单词 | fill-up |
释义 | fill-upn. That which serves to fill up a hollow or stop a gap. ΘΚΠ the mind > possession > supply > [noun] > that which is supplied > that which supplies a deficiency fill-up1853 the world > space > place > presence > fact of taking up space > [noun] > filling > filling of vacant space > that which serves to filler1591 filling1597 filler-up1710 packing1779 upfilling1822 fill-up1853 infilling1871 filler-in1877 space-filler1886 infill1939 microballoon1954 fill1957 1853 E. Twisleton Let. 6 Feb. (1928) iv. 69 The three first [men] are cousins..and the latter is a fill-up [at a dinner-table]. 1872 Daily News 2 Sept. They are falling by spadefuls into the cart, and have now to do service..as a fill-up for some pestilential ditch. 1883 Pall Mall Gaz. 12 Sept. 4/2 The incident of the ‘Sempiternal Club’..looks..a little like a ‘fill-up’. 1899 Sketch 1 Nov. 48/1 For years the flower would figure in the ‘fill-up par.’. 1908 Chambers's Jrnl. Oct. 767/1 Compressing them [sc. exhibits in a museum] within the allotted space in accordance with what may be..described as a ‘fill-up’ policy. 1941 B.B.C. Gloss. Broadcasting Terms 12 Fill-up, stop-gap material broadcast in an interval between the end of one programme and the beginning of the next. 1948 Scrutiny XV. 336 The French pianist Monique Haas has made a record of Bach's Italian Concerto with Rameau's Les Cyclopes as fill-up. 1960 John o' London's 7 Apr. 414/4 As the fill-up is a rather laboured..performance of Wolf's delicious Italian Serenade, I cannot recommend this record. 1970 J. Fleming Young Man, I think you're Dying xi. 141 He had breakfast and a fill-up with petrol and oil in a motorway restaurant. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1896; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1853 |
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