- 1代班（的人）；替補
A fill-in is a person who does someone else's job for a while because that person is away — sick, on holiday, or gone until a real new person arrives. "We need a fill-in for Friday" is practical and kind. "She is just a fill-in" can sound a little small, as if the person does not really belong. It comes straight from the two-word verb fill in (for someone). That verb has other lives — fill in a form, fill someone in on the news — but the noun fill-in almost always means the stand-in person. You will hear it at work and at school more than in very formal writing, where people prefer substitute.
fill-in 指暫時代替別人工作的人，通常是因為對方請假、度假，或還沒有正式的新人到來。像「We need a fill-in for Friday」這樣說，語氣實際又貼心；但「She is just a fill-in」聽起來就有點輕，好像她不算真正屬於這裡。它來自片語動詞 fill in（for someone），職場與學校較常聽到，正式寫作則多用 substitute。
From the word’s history
From the verb phrase fill in.
來自動詞片語 fill in「填入」。
組成From the verb phrase fill in: you fill the empty place in the job until the usual person is back.
同家族的字
- fillthe verb this noun comes from — you fill in for someone
原始詞典資料8 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，摘錄並精簡格式，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
fill-innoun/ˈfɪlˌɪn/
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A temporary replacement for another, especially at a job.
- He went in to the Calsag bar to wrangle two fill-ins for the Goldenhoys as ordered.
- I was a fill-in. What that meant was you rode with each salesperson to learn his route, and then you could actually run his route when he was off or on vacation.
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A substitution.
- All our language is loose: whatever one means to say, all words are fill-ins for other words - as any cursory glance at a dictionary reveals.
- 3
mathematicssciencesAn intermediate result that must be stored temporarily during the course of a sparse matrix computation.
- When a fill-in, aᵢⱼ⁽ˢ⁾ is created in the course of the computation, it may be necessary to make copies of the contents of certain parts of the ALU and CNLU at the ends of these arrays.
- In practice they are very sparse and generate few fill-ins in the remaining columns.
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A question or puzzle in which one is expected to fill in a missing part of something.
- The main interaction styles supported by Web systems are direct manipulation, menus and form fill-ins.
- This part tests your writing skills in Spanish, and it consists of three different exercises: paragraph fill-ins, discrete sentence fill-ins, and an essay.
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entertainmentlifestylemusicA musical embellishment (usually percussion) that is added to connect musical phrases.
- The following abbreviations are used for all drum solos and fill-ins.
- Fill-ins usually happen at the end of a four or eight-measure musical phrase.
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Something added to fill a gap.
- With too many fill-ins the statistical results become dubious.
- Originally, we'd planned a Basie-type thing, using lots of open rhythm, only without any piano for fill-ins.
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Something added to increase the size of something; padding or filler.
- There was, at that time, a small film producing complex known as Ben Blake Studios where a variety of trailers, commercials, fill-ins, and (yes) screen tests were shot.
- It is not a gossipy yarn; nor is it a dry, monotonous account, full of such customary 'fill-ins' as 'romantic moonlight casting murky shadows down a long, winding country road'.
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businessmarketingA product category that is used to complete a range or variety of a product line.
- Since consumer buying behaviour to obtain staples is different from fill-ins, retailers strategy will also differ.
- Variety enhancers may have medium to high margins, while the fill-ins will have higher profit margins due to the longer time these items may need to move off the shelf in a retail store.
摘錄自 英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary，已精簡格式；依 CC BY-SA 4.0 授權使用，改動後的內容同樣以此授權提供。