blank meaning
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[blæŋk] [bleɪŋk] [-æŋk] WBlank
- Blank may refer to:
- Blank (archaeology), a thick, shaped stone biface for refining into a stone tool
- Blank (cartridge), a type of gun cartridge
- Blank (Scrabble), a playing piece in the board game Scrabble
- Blank (solution), a solution containing no analyte
- A Planchet or blank, a round metal disk to be struck as a coin
- Application blank, a space provided for data on a form
- Key blank, an uncut key
- About:blank, a Web browser function
- Created works
- Blank space, a song by Taylor Swift
- "Blank" (Eyehategod song), a track on the album Take as Needed for Pain
- NounPLblanks
- A cartridge that is designed to simulate the noise and smoke of real gunfire without actually firing a projectile.
- An empty space; a void, as on a paper, or in one's memory.
- A space to be filled in on a form or template.
- A paper without marks or characters, or with space left for writing; a ballot, form, contract, etc. that has not yet been filled in.
- A lot by which nothing is gained; a ticket in a lottery on which no prize is indicated.
- (archaic) 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.
- (engineering) A piece of metal prepared to be made into something by a further operation, as a coin, screw, nuts.
- (dominoes) A piece or division of a piece, without spots; as, the double blank"; the six blank." In blank, with an essential portion to be supplied by another; as, to make out a check in blank.
- The space character; the character resulting from pressing the space-bar on a keyboard.
- The point aimed at in a target, marked with a white spot; hence, the object to which anything is directed.
- Aim; shot; range.
- (chemistry) A sample for a control experiment that does not contain any of the analyte of interest, in order to deliberately produce a non-detection to verify that a detection is distinguishable from it.
- A cartridge that is designed to simulate the noise and smoke of real gunfire without actually firing a projectile.
- VerbSGblanksPRblankingPT, PPblanked
- (transitive) To make void; to erase.
- I blanked out my previous entry.
- (transitive, slang) To ignore.
- She blanked me for no reason.
- (transitive) To prevent from scoring, as in a sporting event.
- The team was blanked.
- England blanks Wales to advance to the final
- (intransitive) To become blank.
- (transitive) To make void; to erase.
- AdjectiveCOMblankerCOMmore blankSUPblankestSUPmost blank
- (archaic) White or pale; without colour.
- Free from writing, printing, or marks; having an empty space to be filled in; as, blank paper; a blank check; a blank ballot.
- Referee Michael Oliver failed to detect a foul in a crowded box and the Canaries escaped down the tunnel with the scoreline still blank.
- (figuratively) Lacking characteristics which give variety; uniform.
- a blank desert; a blank wall; blank unconsciousness
- Absolute; downright; unmixed; sheer.
- blank terror
- Without expression.
- Failing to understand the question, he gave me a blank stare.
- Utterly confounded or discomfited.
- Empty; void; without result; fruitless.
- a blank day
- Devoid of thoughts, memory, or inspiration.
- (archaic) White or pale; without colour.
- More Examples
- Used in the Middle of Sentence
- He blanked out the abuse he had suffered as a child.
- No cold can chill them, and no fire consume No light can daze, no darkness can begloom Nor blank vacuity 'twixt orb and orb
- They had to blank out five obscenities before airing the song.
- Used in the Ending of Sentence
- I should know that person's name, but I'm drawing a blank.
- Used in the Middle of Sentence
Definition of blank in English Dictionary
- Part-of-Speech Hierarchy
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Source: Wiktionary
Grammatically, this word "blank" is an adjective. It's also a noun, more specifically, a countable noun. It's also a verb, more specifically, an intransitive verb and a transitive verb.