Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

filling site

Word Rarity Uncommon

Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.15 in modern English

Syllables: fill-ing site
IPA

15

Scrabble Score

11

Letters

2

Syllables

8

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A designated location for a firefighter to draw or pump water out of a natural source, such as a lake or river.

Example Sentences

"Water shuttles involve a process in which tankers deliver their load of water to the emergency scene (the dump site), travel to a filling site, reload with water, and then return to the emergency scene to dump again."

Etymology

From filling + site.

Inflected Forms

filling sites (plural)

Synonyms

drafting site fire site fill site

Questions

What does filling site mean?: A designated location for a firefighter to draw or pump water out of a natural source, such as a lake or river.
Where does filling site come from?: From filling + site.

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