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Definition: Blank |
BlankAdjective1. Of a surface; not written or printed on; "blank pages"; "fill in the blank spaces"; "a clean page"; "wide white margins". 2. Void of expression; "a blank stare". 3. Not charged with a bullet; "a blank cartridge". Noun1. A blank character used to separate successive words in writing or printing; "he said the space is the most important character in the alphabet". 2. A substitute for a taboo word; "I hit the blank blank car". 3. A blank gap or missing part. 4. A piece of material ready to be made into something. 5. A cartridge containing an explosive charge but no bullet. Verb1. Keep the opposing team from winning, in baseball. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "blank" was first used: 1230. (references) |
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Satire | BLANK-:VERSE:, n. Unrhymed iambic pentameters -- the most difficult kind of English verse to write acceptably; a kind, therefore, much affected by those who cannot acceptably write any kind. Source: Devil's Dictionary. |
Computing | A part of a data medium in which no characters are recorded. Source: European Union. (references) |
Electrical Engineering | A metal disk covered with lacquer used for reproduction of the original recording. Source: European Union. (references) |
Engineering & Technology | Any die-cut, scored and corner-cut or otherwise partially prepared section of boxboard, in the flat, to be formed into a set-up paper box or part thereof, e. g. , base blank, tray blank, etc. Source: European Union. (references) |
Finance | Cutting -- or -- from the strips. . also blank disc p. 824. . Source: European Union. (references) |
Fine Arts | Test carried out under specified conditions with all reagents with exception of determined substance to account for consent of this substance in reagents used(2). Source: European Union. (references) |
Industry | Something in an unfinished or incomplete state that is designed for further working or manipulation. Source: European Union. (references) |
| An unfinished, possibly stamped metal shape that must be processed further for finishing. Source: European Union. (references) | |
Metallurgy | The rough shape of a product ready for final shaping, or of a raw material prior to calcination. Source: European Union. (references) |
| A means of sealing a gas main. Source: European Union. (references) | |
| Any piece of metal(e. g. a semi-manufacture)which is ready to be turned into a finished product by a process either of plastic deformation or of stock removal; e. g. the blank of a gear as prepared for the tooth-cutting process, or a razor blade before it has been given an edge. Source: European Union. (references) | |
| A slug cut or punched out of a sheet or strip. Source: European Union. (references) | |
| A blank sheared or cut such that its contour does not lie entirely within the sheet or strip from which it is obtained. Source: European Union. (references) | |
| A short piece of bar or billet sufficient to make one forging. Source: European Union. (references) | |
Mining | A. An interval in a borehole from which core was not recovered or was lost, or in which no minerals of value were encountered b. See:bit blank c. In powder metallurgy, a pressed, presintered, or fully sintered compact, usually in the unfinished condition and requiring cutting, machining, or some other operation to produce the final shape d. A quartz plate with approx., or exactly, the correct edge dimensions, but not yet finished to final thickness (frequency). Ordinarily applied to pieces of quartz that are in the process of being machine lapped or thatare diced out, but not yet lapped. (references) |
Public Administration | First print of a leaflet with text omitted. Source: European Union. (references) |
Slang in 1811 | BLANK. To look blank; to appear disappointed or confounded. Source: 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
In archaeology, a blank is a thick, shaped stone biface of suitable size and configuration for refining into a stone tool. Blanks are the beginning products of lithic reduction, and during prehistoric times were often created for trade or later refinement at another location. Blanks were often formed through the initial reduction of lumps of tool stone at simple quarries, often no more than easily accessible outcroppings of the local tool stone (although this was certainly not the case at Grimes Graves in England). Sometimes the shape of the blank hints at the shape of the final tool it will become, but this is not always the case. A blank may consist of either a large, unmodified flake or a reduced core, often with a rough subtriangular or lanceolate shape. Rough chopping tools, derived by removing a few flakes along one edge of the cobble, can also be considered to fall into this group.A blank is also an important tile in the game of Scrabble. Rather than having one of the letters of the alphabet printed on it, it has a blank face and can be substituted for any letter you desire (comparable with the wild card or joker in card games, or with a wildcard character in telecommunication and computing). While you gain no points for playing a blank, it can enable the use of other tiles from your hand that would be otherwise useless.
A blank is also a type of cartridge for a gun that contains gunpowder but no bullet or shot. Blanks are commonly used for safety reasons in military training maneuvers, in movies that require gun fights and in starter's pistols to signal the beginning of races. However it should be noted that given the speed a blank cartridge comes at that they are by no means safe. Also they can caused damage to the eardrum. A blank expression is either one of slight confusion when someone refers to something which you don't understand or a poker-face (shortened to a po-face) where you which to hide your expression from other people. In poker you don't want people to know if you are holding a good hand or a bad hand, hence the need for a blank expression.
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Blank."
Synonyms: BlankSynonyms: clean (adj), white (adj), blank shell (n), dummy (n), lacuna (n), space (n). (additional references) |
| Synonym by domain: parison (industry, metallurgy). |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Dejection | Melancholy; sadness; Adjective: il penseroso, melancholia, dismals, blues, lachrymals, mumps, dumps, blue devils, doldrums; vapors, megrims, spleen, horrors, hypochondriasis, pessimism; la maladie sans maladie; despondency, slough of Despond; disconsolateness; Adjective: hope deferred, blank despondency; voiceless woe. |
Direction | Adverb: towards; on the road, on the high road to; en avant; versus, to; hither, thither, whither; directly; straight as an arrow, forwards as an arrow; point blank; in a bee line to, in a direct line to, as the crow flies, in a straight line to, in a bee line for, in a direct line for, in a straight line for, in a bee line with, in a direct line with, in a straight line with; in a line with; full tilt at, as the crow flies. |
Disappointment | Verb: be disappointed; look blank, look blue; look aghast, stand aghast; (wonder); find to one's cost; laugh on the wrong side of one's mouth; find one a false prophet. |
Discontent | Verb: be discontented; Adjective: quarrel with one's bread and butter; repine; regret; wish one at the bottom of the Red Sea; take on, take to heart; shrug the shoulders; make a wry face, pull a long face; knit one's brows; look blue, look black, look black as thunder, look blank, look glum. |
Impotence | Telum imbelle, brutum fulmen, blank, blank cartridge, flash in the pan, vox et proeterea nihil, dead letter, bit of waste paper, dummy; paper tiger; Quaker gun. |
Inexistence | Noun: inexistence; nonexistence, nonsubsistence; nil; negativeness; Adjective: nullity; nihility, nihilism; tabula rasa, blank; abeyance; absence; no such thing; nonbeing, nothingness, oblivion. |
Adjective: inexistent, nonexistent; negative, blank; missing, omitted; absent insubstantial, shadowy, spectral, visionary. | |
Poetry | Verse, rhyme, assonance, crambo, meter, measure, foot, numbers, strain, rhythm; accentuation; (voice); dactyl, spondee, trochee, anapest; hexameter, pentameter; Alexandrine; anacrusis, antispast, blank verse, ictus. |
Refusal | Declinature; peremptory refusal, flat refusal, point blank refusal; repulse, rebuff; discountenance. |
Unsubstantiality | Vacant, vacuous; empty; eviscerated; blank, hollow; nominal; null; inane. |
Hollowness, blank; void; (absence). | |
Wonder | Verb: wonder, marvel, admire; be surprised; Adjective: start; stare; open one's eyes, rub one's eyes, turn up one's eyes; gloar; gape, open one's mouth, hold one's breath; look aghast, stand aghast, stand agog; look blank; (disappointment); tombe des nues; not believe one's eyes, not believe one's ears, not believe one's senses. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
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Screenplays | Emergency water landing, 600 miles an hour: blank faces, calm as Hindu cows (Fight Club; writing credit: Jim Uhls) My mind is blank. And I'll, and I'll smash your face for you, yarblockos (A Clockwork Orange; writing credit: Stanley Kubrick) Hey, it was cheaper than a blank tape (The Simpsons; writing credit: Artur Brauner; Paul Hengge) You have carte blanche, but not a blank check (E tu vivrai nel terrore - L'aldilà; writing credit: Dardano Sacchetti;) Move as close as you can and engage those Star Destroyers at point blank range (Star Wars: Episode VI - Return of the Jedi; writing credit: George Lucas; Lawrence Kasdan) | |
Clever | It is OK to let your mind go blank, but please turn off the sound. (references; author: unknown) Patient was seen in consultation by Dr. Blank, who felt we should sit on the abdomen, and I agree. (references; author: unknown) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Blur and Blank via Checkheaton (1972) Point Blank (1967) Blinkity Blank (1955) The Blank Page (1915) Point Blank (2002) | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | "Surreal Sphere to Sphere" by Lennart Agborn. Use the Scrollbar to vary A. The graph initially comes up blank; you must vary A to see it. |  | [Joseph B. De Lee] / Blank & Stoller, Inc. Credit: National Library of Medicine. |
 | His face assumed a deadly pallor -- the paper was a blank. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Richmond Shreve, half-length portrait, standing, facing front] / Blank & Stoller, Inc. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Crisis in Washington--Mr. Coolidge refuses point blank to vacate the White House until his other rubber is found / Gluyas Williams. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | In the rough. The first rough cut has been made in these rifle stocks as they take shape from the blank. Part of the war work at an eastern armory. Credit: Library of Congress. |
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| "Blank stick on panel" by Carlos Gustavo Curado Commentary: "Blank stick on a cork panel. I think it's pretty useful, 'cause you can write anything on it!." | "Blank Plasma Screen" by Craig Young Commentary: "Blank screen that can be used for demonstrating anything." |
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| Title | Author | Quote |
Sylvie and Bruno | Carroll, Lewis | I returned the book, looking, I suppose, a little blank, as the lady laughed merrily at my discomfiture |
A Christmas Carol | Dickens, Charles | After a short period of blank astonishment, in which the old man with the pipe had joined them, they all three burst into a laugh |
Scarlet Letter | Hawthorne, Nathaniel | Old Roger Chillingworth knelt down beside him, with a blank, dull countenance, out of which the life seemed to have departed |
Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | He merely remembered having been seized from behind by hand at the moment he fell backwards into the barricades, then all became a blank to him. |
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man | Joyce, James | Cranly watched him with a blank expressionless face |
Grapes of Wrath | Steinbeck, John | Rose of Sharon looked at Ma, and her eyes were blank with tears |
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Health | Areas in the lung where blood clots are blocking the flow of blood will show up as blank or clear areas. (references) | |
Yes. A person can check for signs of damage to the macula by looking at a printed pattern called an Amsler grid. If the macula has been damaged, the vertical and horizontal lines of the grid may appear curved, or a blank spot may seem to appear. (references) | ||
Civil Liberties | Belarus | Several newspapers were run on Magic presses with blank pages during the election campaign. (references) |
Togo | Although the Government eased some documentation requirements for persons applying for passports, application requirements and a shortage of blank passports prevented or significantly hindered some citizens' travel. (references) | |
Belarus | The authorities stepped up their campaign of harassment against independent media, including open censorship, requiring some independent publications to remove stories, which forced them to publish blank pages or spaces. (references) | |
Economic History | Israel | Computer software is expressly protected as a "literary work." Sound recordings are protected and the law provides for rental and leasing rights for sound recordings and compensation to copyright holders for private copying onto blank cassettes. (references) |
Canada | The second is for a "private copying" levy to be paid by manufacturers and importers of recordable blank cassettes, tapes and compact discs, with the proceeds going to domestic artists and artists from countries that extend the same benefits to Canada. (references) | |
Human Rights | Egypt | Victims frequently report being subjected to threats and forced to sign blank papers to be used against the victim or the victim's family in the future should the victim complain of abuse. (references) |
Political Economy | BELGIUM | National treatment standards were introduced in the blank tape levy provisions of the new law. (references) |
CANADA | The United States has a levy for cds but not blank tapes, therefore, U.S. artists do not benefit from Canada's regime. (references) | |
DENMARK | Also in 2001, Denmark introduced a new levy on blank music CDs, the proceeds of which will be shared with U.S. rightholders in a way similar to the present, but naturally declining in value, levy on blank audio tapes. (references) | |
Political Rights | Peru | Blank and null votes did not make up a significant percentage of the votes in the second round. (references) |
Bosnia and Herzegovina | The election law also left blank passages relating to the election of the president and vice-president of both entities and the Federation House of Peoples, since these institutions were under review by the commissions. (references) | |
Cuba | Slightly more than 50 percent of those elected were incumbents, 20 percent were women, and approximately 9 percent of all candidates were between the ages of 16 and 30. The reports also claimed that nationwide the number of blank ballots decreased from 3.2 percent to 2.8 percent, while the number of annulled votes also decreased to 3 percent from nearly 4 percent, compared with the last election. (references) | |
Worker Rights | Kuwait | In June the Director General of the Immigration Department was suspended for signing 50 blank work residence permits, some of which subsequently were sold by visa traders. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Blank" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 89.45% of the time. "Blank" is used about 1,477 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 89.45% | 1,322 | 6,001 |
| Noun (singular) | 4.33% | 64 | 42,009 |
| Lexical Verb (base form) | 3.99% | 59 | 44,010 |
| Lexical Verb (infinitive) | 2.1% | 31 | 62,296 |
| Noun (proper) | 0.14% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Total | 100.00% | 1,477 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes the usage of "blank" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified. |
| Name | Usage/Gender | Usage per 100 million Persons | Rank in USA |
| Blank | Last name | 6,000 | 2,160 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits. | |||
Expressions using "blank": a blank look ♦ application blank ♦ blank amazement ♦ blank ammunition ♦ Blank bar ♦ blank bill ♦ blank block ♦ blank cartridge ♦ blank check ♦ blank cheque ♦ blank cutting ♦ Blank deed ♦ blank denial ♦ blank despair ♦ blank despondency ♦ blank disc ♦ blank disk ♦ blank diskette ♦ blank door ♦ blank endorsement ♦ blank existence ♦ blank experiment ♦ blank face ♦ blank form ♦ blank groove ♦ blank gun ♦ blank impossibility ♦ Blank indorsement ♦ blank life ♦ blank like fine roll ♦ Blank line ♦ blank look ♦ blank mind ♦ blank of safety razor blade ♦ blank off ♦ blank out ♦ blank page ♦ blank pistol ♦ blank shearing ♦ blank shell ♦ blank space ♦ blank tape ♦ blank test ♦ Blank tire ♦ Blank tooling ♦ blank verse ♦ Blank wall ♦ Blank window ♦ coin blank ♦ draw a blank ♦ endorsement in blank ♦ File blank ♦ fire a blank shoot ♦ give smb. a blank cheque ♦ in blank ♦ leave a blank ♦ look blank ♦ Point Blank ♦ point blank denial ♦ steel plate blank ♦ To indorse in blank. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "blank": blank-cheque, blank-eyed, blank-faced, blank-filling, blank-looking, blank-panelled, blank-verse, blank-walled. | |
Ending with "blank": blankety-blank, dusty-blank, Point-blank, refuse point-blank. | |
Containing "blank": Point-blank range, Point-blank shot, quasi-blank-verse. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day | Expression | Frequency per Day |
about blank | 5,893 | point blank | 135 |
blank | 3,149 | blank wedding invitation | 124 |
blank calendar | 902 | gun blank firing | 122 |
blank dvd | 424 | blank use | 112 |
blank t shirt | 284 | dvd blank media | 112 |
blank check | 258 | blank invitation | 109 |
blank cd | 243 | blank resume | 108 |
blank media | 240 | blank page | 106 |
blank dvd r | 204 | key blank | 103 |
billy blank | 193 | blank video tape | 98 |
blank cds | 191 | auto blank | 97 |
blank sheet music | 179 | blank printable calendar | 89 |
blank map of the world | 170 | blank park zoo | 87 |
blank map of the united state | 160 | blank map of us | 82 |
blank certificate | 159 | blank map usa | 75 |
blank gun | 148 | blank journal | 71 |
blank cdr | 145 | t shirt blank wholesale | 71 |
blank map | 144 | blank dvd r media | 69 |
ticket blank | 143 | blank monthly calendar | 68 |
mandy blank | 137 | blank rome | 68 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Language | Translations for "blank"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Afrikaans | wit (white), vorm (form, shape), blank (white). (various references) | |
Albanian | boshllëk (clearance, emptiness, gap, hiatus, Lacuna, space, vac, vacancy, void, white), bosh (bare, bladdery, empty, fiddling, gassy, hollow, hot air, idle, inane, milk and water, open, thin, trifling, unoccupied, vacant, vacuous, void, white), biletë lotarie që nuk fiton, bardhë (white), vend bosh (hiatus, Lacuna), i zbrazët (empty, hollow, vacant, vacuous, void), i turbullt (cloudy, dim, dimmish, dreamy, dull, dusky, feculent, foggy, indistinct, lax, misty, muddy, obscure, shadowy, thick, turbid, turbulent, vague, woozy), i bardhë (all-white, chalky, Lily, milky, white, whitey), formular (form, guest-card). (various references) | |
Arabic | فارغ (barren, empty, flatulent, hollow, idle, inane, leisure, meaningless, pointless, senseless, silly, stupid, vacuous, vain, windy), فراغ (air, completion, emptiness, finishing, free time, gap, idleness, inane, inanity, leisure, nothingness, space, spare time, vacancy, vacuity, vacuum, void), موطن فارغ, هدف الرمية, ورقة يانصيب, غفل (drowse, forget), غير منجز (inchoate, unaccomplished), تام (complete, crass, entire, every, flat, gone, implicit, integral, outright, perfect, perfected, performed, plenary, pure, rank, regular, round, sound, thorough, thoroughgoing, unconditional, unequivocal, unqualified, utter, whole), خالي من التعبير, الغفل, أجوف (hollow), أبيض (candid, white), رصاصة طائشة, شعر مرسل (blank verse). (various references) | |
Bavarian | weiss (white). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | разбивам (agitate, beat, beat up, blast, blight, break, break down, break in pieces, break to pieces, burst open, dash, deflate, disrupt, hack, kick in, mill, overwhelm, pry open, scatter, shatter, smash, smash in, smash up, split off, stamp, whip, whip up, wreck), незастроен (undeveloped), мишена (butt, target, tee), зачерквам (black out, cancel, cross off, cross out, delete, kill, score out, scratch off, strike, write off), анулирам (abate, abrogate, annul, avoid, countermand, disannul, invalidate, negate, nullify, quash, recall, repeal, rescind, revoke, unmake, write off), бланка (form), проклет (accursed, accurst, bad, bleeding, bloody, cursed, cussed, damn, damned, deuced, dratted, ill natured, infernal, plaguy, ruddy, unblessed, wicked), пропуск (countersign, flaw, gap, lapse, negligence, omission, out, oversight, pass, permit, pretermission, protection, safe conduct, skip, slip, slip up), празнина (cavity, gap, hiatus, hollow, vacancy), празен (airy, airy fairy, bare, barren, empty, hollow, idle, inane, light, loose, piffling, pithless, purposeless, sounding, superficial, uncharged, unsubstantial, untenanted, vacant, vacuous, vain, void, yeasty). (various references) | |
Catalan | blanc (white), full (form). (various references) | |
Chinese | 白 (bright, clear, empty, gratuitous, plain, pure, snowy, white), 空白 (Blanks, Gap, lacuna, Lacunae, Lacunas), 愣 (distracted, stupefied, to look distracted, to stare blankly). (various references) | |
Czech | bianko, bezvýrazný (characterless, dead pan, flabby, glassy, inexpressive, insipid, noncommittal, tame, vapid), totální (absolute, all out, hopeless, total, utter, wholesale), tiskopis (form), slepý (blind, implicit, unquestioning), prázdný (bare, clean, disused, empty, hollow, inane, light, meaningless, unoccupied, vacant, vacuous, vapid, void, windy), předlisek, nevyplnìný, nepopsaný (clean), nepřítomný (absent, faraway, vacant), nìmý (dumb, inarticulate, mute, speechless, voiceless), mezera (breach, break, gap, hiatus, interval, space, vacancy), absolutní (absolute, clear, complete, dead, flat, implicit, perfect, plenary, positive, strict, uncompromising, undiluted, undivided, unmitigated), èistý (absolute, clean, clear, fine, neat, net, new, perfect, pure, stainless, straight, taintless, tidy, true, unalloyed, untainted, white). (various references) | |
Danish | hvid (white), formular (form). (various references) | |
Dutch | wit (aim, goal, purpose, target, white), blank (white), blanco (white). (various references) | |
Esperanto | blanka (white), formularo (form). (various references) | |
Faeroese | hvítur (white). (various references) | |
Farsi | فاصله یاجای سفیدوخالی , ورقه پوچ , ورقه سفید, سفیدی , جای ننوشته . (various references) | |
Finnish | tyhjä (bare, devoid of, empty, idle, vacant, vain, void). (various references) | |
French | blanc (Blanc), formulaire (blank form). (various references) | |
Frisian | wyt (white). (various references) | |
German | leer (bare, blankly, blanks, devoid, empty, free, frothily, frothy, hollow, idle, no-op, specious, unseeing, untenanted, vacant, vacuous, vacuously, vain, vapid, void), unausgefüllt (unfilled, unfulfilled, vacant), niete (bummer, dead loss, dunce, failure, incompetent, no-account, plonker, rivet, slouch, stud, washout), vordruck (form, printed form), unbeschrieben (undescribed), Rohling (brute, ruffian), Leere (bareness, blankness, emptily, emptiness, inaneness, vacancy, vacantness, vacuity, vacuously, vacuousness, void), Lücke (breach, break, gap, hiatus, hole, loophole, opening, scuttle, space, vacancy), formular (form). (various references) | |
Greek | κενό (gap, hiatus, vacancy, vacuity, vacuum, void). (various references) | |
Hawaiian | bardhë (white). (various references) | |
Hebrew | חלק (even, fate, flat, fraction, glace, installment, level, lot, part, partition, portion, section, share, slick, smooth, soft), כדור סרק, טופס (form, template), ריקנות (emptiness, vanity), ריק (emptiness, empty, vacant, vacuity, vacuum, vain, vanity, void). (various references) | |
Hungarian | nyomtatvány (form, print, printed matter, second class matter), hiány (absence, dearth, defect, deficiency, deficit, deprivation, failure, hiatus, lack, missing, missing link, poverty, scarceness, scarcity, shortage, shortcoming, upchuck, want, wastage). (various references) | |
Icelandic | hvítur (white). (various references) | |
Indonesian | buta (blind, forgetful, sightless), blangko, kosong (bare, nonexistent, vacuous), kekosongan (blankness, emptiness, vacuity, vacuum), formulir (declaration, form). (various references) | |
Irish | bÚn (white), geal (bright, clear, light, white), fionn (blond, fair, white). (various references) | |
Italian | bianco (Bianco, white, white man), vuoto (bare, blankness, devoid, emptiness, empty, empty space, frothily, frothy, gap, hollow, shallow, space, vacancy, vacant, vacuous, vacuum, vide, void), spazio (desistance, displacement, distance, gap, Interspace, interval, place, room, slot, space). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 虚ろ (cavity, empty space, hollow). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | ブランク , くうしょ (empty space, gaps), びんぼうくじ (bad bargain, unlucky number), うつろ (cavity, empty, hollow), みきにゅう. (various references) | |
Korean | 공백 (Blanks). (various references) | |
Lombard | bianch (white). (various references) | |
Manx | folmid (bareness, blankness, emptiness, flatness, hollowness, inanity, shallowness, vacancy, vacuity, vacuum, void, void useless), follym (barren, barren as mind, blank as cartridge, disengaged, empty, empty-handed, expressionless, flat, formal, free, hollow, inane, platitudinous, run down, shallow, vacant, vacuous, void, waste, waste in town), bane (blond, blonde, fair, pallid; fallow, unbroken, unbroken as ground, white). (various references) | |
Norwegian | hvit (white). (various references) | |
Papiamen | blanku (white), blanko (white), formulario (form). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | ankblay.(various references) | |
Polish | biały (white), formularz (form). (various references) | |
Portuguese | espaço em branco (lights, space, spacing material), branco (European, hoar, hoary, paleface, virgin, white man). (various references) | |
Romanian | bilet de loterie necâştigãtor, blanchetã (form), bloc (block, block of flats, mansion, unit), lingou (bar, billet, ingot, lump, pig), absolut (absolute, absolutely, arbitrarily, be sure, boundless, broad, categorical, categorically, coercive, complete, completely, dead, downright, emphatic, entire, essential, finished, flat, inalienable, just, perfect, physically, positive, positively, precious, pure, sheer, simple, strict, sure, there's no doubt about it, thorough, thoroughly, total, unequivocal, unfailingly, unlimited, unmistakable, unmistakably, unqualified, unrestricted, utter), alb (clean, Hoar, hoary, pale face, unstained, white), curat (absolute, bald, clean, cleanly, clear, clearly, fair, faultless, fine, fresh, genuine, honest, immaculate, neat, orderly, Plumb, pristine, pure, raw, sheer, simple, sincere, snowy, snug, stainless, stark, straight, tidy, white), deplin (absolute, complete, dead, entire, full, plenary, quite, stark, total, whole, wholesale, wholly), desãvârşit (absolute, accomplished, complete, consummate, faultless, finished, full-fledged, out and out, perfect, perfectly, pure, right-down, stark, thorough, thoroughpaced), formular (form), ţaglã, lacunã (chasm, gap, hiatus, Lacuna), total (absolute, all out, complete, completely, count, crass, dead, entire, exclusive, gross, inclusive, outright, perfectly, quite, sum, thorough, total, totally, unmitigated, utter, utterly, whole, wholly), lipsit de conţinut (frothy, hollow), lipsit de expresie (inexpressive), loc (accommodation, billet, corner, estate, field, job, lieu, locality, location, locus, place, point, position, post, quarter, region, room, seat, site, spot, stand, standing, station, stead, where), necompletat (unfinished), nescris (clean, unwritten), pustiu (bare, bleak, desert, deserted, desolate, empty, gaunt, senseless, solitary, solitude, uninhabited, unoccupied, useless, waste, wild, wilderness), rubricã (column, heading, rubric), spãrturã (breach, break, chasm, cranny, flaw, gap, leak, rent), spaţiu gol (blank space, emptiness, vacancy, void, void space), spaţiu liber (opening), gol (abyss, bald, bare, bare-bodied, barren, blankness, desert, deserted, empty, gap, genuine, hollow, hollowness, inanity, leafless, naked, nakedly, nude, out at, shallow, stripped, uncovered, vacancy, vacuum, void, waste, windy). (various references) | |
Russian | неисписанный (clean), заготовка (bar, curing, flan, workpiece), анкета (application form, form, inquiry, investigation, questionnaire), ан, бессмысленный (crack-brained, driftless, fatuous, headless, kill time, meaningless, mindless, nonsensial, nonsensical, pointless, senseless, unmeaning, wanton), белый (lily 1, squaw-man, white, whitey), бланк (census paper, census-paper, form, guest-card), б (canteen, gain, ill, market, marriage, of the coast, pole, refuse, scuffle, shave, struggle, tangle, unemployment, warrior), пустой (addle, barren, chaffy, do-nothing, empty, feather-brained, feckless, fiddling, foppish, frivolous, frothy, gassy, gossipy, hollow, light, light-headed, null, sunken, vacant, vacuous, vapid), пустое место (gap, nonentity, snip), пробел;бланк чистый;пустой, пробел (blank space, gap, hiatus, lacuna, minus, pause, space, space bar, void). (various references) | |
Scottish | bàn (blond, fair, fair-haired, fair-haired : am bàn, pale, the untilled part, wan, white), geal (a leech, white). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | bezizrazan (deadpan, dull, fishy, glassy, glazy, unmeaning), tup (blunt, cloddish, dull, hebetate, obtuse, stolid), praznina (blankness, emptiness, hiatus, inanition, inanity, lacuna, vacancy, vacuum, void), prazan (clean, cored, empty, idle, inane, leer, unoccupied, vacant, vacuous, void), ništavilo (nothingness), manevarski metak (blank cartridge), manevarski (mobile), formular. (various references) | |
Spanish | blanco (butt, fair, interval, kindly, light, Mark, target, white), formulario (application blank, application form, form), espacio en blanco. (various references) | |
Sranan | weti (white). (various references) | |
Swahili | -eupe (white), eupe (white). (various references) | |
Swedish | formulär (form, forms, formula), uttryckslös (deadpan, impassive, inexpressive, vacant, vacuous), nitlott. (various references) | |
Tagalog | putî (white). (various references) | |
Turkish | boşluk (abysm, abyss, antrum, backlash, blankness, cavity, chamber, chasm, clear, clearance, daylight, desideratum, emptiness, gap, gulf, hiatus, hole, hollow, hollowness, idleness, inanition, Lacuna, nothingness, nullity, separation, sinus, slack, slackness, space, vacancy, vacuity, vacuum, void, voidness), beyaz (heroin, Hoar, leuco-, white, white part), boş (airy, barren, bootless, captious, chimerical, desert, disengaged, empty, expressionless, fallacious, flat, for hire, free, frivolous, frothy, futile, gaseous, hollow, idle, inane, ineffective, ineffectual, invalid, leisure, meaningless, nugatory, null, pointless, puerile, punk, purposeless, spare, tenantless, thin, trumpery, unbuilt, unbuilt-on, unengaged, unfounded, unoccupied, unprofitable, unrecorded, unwritten-on, vacant, vacuous, vain, void, waste, windy, wishywashy, without any foundation, without foundation, yeasty), boş kâğıt, boş numara, ifadesiz (dead pan, expressionless, inexpressive, sphinxlike, straight-faced, toneless, unmarked, unmeaning, vacant, vacuous), hedefin ortası, hedef (aim, bourn, Bourne, butt, clout, cock-shy, destination, goal, home, intention, land of promise, Mark, object, objective, promised land, purpose, rover, target, terminus), yazısız kâğıt, sayıyı önlemek, çıkarmak (bare, belch, bring out, bruit about, deduct, delete, derive, disconnect, dislocate, dislodge, dismantle, displace, divest, doff, draw off, draw out, drive out, drop, educe, eject, elicit, eliminate, emit, enact, enucleate, evolve, exclude, excogitate, excrete, exhale, exhaust, expel, expunge, extract, extricate, extrude, exude, foot, foot up, give forth, give off, haul up, hawk, issue, let out, make out, omit, order off, order out, oust, out, pay off, present, print out, provoke, publish, pull off, put off, put out, put up, reject, remove, rest, rout out, rout up, rule out, scratch, shoot out, slip off, spew forth, spew out, spew up, spit, start, stick out, strike, strike off, strike through, strip, strip off, subtract, take, take from, take off, take out, throw off, throw out, tide over, touch off, uncase, unfix, vent, void, vomit, winkle out, wipe out, wipe up, work out, wreak), silmek (blot out, cancel, cross out, Dele, delete, efface, erase, expunge, forgive, furbish, give smth. a wipe, obliterate, rub down, rub off, rub out, rule out, rule smth. out, strike off, strike out, whisk, wipe, wipe away, wipe off, wipe out, wipe up, write off), tam (absolute, accomplished, according to cocker, accurate, all out, at the time, bang, bang on, clear, complete, consummate, correct, dead, desperately, downright, due, engrained, entire, even, exact, exactly, factual, full, full complement, fully, holo-, implicit, ingrained, intact, integral, intimate, just, literal, mathematical, on time, out and out, outright, overall, perfect, plenary, Plumb, plunk, precise, precisely, prize, prompt, proper, punctual, rank, right, rightdown, root and branch, round, sharp, sheer, simple, slap bang, slick, solid, spot-on, Square, stark, straight, strict, the very, thorough, thoroughgoing, to a t, true, trueborn, unalloyed, unambiguous, unmitigated, unredeemed, unreserved, utter, very, whole), yazısız (clean, unlettered, unwritten-on), şaşırmış (all at sea, all out, amazed, at a loss, baffled, bewildered, confounded, confused, disoriented, distracted, lost, perplexed, punch-drunk, puzzled, surprised, taken aback, twisted, wondering), anlamsız (absurd, barren, dead pan, empty, expressionless, for the birds, frivolous, grotesque, inane, incoherent, inept, inexpressive, insane, insignificant, meaningless, nonsense, nonsensical, of no significance, pointless, purposeless, ridiculous, senseless, sodden, unmeaning, unreasonable, vacuous, vain, yeasty), açık (aboveground, apparent, articulate, avowed, bare, broad, candid, categorical, clean-cut, clear, clear-cut, cloudless, confessed, decided, declared, decollete, deficiency, deficient, deficient amount, deficit, definite, definitive, direct, distinct, downright, evident, expansive, explicit, exposed, express, expressly, fair, forthright, free, gaping, hospitable, in blank, light, loose, lucent, lucid, luminous, obvious, open, open air, open ended, outdoor, outright, overt, pale, patent, perspicuous, plain, point blank, precise, raw, revealing, round, serene, shadowless, shirt-sleeve, shortage, shortfall, spread, Square, straightforward, swinging, translucent, unambiguous, unashamed, unclouded, uncomplicated, unconcealed, uncovered, uncrossed, undisguised, unequivocal, unlocked, unmistakable, unobstructed, unprotected, unsealed, upfront, vacant, visible, well-marked, wide open, wishywashy), görüntüsüz (viewless). (various references) | |
Turkmen | propusk (r) (absence, omission). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | ставити тире, спантеличувати (amuse, delude, fog, mystify, puzzle, slew), спантеличений (baffled, bemused, distracted, dizzy, perplexed, raddled), чистий (absolute, austere, bright, chaste, childlike, clean, cleanly, clear, crystal, immaculate, native, neat, net, pristine, pure, silvery, spotless, unadulterated, unalloyed, unsophisticated, virginal, white), незабудований (undeveloped), незаповнений, абсолютний (absolute, all round, complete, direct, overall, plenipotential, plenipotentiary, positive, sheer, unmitigated), беззмістовний (bald, barren, empty, inane, insignificant, matterless, sapless, vapid), бланк, пустота (baldness, emptiness, frothiness, nothing, vacuity, void), пусте місце (negation, nobody, nothing), прогалина (balk, chasm, gap, non-sequence, vacuum, void). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | khoảng trống (clearance), chỗ để trống, đích, để trống. (various references) | |
Welsh | syn (aghast, amazed, astonishing, surprising), gwyn (blessed, white), gwag (addle, empty, vacant, vain). (various references) | |
Yucatec | sak (clean, pure, white). (various references) | |
Zulu | -mhlophe (white). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | albus, candidus, canus. (various references) |
| Old French | 900-1400 | blanc. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "blank": blanked, blanker, blankest, blanket, blanketed, blanketflower, blanketflowers, blanketing, blanketlike, blankets, blanking, blankly, blankness, blanknesses, blanks. (additional references) | |
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"Blank" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: banik, bankk, banko, bellani, Blaencwm, Blak, blan, blance, blang, blanh, blani, Blanka, Blanke, blans, blant, blarn, Blatnik, bleng, bleni, blerk, blinb, blinc, blinn, blinq, Blonc, blonk, Blumka, brank, Branka, bylak. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "blank" (pronounced bla"ngk) |
| 4 | -l a" ng k | clank, flank, lank, plank. |
| 3 | -a" ng k | antitank, bank, brank, crank, dank, drank, franc, Frank, Hank, interbank, nonbank, prank, rank, sank, shank, shrank, spank, stank, swank, tank, thank, yank. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-b-k-l-n" | |
-1 letter: balk, bank, lank. | |
-2 letters: alb, bal, ban, kab, lab, nab. | |
-3 letters: ab, al, an, ba, ka, la, na. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-b-k-l-n" | |
+1 letter: blanks. | |
+2 letters: balking, blacken, blanked, blanker, blanket, blankly, lambkin. | |
+3 letters: backland, balkline, bankable, bankerly, bankroll, barnlike, baulking, beanlike, blackens, blackfin, blacking, blankest, blankets, blanking, blinkard, claybank, knowable, lambkins, lambskin, linkable, nonblack, sinkable. | |
+4 letters: anklebone, antiblack, backlands, balkanize, balkiness, balklines, bankrolls, beanstalk, blackened, blackener, blackfins, blackings, blackland, blackness, blanketed, blankness, bleakness, blinkards, claybanks, drinkable, frankable, kneadable, lambskins, multibank, nonblacks, thinkable, thinkably, unlikable. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
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