blank

Speech parts

1. blank - Noun

2. blank - Adjective

3. blank - Verb

4. blank - Adjective Satellite

5. Blank - Proper noun

Meaning

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.

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.

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Happy the people whose annals are blank in the history books. Thomas Carlyle

Writing is easy: All you do is sit staring at a blank sheet of paper until drops of blood form on your forehead. Gene Fowler

I think I did pretty well, considering I started out with nothing but a bunch of blank paper. Steve Martin

Each morning my characters greet me with misty faces willing, though chilled, to muster for another day's progress through the dazzling quicksand the marsh of blank paper. John Updike

Even if the hen is poor it cannot leave blank eggs. African Proverb

A blank page is God's way of showing you how hard it is to be God. Traditional Proverb

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