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Fill Out

Definition: Fill Out

Fill Out

Verb

1. Write all the required information onto a form; "fill out this questionnaire, please!"; "make out a form".

2. Make bigger or better or more complete.

3. Supplement what is thought to be deficient; "He eked out his meager pay by giving private lessons"; "Braque eked out his collages with charcoal".

4. Line or stuff with soft material; "pad a bra".

5. Make fat or plump; "We will plump out that poor starving child".

6. Become round, plump, or shapely.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 


Synonyms: Fill Out

Synonyms: complete (v), eke out (v), fat (v), fatten (v), fatten out (v), fatten up (v), fill in (v), flesh out (v), make out (v), pad (v), plump (v), plump out (v), round (v), round out (v). (additional references)

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Synonyms within Context: Fill Out

ContextSynonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).

Expansion

Verb: become larger; (large; ); expand, widen, enlarge, extend, grow, increase, incrassate, swell, gather; fill out; deploy, take open order, dilate, stretch, distend, spread; mantle, wax; grow up, spring up; bud, bourgeon, shoot, sprout, germinate, put forth, vegetate, pullulate, open, burst forth; gain flesh, gather flesh; outgrow; spread like wildfire, overrun.

Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Crosswords: Fill Out

English words defined with "fill out": Balaamcompelexpletivefiller, finish outmakeweightobligate, obligerequisition, requisition form, round outTo dub out, To fill out. (references)
Specialty definitions using "fill out": Hacking X for YQuestionnaire Reference Bookvent holes. (references)

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Modern Usage: Fill Out

DomainUsage

Screenplays

I just didn't want to fill out the forms. (Father Ted; writing credit: Graham Linehan; Arthur Mathews)

Well, you fill out that sweater real nice. (That '70s Show; writing credit: Stacia Raymond)

Lyrics

So just fill out your application (Everybody Doesn't; performing artist: Amanda)

Clever

If I want your opinion, I'll ask you to fill out the necessary forms. (references; author: unknown)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Commercial Usage: Fill Out

DomainTitle

Books

  • How to fill out a Freddie Mac-Fannie Mae appraisal report, individual condominium unit, FHLMC form 465-FNMA form 1073 (reference)

  • Harrison's Illustrated Guide How to Fill Out a Fannie Mae-Freddie Mac Appraisal Report Small Residental Income Property (1990, 4th Ed, 4th Printing,93 (reference)

    (more book examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Non-Fiction Usage: Fill Out

SubjectTopicQuote

Health

Caregivers, particularly medical social workers, can clarify individual policies and help you fill out forms. (references)

Business

However, the Mexican import law is very strict on how to fill out the required documentation. (references)

It is essential that exporters take care to fill out documents properly to avoid costly delays in customs clearance. (references)

The importer only has to fill out a D.I. form (Declaração de Importação), when entering the goods through the local customs. (references)

Economic History

Brazil

Taxes are numerous and burdensome, for those who collect them as well as for those who must fill out forms and make payments. (references)

Human Rights

Poland

Despite being illegal, a few restrictive practices such as a requirement to fill out "creed" or "nationality" items in some questionnaires continued. (references)

Brazil

As part of this effort, police in Sao Paulo who kill a suspect are required to fill out, within 24 hours, a detailed report explaining why lethal force was used. (references)

Minorities

Bulgaria

Although the local police arrived at the scene, they did not fill out an appropriate report, which would make it more difficult for the Evangelicals to seek damages in court. (references)

Trade

Philippines

If an exporter is ready to ship his products, he should fill out an Export Declaration (ED) form. (references)

Argentina

For more information and to get on their mailing list, log on to www.exim.gov to fill out an information form. (references)

Travel

Azerbaijan

The visitor needs to submit one photograph, pay USD40, and fill out an application. (references)

Philippines

The Philippine Bureau of Customs requires a traveler to fill out a Re-export Commitment Form and imposes a corresponding cash bond for exhibit materials; articles brought into the Philippines for repair, processing or reconditioning; software; and laptop computers (in commercial quantity). (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

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Expression: Fill Out

Expression using "fill out": To fill out. Additional references.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Fill Out

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

fill out form

79

fill out a money order

39

fill out job application

32

fill out a resume

22

auto fill out

14

fill out the survey

10

get paid to fill out survey

10

fill out form software

9

fill out form w 4

5

fill out a quit claim deed

2
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translation: Fill Out

Language Translations for "fill out"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Albanian

  

fryhem (belly, bloat, boil up, distend, heave, pout, surge, swagger, swell), zgjeroj (amplify, broaden, dilate, diversify, enlarge, enrich, expand, extend, let out, widen), rrumbullakos (pad). (various references)

   

Arabic 

  

â€Ù…لأ (cram, crowd, fill, fill in, stack, stuff, wind), â€Ù†ÙØ® (balloon, be puffed up, belly out, bloat, blow up, distend, distension, inflate, inflation, insufflation, plump, pout, puff, pumping, sulk, swell out, windiness). (various references)

   

Bulgarian 

  

напълнÑм (fill in), зазиждам (brick, build up, embed, fill in, imbed, wall up), запълвам (engage, fill in, stop up, supply). (various references)

   

Czech

  

zesílit (become stronger, enforce, grow strong, grow stronger, increase, intensify, magnify, reinforce, strengthen, turn up), zakulatit se (flesh out, round), vzdout se, vyplnit (complete, fill, fill in, fulfil, fulfill), rozvinout (array, deploy, develop, evolve, set sail, spread, uncoil, unfold, unfurl, unroll). (various references)

   

French

  

remplir (fill, fill in, fill up), étoffer. (various references)

   

German

  

ausfüllen (complete, fill, fill in, fill up, filled, make out, to fill out, write). (various references)

   

Greek 

  

φουσκώνω (billow, bloat, blow up, bulge, distend, expand, inflate, puff, pump, pump up, surge, swell). (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

kitölt (fill in, to fill in, to fill out, to fill up, to put in, to write out), kiegészít (amend, complement, complete, eke out, implement, integrate, make up, piece out, supplement, to amend, to augment, to complement, to eke out, to expand, to integrate, to make up, to piece out, to piece together, to refill, to replenish, to supplement). (various references)

   

Italian

  

compilare (assort, compile, to assemble, to fill out, write, write off). (various references)

   

Manx

  

sheidey (blast, blast of wind, blow, blow of whale, blowing, breathe, breeze, bugle, distention, dynamite, fire away, gust, honk, puff, sound, spell of wind, spout, toot, toot on horn, waft, wafting), roauyraghey (fatten, fattening, thicken, thicken as wool, thickening), lhieeney (billow, blow up, charge, charge as battery, cover in, fill, fill in, flood tide, flow, fuel, inset, load, make, make of tide, pad, rise, saturate, spasm, wax, wax as moon). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

illfay outay

   

Romanian

  

umfla (bag, belly, blow, bunt, expand, fill, grow, heighten, inflate, overdraw, pad, puff, swell), se umfla (bag, balloon, belly out, billow, bloat out, bulge, bulk, distend, flow, ridge, swell). (various references)

   

Russian 

  

замещать (act for, fill in, override, replace, stand in for, stand up to, subbed, subrogate, substitute, supply), заполнÑть (brim with, brimming, brimming with, fill, fill in, fill up, fill with, filling, pack, pad, populate, populated, populating), пополнÑть (fill in, make up, replenish). (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

ugojiti se (gain, gain weight, grow fat), popuniti (fill, fill in). (various references)

   

Spanish

  

rellenar (fill, fill in, refill, replenish, stuff, top up, wad). (various references)

   

Swedish

  

fylla i (charge, fill in, fill up, make out, pour in), göra fylligare, bli fylligare. (various references)

   

Ukrainian

  

розширюватиÑÑ (broaden, dilate, expand), товÑтіти. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Ancestral Language Translations: Fill Out

LanguagePeriodTranslations
Latin500 BCE-Modern

expleant, explendos, explendum, explentibus, explere, expleret, expleta, explete, expleti, expletis, expletisque, expleto, expletum, expletus, expleverit, explevit. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Anagrams: Fill Out

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: toilful.

Words within the letters "f-i-l-l-o-t-u"

-1 letter: tufoli.

-2 letters: fillo, flout.

-3 letters: fill, filo, flit, foil, foul, full, lift, lilt, litu, loft, loti, lout, till, tofu, toil, toll, tolu.

-4 letters: fil, fit, flu, fou, ill, lit, lot, oft, oil, out, til, tui.

-5 letters: if, it, li, lo, of, ti, to, ut.

 Words containing the letters "f-i-l-l-o-t-u"
 

+2 letters: multifold, toilfully.

 

+3 letters: feuilleton, multifocal.

 

+4 letters: bountifully, conflictful, conflictual, feuilletons.

 

+5 letters: felicitously, flagitiously, flocculating, flocculation, floriculture, folliculitis, functionally, slumpflation, solifluction, unifoliolate.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Usage: Modern
5. Usage: Commercial
6. Quotations: Non-fiction
7. Expressions
8. Expressions: Internet
9. Translations: Modern
10. Translations: Ancient
11. Anagrams
12. Bibliography


  

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