Meaning of fill-out | Babel Free

Definitions

1. An option provided as one of a number of possible answers to a question in a form.
2. An extra car added to a freight train in order to achieve a minimum tonnage.
3. Something extra that is added to increase the size of something.
4. The amount by which a star in a binary system extends beyond its Roche lobe.

Examples

“All moves use the same form, but the fill-outs are different.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

“All fill-outs should be packed with \p's so nothing will be printed.”

“She's the main deal, we're just the fill-outs!”

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

“Тheoretical amplitudes of primary minima Аmₛ (transits) versus the mass-ratio for different inclinations and fill-outs.”

“The stars TZ Boo and Y Sex do not have their fill-outs well determined.”

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