Word Finder - blank

definition

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 .

definition

A nonplus .

definition

The white spot in the centre of a target; hence the object to which anything is directed or aimed, the range of such aim .

definition

A lot by which nothing is gained; a ticket in a lottery on which no prize is indicated .

definition

An empty space; a void, for example on a paper .

definition

(now chiefly U.S.) A document, paper, or form with spaces left blank to be filled up 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 .

definition

Blank verse .

definition

A piece of metal (such as a coin, screw, nuts), cut and shaped to the required size of the thing to be made, and ready for the finishing operations; (coining) the disc of metal before stamping .

definition

A vacant space, place, or period; a void .

definition

The 1 / 230400 of a grain .

definition

An empty space in one's memory; a forgotten item or memory .

definition

A dash written in place of an omitted letter or word

definition

The space character; the character resulting from pressing the space-bar on a keyboard.

definition

A domino without points on one or both of its divisions.

example

the double blank

definition

Short for blank cartridge. .

definition

(in the expression ‘shooting blanks’) An ineffective effort which achieves nothing .

definition

To make void; to erase.

example

I blanked out my previous entry.

definition

To ignore (a person) deliberately.

example

She blanked me for no reason.

definition

To prevent from scoring, for example in a sporting event.

example

England blanks Wales to advance to the final.

definition

To become blank.

definition

To be temporarily unable to remember.

example

I'm blanking on her name right now.

definition

White or pale; without colour.

definition

Free from writing, printing, or marks; having an empty space to be filled in

example

a blank ballot

definition

Scoreless; without any goals or points.

definition

Lacking characteristics which give variety; uniform.

example

a blank desert; a blank wall; blank unconsciousness

definition

Absolute; downright; sheer.

example

There was a look of blank terror on his face.

definition

Without expression.

example

Failing to understand the question, he gave me a blank stare.

definition

Utterly confounded or discomfited.

definition

Empty; void; without result; fruitless.

example

a blank day

definition

Devoid of thoughts, memory, or inspiration.

example

The shock left his memory blank.

definition

Of ammunition: having propellant but no bullets; unbulleted.

example

The recruits were issued with blank rounds for a training exercise.

She gave him a blank look.

Jessi poured herself more coffee, eyes going to the blank iPad calendar.

The computer screen before him was blank, but he didn't notice.

Jonny's eyes were open and blank, his face pale.

The box is blank.

He was met with a blank stare but kept going.

For the 5th and 4th centuries B.C. the history of the country is a blank.

The " blank " or unmarked piece of metal was placed on a small anvil (ambos), and the die was held in position with tongs.

At the center of the installation sits a large roll of blank newsprint.

Ermolov, Miloradovich, Platov, and others in proximity to the French near Vyazma could not resist their desire to cut off and break up two French corps, and by way of reporting their intention to Kutuzov they sent him a blank sheet of paper in an envelope.

Sorry. When I read about the killing in Canada my mind went blank on everything else.

The century after the death of Hippocrates is a time almost blank in medical annals.

Howie doesn't remember any details of his prior life; family; studying for the priest hood, college... a blank slate and he can't find the chalk.

Suddenly, a blank check – even from Death – didn't seem like enough for what his one kiss might cost her.

He signed a blank treaty of peace with the Mahrattas, who were still in arms, reversed the action of the Madras government towards the nizam, and concentrated all the resources of Bengal against Hyder Ali.

There were catastrophes detrimental to the preservation of older literary records, and vicissitudes which, if they have not left their mark on contemporary history - which is singularly blank - may be traced on the representations of the past.

Days on which he had not shot anything at the hunt were blank days for him.

Between 1808 and 181 r he travelled much both in England and the south of Europe, and in 1812 published a blank verse translation of the Inferno.

The eastern shores of the Aegean, which the earliest historical records represent to us as the seat of a brilliant civilization, giving way before the advance of the great military empires (Lydia and afterwards Persia), are almost a blank in Homer's map. The line of settlements can be traced in the Catalogue from Crete to Rhodes, and embraces the neighbouring islands of Cos and Calymnos.

We spent a lot of time doing fill in the blank exercises on Simple Present tense conjugation.

Please do not use indentation, add blank lines or align the right hand side of the text.

Anything shallower than a half-inch bas-relief is a blank to her, so far as it expresses an idea of beauty.

Genealogy Search has blank family group record forms and charts.

The death dealer touched a gloved finger to a blank spot on the construction paper, and an orchid sprung up, ethereal and hovering over the paper.

His face, however, was blank.

Everything west of the river was blank.

She was a talker—told me how she figured the guy was gonna cheat on the sales tax so he pays in cash and gets the title signed over in blank.

The windows were blank.

The calendar was completely blank.

Four out of his five papers on applied mathematics were sent up absolutely blank.

The Rashtrakuta or Ratta clan are supposed to have held power during the historical blank before the 6th century; but they came to the front in A.D.

With great imperfections, this study in Miltonic blank verse displays the genius of a poet, in spite of a curious obscurity both of thought and style.

In 1905 the total value of all factory products was $30,731,332, of which $10,620,255 (or 34.6% of the total) represented paper and wood pulp; $5,019,817, cotton goods; $1,318,409, woollen goods; $1,756,473, book binding and blank books, and $2,022,759, foundry and machine-shop products.

From this time onwards the history of Essex is almost a blank.

One blow was usually insufficient, and the method was similar to that still used in striking medals in high relief, except that the blank is now allowed to cool before being struck.

In striking, the lower die was fixed into a block of wood, and the blank piece of metal laid upon it by hand.

If the weight of the blank is slightly below the standard weight, a somewhat larger cutter is used, so that the blanks may be of correct weight.

If the blank is too heavy the fillet may of course be passed through the rolls again.

In the case of very large silver coins only one blank is cut in the width of the fillet, but bronze fillets are made wider so that three penny blanks are cut out at each stroke of the machine.

The distance between the block and the plate is adjusted so as to be slightly less than the diameter of the blank, and the result is that the edge of the blank is thickened and its diameter reduced before it escapes from the machine.

The removal of part of the copper from the blank raises the percentage of silver contained in them and this is allowed for by adding an equivalent amount of copper to the metal when it is melted.

Each blank is placed on the lower of two dies and the upper die is brought down forcibly upon it.

The pressure causes the soft metal to flow like a viscous solid, but its lateral escape is prevented by a collar which surrounds the blank while it is being struck.

The collar A' is then raised by the lever G so as to encircle the blank, and the upper die which is held at A is brought down.

The blank is then again passed through the automatic balance and is sent forward to the coining press if the correctness of the weight is confirmed.

Some metal from the surface of each blank then passes into solution, and the blanks are reduced in weight with remarkable uniformity.

If this date is left blank, practice has limited the arbiter's power of deciding to a year and a day, unless, having express or clearly implied power in the submission, he exercises this power, or the parties expressly or tacitly agree to its prorogation.

And so the prophet was compelled to teach that the immediate future of Israel was a blank, that the state as a state was doomed.

The 13th century, from the point of view of Biblical renderings into the vernacular, is an absolute blank.

For the next decade his history was almost a blank, his time being occupied for the most part on The Consulate and the Empire.