fill-in vs predecessor

fill-in

noun
  • Something added to fill a gap. 

  • A substitution. 

  • An intermediate result that must be stored temporarily during the course of a sparse matrix computation. 

  • A temporary replacement for another, especially at a job. 

  • A musical embellishment (usually percussion) that is added to connect musical phrases. 

  • A product category that is used to complete a range or variety of a product line. 

  • Something added to increase the size of something; padding or filler. 

  • A question or puzzle in which one is expected to fill in a missing part of something. 

predecessor

noun
  • A model or type of machinery or device which precedes the current (or later) one. Usually used to describe an earlier, outdated model. 

  • One who precedes; one who has preceded another in any state, position, office, etc.; one whom another follows or comes after, in any office or position. 

  • A vertex having a directed path to another vertex 

How often have the words fill-in and predecessor occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )