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blank
1. adj. Blanc.
2. adj. Vierge (page, CD, disque dur, …).
3. n. Blanc.
Just fill in the blanks on the form.
anglais > anglais
blank
1. adj. (archaic) White or pale; without colour.
2. adj. Free from writing, printing, or marks; having an empty space to be filled in
blank paper
a blank check
a blank ballot
3. adj. (sports) Scoreless; without any goals or points.
4. adj. (figurative) Lacking characteristics which give variety; uniform.
a blank desert; a blank wall; blank unconsciousness
5. adj. Absolute; downright; sheer.
There was a look of blank terror on his face.
6. adj. Without expression.
Failing to understand the question, he gave me a blank stare.
7. adj. Utterly confounded or discomfited.
8. adj. Empty; void; without result; fruitless.
a blank day
9. adj. Devoid of thoughts, memory, or inspiration.
The shock left his memory blank.
10. adj. (military) Of ammunition: having propellant but no bullets; unbulleted.
The recruits were issued with blank rounds for a training exercise.
11. n. A cartridge that is designed to simulate the noise and smoke of real gunfire without actually firing a projectile.
12. n. An physical empty space; a void, for example on a paper
13. n. An empty space in one's memory; a forgotten item or memory
14. n. A space to be filled in on a form or template.
Write your answers in the blanks.
15. n. A paper without marks or characters, or with space left for writing; a ballot, form, contract, etc. that has not yet been filled in.
16. n. A lot by which nothing is gained; a ticket in a lottery on which no prize is indicated.
17. n. (archaic, historical) A kind of base silver money, first coined in England by Henry V., and worth about 8 pence
18. n. (archaic, historical) a French coin of the seventeenth century, worth about 4 pence.
19. n. (engineering) A piece of metal prepared to be made into something by a further operation, such as a coin, screw, nuts.
20. n. (dominoes) A domino without spots
the double blank
the six blank
21. n. The space character; the character resulting from pressing the space-bar on a keyboard.
22. n. The point aimed at in a target, marked with a white spot
23. n. (figuratively) The object to which anything is directed or aimed.
24. n. Aim; shot; range.
25. n. (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
26. v. To make void; to erase.
I blanked out my previous entry.
27. v. (transitive, slang) To ignore (a person) deliberately.
She blanked me for no reason.
28. v. To prevent from scoring, for example in a sporting event.
The team was blanked.
England blanks Wales to advance to the final.
29. v. (intransitive) To become blank.
30. v. (intransitive) To be temporarily unable to remember.
I'm blanking on her name right now.

Prononciation

Exemples de phrases

She left the last page blank.      Elle a laissé blanche la dernière page. A blank check? You only see those in movies.      Un chèque en blanc ? Ça on n'en voit que dans les films ! He drew a blank when I asked him what he remembered of the accident.      Il eut un blanc lorsque je lui demandai ce dont il se rappelait de l'accident.

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