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Filling

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Narrower term 8

Cement 76% connected

Any substance used for making bodies adhere to each other, as mortar, glue, etc.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Flood 76% connected

A great flow of water; a body of moving water; the flowing stream, as of a river; especially, a body of water, rising, swelling, and overflowing land…

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Flowage 76% connected

An overflowing with water; also, the water which thus overflows.

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Inlay 76% connected

To lay within; hence, to insert, as pieces of pearl, iviry, choice woods, or the like, in a groundwork of some other material; to form an ornamental…

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Renewal 76% connected

The act of renewing, or the state of being renewed; as, the renewal of a treaty.

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Replacement 76% connected

The act of replacing.

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Replenishment 76% connected

The act of replenishing, or the state of being replenished.

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Saturation 76% connected

The act of saturating, or the state of being saturating; complete penetration or impregnation.

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Concoction 76% connected

A change in food produced by the organs of nutrition; digestion.

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Flow 76% connected

imp. sing. of Fly, v. i.

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Intermixture 76% connected

A mass formed by mixture; a mass of ingredients mixed.

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Material 76% connected

Consisting of matter; not spiritual; corporeal; physical; as, material substance or bodies.

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Mixture 76% connected

The act of mixing, or the state of being mixed; as, made by a mixture of ingredients.

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Stuff 76% connected

Material which is to be worked up in any process of manufacture.

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Thread 76% connected

A very small twist of flax, wool, cotton, silk, or other fibrous substance, drawn out to considerable length; a compound cord consisting of two or mo…

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Yarn 76% connected

Spun wool; woolen thread; also, thread of other material, as of cotton, flax, hemp, or silk; material spun and prepared for use in weaving, knitting,…

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Derivationally related 2

Fill 74% connected

One of the thills or shafts of a carriage.

oewn 2023 15% interchangeable

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Fill 74% connected

One of the thills or shafts of a carriage.

oewn 2023 15% interchangeable

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Containing substance 4

Cloth 70% connected

A fabric made of fibrous material (or sometimes of wire, as in wire cloth); commonly, a woven fabric of cotton, woolen, or linen, adapted to be made…

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Fabric 70% connected

The structure of anything; the manner in which the parts of a thing are united; workmanship; texture; make; as cloth of a beautiful fabric.

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Material 70% connected

Consisting of matter; not spiritual; corporeal; physical; as, material substance or bodies.

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Textile 70% connected

Pertaining to weaving or to woven fabrics; as, textile arts; woven, capable of being woven; formed by weaving; as, textile fabrics.

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Containing whole 1

Weave 70% connected

To unite, as threads of any kind, in such a manner as to form a texture; to entwine or interlace into a fabric; as, to weave wool, silk, etc.; hence,…

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Synonym 4

Fill 92% connected

One of the thills or shafts of a carriage.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Pick 92% connected

To throw; to pitch.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Weft 92% connected

imp. & p. p. of Wave.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Woof 92% connected

The threads that cross the warp in a woven fabric; the weft; the filling; the thread usually carried by the shuttle in weaving.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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