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Filling vs Impletion - What's the difference?

filling | impletion |

As nouns the difference between filling and impletion

is that filling is anything that is used to fill something while impletion is an act of filling; the state of being full.

As an adjective filling

is of food, that satisfies the appetite by filling the stomach.

As a verb filling

is present participle of lang=en.

filling

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Of food, that satisfies the appetite by filling the stomach
    • a filling meal

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • Anything that is used to fill something.
  • The contents of a pie, etc.
  • (dentistry) A piece of amalgam used to fill a cavity in a tooth.
  • The woof in woven fabrics.
  • Prepared wort added to ale to cleanse it.

    • Verb

    (head)

    • See also

    * filing

    impletion

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • An act of filling; the state of being full.
  • * 1842 W. Jardine, P. J. Selby, George Johnston, Charles C. Babington, J. H. Balfour, Richard Taylor, ''The Annals and Magazine of Natural History, Volume 10,
    • Irregular metamorphoses of flowers are extremely common, and usually consist either of an actual muliplication of petals, or of the transformation of stamens and pistils into petals ; the effect of these chages being the formation of double flowers, the impletion of which appears to take place in different ways in different plants.
  • * 1867 , The Medical Times and Gazette , Volume 1
    • The greater the impletion of the artery during systole, the longer is the interval between the primary expansion and the acme of distension, and the bolder the curve which indicates it.
  • A substance which fills, a filling.

    • Derived terms

    * judicial impletion