Webster's Unabridged Dictionary - Letter F

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Filing (n.) 銼，銼削 [U]；銼屑 [P]；file的動詞現在分詞、動名詞 A fragment or particle rubbed off by the act of filing; as, iron filings.

Filing (n.) The entering of a legal document into the public record; "he filed a complaint"; "he filed his tax return".

Filing (n.) A fragment rubbed off by the use of a file.

Filing (n.) The act of using a file (as in shaping or smoothing an object).

Filing (n.) Preservation and methodical arrangement as of documents and papers etc.; "I have some filing to do."

Filipendulous (a.) (Bot.) Suspended by, or strung upon, a thread; -- said of tuberous swellings in the middle or at the extremities of slender, threadlike rootlets.

Fill (n.) One of the thills or shafts of a carriage. -- Mortimer.

Fill horse, A thill horse. -- Shak.

Filled (imp. & p. p.) of Fill.

Filling (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Fill.

Fill (v. t.) To make full; to supply with as much as can be held or contained; to put or pour into, till no more can be received; to occupy the whole capacity of.

The rain also filleth the pools. -- Ps. lxxxiv. 6.

Jesus saith unto them, Fill the waterpots with water. Anf they filled them up to the brim. -- John ii. 7.

Fill (v. t.) To furnish an abudant supply to; to furnish with as mush as is desired or desirable; to occupy the whole of; to swarm in or overrun.

And God blessed them, saying. Be fruitful, and multiply, and fill the waters in the seas. -- Gen. i. 22.

The Syrians filled the country. -- 1 Kings xx. 27.

Fill (v. t.) To fill or supply fully with food; to feed; to satisfy.

Whence should we have so much bread in the wilderness, as to fillso great a multitude? -- Matt. xv. 33.

Things that are sweet and fat are more filling.-- Bacon.

Fill (v. t.) To possess and perform the duties of; to officiate in, as an incumbent; to occupy; to hold; as, a king fills a throne; the president fills the office of chief magistrate; the speaker of the House fills the chair.

Fill (v. t.) To supply with an incumbent; as, to fill an office or a vacancy. -- A. Hamilton.

Fill (v. t.) (Naut.) To press and dilate, as a sail; as, the wind filled the sails.

Fill (v. t.) (Naut.) To trim (a yard) so that the wind shall blow on the after side of the sails.

Fill (v. t.) (Civil Engineering) To make an embankment in, or raise the level of (a low place), with earth or gravel.

To fill in, To insert; as, he filled in the figures.

To fill out, To extend or enlarge to the desired limit; to make complete; as, to fill out a bill.

To fill up, To make quite full; to fill to the brim or entirely; to occupy completely; to complete. "The bliss that fills up all the mind." -- Pope. "And fill up that which is behind of the afflictions of Christ." -- Col. i. 24.

Fill (v. i.) To become full; to have the whole capacity occupied; to have an abundant supply; to be satiated; as, corn fills well in a warm season; the sail fills with the wind.

Fill (v. i.) To fill a cup or glass for drinking.

Give me some wine; fill full. -- Shak.

To back and fill. See under Back, v. i.

To fill up, To grow or become quite full; as, the channel of the river fills up with sand.

Fill (n.) A full supply, as much as supplies want; as much as gives complete satisfaction. "Ye shall eat your fill." -- Lev. xxv. 19.

I'll bear thee hence, where I may weep my fill. -- Shak.

Fill (n.) That which fills; filling; filler; specif., an embankment, as in railroad construction, to fill a hollow or ravine; also, the place which is to be filled.

Fill (n.) A quantity sufficient to satisfy; "he ate his fill of potatoes"; "she had heard her fill of gossip".

Fill (n.) Any material that fills a space or container; "there was not enough fill for the trench" [syn: filling, fill].

Fill (v.) Make full, also in a metaphorical sense; "fill a container"; "fill the child with pride" [syn: fill, fill up, make full] [ant: empty].

Fill (v.) Become full; "The pool slowly filled with water"; "The theater filled up slowly" [syn: fill, fill up] [ant: discharge, empty].

Fill (v.) Occupy the whole of; "The liquid fills the container" [syn: occupy, fill].

Fill (v.) Assume, as of positions or roles; "She took the job as director of development"; "he occupies the position of manager"; "the young prince will soon occupy the throne" [syn: fill, take, occupy].

Fill (v.) Fill or meet a want or need [syn: meet, satisfy, fill, fulfill, fulfil].

Fill (v.) Appoint someone to (a position or a job).

Fill (v.) Eat until one is sated; "He filled up on turkey" [syn: fill up, fill].

Fill (v.) Fill to satisfaction; "I am sated" [syn: satiate, sate, replete, fill].

Fill (v.) Plug with a substance; "fill a cavity".

Filler (n.) One who, or that which, fills; something used for filling.

'T is mere filler, to stop a vacancy in the hexameter. -- Dryden.

They have six diggers to four fillers, so as to keep the fillers always at work. -- Mortimer.

Filler (n.) (Paint.) A composition, as of powdered silica and oil, used to fill the pores and grain of wood before applying paint, varnish, etc.

Filler (n.) (Forestry) Any standing tree or standard higher than the surrounding coppice in the form of forest known as coppice under standards. Chiefly used in the pl.

Filler (n.) A thill horse. [Prov. Eng.]

Filler (n.) Used for filling cracks or holes in a surface.

Filler (n.) 100 filler equal 1 forint in Hungary.

Filler (n.) Copy to fill space between more important articles in the layout of a magazine or newspaper.

Filler (n.) Anything added to fill out a whole; "some of the items in the collection are mere makeweights" [syn: makeweight, filler].

Filler (n.) The tobacco used to form the core of a cigar.

Fillet (n.) A little band, especially one intended to encircle the hair of the head.

A belt her waist, a fillet binds her hair. -- Pope.

Fillet (n.) (Cooking) A piece of lean meat without bone; sometimes, a long strip rolled together and tied.

Note: A fillet of beef is the under side of the sirlom; also called tenderloin. A fillet of veal or mutton is the fleshy part of the thigh. A fillet of fish is a slice of flat fish without bone. "Fillet of a fenny snake." -- Shak.

Fillet (n.) A thin strip or ribbon; esp.:

Fillet (n.) (a) A strip of metal from which coins are punched.

Fillet (n.) (b) A strip of card clothing.

Fillet (n.) (c) A thin projecting band or strip.

Fillet (n.) (Mach.) A concave filling in of a reentrant angle where two surfaces meet, forming a rounded corner.

Fillet (n.) (Arch.) A narrow flat member; especially, a flat molding separating other moldings; a reglet; also, the space between two flutings in a shaft. See Illust. of Base, and Column.

Fillet (n.) (Her.) An ordinary equaling in breadth one fourth of the chief, to the lowest portion of which it corresponds in position.

Fillet (n.) (Mech.) The thread of a screw.

Fillet (n.) A border of broad or narrow lines of color or gilt.

Fillet (n.) The raised molding about the muzzle of a gun.

Fillet (n.) Any scantling smaller than a batten.

Fillet (n.) (Anat.) A fascia; a band of fibers; applied esp. to certain bands of white matter in the brain.

Fillet (n.) (Man.) The loins of a horse, beginning at the place where the hinder part of the saddle rests.

Arris fillet. See under Arris.

Filleted (imp. & p. p.) of Fillet.

Filleting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Fillet.

Fillet (v. t.) To bind, furnish, or adorn with a fillet.

Fillet (n.) A boneless steak cut from the tenderloin of beef [syn: fillet, filet].

Fillet (n.) A longitudinal slice or boned side of a fish [syn: fillet, filet, fish fillet, fish filet].

Fillet (n.) A bundle of sensory nerve fibers going to the thalamus [syn: lemniscus, fillet].

Fillet (n.) A narrow headband or strip of ribbon worn as a headband [syn: taenia, tenia, fillet].

Fillet (n.) Fastener consisting of a narrow strip of welded metal used to join steel members [syn: fillet, stopping].

Fillet (v.) Decorate with a lace of geometric designs [syn: fillet, filet].

Fillet (v.) Cut into filets; "filet the fish" [syn: fillet, filet].

Filleting (n.) (Arch.) The protecting of a joint, as between roof and parapet wall, with mortar, or cement, where flashing is employed in better work.

Filleting (n.) The material of which fillets are made; also, fillets, collectively.

Fillibeg (n.) A kilt. See Filibeg.

Fillibuster (n.) See Filibuster.

Filling (n.) That which is used to fill a cavity or any empty space, or to supply a deficiency; as, filling for a cavity in a tooth, a depression in a roadbed, the space between exterior and interior walls of masonry, the pores of open-grained wood, the space between the outer and inner planks of a vessel, etc.

Filling (n.) The woof in woven fabrics.

Filling (n.) (Brewing) Prepared wort added to ale to cleanse it.

Back filling. (Arch.) See under Back, a.

Filling (n.) Any material that fills a space or container; "there was not enough fill for the trench" [syn: filling, fill].

Filling (n.) Flow into something (as a container).

Filling (n.) A food mixture used to fill pastry or sandwiches etc..

Filling (n.) The yarn woven across the warp yarn in weaving [syn: woof, weft, filling, pick].

Filling (n.) (Dentistry) A dental appliance consisting of any of various substances (as metal or plastic) inserted into a prepared cavity in a tooth; "when he yawned I could see the gold fillings in his teeth"; "an informal British term for `filling' is `stopping'".

Filling (n.) The act of filling something.

Filliped (imp. & p. p.) of Fillip.

Filliping (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Fillip.

Fillip (v. t.) To strike with the nail of the finger, first placed against the ball of the thumb, and forced from that position with a sudden spring; to snap with the finger. "You fillip me o' the head." -- Shak.

Fillip (v. t.) To snap; to project quickly.

The use of the elastic switch to fillip small missiles with. -- Tylor.

Fillip (n.) A jerk of the finger forced suddenly from the thumb; a smart blow.

Fillip (n.) Something serving to rouse or excite.

I take a glass of grog for a filip. -- Dickens.

Fillip (n.) Anything that tends to arouse; "his approval was an added fillip" [syn: bonus, fillip].

Compare: Philopena

Philopena (n.) A present or gift which is made as a forfeit in a social game that is played in various ways; also, the game itself. [Written also fillipeen and phillippine.]

Note: One of the ways may be stated as follows: A person finding a nut with two kernels eats one, and gives the other to a person of the opposite sex, and then whichever says philopena first at the next meeting wins the present. The name is also applied to the kernels eaten. Philopolemic

Fillipeen (n.) See Philopena.

Fillister (n.) The rabbet on the outer edge of a sash bar to hold the glass and the putty. -- Knight.

Fillister (n.) A plane for making a rabbet.

Fillister screw had, a short cylindrical screw head, having a convex top.

Fillies (n. pl. ) of Filly.

Filly (n.) (Zool.) A female foal or colt; a young mare. Cf. Colt, Foal.

Neighing in likeness of a filly foal. -- Shak.

Filly (n.) A lively, spirited young girl. [Colloq.] -- Addison.

Filly (n.) A young female horse under the age of four.

Film (n.) A thin skin; a pellicle; a membranous covering, causing opacity.

He from thick films shall purge the visual ray. -- Pope.

Film (n.) hence, any thin layer covering a surface.

Film (n.) A slender thread, as that of a cobweb.

Her whip of cricket's bone, the lash of film. -- Shak.

Film (n.) (Photog.) The layer, usually of gelatin or collodion, containing the sensitive salts of photographic plates.

Film (n.) (Photog.) A flexible sheet of celluloid or other plastic material to which a light-sensitive layer has been applied, used for recording images by the processes of photography. It is commonly used in rolls mounted within light-proof canisters suitable for simple insertion into cameras designed for such canisters. On such rolls, varying numbers of photographs may be taken before the canister needs to be replaced.

Film (n.) A motion picture.

Film (n.) the art of making motion pictures; -- used mostly in the phrase the film.

Film (n.) A thin transparent sheet of plastic, used for wrapping objects; as, polyethylene film.

Celluloid film (Photog.), A thin flexible sheet of celluloid, coated with a sensitized emulsion of gelatin, and used as a substitute for photographic plates.

Cut film (Photog.), A celluloid film cut into pieces suitable for use in a camera.

Film (v. t.) To cover with a thin skin or pellicle.

It will but skin and film the ulcerous place. -- Shak.

Film (v. t.) to make a motion picture of (any event or literary work); to record with a movie camera; as, to film the inauguration ceremony; to film Dostoevsky's Crime and Punishment; or Tolstoy's War and Peace.

Film (n.) A form of entertainment that enacts a story by sound and a sequence of images giving the illusion of continuous movement; "they went to a movie every Saturday night"; "the film was shot on location" [syn: movie, film, picture, moving picture, moving-picture show, motion picture, motion-picture show, picture show, pic, flick].

Film (n.) A medium that disseminates moving pictures; "theater pieces transferred to celluloid"; "this story would be good cinema"; "film coverage of sporting events" [syn: film, cinema, celluloid].

Film (n.) Photographic material consisting of a base of celluloid covered with a photographic emulsion; used to make negatives or transparencies [syn: film, photographic film].

Film (n.) A thin coating or layer; "the table was covered with a film of dust."

Film (n.) A thin sheet of (usually plastic and usually transparent) material used to wrap or cover things [syn: film, plastic film].

Film (v.) Make a film or photograph of something; "take a scene"; "shoot a movie" [syn: film, shoot, take].

Film (v.) Record in film; "The coronation was filmed."

Filminess (n.) State of being filmy.

Filmy (a.) Composed of film or films.

Whose filmy cord should bind the struggling fly. -- Dryden.

Filmy (a.) So thin as to transmit light; "a hat with a diaphanous veil"; "filmy wings of a moth"; "gauzy clouds of dandelion down"; "gossamer cobwebs"; "sheer silk stockings"; "transparent chiffon"; "vaporous silks" [syn: diaphanous, filmy, gauzy, gauze-like, gossamer, see-through, sheer, transparent, vaporous, vapourous, cobwebby].

Filoplumaceous (a.) (Zool.) Having the structure of a filoplume.

Filoplume (n.) A hairlike feather; a father with a slender scape and without a web in most or all of its length.

Filose (a.) Terminating in a threadlike process.

Filter (n.) Any porous substance, as cloth, paper, sand, or charcoal, through which water or other liquid may passed to cleanse it from the solid or impure matter held in suspension; a chamber or device containing such substance; a strainer; also, a similar device for purifying air.

Filter bed, A pond, the bottom of which is a filter composed of sand gravel.

Filter gallery, An underground gallery or tunnel, alongside of a stream, to collect the water that filters through the intervening sand and gravel; -- called also infiltration gallery.

Filtered (imp. & p. p.) of Filter.

Filtering (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Filter.

Filter (v. t.) To purify or defecate, as water or other liquid, by causing it to pass through a filter.

Filtering paper, or Filter paper, A porous unsized paper, for filtering.

Filter (v. i.) To pass through a filter; to percolate.

Filter (n.) Same as Philter.

Filter (n.) Device that removes something from whatever passes through it.

Filter (n.) An electrical device that alters the frequency spectrum of signals passing through it.

Filter (v.) Remove by passing through a filter; "filter out the impurities" [syn: filter, filtrate, strain, separate out, filter out].

Filter (v.) Pass through; "Water permeates sand easily" [syn: percolate, sink in, permeate, filter].

Filter (v.) Run or flow slowly, as in drops or in an unsteady stream; “water trickled onto the lawn from the broken hose”; “reports began to dribble in” [syn: trickle, dribble, filter].

Filter (n.) [very common; orig. Unix] A program that processes an input data stream into an output data stream in some well-defined way, and does no I/O to anywhere else except possibly on error conditions; one designed to be used as a stage in a pipeline (see plumbing). Compare sponge.

Filter, () (Originally Unix, now also MS-DOS) A program that processes an input data stream into an output data stream in some well-defined way, and does no I/O to anywhere else except possibly on error conditions; one designed to be used as a stage in a pipeline (see plumbing). Compare sponge.

Filter, () ({functional programming) A higher-order function which takes a predicate and a list and returns those elements of the list for which the predicate is true. In Haskell:

filter p [] = []

filter p (x:xs) = if p x then x : rest else rest where

rest = filter p xs