Other forms: fillers
A filler is a paste that fills a hole before painting over it. Apply filler, sand the filler, wood filler.
It must be sanded flush and sealed before painting, because it absorbs paint differently from the surface around it — skipping that step is why patches show through a finished wall. In writing and broadcasting, filler is material with no purpose but to take up space. Note fill, and the -er ending naming a substance.
1nounfillerA paste that fills a hole before painting.
“He pressed filler into the cracks in the wall and sanded it smooth once it dried.”
2nounmaterialMaterial with no purpose but to take up space.
“The album has a few great songs, but the rest is just filler.”
filler is a substance, or padding.
Proto-Indo-European
*pleh₁-
Middle English
fillen
English
fill
English, today
filler
Built from
From fill + -er. fill comes from Middle English fillen. From Middle English fillen, fullen, from Old English fyllan (“to fill, fill up, replenish, satisfy; complete, fulfill”), from Proto-West Germanic fullijan, from Proto-Germanic fullijaną (“to make full, fill”), from fullaz (“full”), from Proto-Indo-European pl̥h₁nós (“full”). Cognate with Scots fill (“to fill”), West Frisian folje (“to fill”), Low German füllen (“to fill”), Dutch vullen (“to fill”), German füllen (“to fill”), Danish fylde (“to fill”), Swedish fylla (“to fill”), Norwegian fylle (“to fill”), Icelandic fylla (“to fill”) and Latin plenus (“full”)
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA