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Filling vs Piping - What's the difference?

filling | piping |

As adjectives the difference between filling and piping

is that filling is of food, that satisfies the appetite by filling the stomach while piping is high-pitched.

As nouns the difference between filling and piping

is that filling is anything that is used to fill something while piping is the process of an animal just beginning to break out of its egg; precedes hatching.

As verbs the difference between filling and piping

is that filling is while piping is .

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

    piping

    English

    Verb

    (head)

    • Noun

  • The process of an animal just beginning to break out of its egg; precedes hatching.
  • The sound of musical pipes.
  • An act of making music or noise with pipes.
  • A system of pipes that compose a structure; pipework.
    • the piping of a house
  • An ornamentation on pastry edges and seams.
  • An ornamentation on the edges of a garment; a small cord covered with cloth.
  • Piped icing on a cake.
  • (botany) A piece cut off to be set or planted; a cutting.
  • (botany) propagation by cuttings

    • Adjective

    (-)
  • High-pitched.
    • His piping voice could be heard above the hubbub.

    Derived terms

    * piping hot

    See also

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