Definitions for Blank

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Blank blank

Spelling: [blangk]

IPA: /blæŋk/

Blank is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 11 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 14 points.

You can make 46 anagrams from letters in Blank (abkln).

Definitions for Blank

noun

1. a place where something is lacking; an empty space:
2. a space in a printed form, test, etc., to be filled in:
3. a printed form containing such spaces:
4. a dash put in place of an omitted letter, series of letters, etc., especially to avoid writing a word considered profane or obscene.
5. Metalworking. a piece of metal ready to be drawn, pressed, or machined into a finished object.
6. Archery. the bull's-eye.
7. the object toward which anything is directed; aim; target.
8. blank cartridge.

Idioms

1. draw a blank, to fail in an attempt; be unsuccessful: to fail to comprehend or be unable to recollect:

adjective

1. (of paper or other writing surface) having no marks; not written or printed on:
2. not filled in, as a printed form:
3. unrelieved or unbroken by ornament, opening, decoration, etc.:
4. lacking some usual or completing feature:
5. (of a recording medium) containing no previously recorded information: Compare prerecorded.
6. void of interest, variety, results, etc.:
7. showing no attention, interest, or emotion:
8. disconcerted; nonplussed; speechless:
9. complete; utter; unmitigated:
10. Archaic. white; pale; colorless.

verb (used with object)

1. to cross out or delete, especially in order to invalidate or void (usually followed by out):
2. Informal. to keep (an opponent) from scoring in a game.
3. Metalworking. to stamp or punch out of flat stock, as with a die.

Origin of Blank

1300-50; Middle English (noun and adj.) Anglo-French, French blanc (adj.) Germanic; compare Old English blanca white horse, Old High German blanch bright, white

Examples for Blank

I will sign you a blank cheque, which your uncle can fill up with the amount he has stolen.

I was in front of him trying to talk him out of it but he was just looking at me with a blank stare on his face.

In the case of Steven Eugene Washington, nothing more than a blank stare made him a target for police bullets.

Listening to Creed is perhaps his way of saying, “Forget everything you think you know about music, and start with a blank slate.”

The cover was blank; it was sealed with a small device, as of a ring seal.

A young officer loaded the rifles of the 12-man firing squad each with a single bullet, one of them a blank.

But Rima, what had she expected that her face wore that blank look of surprise and pain?

Robin's pale, blank face had a sick look, a deadly smoothness.

Tonn and blank Construction An Indiana construction company.

The blank astonishment of her face had proved that to him beyond a doubt.