Filler vs Reinforcement - What's the difference?
filler | reinforcement |
One who fills.
* Mortimer
Something added to fill a space or add weight or size.
* 1977 , Stereo Review (volume 38, page 70)
Any semisolid substance used to fill gaps, cracks or pores.
A relatively inert ingredient added to modify physical characteristics.
A short article in a newspaper or magazine.
A short piece of music or an announcement between radio or TV programmes.
Any spoken sound or word used to fill gaps in speech; filled pause.
* Dryden
Cut tobacco used to make up the body of a cigar.
(computing) In COBOL, the description of an unnamed part of a record that contains no data relevant to a given context.
(horticulture) A plant that lacks a distinctive shape and can fill inconvenient spaces around other plants in pots or gardens.
(uncountable) The act, process, or state of reinforcing or being reinforced.
(countable) A thing that reinforces.
(in the plural) Additional troops or materiel sent to support a military action.
The process whereby a behavior with desirable consequences comes to be repeated.
As nouns the difference between filler and reinforcement
is that filler is one who fills while reinforcement is the act, process, or state of reinforcing or being reinforced.filler
English
Noun
(en noun)- They have six diggers to four fillers , so as to keep the fillers always at work.
- 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
- 'Tis mere filler , to stop a vacancy in the hexameter.
