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Blank   /blæŋk/   Listen
Blank

adjective
1.
(of a surface) not written or printed on.  Synonyms: clean, white.  "Fill in the blank spaces" , "A clean page" , "Wide white margins"
2.
Void of expression.  Synonym: vacuous.
3.
Not charged with a bullet.
noun
1.
A blank character used to separate successive words in writing or printing.  Synonym: space.
2.
A blank gap or missing part.  Synonym: lacuna.
3.
A piece of material ready to be made into something.
4.
A cartridge containing an explosive charge but no bullet.  Synonyms: blank shell, dummy.
verb
(past & past part. blanked; pres. part. blanking)
1.
Keep the opposing (baseball) team from winning.



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"Blank" Quotes from Famous Books



... To fill up the blank, there was conceived to exist what is called a Centrifugal Force, that is, literally, a Force acting, and ever acting from a centre, and with that Force we will ...
— Aether and Gravitation • William George Hooper
... turned her head toward him, surveyed him with an expression but one removed from the blank look she would have had if there had been ...
— Susan Lenox: Her Fall and Rise • David Graham Phillips
... should be discredited by a blank discharge, engagements were entered into, that within four months of the promulgation of the sentence, the emperor would invade England, and Henry should be deposed.[705] The imperialists illuminated Rome; cannon were fired; ...
— The Reign of Henry the Eighth, Volume 1 (of 3) • James Anthony Froude
... apt to be a dreary interval in the life of such a man—a blank dismal interregnum, which divides the day in which he spends his last shilling from the hour in which he begins to prey deliberately upon the purses of other people. It was in that hopeless interval that Horatio Paget established himself in the widow's parlour. But though he slept ...
— Birds of Prey • M. E. Braddon
... dogs that are always found on army Posts. Bill could see the men and the dogs and he remembered the greetings, but who passed by or what occurred on the front porch he did not know. His mind remained a blank. ...
— Battling the Clouds - or, For a Comrade's Honor • Captain Frank Cobb


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