fill-out
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fill-outs
Etymology: Deverbal from fill out.
Senses: examples: text: All moves use the same form, but the fill-outs are different.
ref: 1955, George Worthington, Factory - Volume 113, page 226:
text: 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.
ref: 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:
glosses: An option provided as one of a number of possible answers to a question in a form.
examples: text: 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.
ref: 1936, Awards First Division, National Railroad Adjustment Board:
text: 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.
ref: 1937, The Traffic World - Volume 59, page 143:
text: 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.
ref: 1952, Car Foremen's Association of Chicago, Proceedings - Volumes 53-54, page 38:
glosses: An extra car added to a freight train in order to achieve a minimum tonnage.
examples: text: All fill-outs should be packed with \p's so nothing will be printed.
ref: 1955, Report - David W. Taylor Model Basin - Issue 916, page 195:
text: She's the main deal, we're just the fill-outs!
ref: 1958, Brainard Cheney, This is Adam: a novel, page 42:
text: 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.
ref: 1964, Ag Chem & Commercial Fertilizer - Volume 19, page 64:
text: 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.
ref: 1966, Charles Osborne, Opera, page 223:
text: 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.
ref: 2010, Tilman Skowroneck, Beethoven the Pianist, page 182:
glosses: Something extra that is added to increase the size of something.
examples: text: Тheoretical amplitudes of primary minima Аmₛ (transits) versus the mass-ratio for different inclinations and fill-outs.
ref: 1972, Acta Astronomica - Volumes 22-23, page 108:
text: The stars TZ Boo and Y Sex do not have their fill-outs well determined.
ref: 2012, Interacting Binaries, page 61:
topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
glosses: The amount by which a star in a binary system extends beyond its Roche lobe.