Sekirov Dictionary

blank

UK /blænk/US /blæŋk/

adjective9

  1. (of paper, a form or a screen) still empty, with space left for words or marks to be added
  2. (figurative) Lacking characteristics which give variety; uniform.
  3. (figurative) Without expression, usually because of incomprehension.
  4. Devoid of thoughts, memory, or inspiration.
  5. Abject; absolute; complete; downright; sheer; utter.
  6. Of ammunition: having propellant but no bullets; unbulleted.
  7. Empty; void; without result; fruitless; futile.
  8. Utterly confounded or discomfited.
  9. (no longer used) White or pale; without colour.

noun26

  1. An empty space; a void, for example on a paper.
  2. A space to be filled in on a form or template.
  3. An empty space in one's memory; a forgotten item or memory.
  4. The space character; the character resulting from pressing the space bar on a keyboard.
  5. (figurative) A vacant space, place, or period; a void.
  6. (slang, figurative) Infertile semen.
  7. Ellipsis of blank cartridge.
  8. (US) A document, paper, or form with spaces left blank to be filled in 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.
  9. An unprinted leaf of a book.
  10. A dash written in place of an omitted letter or word.
  11. Used as a substitute for a profanity.
  12. A piece of material roughly cut, forged, cast, etc. to the size and shape of the thing to be made, and ready for the finishing operations; (coining) the disc of metal before stamping.
  13. Any article of glass on which subsequent processing is required.
  14. The shaved wax ready for placing on a recording machine for making wax records with a stylus.
  15. A domino without points on one or both of its divisions.
  16. A tile that can be played as any letter and having a point value of zero.
  17. A lot by which nothing is gained; a ticket in a lottery on which no prize is indicated.
  18. An ineffective effort which achieves nothing.
  19. 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.
  20. (US) An empty form without substance; anything insignificant; nothing at all.
  21. The white spot in the centre of a target; hence (figuratively) the object to which anything is directed or aimed, the range of such aim.
  22. Blank verse.
  23. Provisional words printed in italics (instead of blank spaces) in a bill before Parliament, being matters of practical detail, of which the final form is to be settled in committee.
  24. The ¹ / ₂₃₀₄₀₀ of a grain.
  25. (no longer used, historical) 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.
  26. (no longer used) A nonplus.

verb6

  1. To make void; to erase.
  2. (informal) To experience a temporary lapse of memory; to be temporarily unable to remember a particular fact. (Commonly used in the first person, present progressive tense, and commonly followed by on to create a transitive phrasal verb.)
  3. (slang) To ignore (a person) deliberately.
  4. To become blank.
  5. To prevent from scoring; for example, in a sporting event.
  6. To render ineffective by blanketing with turbulent airflow, such as from aircraft wake or reverse thrust.
forms

blanked · blanking · blanks · blanker · more blank · blankest · most blank

Phrases with blank

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