filler

名词 n.
中文释义
英 /ˈfɪləː/    美 /ˈfɪlɚ/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. One who fills.
    — They commonly have three, four, five, or six hewers or diggers, to four fillers, so as to keep the fillers always at work.
  2. Something added to fill a space or add weight or size.
    — I recommend this album in the face of the fact that five of the eleven songs are the purest filler, dull instrumentals with a harmonica rifling over an indifferent rhythm section. The rest is magnificent[…]
  3. Any semisolid substance used to fill gaps, cracks or pores.
  4. A dermal filler, a substance injected beneath the skin to restore lost volume.
    — A 50-year-old patient will come in, and suddenly, she’s super-skinny and needs filler, which she never needed before.
  5. A relatively inert ingredient added to modify physical characteristics; a bulking agent.
    — The word "filler" is taboo in the excipient world.
  6. A short article in a newspaper or magazine.
  7. A short piece of music or an announcement between radio or TV programmes.
  8. Any spoken sound or word used to fill gaps in speech; filled pause.
    — 'Tis a meer filler; to ſtop a vacancy in the Hexameter, and connect the Preface to the Work of Virgil.
  9. Cut tobacco used to make up the body of a cigar.
  10. 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).
  11. A plant that lacks a distinctive shape and can fill inconvenient spaces around other plants in pots or gardens.
  12. Any standing tree or standard higher than the surrounding coppice in the form of forest known as "coppice under standards". plural-normally
  13. A material of lower cost or quality that is used to fill a certain television time slot or physical medium, such as a music album.
    — With the exception of her movie soundtracks — Lady Sings the Blues, and its flashy renditions of Billie Holiday standards, and the much less interesting Mahogany — Ross' early-'70s albums mixed predictably strong hits and an overabundance of filler.

词形变化

fillers plural

词汇关系

衍生词
field filler filler cap filler episode filler phrase filler-upper filler word floor-filler nanofiller postfiller prefiller seat filler shelf filler spacefiller stocking filler

词源

Etymology tree
English fill
Proto-Indo-European *-yósder.
Proto-Italic *-āzijos
Latin -āriusnom.
Latin -āriusbor.
Proto-Germanic *-ārijaz
Proto-West Germanic *-ārī
Old English -ere
Middle English -ere
English -er
English filler
From fill + -er.
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