Found 3 items, similar to blank.
English → Indonesian (quick)
Definition: blank
blangko, buta, formulir, kekosongan, kosong
English → English (WordNet)
Definition: blank
blank
adj 1: of a surface; not written or printed on;
“blank pages”;
“fill in the blank spaces”;
“a clean page”;
“wide
white margins” [syn:
clean,
white]
2: void of expression;
“a blank stare”
3: not charged with a bullet;
“a blank cartridge”
blank
v : keep the opposing (baseball) team from winning
blank
n 1: a blank character used to separate successive words in
writing or printing;
“he said the space is the most
important character in the alphabet” [syn:
space]
2: a substitute for a taboo word;
“I hit the blank blank car”
3: a blank gap or missing part [syn:
lacuna]
4: a piece of material ready to be made into something
5: a cartridge containing an explosive charge but no bullet
[syn:
dummy,
blank shell]
English → English (gcide)
Definition: Blank
Blank
\Blank\, a. [OE. blank, blonc, blaunc, blaunche, fr. F.
blanc, fem. blanche, fr. OHG. blanch shining, bright, white,
G. blank; akin to E. blink, cf. also AS. blanc white. ?98.
See
Blink, and cf. 1st
Blanch.]
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1. Of a white or pale color; without color.
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To the blank moon
Her office they prescribed. --Milton.
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2. 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.
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3. Utterly confounded or discomfited.
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Adam . . . astonied stood, and blank. --Milton.
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4. Empty; void; without result; fruitless; as, a blank space;
a blank day.
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5. 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.
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6. Lacking animation and intelligence, or their associated
characteristics, as expression of face, look, etc.;
expressionless; vacant.
“Blank and horror-stricken
faces.” --C. Kingsley.
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The blank . . . glance of a half returned
consciousness. --G. Eliot.
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7. Absolute; downright; unmixed; as, blank terror.
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Blank bar (Law), a plea put in to oblige the plaintiff in
an action of trespass to assign the certain place where
the trespass was committed; -- called also
common bar.
Blank cartridge, a cartridge containing no ball.
Blank deed. See
Deed.
Blank door, or
Blank window (Arch.), a depression in a
wall of the size of a door or window, either for
symmetrical effect, or for the more convenient insertion
of a door or window at a future time, should it be needed.
Blank indorsement (Law), an indorsement which omits the
name of the person in whose favor it is made; it is
usually made by simply writing the name of the indorser on
the back of the bill.
Blank line (Print.), a vacant space of the breadth of a
line, on a printed page; a line of quadrats.
Blank tire (Mech.), a tire without a flange.
Blank tooling. See
Blind tooling, under
Blind.
Blank verse. See under
Verse.
Blank wall, a wall in which there is no opening; a dead
wall.
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Blank
\Blank\, n.
1. Any void space; a void space on paper, or in any written
instrument; an interval void of consciousness, action,
result, etc; a void.
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I can not write a paper full, I used to do; and yet
I will not forgive a blank of half an inch from you.
--Swift.
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From this time there ensues a long blank in the
history of French legislation. --Hallam.
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I was ill. I can't tell how long -- it was a blank.
--G. Eliot.
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2. A lot by which nothing is gained; a ticket in a lottery on
which no prize is indicated.
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In Fortune's lottery lies
A heap of blanks, like this, for one small prize.
--Dryden.
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3. 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.
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The freemen signified their approbation by an
inscribed vote, and their dissent by a blank.
--Palfrey.
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4. 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.
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5. The point aimed at in a target, marked with a white spot;
hence, the object to which anything is directed.
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Let me still remain
The true blank of thine eye. --Shak.
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6. Aim; shot; range. [Obs.]
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I have stood . . . within the blank of his
displeasure
For my free speech. --Shak.
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7. 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. --Nares.
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8. (Mech.) A piece of metal prepared to be made into
something by a further operation, as a coin, screw, nuts.
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9. (Dominoes) A piece or division of a piece, without spots;
as, the
“double blank”; the
“six blank.”
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In blank, with an essential portion to be supplied by
another; as, to make out a check in blank.
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Blank
\Blank\, v. t. [imp. & p. p.
Blanked; p. pr. & vb. n.
Blanking.] [Cf. 3d
Blanch.]
1. To make void; to annul. [Obs.] --Spenser.
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2. To blanch; to make blank; to damp the spirits of; to
dispirit or confuse. [Obs.]
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Each opposite that blanks the face of joy. --Shak.
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