'Blank' definitions:
Definition of 'blank'
From: WordNet
adjective
(of a surface) not written or printed on; "blank pages"; "fill in the blank spaces"; "a clean page"; "wide white margins" [syn: blank, clean, white]
adjective
Void of expression; "a blank stare" [syn: blank, vacuous]
adjective
Not charged with a bullet; "a blank cartridge"
noun
A blank character used to separate successive words in writing or printing; "he said the space is the most important character in the alphabet" [syn: space, blank]
noun
A blank gap or missing part [syn: lacuna, blank]
noun
A piece of material ready to be made into something
noun
A cartridge containing an explosive charge but no bullet [syn: blank, dummy, blank shell]
verb
Keep the opposing (baseball) team from winning
Definition of 'Blank'
From: GCIDE
- Blank \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.] [1913 Webster]
- 1. Of a white or pale color; without color. [1913 Webster]
- To the blank moon Her office they prescribed. --Milton. [1913 Webster]
- 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. [1913 Webster]
- 3. Utterly confounded or discomfited. [1913 Webster]
- Adam . . . astonied stood, and blank. --Milton. [1913 Webster]
- 4. Empty; void; without result; fruitless; as, a blank space; a blank day. [1913 Webster]
- 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. [1913 Webster]
- 6. Lacking animation and intelligence, or their associated characteristics, as expression of face, look, etc.; expressionless; vacant. "Blank and horror-stricken faces." --C. Kingsley. [1913 Webster]
- The blank . . . glance of a half returned consciousness. --G. Eliot. [1913 Webster]
- 7. Absolute; downright; unmixed; as, blank terror. [1913 Webster]
- 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. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Blank'
From: GCIDE
- Blank \Blank\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Blanked; p. pr. & vb. n. Blanking.] [Cf. 3d Blanch.]
- 1. To make void; to annul. [Obs.] --Spenser. [1913 Webster]
- 2. To blanch; to make blank; to damp the spirits of; to dispirit or confuse. [Obs.] [1913 Webster]
- Each opposite that blanks the face of joy. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Blank'
From: GCIDE
- Blank \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. [1913 Webster]
- 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. [1913 Webster]
- From this time there ensues a long blank in the history of French legislation. --Hallam. [1913 Webster]
- I was ill. I can't tell how long -- it was a blank. --G. Eliot. [1913 Webster]
- 2. A lot by which nothing is gained; a ticket in a lottery on which no prize is indicated. [1913 Webster]
- In Fortune's lottery lies A heap of blanks, like this, for one small prize. --Dryden. [1913 Webster]
- 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. [1913 Webster]
- The freemen signified their approbation by an inscribed vote, and their dissent by a blank. --Palfrey. [1913 Webster]
- 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. [1913 Webster]
- 5. The point aimed at in a target, marked with a white spot; hence, the object to which anything is directed. [1913 Webster]
- Let me still remain The true blank of thine eye. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
- 6. Aim; shot; range. [Obs.] [1913 Webster]
- I have stood . . . within the blank of his displeasure For my free speech. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
- 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. [1913 Webster]
- 8. (Mech.) A piece of metal prepared to be made into something by a further operation, as a coin, screw, nuts. [1913 Webster]
- 9. (Dominoes) A piece or division of a piece, without spots; as, the "double blank"; the "six blank." [1913 Webster]
- In blank, with an essential portion to be supplied by another; as, to make out a check in blank. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'blank'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- 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
Words containing 'Blank'
- Blanked,
- Blanking,
- Blankly,
- Blankness,
- In blank,
- blank out,
- Blank bar,
- Blank cartridge,
- Blank deed,
- Blank door,
- Blank indorsement,
- Blank line,
- Blank tire,
- Blank tooling,
- Blank verse,
- Blank wall,
- Blank window,
- File blank,
- Point Blank,
- To indorse in blank,
- blank check,
- blank cheque,
- blank endorsement,
- blank shell,
- blank space,
- blankety blank,
- coin blank,
- draw a blank,
- endorsement in blank,
- Point Blank, TX,
- Point-blank,
- Point-blank range,
- Point-blank shot