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Definition: Fill Out |
Fill OutVerb1. 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 OutSynonyms: 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) |
| Context | Synonyms 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. | |
Crosswords: Fill Out |
| English words defined with "fill out": Balaam ♦ compel ♦ expletive ♦ filler, finish out ♦ makeweight ♦ obligate, oblige ♦ requisition, requisition form, round out ♦ To dub out, To fill out. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "fill out": Hacking X for Y ♦ Questionnaire Reference Book ♦ vent holes. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
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) | |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
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. | ||
Expression using "fill out": To fill out. Additional references. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. |
| 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. |
| Expression | Frequency 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. | |
| 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 | zesÃlit (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), kiegészÃt (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 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) 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) ugojiti se (gain, gain weight, grow fat), popuniti (fill, fill in). (various references) rellenar (fill, fill in, refill, replenish, stuff, top up, wad). (various references) fylla i (charge, fill in, fill up, make out, pour in), göra fylligare, bli fylligare. (various references) розширюватиÑÑ (broaden, dilate, expand), товÑтіти. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 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. | ||
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. | |
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| 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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