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[Blank]

Something that's blank is empty or undecorated. A blank canvas hasn't been drawn or painted on yet it's clean and unmarked.

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Of a white or pale color; without color.

Noun
a cartridge containing an explosive charge but no bullet

Noun
a piece of material ready to be made into something

Noun
a blank gap or missing part

Noun
a substitute for a taboo word; "I hit the blank blank car"

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"

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Verb
keep the opposing (baseball) team from winning

Adjective S.
void of expression; "a blank stare"

Adjective S.
of a surface; not written or printed on; "blank pages"; "fill in the blank spaces"; "a clean page"; "wide white margins"

Adjective S.
not charged with a bullet; "a blank cartridge"

a.
Of a white or pale color; without color.

a.
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.

a.
Utterly confounded or discomfited.

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Empty; void; without result; fruitless; as, a blank space; a blank day.

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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.

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Lacking animation and intelligence, or their associated characteristics, as expression of face, look, etc.; expressionless; vacant.

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Absolute; downright; unmixed; as, blank terror.

n.
Any void space; a void space on paper, or in any written instrument; an interval void of consciousness, action, result, etc; a void.

n.
A lot by which nothing is gained; a ticket in a lottery on which no prize is indicated.

n.
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.

n.
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.

n.
The point aimed at in a target, marked with a white spot; hence, the object to which anything is directed.

n.
Aim; shot; range.

n.
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.

n.
A piece of metal prepared to be made into something by a further operation, as a coin, screw, nuts.

n.
A piece or division of a piece, without spots; as, the "double blank"; the "six blank."

v. t.
To make void; to annul.

v. t.
To blanch; to make blank; to damp the spirits of; to dispirit or confuse.

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.] 1. Of a white or pale color; without color.
To the blank moon Her office they prescribed.
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. 3. Utterly confounded or discomfited.
Adam . . . astonied stood, and blank.
4. Empty; void; without result; fruitless; as, a blank space; a blank day. 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. 6. Lacking animation and intelligence, or their associated characteristics, as expression of face, look, etc.; expressionless; vacant. "Blank and horror-stricken faces." C. Kingsley.
The blank . . . glance of a half returned consciousness.
7. Absolute; downright; unmixed; as, blank terror. 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, ∨ 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.

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.
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.
From this time there ensues a long blank in the history of French legislation.
I was ill. I can't tell how long -- it was a blank.
2. A lot by which nothing is gained; a ticket in a lottery on which no prize is indicated.
In Fortune's lottery lies A heap of blanks, like this, for one small prize.
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.
The freemen signified their approbation by an inscribed vote, and their dissent by a blank.
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. 5. The point aimed at in a target, marked with a white spot; hence, the object to which anything is directed.
Let me still remain The true blank of thine eye.
6. Aim; shot; range. [Obs.]
I have stood . . . within the blank of his displeasure For my free speech.
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. 8. (Mech.) A piece of metal prepared to be made into something by a further operation, as a coin, screw, nuts. 9. (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.

Blank

Blank, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Blanked ; p. pr. & vb. n. Blanking.] [Cf. 3d Blanch.] 1. To make void; to annul. [Obs.] Spenser. 2. To blanch; to make blank; to damp the spirits of; to dispirit or confuse. [Obs.]
Each opposite that blanks the face of joy.

Of a white or pale color; without color.

Any void space; a void space on paper, or in any written instrument; an interval void of consciousness, action, result, etc; a void.

To make void; to annul.

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Usage Examples

My favorite thing is to be alone in a room with a blank paper in front of me and the time to fill it.

Every other artist begins with a blank canvas, a piece of paper the photographer begins with the finished product.

Writing is truly a creative art - putting word to a blank piece of paper and ending up with a full-fledged story rife with character and plot.

I read and walked for miles at night along the beach, writing bad blank verse and searching endlessly for someone wonderful who would step out of the darkness and change my life. It never crossed my mind that that person could be me.

Computers make me totally blank out.

The cool thing about writing is that there is really never a typical day. Sometimes I get a rhythm going and head off to work every morning and come home at night. Sometimes I'll write for two days straight and then be utterly blank for the next two.

If you're talking to an architect, he can look at a blank piece of paper, and once the initial design is there, the formula kicks in. Each room should have something unique and different about it - much the same way that in a song, every eight bars or so, a new piece of information should be introduced.

Creativity is always a leap of faith. You're faced with a blank page, blank easel, or an empty stage.

If you look closely, there is no book more visual than Three Trapped Tigers, in that it is filled with blank pages, dark pages, it has stars made of words, the famous magical cube made of numbers, and there is even a page which is a mirror.

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Other Usage Examples

Doing things like playing music, something that's so natural and basic to human function, running around in nature, eating delicious food. These things are intrinsic in basic, primordial to human beings, so that's sort of a way to return to a blank canvas, allowing my true personality to return.

Abstention means you stayed at home or went to the beach. By casting a blank vote, you're saying you have a political conscience but you don't agree with any of the existing parties.

I try and reduce myself to an almost blank slate and hope to God that I am creative.

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.

I don't know any other lifestyle. I get up in the morning and I really do feel that the world is my oyster, and I start that way, the same as I would if I were preparing to write a song: put a blank piece of paper up on the piano and you go for it.

I have a huge respect for writers and realise that this is not an area that I find easy. I doubt that I would have the patience in front of a blank sheet of paper to become a writer.

The fact that something is in a rhymed form or in blank verse will not make it good poetry.

A blank wall of social and professional antagonism faces the woman physician that forms a situation of singular and painful loneliness, leaving her without support, respect or professional counsel.

A state of war is not a blank check... when it comes to the rights of the Nation's citizens.