Filler vs Piller - What's the difference?
filler | piller |
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.
(label) A plunderer or thief.
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As nouns the difference between filler and piller
is that filler is one who fills while piller is a plunderer or thief.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.
Anagrams
*piller
English
Alternative forms
* pyllourNoun
(en noun)- Thenne he horsed his bretheren ageyne and sayd bretheren ye oughte to be ashamed to falle so of your horses / What is a Knyght but whan he is on horsbak / I sett not by a knyght whanne he is on foote / for all batails on fote ar but pelowres batails / For there shold no Knyghte syghte on foote / but yf hit were for treason / or els he were dryuen therto by force