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Blank

//blæŋk// adj, name, noun, verb, slang

Definitions

Adjective

1
White or pale; without colour. archaic
"To the blanc Moone / Her office they preſcrib'd,"
2
Free from writing, printing, or marks; having an empty space to be filled in.
"blank paper"
3
Lacking characteristics which give variety; uniform. figuratively
"a blank desert; a blank wall; blank unconsciousness"
4
Abject; absolute; complete; downright; sheer; utter.
"a blank refusal to cooperate"
5
Without expression, usually because of incomprehension. figuratively
"Failing to understand the question, he gave me a blank stare."

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6
Utterly confounded or discomfited.
"Adam […] Aſtonied ſtood and Blank,"
7
Empty; void; without result; fruitless; futile.
"a blank day"
8
Devoid of thoughts, memory, or inspiration.
"The shock left his memory blank."
9
Of ammunition: having propellant but no bullets; unbulleted.
"The recruits were issued blank rounds for a training exercise."

Adjective

1
complete and absolute wordnet
2
(of a surface) not written or printed on wordnet
3
not charged with a bullet wordnet
4
without comprehension wordnet

Proper Noun

1
A surname.
"The same preoccupation with developing a conceptual framework is evident in David Blank's Venezuela: Politics in a Petroleum Republic, a modified version of Blank's early theses."
2
Used as an anonymous placeholder for a person's name. dated
"Miss Compton, in 'Other People's Worries,' asks rhetorically whether a young rip was not in the Blank divorce case."

Noun

1
A small French coin, originally of silver, afterwards of copper, worth 5 deniers; also a silver coin of Henry V current in the parts of France then held by the English, worth about 8 pence . archaic, historical, obsolete
"Whosoeuer brought a fagot before the kynges tent, he shulde haue a blanke of Fraunce."
2
a cartridge containing an explosive charge but no bullet wordnet
3
A nonplus [16th century]. obsolete
4
a piece of material ready to be made into something wordnet
5
The white spot in the centre of a target; hence (figuratively) the object to which anything is directed or aimed, the range of such aim .
"Des. […] And stood within the blank of his displeasure / For my free speech! (Act III, scene 11)"

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6
a blank gap or missing part wordnet
7
A lot by which nothing is gained; a ticket in a lottery on which no prize is indicated [since the 16th century].
"[…] and in Fortune's Lottery lies / A heap of Blanks, like this, for one ſmall Prize."
8
a blank character used to separate successive words in writing or printing wordnet
9
An empty space; a void, for example on a paper .; A space to be filled in on a form or template.
"Write your answers in the blanks."
10
An empty space; a void, for example on a paper .; Provisional words printed in italics (instead of blank spaces) in a bill before Parliament, being matters of practical detail, of which the final form is to be settled in committee .
11
A document, paper, or form with spaces left blank to be filled in at the pleasure of the person to whom it is given (e.g. a blank charter, ballot, form, contract, etc.), or as the event may determine; a blank form . US
"[…] and the freemen signified their approbation by an inscribed vote, and their dissent by a blank."
12
A document, paper, or form with spaces left blank to be filled in at the pleasure of the person to whom it is given (e.g. a blank charter, ballot, form, contract, etc.), or as the event may determine; a blank form .; An empty form without substance; anything insignificant; nothing at all . US
13
A document, paper, or form with spaces left blank to be filled in at the pleasure of the person to whom it is given (e.g. a blank charter, ballot, form, contract, etc.), or as the event may determine; a blank form .; An unprinted leaf of a book [20th century]. US
14
Blank verse .
15
A piece of material roughly cut, forged, cast, etc. to the size and shape of the thing to be made, and ready for the finishing operations; (coining) the disc of metal before stamping .; Any article of glass on which subsequent processing is required [since the 19th century].
16
A piece of material roughly cut, forged, cast, etc. to the size and shape of the thing to be made, and ready for the finishing operations; (coining) the disc of metal before stamping .; The shaved wax ready for placing on a recording machine for making wax records with a stylus [20th century].
17
A vacant space, place, or period; a void [since the 17th century]. figuratively
"Du. And what's her hiſtory? Vio. A blanke my Lord:"
18
The ¹ / ₂₃₀₄₀₀ of a grain [17th century].
19
An empty space in one's memory; a forgotten item or memory [since the 18th century].
"My head is so ill that I cannot write a paper full as I used to do; and yet I will not forgive a blank of half an inch from you."
20
A dash written in place of an omitted letter or word
21
The space character; the character resulting from pressing the space bar on a keyboard.
22
A domino without points on one or both of its divisions.
"the double blank"
23
A tile that can be played as any letter and having a point value of zero.
24
Ellipsis of blank cartridge [since the 19th century]. abbreviation, alt-of, ellipsis
"It was an unloaded gun that fired only blanks."
25
An ineffective effort which achieves nothing [since the 20th century].; A sample for a control experiment that does not contain any of the analyte of interest, in order to deliberately produce a non-detection to verify that a detection is distinguishable from it. figuratively
26
An ineffective effort which achieves nothing [since the 20th century].; Infertile semen. figuratively, slang

Verb

1
To make void; to erase. transitive
"I blanked out my previous entry."
2
keep the opposing (baseball) team from winning wordnet
3
To ignore (a person) deliberately. slang, transitive
"She blanked me for no reason."
4
To render ineffective by blanketing with turbulent airflow, such as from aircraft wake or reverse thrust. transitive
"At high angles of attack, the shuttle’s rudder is blanked by the fuselage and wings, forcing it to use its RCS thrusters for yaw control."
5
To prevent from scoring; for example, in a sporting event. transitive
"The team was blanked."

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6
To become blank. intransitive
"In OPS 6, the 2 EO color field does blank at SSME fine count. Once in fine count in route to an RTLS MECO, the energy state is such that one engine can carry the orbiter though powered pitch-down to a healthy MECO condition with standard RTLS guidance."
7
To experience a temporary lapse of memory; to be temporarily unable to remember a particular fact. (Commonly used in the first person, present progressive tense, and commonly followed by on to create a transitive phrasal verb.) informal, intransitive
"I’m blanking on her name right now."

Etymology

Etymology 1

From Middle English blank, blonc, blaunc, blaunche, from Anglo-Norman blonc, blaunc, blaunche, from Old French blanc, feminine blanche, from Frankish *blank (“gleaming, white, blinding”), from Proto-Germanic *blankaz (“white, bright, blinding”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰleyǵ- (“to shine”). Akin to Old High German blanch (“shining, bright, white”) (German blank), Old English blanc (“white, grey”), blanca (“white steed”), Spanish blanco. More at blink, blind, blanch. Doublet of blanc.

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Etymology 4

* As a Dutch and German surname, from the adjective blank (“shining, pale, white”). * As an English and Jewish surname, spelling variant of Blanc, Blanck.

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