Blank

[blæŋk]

Definition

(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' .

Checker: Melanie--From WordNet

Definition

(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.

Typist: Paul

Synonyms and Synonymous

a. [1]. Void, empty.[2]. White, of a white color.[3]. Astonished, confounded, confused, dumfounded, disconcerted, nonplussed, struck dumb.

Editor: Peter

Synonyms and Antonyms

SYN:Bleak, bare, utter, unmitigated, broad

ANT:Modified, qualified, mitigated

Checker: Luther

Definition

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.

Checker: Phyllis