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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