fill outとは 意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• IPA: /fɪl ˈaʊt/
• 韻: -aʊt
• ハイフネーション: fill out

動詞

fill out (third-person singular simple present fills out, present participle filling out, simple past and past participle filled out)

1. (transitive) To complete a form or questionnaire with requested information.

   Synonyms: complete, fill in, populate

   Please fill out this application if you are interested in the job.

2. (intransitive) To have one's physique expand with maturity or with surplus weight.

   Hyponym: round out

   He began to fill out once he started college.

   • 2008 October, David Schipper, “Outsmart your stomach: Seven ways to fill your gut—and lose it, too”, in Men's Health, volume 23, number 8, →ISSN, page 135:

     We've scoured these science and tapped the top experts to help you learn how to do just that. Use these seven simple strategies, and you'll fill up without filling out.

3. (transitive, obsolete) To fill up; to make full.
   • 1749, Henry Fielding, The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling, volume (please specify |volume=I to VI), London: A[ndrew] Millar, […], →OCLC:

     The other lady, […] filling out a very large glass of wine, advised, and at last prevailed with her to drink it.

4. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see fill,‎ out.

参照

• Locher, Miriam A.; Strässler, Jürg. 2008. Standards and norms in the English language. New York: De Gruyer. Page 26.

アナグラム

• toilful

名詞

fill-out (plural fill-outs)

1. An option provided as one of a number of possible answers to a question in a form.
   • 1955, George Worthington, Factory - Volume 113, page 226:

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

   • 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:

     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.

2. 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, page 143:

     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, page 38:

     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.

3. Something extra that is added to increase the size of something.
   • 1955, Report - David W. Taylor Model Basin - Issue 916, page 195:

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

   • 1958, Brainard Cheney, This is Adam: a novel, page 42:

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

   • 1964, Ag Chem & Commercial Fertilizer - Volume 19, page 64:

     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, page 223:

     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, page 182:

     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.

4. (astronomy) The amount by which a star in a binary system extends beyond its Roche lobe.
   • 1972, Acta Astronomica - Volumes 22-23, page 108:

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

   • 2012, Interacting Binaries, page 61:

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

アナグラム

• toilful