blank
Part of speech: adj
verb
Morphological type: simple
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Etymology: From Middle English blank, blonc, blaunc, blaunche, from Anglo-Norman blonc, blaunc, blaunche, from Old French blanc, feminine blanche, from Frankish *blank (“gleaming, white, blinding”), from Proto-Germanic *blankaz (“white, bright, blinding”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰleyǵ- (“to shine”). Akin to Old High German blanch (“shining, bright, white”) (German blank), Old English blanc (“white, grey”), blanca (“white steed”), Spanish blanco. More at blink, blind, blanch. Doublet of blanc.
Inflected forms:
form: blanker
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: more blank
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: blankest
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: most blank
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: blanks
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: blanking
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: blanked
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: blanked
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: White or pale; without colour.
pos: adj
tags: archaic
examples: To the blanc Moone / Her office they preſcrib'd,
gloss: Free from writing, printing, or marks; having an empty space to be filled in.
pos: adj
examples: blank paper
a blank check
a blank ballot
a blank CD
Referee Michael Oliver failed to detect a foul in a crowded box and the Canaries escaped down the tunnel with the scoreline still blank.
gloss: Lacking characteristics which give variety; uniform.
pos: adj
tags: figuratively
examples: a blank desert; a blank wall; blank unconsciousness
Not a cloud in the blank blue sky.
gloss: Abject; absolute; complete; downright; sheer; utter.
pos: adj
examples: a blank refusal to cooperate
There was a look of blank terror on his face.
gloss: Without expression, usually because of incomprehension.
pos: adj
tags: figuratively
examples: Failing to understand the question, he gave me a blank stare.
gloss: Utterly confounded or discomfited.
pos: adj
examples: Adam […] Aſtonied ſtood and Blank,
gloss: Empty; void; without result; fruitless; futile.
pos: adj
examples: a blank day
gloss: Devoid of thoughts, memory, or inspiration.
pos: adj
examples: The shock left his memory blank.
gloss: Of ammunition: having propellant but no bullets; unbulleted.
pos: adj
examples: The recruits were issued blank rounds for a training exercise.
gloss: To make void; to erase.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: I blanked out my previous entry.
gloss: To ignore (a person) deliberately.
pos: verb
tags: slang
transitive
examples: She blanked me for no reason.
Taylor Swift goes viral for blanking Celine Dion on stage at Grammys 2024 […] Taylor Swift received backlash for being 'disrespectful' by 'ignoring' Celine Dion while accepting the award for Album of the Year at the Grammys on Sunday.
gloss: To render ineffective by blanketing with turbulent airflow, such as from aircraft wake or reverse thrust.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: At high angles of attack, the shuttle’s rudder is blanked by the fuselage and wings, forcing it to use its RCS thrusters for yaw control.
gloss: To prevent from scoring; for example, in a sporting event.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: The team was blanked.
England blanks Wales to advance to the final.
gloss: To become blank.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: In OPS 6, the 2 EO color field does blank at SSME fine count. Once in fine count in route to an RTLS MECO, the energy state is such that one engine can carry the orbiter though powered pitch-down to a healthy MECO condition with standard RTLS guidance.
gloss: To experience a temporary lapse of memory; to be temporarily unable to remember a particular fact. (Commonly used in the first person, present progressive tense, and commonly followed by on to create a transitive phrasal verb.)
pos: verb
tags: informal
intransitive
examples: I’m blanking on her name right now.
She asked him a simple question during the interview, and he blanked.
Translations:
lang: Bulgarian
word: бял
roman: bjal
lang: Bulgarian
word: безцветен
roman: bezcveten
lang: Danish
word: farveløs
lang: Danish
word: tom
lang: Danish
word: blank
lang: Finnish
word: valkoinen
lang: Finnish
word: väritön
lang: German
word: ausdruckslos
lang: Italian
word: intonso
lang: Macedonian
word: бел
roman: bel
lang: Macedonian
word: блед
roman: bled
lang: Macedonian
word: бе́збоен
roman: bézboen
lang: Polish
word: bezbarwny
lang: Romanian
word: inexpresiv
lang: Romanian
word: neexpresiv
lang: Russian
word: бе́лый
roman: bélyj
lang: Russian
word: бле́дный
roman: blédnyj
lang: Russian
word: бесцве́тный
roman: bescvétnyj
lang: Spanish
word: en blanco
lang: Vietnamese
word: trắng
lang: Vietnamese
word: để trắng