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Blank

adjective

1.

(of a surface) not written or printed on. Synonyms: clean, white. "Fill in the blank spaces" , "A clean page" , "Wide white margins"

2.

Void of expression. Synonym: vacuous.

3.

Not charged with a bullet.

noun

1.

A blank character used to separate successive words in writing or printing. Synonym: space.

2.

A blank gap or missing part. Synonym: lacuna.

3.

A piece of material ready to be made into something.

4.

A cartridge containing an explosive charge but no bullet. Synonyms: blank shell, dummy.

verb

(past & past part. blanked; pres. part. blanking)

1.

Keep the opposing (baseball) team from winning.

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"Blank" Quotes from Famous Books

... brick floor had never been scoured, the furniture consisted of three rickety chairs, a round table, and a sideboard stationed between the two doors of a bedroom and a sitting-room. Windows and doors alike were dingy with accumulated grime. Reams of blank paper or printed matter usually encumbered the floor, and more frequently than not the remains of Sechard's dinner, empty bottles and plates, were ...

— Two Poets - Lost Illusions Part I • Honore de Balzac

... Miss Matty asked Mrs Forrester "if she thought it was quite right to have come to see such things? She could not help fearing they were lending encouragement to something that was not quite"— A little shake of the head filled up the blank. Mrs Forrester replied, that the same thought had crossed her mind; she too was feeling very uncomfortable, it was so very strange. She was quite certain that it was her pocket- handkerchief which was in that loaf just now; and it had been in her own hand not five ...

— Cranford • Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell

... meting out punishment and providing adequate remedies—are perpetrated, include many variations of procedure by which false certificates of citizenship are forged in their entirety; or genuine certificates fraudulently or collusively obtained in blank are filled in by the criminal conspirators; or certificates are obtained on fraudulent statements as to the time of arrival and residence in this country; or imposition and substitution of another party for the real petitioner ...

— State of the Union Addresses of Theodore Roosevelt • Theodore Roosevelt

... squares darted lightning point-blank on the cuirassiers. The intrepid General Delort made the military salute ...

— Les Miserables - Complete in Five Volumes • Victor Hugo

... had shopped them at Gentle's. They hung now lightly against the darkness. The blond girl who had sold them to her must be sleeping now, too, in this same curious pool of unreality. She lay sunk in a strange pause. Once she propped herself on an elbow, gazing across the street to the blank front of her parents' house. They were sleeping behind that middle upper window, their clothing folded across chairs, as if waiting. How eagerly they would greet their new day of small duties, small pleasures, and small emotions. What gave them the courage to meet the years of days cut off one ...

— Star-Dust • Fannie Hurst

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