fill-out
nounEtymology Deverbal from fill out.
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An option provided as one of a number of possible answers to a question in a form.
- All moves use the same form, but the fill-outs are different.1955, George Worthington, Factory - Volume 113, page 226:
- This layer is primarily responsible for automatically locating and extracting dynamic data from Web sites, i.e^([sic]) data that can only be obtained by form fill-outs.2000, Hasan Davulcu, Guizhen Yang, Michael Kifer, I. V. Ramakrishnan, “Design and Implementation of the Physical Layer in WebBases: The XRover Experience”, in John Lloyd, Veronica Dahl, Ulrich Furbach, Manfred Kerber, Kung-Kiu Lau, Catuscia Palamidessi, Luís Moniz Pereira, Yehoshua Sagiv, Peter J. Stuckey, editors, Computational Logic – CL 2000, page 1094:
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An extra car added to a freight train in order to achieve a minimum tonnage.
- They served the industries located along the tracks, performed such freight-house switching as became necessary, set cars off or put cars on passenger trains when necessary, lined up fill-outs for through-freight trains, made up the locals originating at Idaho Falls, and set cars off and put cars on the through freight trains 277 and 278.1936, Awards First Division, National Railroad Adjustment Board:
- When sufficient quantities of these types of freight are not available, cars containing ordinary freight are added as "tonnage fill-outs" to bring the train up to the required minimum tonnage.1937, The Traffic World - Volume 59, page 143:
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- Close cooperation between yard masters and inspection forces at major terminals can also make it possible to service journal boxes on fill-outs before they are incorporated in road trains.1952, Car Foremen's Association of Chicago, Proceedings - Volumes 53-54, page 38:
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Something extra that is added to increase the size of something.
- All fill-outs should be packed with \p's so nothing will be printed.1955, Report - David W. Taylor Model Basin - Issue 916, page 195:
- She's the main deal, we're just the fill-outs!1958, Brainard Cheney, This is Adam: a novel, page 42:
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- At the other extreme, were those who bought conservatively for their own manufacturing needs and retail sails. They picked up spot fill-outs when they ran short.1964, Ag Chem & Commercial Fertilizer - Volume 19, page 64:
- One seldom hears a text sung in which 50 per cent of the lines are not mere fill-outs — either, on the mechanical level, excuses for rhymes or scansion or, on a more justifiable level, additions of emotional weight by mere reiteration of intellectual points already made.1966, Charles Osborne, Opera, page 223:
- As is typical for the period, his left-hand notation includes a mixture of continuo bass lines and standard fill-outs such as Alberti basses.2010, Tilman Skowroneck, Beethoven the Pianist, page 182:
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Astronomy, Natural sciences The amount by which a star in a binary system extends beyond its Roche lobe.
- Тheoretical amplitudes of primary minima Аmₛ (transits) versus the mass-ratio for different inclinations and fill-outs.1972, Acta Astronomica - Volumes 22-23, page 108:
- The stars TZ Boo and Y Sex do not have their fill-outs well determined.2012, Interacting Binaries, page 61: