Meaning of 'blank' (Webster Dictionary)
- Of a white or pale color; without color.
- 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.
- Utterly confounded or discomfited.
- Empty; void; without result; fruitless; as, a blank space; a
blank day.
- 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.
- Lacking animation and intelligence, or their associated
characteristics, as expression of face, look, etc.; expressionless;
vacant.
- Absolute; downright; unmixed; as, blank terror.
- Any void space; a void space on paper, or in any written
instrument; an interval void of consciousness, action, result, etc; a
void.
- A lot by which nothing is gained; a ticket in a lottery on
which no prize is indicated.
- 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.
- 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.
- The point aimed at in a target, marked with a white spot;
hence, the object to which anything is directed.
- Aim; shot; range.
- 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.
- A piece of metal prepared to be made into something by a
further operation, as a coin, screw, nuts.
- A piece or division of a piece, without spots; as, the
"double blank"; the "six blank."
- To make void; to annul.
- To blanch; to make blank; to damp the spirits of; to
dispirit or confuse.
Meaning of 'blank' (Princeton's WordNet)
Meaning (1):
- a blank character used to separate successive words in writing or printing
Example in sentence:- he said the space is the most important character in the alphabet
Meaning (2):
- not charged with a bullet
Meaning (3):
- (of a surface) not written or printed on
Example in sentence:- a clean page;
- blank pages;
- fill in the blank spaces;
- wide white margins
Meaning (4):
- complete and absolute
Example in sentence:- blank stupidity;
- utter seriousness
Meaning (5):
- without comprehension
Example in sentence:- When I called her name, she gave me a blank look, as though she didn't know me
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