Fill-out
Origin
From the phrasal verb fill out
Full definition of fill-out
Noun
fill-out
(plural fill-outs)- An option provided as one of a number of possible answers to a question in a form.
- 1955 , George Worthington , Factory - Volume 113 , All moves use the same form, but the fill-outs are different.
- 2000, John Lloyd, ‎Veronica Dahl, ‎Ulrich Furbach , Computational Logic — CL 2000, This layer is primarily responsible for automatically locating and extracting dynamic data from Web sites, i.e data that can only be obtained by form fill-outs.
- An extra car added to a freight train in order to achieve a minimum tonnage.
- 1936 , , Awards First Division, National Railroad Adjustment Board, 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.
- 1937 , , The Traffic World - Volume 59 , 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.
- 1952, Car Foremen's Association of Chicago , Proceedings - Volumes 53-54 , 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.
- Something extra that is added to increase the size of something.
- 1955, , Report - David W. Taylor Model Basin - Issue 916 , All fill-outs should be packed with \p's so nothing will be printed.
- 1958, Brainard Cheney , This is Adam: a novel , She's the main deal, we're just the fill-outs!
- 1964 , , Ag Chem & Commercial Fertilizer - Volume 19 , 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.
- 1966, Charles Osborne , Opera, 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.
- 2010 , Tilman Skowroneck , Beethoven the Pianist , 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.
- (astronomy)
- 1972 , , Acta Astronomica - Volumes 22-23 , Тheoretical amplitudes of primary minima Ðms (transits) versus the mass-ratio for different inclinations and fill-outs.
- 2012 , , Interacting Binaries , The stars TZ Boo and Y Sex do not have their fill-outs well determined.