles with the warp in woven cloth. See diag. under