Definition of Blank

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Definition of Blank

Blank

Of a white or pale color; without color.

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.

Utterly confounded or discomfited.

Empty; void; without result; fruitless; as, a blank space; a blank day.

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.

Lacking animation and intelligence, or their associated characteristics, as expression of face, look, etc.; expressionless; vacant.

Absolute; downright; unmixed; as, blank terror.

Any void space; a void space on paper, or in any written instrument; an interval void of consciousness, action, result, etc; a void.

A lot by which nothing is gained; a ticket in a lottery on which no prize is indicated.

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.

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.

The point aimed at in a target, marked with a white spot; hence, the object to which anything is directed.

Aim; shot; range.

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.

A piece of metal prepared to be made into something by a further operation, as a coin, screw, nuts.

A piece or division of a piece, without spots; as, the "double blank"; the "six blank."

To make void; to annul.

To blanch; to make blank; to damp the spirits of; to dispirit or confuse.

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Blank Quotations

I never understood why when you died, you didn't just vanish, everything could just keep going on the way it was only you just wouldn't be there. I always thought I'd like my own tombstone to be blank. No epitaph, and no name. Well, actually, I'd like it to say 'figment.'
Andy Warhol

I always thought I'd like my own tombstone to be blank. No epitaph, and no name. Well, actually, I'd like it to say "figment."
Andy Warhol

I think I did pretty well, considering I started out with nothing but a bunch of blank paper.
Steve Martin

I just filled out my income tax forms. Who says you can't get killed by a blank?
Milton Berle

I don't think there is anything wrong with white space. I don't think it's a problem to have a blank wall.
Annie Leibovitz

It would absolutely suck if you paid a few bucks for a book only to find that on the first page it said, 'Once upon a time they all lived happily ever after' and the rest of the book was blank.
Simon Travaglia

The pages are still blank, but there is a miraculous feeling of the words being there, written in invisible ink and clamoring to become visible.
Vladimir Nabokov

Each morning my characters greet me with misty faces willing, though chilled, to muster for another day's progress through the dazzling quicksand the marsh of blank paper.
John Updike

It's so fine and yet so terrible to stand in front of a blank canvas.
Paul Cezanne

As a matter of principle, I always come to a film like a blank slate, I don't learn my lines in advance. With this approach, I feel clean.
Jeanne Moreau

Blank Translations

blank in Afrikaans is wit, blank, vorm
blank in Danish is hvid, formular
blank in Dutch is wit, blanco, oningevuld, blank
blank in Finnish is valkea
blank in French is formulaire, blanc
blank in Italian is biglietto non vincente, bianco
blank in Norwegian is hvit
blank in Spanish is blanco, formulario, roblon, espacio en blanco

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