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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



... and the dark's a glare Of flickering horror in the sectors where We raid the Boche; men waiting, stiff and chilled, Or crawling on their bellies through the wire. "What? Stretcher-bearers wanted? Some one killed?" Five minutes ago I heard a sniper fire: Why did he do it?... Starlight overhead— Blank stars. I'm wide-awake; ...
— The War Poems of Siegfried Sassoon • Siegfried Sassoon
... into the library, Bivens, who was awaiting him alone, sprang to his feet with a look of blank amazement, and then a smile began to play about his hard mouth. He thrust his delicate hands into his pockets and deliberately looked the doctor's big figure over from head to foot ...
— The Root of Evil • Thomas Dixon
... resolved to go up point-blank to my brother (husband), and to tell him who I was; but not knowing what temper I might find him in, or how much out of temper rather, I might make him by such a rash visit, I resolved to write a letter ...
— The Fortunes and Misfortunes of the Famous Moll Flanders &c. • Daniel Defoe
... was going to, I quick opened the Bible to the first blank page and what I saw was, "To my dear son, Sam Black, from your Mother." And right below it were printed, very carefully, ...
— Shenanigans at Sugar Creek • Paul Hutchens
... me what Monk had done in the City, how he had pulled down the most part of the gates and chains that they could break down, and that he was now gone back to White Hall. The City look mighty blank, and cannot tell what in the world to do; the Parliament having this day ordered that the Common- council sit no more, but that new ones be chosen according to what qualifications they shall ...
— The Diary of Samuel Pepys • Samuel Pepys


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