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| 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. | |
