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What's The Definition Of Blank?
[n] a cartridge containing an explosive charge but no bullet
[n] a piece of material ready to be made into something [n] a blank gap or missing part [n] a substitute for a taboo word; "I hit the blank blank car" [n] a blank character used to separate successive words in writing or printing; "he said the space is the most important character in the alphabet" [adj] void of expression; "a blank stare" [adj] of a surface; not written or printed on; "blank pages"; "fill in the blank spaces"; "a clean page"; "wide white margins" [adj] not charged with a bullet; "a blank cartridge" [v] keep the opposing team from winning, in baseball Synonyms | Synonyms for Blank: blank shell | clean | dummy | empty | incommunicative | lacuna | space | uncommunicative | unloaded | white Related Terms | Find terms related to Blank: absence | absolute | aloof | arid | awayness | backward | bald | bare | barren | bashful | bewildered | black | blah | bland | blankminded | bleached | blind | blind-alley | bloodless | box | calm | cecal | characterless | chasm | chilled | chilly | chirograph | choked | choked off | clean slate | clear | closed | cold | colorless | complete | confused | constrained | constricted | contracted | cool | dazed | dead | dead-end | deadpan | deprivation | detached | devoid | discomfited | disconcerted | discreet | dismal | distant | docket | document | dossier | downright | draggy | drearisome | dreary | dry | dryasdust | dull | dusty | effete | elephantine | emotionless | emptiness | empty | empty space | empty-headed | empty-minded | empty-pated | empty-skulled | etiolated | expressionless | fade | fatuous | featureless | file | fishy | flat | forbidding | form | frigid | frosty | glassy | guarded | heavy | helpless | ho-hum | hollow | holograph | icy | impassive | impersonal | inaccessible | inane | inanity | incogitant | inexcitable | inexpressive | insipid | instrument | introverted | jejune | lack | leaden | legal document | legal instrument | legal paper | lifeless | line | low-spirited | mindless | modest | naked | neverness | nil | nirvanic | nonexistence | nonoccurrence | nonplussed | nonpresence | nothing | nothingness | nowhereness | nude | null | null and void | oblivious | official document | offish | Olympian | out-and-out | overlook | oversight | pale | pallid | paper | papers | parchment | passive | pedestrian | perfect | perplexed | personal file | plain | plodding | pointless | poker-faced | poky | ponderous | preterition | pure | quietistic | rattlebrained | rattleheaded | regular | relaxed | remote | removed | repressed | reserved | restrained | reticent | retiring | roll | scatterbrained | scrip | script | scroll | sheer | shrinking | shut | skip | slow | solemn | space | spiritless | squeezed shut | standoff | standoffish | stark | sterile | stiff | stodgy | straight-out | strangulated | stuffy | subdued | subtraction | superficial | suppressed | tabula rasa | tasteless | tedious | thoughtfree | thoughtless | tranquil | unadorned | unadulterated | unaffable | unapproachable | unarrayed | uncomplicated | uncongenial | undecked | undecorated | undemonstrative | undressed | unembellished | unexpansive | unexpressive | unfurbished | ungarnished | ungenial | unideaed | unintellectual | unlively | unmixed | unoccupied | unopen | unopened | unornamented | unqualified | unreasoning | unrelieved | unsophisticated | unthinking | untrimmed | unvarnished | unvented | unventilated | utter | vacant | vacuous | vacuum | vapid | void | want | white | with nothing inside | withdrawn | without content | wooden | writ | writing | zero See Also | cartridge | character | crack | euphemism | flat solid | gap | grapheme | graphic symbol | keep | prevent | sheet Blank In Webster's Dictionary \Blank\, a. [OE. blank, blonc, blaunc, blaunche, fr. F.
blanc, fem. blanche, fr. OHG. blanch shining, bright, white,
G. blank; akin to E. blink, cf. also AS. blanc white. ?98.
See {Blink}, and cf. 1st {Blanch}.]
1. Of a white or pale color; without color.
To the blank moon Her office they prescribed.
--Milton.
2. Free from writing, printing, or marks; having an empty
space to be filled in with some special writing; -- said
of checks, official documents, etc.; as, blank paper; a
blank check; a blank ballot.
3. Utterly confounded or discomfited.
Adam . . . astonied stood, and blank. --Milton.
4. Empty; void; without result; fruitless; as, a blank space;
a blank day.
5. Lacking characteristics which give variety; as, a blank
desert; a blank wall; destitute of interests, affections,
hopes, etc.; as, to live a blank existence; destitute of
sensations; as, blank unconsciousness.
6. Lacking animation and intelligence, or their associated
characteristics, as expression of face, look, etc.;
expressionless; vacant. ``Blank and horror-stricken
faces.'' --C. Kingsley.
The blank . . . glance of a half returned
consciousness. --G. Eliot.
7. Absolute; downright; unmixed; as, blank terror.
{Blank bar} (Law), a plea put in to oblige the plaintiff in
an action of trespass to assign the certain place where
the trespass was committed; -- called also {common bar}.
{Blank cartridge}, a cartridge containing no ball.
{Blank deed}. See {Deed}.
{Blank door}, or {Blank window} (Arch.), a depression in a
wall of the size of a door or window, either for
symmetrical effect, or for the more convenient insertion
of a door or window at a future time, should it be needed.
{Blank indorsement} (Law), an indorsement which omits the
name of the person in whose favor it is made; it is
usually made by simply writing the name of the indorser on
the back of the bill.
{Blank line} (Print.), a vacant space of the breadth of a
line, on a printed page; a line of quadrats.
{Blank tire} (Mech.), a tire without a flange.
{Blank tooling}. See {Blind tooling}, under {Blind}.
{Blank verse}. See under {Verse}.
{Blank wall}, a wall in which there is no opening; a dead
wall.
\Blank\, n. 1. Any void space; a void space on paper, or in any written instrument; an interval void of consciousness, action, result, etc; a void. I can not write a paper full, I used to do; and yet I will not forgive a blank of half an inch from you. --Swift. From this time there ensues a long blank in the history of French legislation. --Hallam. I was ill. I can't tell how long -- it was a blank. --G. Eliot. 2. A lot by which nothing is gained; a ticket in a lottery on which no prize is indicated. In Fortune's lottery lies A heap of blanks, like this, for one small prize. --Dryden. 3. A paper unwritten; a paper without marks or characters a blank ballot; -- especially, a paper on which are to be inserted designated items of information, for which spaces are left vacant; a bland form. The freemen signified their approbation by an inscribed vote, and their dissent by a blank. --Palfrey. 4. A paper containing the substance of a legal instrument, as a deed, release, writ, or execution, with spaces left to be filled with names, date, descriptions, etc. 5. The point aimed at in a target, marked with a white spot; hence, the object to which anything is directed. Let me still remain The true blank of thine eye. --Shak. 6. Aim; shot; range. [Obs.] I have stood . . . within the blank of his displeasure For my free speech. --Shak. 7. A kind of base silver money, first coined in England by Henry V., and worth about 8 pence; also, a French coin of the seventeenth century, worth about 4 pence. --Nares. 8. (Mech.) A piece of metal prepared to be made into something by a further operation, as a coin, screw, nuts. 9. (Dominoes) A piece or division of a piece, without spots; as, the ``double blank''; the ``six blank.'' {In blank}, with an essential portion to be supplied by another; as, to make out a check in blank. \Blank\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Blanked}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Blanking}.] [Cf. 3d {Blanch}.] 1. To make void; to annul. [Obs.] --Spenser. 2. To blanch; to make blank; to damp the spirits of; to dispirit or confuse. [Obs.] Each opposite that blanks the face of joy. --Shak. |
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