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Filling

That which is used to fill a cavity or any empty space or to supply a deficiency as filling for a cavity in a tooth a depression in a roadbed the space between exterior and interior walls of masonry the pores of open grained wood the space between the outer and inner planks of a vessel etc...


filled

containing as much or as many as is possible or normal as filled to overflowing Opposite of empty...


Persona designata

Persona designata, a persona designata, is 'a person who is pointed out or described as an individual, as opposed to a person ascertained as a member of a class, or as filling a particular character.' (See Osborn's Concise Law Dictionary, 4th Edn., p. 253). In the words of Schwabe, C.J. In Parthasarathi Naidu v. Koteswara Rao, ILR 47 Mad 369: (AIR 1924 Mad 561) (FB), personae designate are 'persons selected to act in their private capacity and not in their capacity as Judges', Central Talkies v. Dwarka Prasad, AIR 1961 SC 606 (609): (1961) 3 SCR 495; see also Mukri Gopalan v. Cheppilat, (1995) 5 SCC 5: AIR 1995 SC 2272.Persona designata, connotes person pointed out by name or other personal description in contradis-tinction to one whose identity is to be ascertained by the office which he holds. So then, where a person is indicated in statute not by name but by an official designation a question will arise whether the intention was to single him out as a persona designata, Ram Chandra ...


bucketful

a bucket filled with a substance or the quantity which would fill a bucket...


Complement

That which fills up or completes the quantity or number required to fill a thing or make it complete...


Cram

To press force or drive particularly in filling or in thrusting one thing into another to stuff to crowd to fill to superfluity as to cram anything into a basket to cram a room with people...


Expletive

Filling up hence added merely for the purpose of filling up superfluous...


Farce

To stuff with forcemeat hence to fill with mingled ingredients to fill full to stuff...


Filler

One who or that which fills something used for filling...


Flooding

The filling or covering with water or other fluid overflow inundation the filling anything to excess...


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