Meaning of blank | Babel Free

Definitions

1. virgin
2. A small French coin, originally of silver, afterwards of copper, worth 5 deniers; also a silver coin of Henry V current in the parts of France then held by the English, worth about 8 pence .
   archaic, historical, obsolete
3. A surname.
4. A nonplus [16th century].
   obsolete
5. Used as an anonymous placeholder for a person's name.
   dated
6. The white spot in the centre of a target; hence (figuratively) the object to which anything is directed or aimed, the range of such aim .
7. A lot by which nothing is gained; a ticket in a lottery on which no prize is indicated [since the 16th century].
8. An empty space; a void, for example on a paper .
9. A space to be filled in on a form or template.
10. Provisional words printed in italics (instead of blank spaces) in a bill before Parliament, being matters of practical detail, of which the final form is to be settled in committee .
11. A document, paper, or form with spaces left blank to be filled in at the pleasure of the person to whom it is given (e.g. a blank charter, ballot, form, contract, etc.), or as the event may determine; a blank form .
    US
12. An empty form without substance; anything insignificant; nothing at all .
    US
13. An unprinted leaf of a book [20th century].
    US
14. Blank verse .
15. A piece of material roughly cut, forged, cast, etc. to the size and shape of the thing to be made, and ready for the finishing operations; (coining) the disc of metal before stamping .
16. Any article of glass on which subsequent processing is required [since the 19th century].
17. The shaved wax ready for placing on a recording machine for making wax records with a stylus [20th century].
18. A vacant space, place, or period; a void [since the 17th century].
    figuratively
19. The ¹ / ₂₃₀₄₀₀ of a grain [17th century].
20. An empty space in one's memory; a forgotten item or memory [since the 18th century].
21. A dash written in place of an omitted letter or word
22. The space character; the character resulting from pressing the space bar on a keyboard.
23. A domino without points on one or both of its divisions.
24. A tile that can be played as any letter and having a point value of zero.
25. Ellipsis of blank cartridge [since the 19th century].
    abbreviation, alt-of, ellipsis
26. An ineffective effort which achieves nothing [since the 20th century].
    figuratively
27. A sample for a control experiment that does not contain any of the analyte of interest, in order to deliberately produce a non-detection to verify that a detection is distinguishable from it.
    figuratively
28. Infertile semen.
    figuratively, slang

Equivalents

Examples

“Whosoeuer brought a fagot before the kynges tent, he shulde haue a blanke of Fraunce.”

“Des. […] And stood within the blank of his displeasure / For my free speech! (Act III, scene 11)”

“Kent. See better, Lear, and let me still remain / The true blank of thine eye. (Act I, scene 2)”

“[…] and in Fortune's Lottery lies / A heap of Blanks, like this, for one ſmall Prize.”

“Write your answers in the blanks.”

“[…] and the freemen signified their approbation by an inscribed vote, and their dissent by a blank.”

“Du. And what's her hiſtory? Vio. A blanke my Lord:”

“My head is so ill that I cannot write a paper full as I used to do; and yet I will not forgive a blank of half an inch from you.”

“From this time there ensues a long blank in the history of French legislation.”

““I was ill. I can't tell how long — it was a blank. […]””

“the double blank”

“the six blank”

“It was an unloaded gun that fired only blanks.”

“The same preoccupation with developing a conceptual framework is evident in David Blank's Venezuela: Politics in a Petroleum Republic, a modified version of Blank's early theses.”

“Miss Compton, in 'Other People's Worries,' asks rhetorically whether a young rip was not in the Blank divorce case.”

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