blank
see also: Blank
Pronunciation
Blank
Proper noun
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see also: Blank
Pronunciation
- IPA: /blæŋk/
blank (comparative blanker, superlative blankest)
- (archaic) White or pale; without colour.
- 1667, John Milton, “Book IX ↗”, in Paradise Lost. A Poem Written in Ten Books, London: Printed [by Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […] [a]nd by Robert Boulter […] [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], OCLC 228722708 ↗; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: The Text Exactly Reproduced from the First Edition of 1667: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, OCLC 230729554 ↗, lines 656–657:
- To the blanc Moone / Her office they preſcrib'd,
- Free from writing, printing, or marks; having an empty space to be filled in
- blank paper
- a blank check
- a blank ballot
- (sports) Scoreless; without any goals or points.
- (figurative) Lacking characteristics which give variety; uniform.
- a blank desert; a blank wall; blank unconsciousness
- Absolute; downright; sheer.
- There was a look of blank terror on his face.
- Without expression.
- Failing to understand the question, he gave me a blank stare.
- Utterly confounded or discomfited.
- 1667, John Milton, “Book VIII ↗”, in Paradise Lost. A Poem Written in Ten Books, London: Printed [by Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […] [a]nd by Robert Boulter […] [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], OCLC 228722708 ↗; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: The Text Exactly Reproduced from the First Edition of 1667: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, OCLC 230729554 ↗, lines 888–890:
- Adam [...] Aſtonied ſtood and Blank,
- Empty; void; without result; fruitless.
- a blank day
- Devoid of thoughts, memory, or inspiration.
- The shock left his memory blank.
- (military) Of ammunition: having propellant but no bullets; unbulleted.
- The recruits were issued with blank rounds for a training exercise.
- German: ausdruckslos
- Italian: intonso
- Russian: бе́лый
- Spanish: en blanco
- French: blanc, vierge
- German: unbeschrieben, unausgefüllt
- Italian: in bianco, vuoto, intatto
- Portuguese: em branco
- Russian: чи́стый
- Spanish: en blanco
- Italian: cartuccia a salve
- Portuguese: bala de festim
- Russian: холосто́й
- Spanish: de fogueo
blank (plural blanks)
- (archaic, historical, obsolete) 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 [15th–17th century].
- (obsolete) A nonplus [16th century].
- 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 [since the 16th century].
- A lot by which nothing is gained; a ticket in a lottery on which no prize is indicated [since the 16th century].
- 1693, Decimus Junius Juvenalis; Thomas Creech, transl., “[The Satires of Decimus Junius Juvenalis.] The Satyr”, in The Satires of Decimus Junius Juvenalis. Translated into English Verse. […] Together with the Satires of Aulus Persius Flaccus. […], London: Printed for Jacob Tonson […], OCLC 80026745 ↗, page 257 ↗:
- {...}} and in Fortune's Lottery lies / A heap of Blanks, like this, for one ſmall Prize.
- An empty space; a void, for example on a paper [since the 16th century].
- (now chiefly U.S.) A document, paper, or form with spaces left blank to be filled up 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 [since the 16th century].
- An empty form without substance; anything insignificant; nothing at all [since the 17th century].
- An unprinted leaf of a book [20th century].
- (literature) Blank verse [since the 16th century].
- (mechanics, engineering) A piece of metal (such as a coin, screw, nuts), cut and shaped to the required size of the thing to be made, and ready for the finishing operations; (coining) the disc of metal before stamping [since the 16th century].
- Any article of glass on which subsequent processing is required [since the 19th century].
- (electric recording) The shaved wax ready for placing on a recording machine for making wax records with a stylus [20th century].
- (figurative) A vacant space, place, or period; a void [since the 17th century].
- c. 1601–1602, William Shakespeare, “Twelfe Night, or VVhat You VVill”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First Folio), London: Printed by Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358 ↗, [Act II, scene iv], page 263 ↗, column 1:
- Du. And what's her hiſtory?
Vio. A blanke my Lord:
- The 1 / 230400 of a grain [17th century].
- An empty space in one's memory; a forgotten item or memory [since the 18th century].
- A dash written in place of an omitted letter or word [since the 18th century]
- The space character; the character resulting from pressing the space-bar on a keyboard.
- (dominoes) A domino without points on one or both of its divisions.
- the double blank
- the six blank
- (firearms) Short for blank cartridge#English|blank cartridge. [since the 19th century].
- (figurative, in the expression ‘shooting blanks’, sport) An ineffective effort which achieves nothing [since the 20th century].
- (chemistry) 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.
- (slang) Infertile semen.
- (bullet that doesn't harm) blank cartridge, blank bullet
- French: préforme
- Russian: загото́вка
- French: préforme
- French: espace
- German: Leerzeichen
- Portuguese: espaço
- Russian: пробе́л
- Spanish: espacio
- French: balle à blanc, cartouche à blanc
- German: Platzpatrone
- Italian: cartuccia a salve
- Portuguese: festim
- Russian: холосто́й патро́н
- Spanish: cartucho de fogueo, bala de salva
blank (blanks, present participle blanking; past and past participle blanked)
- (transitive) To make void; to erase.
- I blanked out my previous entry.
- (transitive, slang) To ignore (a person) deliberately.
- She blanked me for no reason.
- (transitive) To prevent from scoring, for example in a sporting event.
- The team was blanked.
- England blanks Wales to advance to the final.
- (intransitive) To become blank.
- (intransitive) To be temporarily unable to remember.
- I'm blanking on her name right now.
Blank
Proper noun
- Surname
- 1987, Latin American Research Review (page 238)
- 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.
- 1987, Latin American Research Review (page 238)
- (chiefly, dated) Used as an anonymous placeholder for a person's name.
- 1922, The Saturday Review (volume 133, page 359)
- Miss Compton, in 'Other People's Worries,' asks rhetorically whether a young rip was not in the Blank divorce case.
- 1922, The Saturday Review (volume 133, page 359)
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