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Definition: BLANKED

BLANKED

Imperative & past participle

1. Of Blank

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Date "BLANKED" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1814. (references)

Synonyms: BLANKED

Synonyms by domain: blank flange (electrical engineering), blanked channel, blanked picture signal (public administration), blanked scope (electrical engineering), blanked-off flange, blanked-off nozzle (nuclear energy & physics, mechanical engineering), blind flange (electrical engineering), metallic slide with blanked members (industry, meteorology & standards).

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Crosswords: BLANKED

Specialty definitions using "BLANKED": blanked scope. (references)

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Photo Album: BLANKED

Thumbnail	Description & Credit
	At Tjilatjap, Java, after she had been damaged by Japanese high-level bombing attack in the Java Sea on 4 February 1942. This view shows the effect of an enemy bomb which struck her stern. Her after 6"/53 gun turret is at left. Note the blanked off portholes on her hull side.Credit: NAVY.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Usage Frequency: BLANKED

"BLANKED" is generally used as a lexical verb (past tense) -- approximately 73.58% of the time. "BLANKED" is used about 53 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
Lexical Verb (past tense)	73.58%	39	55,036
Lexical Verb (past participle)	24.53%	13	97,576
Noun (proper)	1.89%	1	339,140
Total	100.00%	53	N/A

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Expression: BLANKED

Expression using "BLANKED": blanked scope. Additional references.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: BLANKED

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
blanked	2
blanked component fine	2
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translations: BLANKED

Language		Translations for "BLANKED"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Chinese		� 去 (Blanking). (various references)

German		gelöscht (canceled, cancelled, erased, extinguished, killed, quenched, scratched, slaked). (various references)

Korean		비우�" (Emptied). (various references)

Pig Latin		ankedblay
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Misspellings: BLANKED

Misspellings
	"BLANKED" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: blaked, blancoed, Blanka, Blanke, blankies, Blankney. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Rhyming with "BLANKED"

# of Phoneme Matches	Pronunciation	Word(s) rhyming with "BLANKED" (pronounced bla"ngkt)
5	-l a" ng k t	flanked, outflanked.
4	-a" ng k t	banked, cranked, franked, ranked, spanked, tanked, thanked, yanked.
3	-ng k t	adjunct, blinked, debunked, defunct, distinct, dunked, extinct, flunked, hoodwinked, indistinct, instinct, interlinked, junked, linked, plunked, precinct, sacrosanct, succinct, winked.
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

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Anagrams: BLANKED

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-b-d-e-k-l-n"
	-1 letter: ankled, balked, banked.
	-2 letters: ankle, baked, baled, baned, blade, bland, blank, bleak, blend, eland, knead, laden, laked, naked, naled.
	-3 letters: abed, able, bade, bake, bald, bale, balk, band, bane, bank, bead, beak, bean, bend, blae, bled, dale, dank, deal, dean, elan, kale, kane, lade, lake, land, lane, lank, lead, leak, lean, lend, nabe.
	Words containing the letters "a-b-d-e-k-l-n"
	+2 letters: blackened, blanketed, drinkable, kneadable.
	+3 letters: balkanized, bankrolled, drinkables.
	+4 letters: backslidden, blackhander, undrinkable.
	+5 letters: backhandedly, backpedaling, blackhanders.
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