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Meaning
Adj
●
White or
pale
; without colour.
●
Free from
writing
,
printing
, or
marks
; having an
empty space
to be
filled
in
●
Lacking
characteristics
which give
variety
; uniform.
●
Absolute;
downright
; sheer.
●
Without
expression
, usually due to incomprehension.
●
Utterly
confounded
or discomfited.
●
Empty;
void
; without result; fruitless.
●
Devoid of
thoughts
,
memory
, or inspiration.
●
In Military:
Of
ammunition
: having
propellant
but no
bullets
; unbulleted.
Noun
●
A small French
coin
,
originally
of
silver
, afterwards of
copper
,
worth
5
deniers
; also a
silver
coin
of Henry V current in the
parts
of France then
held
by the English,
worth
about 8
pence
.
●
A
nonplus
[16th century].
●
The
white spot
in the
centre
of a
target
; hence (figurative) the
object
to which anything is
directed
or
aimed
, the range of such
aim
.
●
A lot by which nothing is
gained
; a
ticket
in a
lottery
on which no
prize
is
indicated
[since
th
e 16th century].
●
An
empty space
; a
void
,
for example
on a
paper
.
A
space
to be
filled in
on a form or template.
Provisional
words
printed
in
italics
(
instead of
blank
spaces
) in a
bill
before Parliament, being
matters
of
practical
detail
, of which the
final
form will be
settled in
Committee .
●
In American English:
A
document
,
paper
, or form with
spaces
left
blank
to be
filled up
at the
pleasure
of the person to whom it is given (e.g. a
blank
charter
,
ballot
, form,
contract
, etc.), or as the
event
may
determine
; a
blank
form .
An
empty
form without
substance
; anything
insignificant
; nothing
at all
.
An
unprinted
leaf
of a
book
[20th century].
●
In Literature:
Blank
verse
.
●
In Engineering & Mechanics:
A
piece
of
metal
or
wood
cut
and
shaped
to the required
size
of
the thing
to be made, and
ready
for the
finishing
operations
; (coining) the
disc
of
metal
before
stamping
.
Any
article
of
glass
on which
subsequent
processing
is required [since
th
e 19th century].
The
shaved
wax
ready
for
placing
on a
recording
machine
for making
wax
records
with a
stylus
[20th century].
●
A
vacant
space
, place, or
period
; a
void
[since
th
e 17th century].
●
The
¹
/
₂₃₀₄₀₀
of
a
grain
[17th
century].
●
An
empty space
in
one's
memory
; a
forgotten
item
or
memory
[since
th
e 18th century].
●
A
dash
written
in place of
an
omitted
letter
or
word
[since
th
e 18th century]
A
dash
written
in place of
an
omitted
letter
or word
●
The
space
character
; the
character
resulting
from
pressing
the
space bar
on a keyboard.
●
In Dominoes:
A
domino
without
points
on one or both of its divisions.
●
In Firearms:
Short for
blank cartridge
. [since
th
e 19th century].
●
In Chemistry & Sports:
An
ineffective
effort
which
achieves
nothing [since
th
e 20th century].
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.
●
In Sports:
An
ineffective
effort
which
achieves
nothing [since
th
e 20th century].
Infertile semen.
Verb
●
To make
void
; to erase.
●
To
ignore
(a person) deliberately.
●
In Aviation:
To
render
ineffective
by
blanketing
with
turbulent
airflow
, such as from
aircraft
wake
or
reverse
thrust.
●
To
prevent
from
scoring
;
for example
, in a
sporting
event.
●
To become blank.
●
To be
temporarily
unable to remember.
Name
●
A surname.
●
Used as an
anonymous
placeholder
for a person's name.
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Synonyms
Nothing
Dud
Space
Sodden
Blank Cartridge
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Empty
Hollow
Void
Dot
Vacant
Sheet
Illegible
Stub
Unreadable
Flat
Gray
Sample
Specimen
Sharpie
Red
Pencil
Greyed
Beaker
Plate
Printed
Tube
Notebook
Silent
Rectangle
Cuvette
Pipette
Grey
Screen
Column
Vial
Blue
Burette
Featureless
Disc
Handwritten
Punch
Null
Print
Incomplete
Die
Absent
Cylinder
Smudge
Clean
Marker
Scan
Quill
Template
Pixel
Test Tube
Web Address
Smiley Face
Question Mark
Sheet Of Paper
Piece Of Paper
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Franc
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