Blank
[blæŋk]
解釋/意思:
(noun.) a cartridge containing an explosive charge but no bullet.
(noun.) a piece of material ready to be made into something.
(verb.) keep the opposing (baseball) team from winning.
(adj.) void of expression; 'a blank stare' .
(adj.) (of a surface) not written or printed on; 'blank pages'; 'fill in the blank spaces'; 'a clean page'; 'wide white margins' .
(adj.) not charged with a bullet; 'a blank cartridge' .
校對:梅勒妮--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(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.
(a.) Empty; void; without result; fruitless; as, a blank space; a blank day.
(a.) 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.
(a.) Lacking animation and intelligence, or their associated characteristics, as expression of face, look, etc.; expressionless; vacant.
(a.) 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.
整理:保罗
同義詞及近義詞:
a. [1]. Void, empty.[2]. White, of a white color.[3]. Astonished, confounded, confused, dumfounded, disconcerted, nonplussed, struck dumb.
整理:彼得
同義詞及反義詞:
SYN:Bleak, bare, utter, unmitigated, broad
ANT:Modified, qualified, mitigated
校對:卢瑟
解釋/意思:
adj. without writing or marks as in white paper: empty empty of results: vacant confused: (poetry) not having rhyme.—n. a paper without writing: a lottery-ticket having no mark and therefore valueless: an empty space a void or vacancy: (archery) the white mark in the centre of a target at which an arrow is aimed hence the object or aim of anything: a form of document having blank spaces afterwards to be filled in.—v.t. to make pale: (Milton) to confuse.—n. Blank′-cart′ridge a cartridge without a bullet.—p.adj. Blanked a minced form of damned from the usual form of printing d——d.—adv. Blank′ly.—ns. Blank′ness; Blank′-verse verse without rhyme esp. the heroic verse of five feet.
校對:菲利斯
例句/造句/用法:
- Blank annihilation! 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪麗.
- A good patriot, said the other, could hardly have been more afflicted if the Aristocrat had drawn a blank. 查理斯·狄更斯. 雙城記.
- For answer the girl raised her revolver and fired point-blank at him. 愛德格·賴斯·巴勒斯. 火星戰神.
- The windows were dark and blank, already the place was frightening. 大衛·赫伯特·勞倫斯. 戀愛中的女人.
- I hastily broke open the plain wafer seal, and found a two hundred pound bank-note, merely enclosed in a blank cover. 哈裡特·威爾遜. 哈裡特·威爾遜回忆录.
- Mr. Snagsby, having said this in a very plaintive manner, throws in a cough of general application to fill up all the blanks. 查理斯·狄更斯. 荒涼山莊.
- Sloan, in 1851, and Harvey, in 1864, made many improvements in machines, operating upon screw blanks. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世紀發明進展.
- And there are many blanks left in the weeks of courtship which a loving faith fills with happy assurance. 喬治·艾略特. 米德爾馬契.
- Having been absolutely carried along by the immense concourse of ladies, we came up close to Lord Kinnaird, who was dealing out the blanks and prizes. 哈裡特·威爾遜. 哈裡特·威爾遜回忆录.
- At the operator’s left hand is a stack of blanks and in his left hand he holds one ready to be placed in the draw press. 佚名. 神奇的知識之書.
- BLANKING THE STEEL TOPS] 佚名. 神奇的知識之書.
- I think it was the blankest-looking party I ever saw. 馬克·吐溫. 傻子出國記.
唐尼手打