fill out
See also: fill-out
English
Etymology
In the sense of “complete a form” originally attested in American English, possibly as a calque of German ausfüllen. Later spread to British English, where it now competes with the traditional expression fill in.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /fɪl ˈaʊt/
Audio (US) (file) - Rhymes: -aʊt
- Hyphenation: fill out
Verb
fill out (third-person singular simple present fills out, present participle filling out, simple past and past participle filled out)
- (transitive) To complete a form or questionnaire with requested information.
- (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.
- (transitive, obsolete) To fill up; to make full.
- 1749, Henry Fielding, The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling, volumes (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.
- Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see fill, out.
Translations
to complete a form
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to have one's physique expand
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References
- Locher, Miriam A.; Strässler, Jürg. 2008. Standards and norms in the English language. New York: De Gruyer. Page 26.
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