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| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | material used to pad |
| Synonyms: | fill, filler, packing, padding, quilting, wadding |
| Main Entry: | stuffing |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | innards |
| Synonyms: | dressing, feathers, filler, filling, insides, padding, tomentum |
| Main Entry: | stuff |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | load with |
| Synonyms: | choke up, clog up, compress, congest, cram, crowd, fill, fill to overflowing, fill to the brim, force, glut, gobble, gorge, gormandize, guzzle, jam, jam-pack, overfill, overindulge, overstuff, pack, pad, push, ram, sate, satiate, shove, squeeze, stow, wad, wedge |
| Antonyms: | unload, unstuff |
| Main Entry: | contents |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | elements of larger object |
| Synonyms: | capacity, cargo, chapters, connotation, constituents, details, divisions, essence, filling, freight, furnishing, gist, guts, implication, ingredients, innards, inside, lading, load, meaning, nub, packing, shipment, significance, size, space, stuffing, subject matter, subjects, substance, sum, text, themes, topics, volume |
| Main Entry: | fill |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | capacity |
| Synonyms: | all one wants, ample, enough, filler, padding, plenty, satiety, stuffing, sufficiency, sufficient |
| Antonyms: | emptiness |
| Main Entry: | filling/filler |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | something that takes up |
| Synonyms: | bushing, capacity batting, cartridge, center, content, contents, cylinder, dressing, fill, guts*, impletion, inlay, innards, inside, layer, liner, mixture, pack, packing, pad, padding, refill, replenishment, shim, stuffing, wad, wadding |
| Antonyms: | emptiness |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | inside |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | middle, lining |
| Synonyms: | belly, bowels, breast, center, contents, gut, heart, innards, inner portion, interior, recess, soul, stuffing, womb |
| Notes: | inside of is redundant; just say inside |
| Antonyms: | exteriority, outside |
| Main Entry: | pad/padding |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | protection |
| Synonyms: | buffer, cushion, filling, packing, stuffing, wad, wadding, waste |
| Main Entry: | dressing |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | a food mixture |
| Synonyms: | filling, forcemeat, stuffing |
| Notes: | gravy initially described a spicy sauce; gravy now is a souplike addition to meats, sauce is for meat and pastas, etc., and dressing is reserved for salads (and also means 'stuffing' in the U.S.) while au jus is 'with natural juices' |
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