fill-out
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: 4.63 in modern English
10
Scrabble Score
7
Letters
3
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
An option provided as one of a number of possible answers to a question in a form.
noun
An extra car added to a freight train in order to achieve a minimum tonnage.
noun
The amount by which a star in a binary system extends beyond its Roche lobe.
Example Sentences
- "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."