单词 | filler |
释义 | fillern.1 1. a. One who or that which fills: in various senses of the verb, spec. in Mining. ΘΚΠ the world > space > place > presence > fact of taking up space > [noun] > filling > one who or that which fills filler1496 society > occupation and work > worker > workers according to type of work > manual or industrial worker > miner > [noun] > coal-miner > who works with trams, tubs, etc. coal putter1708 foal1770 onsetter1789 putter1812 headsman1813 trapper1815 thruster1825 trammer1839 train boy1852 tram1856 hanger-on1858 tipper1861 hooker-on?1881 jiggerer?1881 hitcher1890 tub-loader1891 haulier1892 tilter1892 unhooker1892 flatter1894 jagger1900 thrutcher1901 tram-boy1904 filler1921 1496 in W. H. Stevenson Rec. Borough Nottingham (1885) III. 291 To þe fillers þat filled grauell at Trent side. ?1541 R. Copland Guy de Chauliac's Questyonary Cyrurgyens i. sig. Aiv The fyller and nouryssher of the other. a1642 H. Best Farming & Memorandum Bks. (1984) 62 Hee that forketh the waine is to stande on the stacke [? waine] and forke them to the stacker and filler. 1755 E. Young Centaur in Wks. (1762) IV. 197 Centre of all good! Filler of immensity! 1816 Ld. Byron Let. 5 Jan. (1976) V. 14 The 1500 fillers of hot rooms, called the fashionable world. 1883 W. S. Gresley Gloss. Terms Coal Mining Filler, one who fills at a working place or in a stall. 1886 Pall Mall Gaz. 5 Oct. 14/1 The peaches come in large pans, and each ‘filler’ selects with a fork only the perfect halves. 1921 Dict. Occup. Terms (1927) §042 Filler.., shovels coal into trams or tubs or upon conveyor at coal face. 1928 Observer 12 Feb. 21/4 The full effect of the reduction will be felt only by the hewers, fillers, and a few others. 1955 Times 3 May 10/1 The unofficial miners' strike in the Doncaster area arises out of dissatisfaction with the pay of fillers (the men who load coal on the conveyor belts). b. Scottish. A funnel. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > equipment > other specific types of equipment > [noun] > funnel tunner1337 tunder1343 tundish1388 funnel1402 tunnela1529 fundible1579 funible1654 infundible1657 filler1782 1782 J. Sinclair Observ. Sc. Dial. 118 A filler, a funnel. 1847 in J. Craig New Universal Dict. c. A filling machine or apparatus. Also attributive, as filler cap, the cap closing the pipe leading to the petrol tank of a motor vehicle; filler hose, the hose of a petrol pump at a garage. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > equipment > other specific types of equipment > [noun] > packing, stuffing, or filling equipment pack-sheet1533 packing sheet1545 packer1846 shim1860 parcelling machine1875 stuffer1875 woolpacker1875 filler1895 bagger1896 shimmer- society > travel > means of travel > a conveyance > vehicle > powered vehicle > parts and equipment of motor vehicles > [noun] > fuel tank > filler cap filler cap1927 society > travel > means of travel > a conveyance > vehicle > powered vehicle > testing, servicing, and storage of motor vehicles > [noun] > service station > parts of > parts of pump filler hose1962 1895 Army & Navy Co-op. Soc. Price List 15 Sept. 252/2 Boiler Fillers, galvanized, 2 gall. 1895 Army & Navy Co-op. Soc. Price List 15 Sept. 309 Oil Fillers, 1 pint. 1901 Daily Chron. 10 Sept. 9/1 Mineral Waters.—Experienced respectable young man, accustomed Riley's filler. 1927 D. L. Sayers Unnatural Death xi. 132 ‘Blew through the filler-cap,’ said his lordship with a grin. ‘Air-lock in the feed, old son, that's all.’ 1962 Which? Car Suppl. Oct. 139/2 Petrol filler hoses had damaged the paint finish..and the paintwork was discoloured next to the filler cap. 2. Something used to fill a cavity, stop a gap, complete a load or charge, make bulk or to bring something to a required solidity, etc. ΘΚΠ the world > space > place > presence > fact of taking up space > [noun] > filling > filling of vacant space > that which serves to filler1591 filling1597 filler-up1710 packing1779 upfilling1822 fill-up1853 infilling1871 filler-in1877 space-filler1886 infill1939 microballoon1954 fill1957 society > leisure > the arts > literature > style of language or writing > copiousness > [noun] > action of padding > matter used as padding > expletive expletivec1450 filler1697 expletion1775 society > occupation and work > materials > derived or manufactured material > cement or mortar > [noun] > material resembling cement > fillers for wood or metal plastic wood1866 beaumontage1888 filler1904 Polyfilla1956 1591 R. Greene Notable Discouery of Coosenage f. 14 Laying in the mouth of their sacke certaine great choise coales, which they call Fillers, to make the sacke shew faire. 1697 J. Dryden Ded. Æneis in tr. Virgil Wks. sig. f3 [An Epithet] 'Tis is a meer filler; to stop a vacancy in the Hexameter. 1867 W. H. Smyth & E. Belcher Sailor's Word-bk. Filler, a filling piece on a made mast. 1874 Congress. Rec. 10 Jan. 558/1 They will not give beyond so much for a certain class of fillers and a certain class of wrapper. 1884 Pall Mall Gaz. 17 May 4 A cigar consists of three parts, the wrapper, the bunch, and the filler. 1885 Harper's Mag. Mar. 608/2 It consists of..marble blocks inclosing a ‘filler’ of cemented granite stones. 1895 Street Railway Jrnl. Apr. 252 ‘Filler’ wire strand, consisting of 19 wires of the same size with the small wires inserted so as to make the outer wires of the strand tangent to the circumscribed circle. 1904 G. F. Goodchild & C. F. Tweney Technol. & Sci. Dict. 221/1 Filling up, the process of bringing a surface to a level before painting or between the application of the coats... A good filler for a plastered surface is made by mixing fine plaster of Paris, whiting, and warm size... A paste filler..is used to fill the grain of the wood. 1904 Electr. Rev. 11 Sept. 450 (Cent. Dict. Suppl.) The floor framing consists of six sills, the four centre ones being six-inch ‘I’ beams with wood fillers extending the entire length of car. 1913 Writer's Mag. Dec. 247/1 Fillers of a few hundred words in this field..are desirable in this department. 1916 J. W. Toumey Seeding & Planting 70 The original cost of the seeding or planting can be materially reduced by the use of so-called fillers, i.e. inexpensive species which serve to occupy a portion of the area, but which are removed in the early thinnings. 1930 Engineering 25 Apr. 545/3 The effects of trass as a pozzuolanic material and as a merely inert filler. 1935 Economist 7 Dec. 1142/2 Plastics..may be divided into three main groups: Phenolic and fillers, [etc.]. 1941 E. Culbertson Contract Bridge Compl. (ed. 3) iii. 48 Minor intermediate values, or ‘fillers’. These fillers consist of isolated jacks, tens and even nines. 1942 H. A. Maddox Dict. Stationery (ed. 2) 40 Filler, (also known as stuffer), a small inset which is used nowadays as a popular advertising device to enclose in letters or with other literature. A cheap and effective medium of publicity with a saving of postal cost. 1946 Notes & Queries CXCI. 238/2 While he was editor..there appeared a series of brief papers (obviously fillers) called ‘Omniana’. 1951 R. Mayer Artist's Handbk. (new ed.) ii. 89 The inert fillers or extenders are..white or nearly white pigments which have low refractive indices and, therefore, when ground in oil in the manner of the usual artist's colour, have little or no opacity or tinctorial effect. 1954 Paper Terminol. (Spalding & Hodge) 36 Loading, mineral material added to paper pulp..imparting solidity and a good printing surface to the paper... Also called Filler. 1958 Listener 18 Dec. 1055/2 Primer, filler, undercoat, and finish. 1959 F. W. Householder in S. Saporta & J. R. Bastian Psycholinguistics (1961) 25/1 The ‘filler’ part [of a tagmeme] is either another formula..or a list. 1961 John o' London's 13 Apr. 417/3 The American is given the job as a filler while he waits for the post of judge to fall vacant. 1964 M. A. K. Halliday et al. Ling. Sci. 193 Exclamations and ‘fillers’ such as oh, ah, quoi! 3. With adverbs, as filler-in, filler-up. ΘΚΠ the world > space > place > presence > fact of taking up space > [noun] > filling > filling of vacant space > that which serves to filler1591 filling1597 filler-up1710 packing1779 upfilling1822 fill-up1853 infilling1871 filler-in1877 space-filler1886 infill1939 microballoon1954 fill1957 1710 A. Pope Corr. 17 Dec. (1956) I. 110 A Mixture..of forc'd and inextricable conceits, and of needless fillers-up. 1726 G. Leoni tr. L. B. Alberti Architecture I. 44 b Those parts which..lie between these principal parts, are very properly call'd fillers up. 1776 S. J. Pratt Pupil of Pleasure I. 217 Detraction is a necessary filler-up of the vacuum. 1877 E. Peacock Gloss. Words Manley & Corringham, Lincs. Fillers in, small stones in the inside of a rubble-wall. Compounds filler-box n. a receptacle for prepared clay in a brick machine. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > equipment > brick-making equipment > [noun] > receptacle for clay filler-box1884 1884 C. T. Davis Pract. Treat. Manuf. Bricks v. 177 It is impossible to fill the charge-boxes, or as they are also termed, the ‘filler-boxes’, with any degree of regularity in dry-clay machines. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1896; most recently modified version published online March 2022). fillern.2 A thill- or shaft-horse. Also attributive as filler-horse n. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > mammals > group Ungulata (hoofed) > family Equidae (general equines) > horse defined by purpose used for > [noun] > draught-horse > team of > horse(s) attached to or between shafts thill-horsec1325 limoneer1524 thiller1552 body horse1558 fill-horse1600 limber1632 filler1695 pole horse1725 shaft-horse1769 wheel-pair1794 wheeler1813 shafter1840 1695 W. Kennett Parochial Antiq. Gloss. at Pullanus The horse which goes in the rods is commo[n]ly called the fillar. 1852 C. W. Hoskyns Talpa 3 Just as the filler-horse was congratulating himself that it was all plain sailing now. 1888 B. Lowsley Gloss. Berks. Words & Phrases Viller. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1896; most recently modified version published online March 2022). fillern.3 A Hungarian coin, the hundredth part of a forint. ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > money > medium of exchange or currency > coins collective > foreign coins > [noun] > coins of Eastern European countries Hungar1650 stotinka1892 filler1904 zloty1915 koruna1920 haler1922 forint1946 1904 Statesman's Year-bk. 416 Nickel:—The twenty-heller (20-fillér) piece. 1927 Observer 9 Oct. 11/3 Buyers of the fifty-filler ‘Trianon’ brooch. 1928 Observer 15 Apr. 12 Nádosy earned four filler a day. 1947 Statesman's Year-bk. 1001 A decree of 26 July, 1946, issued by the Hungarian Government..instituted a new monetary unit, the ‘forint’, subdivided into 100 ‘fillér’. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1933; most recently modified version published online December 2020). < n.11496n.21695n.31904 |
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