Filing vs. Filling
Difference Between Filing and Filling
Filingnoun
A container, such as a cabinet or folder, for keeping papers in order.
Fillingnoun
An act or instance of filling.
Filingnoun
A collection of papers or published materials kept or arranged in convenient order.
Fillingnoun
Something used to fill a space, cavity, or container
a gold filling in a tooth.Filingnoun
(Computers) A collection of data or program records stored as a unit with a single name.
Fillingnoun
An edible mixture used to fill pastries, sandwiches, or cakes. See Note at frosting.
Filingnoun
A line of persons, animals, or things positioned one behind the other.
Fillingnoun
The horizontal threads that cross the warp in weaving; weft.
Filingnoun
A line of troops or military vehicles so positioned.
Fillingadjective
Of food, that satisfies the appetite by filling the stomach
a filling mealFilingnoun
(Games) Any of the rows of squares that run forward and backward between players on a playing board in chess or checkers.
Fillingnoun
Anything that is used to fill something.
Filingnoun
(Archaic) A list or roll.
Fillingnoun
The contents of a pie, etc.
Filingnoun
An official document that is filed with a court, government agency, or other legal or political institution.
Fillingnoun
(dentistry) Any material used to fill a cavity in a tooth or the result of using such material.
I will be using a rapid-setting cement filling.My temporary filling fell out and got lost.Filingnoun
Any of several hardened steel tools with cutting ridges for forming, smoothing, or reducing especially metallic surfaces.
Fillingnoun
The woof in woven fabrics.
Filingnoun
A nail file.
Fillingnoun
Prepared wort added to ale to cleanse it.
Filingnoun
Chiefly British A crafty or artful person.
Fillingnoun
(Protestantism) A religious experience attributed to the Holy Ghost "filling" a believer.
Filingnoun
The act or an instance of using a file.
Fillingverb
present participle of fill
Filingnoun
A particle or shaving removed by a file
metal filings.Fillingnoun
any material that fills a space or container;
there was not enough fill for the trenchFilingverb
To put or keep (papers, for example) in useful order for storage or reference.
Fillingnoun
flow into something (as a container)
Filingverb
To enter (a legal document) as an official record.
Fillingnoun
(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 teethan informal British term for `filling' is `stopping'Filingverb
To send or submit (copy) to a newspaper.
Fillingnoun
a food mixture used to fill pastry or sandwiches etc.
Filingverb
To initiate (a lawsuit)
file a complaint.file charges.Fillingnoun
the yarn woven across the warp yarn in weaving
Filingverb
To march or walk in a line.
Fillingnoun
the act of filling something
Filingverb
To put items in a file.
Filingverb
To make application; apply
filed for a job with the state.file for a divorce.Filingverb
To enter one's name in a political contest
filed for Congress.Filingverb
To smooth, reduce, or remove with or as if with a file.
Filingverb
To sully or defile.
Filingnoun
Any particle that has been removed by a file or similar implement; a shaving.
The process left metal filings all over the bench and the part.Filingnoun
The act of storing documents in an archive; archiving.
Filingnoun
Something that has been officially filed; a document on file.
Filingverb
present participle of file
Filingnoun
the entering of a legal document into the public record;
he filed a complainthe filed his tax returnFilingnoun
a fragment rubbed off by the use of a file
Filingnoun
the act of using a file (as in shaping or smoothing an object)
Filingnoun
preservation and methodical arrangement as of documents and papers etc.;
I have some filing to do
